<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086</id><updated>2011-04-21T17:11:13.140-05:00</updated><category term='Tutorials-PTU'/><category term='Awards'/><category term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>Marie's Tutorials</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-75158087320575493</id><published>2009-04-17T11:18:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-17T11:22:41.280-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>Mothers Are Love-FTU</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/Seir58RvrLI/AAAAAAAAAkg/AV1kuoXCrsg/s1600-h/MothersAreLove-Seachell.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 375px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325695571287059634" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/Seir58RvrLI/AAAAAAAAAkg/AV1kuoXCrsg/s400/MothersAreLove-Seachell.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;Mothers Are Love&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;br /&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit is By Seachell called Loving Mom. This is a Freebie.&lt;br /&gt;Which you can download from here&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://seachellscrapz.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://seachellscrapz.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets Get Started:&lt;br /&gt;Open a 600 x 600 new image&lt;br /&gt;Flood Fill White&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper 5 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Apply Mask&lt;br /&gt;Merge Group&lt;br /&gt;copy and paste frame of choice&lt;br /&gt;I had to resize the frame I used by 80% 3 times&lt;br /&gt;Mask Layer I resized to 110%&lt;br /&gt;On Frame Layer Go to Adjust Sharpen&lt;br /&gt;Stay on the frame layer&lt;br /&gt;Grab Magic wand&lt;br /&gt;Click inside your frame&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand By 5&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;br /&gt;Move under frame layer&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste the bear Element as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Place inside the frame&lt;br /&gt;Duplicate your frame layer&lt;br /&gt;move the original below the bear element&lt;br /&gt;Make the duplicate frame layer active&lt;br /&gt;erase any part of the frame you do want covering the bear&lt;br /&gt;Now make the bear element active&lt;br /&gt;Erase any part hanging below the frame&lt;br /&gt;Add a dropshadow to the frame, paper and Bear element&lt;br /&gt;Close off your background and mask layer&lt;br /&gt;Merge Visible&lt;br /&gt;I resized my mask layer again by 110%&lt;br /&gt;Now add embellishment of choice&lt;br /&gt;resizing if needed&lt;br /&gt;Add a drop shadow to all&lt;br /&gt;Please use my tag as a reference if you want it to look&lt;br /&gt;like mine...this is optional&lt;br /&gt;Please make them as you would like.&lt;br /&gt;Crop Off Excess White&lt;br /&gt;Add Copyright info and license number if applicable&lt;br /&gt;I did not use a tube therefore I Copyrighted it to Seachell&lt;br /&gt;Everything I used came from Seachell's Scrap-Loving Mom&lt;br /&gt;Add your Name&lt;br /&gt;Save and your done.&lt;br /&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;br /&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/7bb04765b50b98b8994935eb6a61157b.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#cc33cc;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-75158087320575493?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/75158087320575493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/04/mothers-are-love-ftu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/75158087320575493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/75158087320575493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/04/mothers-are-love-ftu.html' title='Mothers Are Love-FTU'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/Seir58RvrLI/AAAAAAAAAkg/AV1kuoXCrsg/s72-c/MothersAreLove-Seachell.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-5421578157910596021</id><published>2009-04-07T12:39:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-07T12:46:41.493-05:00</updated><title type='text'>An Award From Gaylene</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SduQBIEl9WI/AAAAAAAAAkY/BINAiF4O6f0/s1600-h/I-love-your-blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 178px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 178px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322005733689390434" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SduQBIEl9WI/AAAAAAAAAkY/BINAiF4O6f0/s320/I-love-your-blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Thank you so much for the award Gaylene.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;You Can Visit Gaylene &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://aussiechictutorials.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;She has an awesome blog.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;I have to pass this award on to 3 blogs and I Choose:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;1. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://lafleurstuffs.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;BelVidotti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;2. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluedreamdesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Bluey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;3. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://seachellscrapz.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;Seachell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-5421578157910596021?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/5421578157910596021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/04/award-from-gaylene.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/5421578157910596021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/5421578157910596021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/04/award-from-gaylene.html' title='An Award From Gaylene'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SduQBIEl9WI/AAAAAAAAAkY/BINAiF4O6f0/s72-c/I-love-your-blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-3002525390537721126</id><published>2009-04-06T12:14:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2009-04-06T12:20:57.856-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>Happy Easter-FTU</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/Sdo4to_QLKI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/rW0LTh-KCWY/s1600-h/HappyEaster-IsmaelRac-BelVidotti.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321628266439650466" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/Sdo4to_QLKI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/rW0LTh-KCWY/s320/HappyEaster-IsmaelRac-BelVidotti.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc66cc;"&gt;Happy Easter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac&lt;br /&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here&lt;br /&gt;MPT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;br /&gt;1 Tube of choice-Preferably with a close-up&lt;br /&gt;Mask Of choice&lt;br /&gt;Font of choice&lt;br /&gt;Scrapkit is By Bel Vidotti called Easter Freebie. This is a Freebie.&lt;br /&gt;Which you can download from here&lt;br /&gt;http://lafleurstuffs.blogspot.com/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets Begin:&lt;br /&gt;Open a 600 x 600 new image&lt;br /&gt;Flood fill white&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Easter Paper 4 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Apply Mask&lt;br /&gt;Merge Group&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Easter Glitter Of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Resize to your liking&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Easter Frame 2 as a new layer&lt;br /&gt;Resize To 85%&lt;br /&gt;Grab Your Magic wand&lt;br /&gt;Click inside the frame&lt;br /&gt;Selections Modify-Expand by 5&lt;br /&gt;Copy and paste Paper of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Closeup of Choice&lt;br /&gt;Erase anything hanging over the Frame&lt;br /&gt;Close out the Background, Mask and Glitter Layer&lt;br /&gt;Merge Visible&lt;br /&gt;Open all Layers&lt;br /&gt;Make sure your merged layer is active&lt;br /&gt;Resize to 90%&lt;br /&gt;Place where desired&lt;br /&gt;Copy and Paste Main tube of choice&lt;br /&gt;Place where desired&lt;br /&gt;Dropshadow Frame and Tube Layer&lt;br /&gt;Add embellishments Of choice&lt;br /&gt;Resizing if needed&lt;br /&gt;Dropshadow on all(Optional)&lt;br /&gt;Crop Off Excess White&lt;br /&gt;Resize&lt;br /&gt;Add your name and any saying you would like&lt;br /&gt;Add copyright and license #&lt;br /&gt;Save and your done.&lt;br /&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;br /&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;br /&gt;Thank you,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/7bb04765b50b98b8994935eb6a61157b.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-3002525390537721126?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/3002525390537721126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-easter-ftu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/3002525390537721126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/3002525390537721126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/04/happy-easter-ftu.html' title='Happy Easter-FTU'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/Sdo4to_QLKI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/rW0LTh-KCWY/s72-c/HappyEaster-IsmaelRac-BelVidotti.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-8758941553663691940</id><published>2009-02-28T09:41:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-02-28T09:45:48.178-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>Good Girl/Bad Girl-FTU</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SalbTGIDJVI/AAAAAAAAAkI/DTPvDlEH6Sk/s1600-h/GoodGirlBadGirl-IsmaelRac-Bea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5307874019452855634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 304px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SalbTGIDJVI/AAAAAAAAAkI/DTPvDlEH6Sk/s320/GoodGirlBadGirl-IsmaelRac-Bea.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt; Good Girl/BAd Girl-FTU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;1 Tube of choice &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Mask Of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Font of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Scrapkit is By Bea called Good Or Bad. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;This is a Freebie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Which you can download from here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://beacreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;http://beacreations.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Lets Begin:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Open a 600 x 600 new image&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Flood fill white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Apply Mask-Merge Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Copy and paste frame of choice as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Resize if needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Magic wand-Click inside of frame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand by 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice as new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Move below frame Layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Make frame active-Selection-Invert&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Move below frame layer-Select-None&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Add a dropshadow to the frame and tube layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;I added the plugin Xerox-Porcelain to the tube layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;This is optional and you don't have too&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Close off background and mask layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Merge-Visible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Add any embellishments you would like&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Resize if neededadding a dropshadow to all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Crop Off Excess White&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Resize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Add your name and any saying you would like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Add copyright and license #&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Save and your done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6666;"&gt;Thank you,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/7bb04765b50b98b8994935eb6a61157b.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Girl-FTU'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SalbTGIDJVI/AAAAAAAAAkI/DTPvDlEH6Sk/s72-c/GoodGirlBadGirl-IsmaelRac-Bea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-4086484256750490699</id><published>2009-02-24T12:13:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-02-24T12:17:59.848-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>Sexy St. Patrick's Day-FTU</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SaQ45EAW-EI/AAAAAAAAAkA/RSCpQM0JUQo/s1600-h/SexyStPatricksDay-TomHoover-Bluey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306428813928233026" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 318px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SaQ45EAW-EI/AAAAAAAAAkA/RSCpQM0JUQo/s320/SexyStPatricksDay-TomHoover-Bluey.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt; Sexy St. Patrick's Day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Tom Hoover&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;1 Tube of choice &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Mask Of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Font of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Scrapkit is By Bluey called Is Irish Charm This is a Freebie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Which you can download from here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluedreamdesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;http://bluedreamdesigns.blogspot.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Let's Begin:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Open a 600 X 600 new image&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Floodfill white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Copy and paste paper 6 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Apply Mask-Merge Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Copy and paste frame 4 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Resize to your liking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Grab your magic wand&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Click inside your frameSelections-Modify-Expand By 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Copy and Paste paper4 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Selections-Invert&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Move below your frame layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Select-None&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Duplicate your frame layer and move above your tube&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Erase any part of your frame you do not want on your tube&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Now erase any part of your tube that is hanging out of your frame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Close off your background and mask layers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Merge Visible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Open all layers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Add Embellishments of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Resize and add a dropshadow to all&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Use My Tag As A Reference If You'd Like.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Crop Off Excess White&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Resize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Add your name and any saying you would like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Add copyright and license #&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Save and your done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Thank you,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/7bb04765b50b98b8994935eb6a61157b.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-4086484256750490699?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/4086484256750490699/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/02/sexy-st-patricks-day-ftu.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-5054496639881394496</id><published>2009-02-07T08:45:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2009-02-11T11:47:39.280-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>A Ticket For Love-FTU</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SY2eoOk8CdI/AAAAAAAAAig/CcWllVP2xMo/s1600-h/ATicketForLove-IR-Bea.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300066750429923794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 315px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SY2eoOk8CdI/AAAAAAAAAig/CcWllVP2xMo/s320/ATicketForLove-IR-Bea.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;A Ticket For Love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;1 Tube of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Mask Of choice-I Used WSL_Mask40 Which you can download here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.weescotslass.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;http://www.weescotslass.co.uk/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Font of choice-I am Using A&amp;amp;S Black Swan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Scrapkit is By Bea's Creations called Is This Love a Freebie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Which you can download from here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://beacreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Bea'sCreations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Let's Begin:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Open a 600 X 600 new image&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Floodfill white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Copy and Paste Paper7 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Apply Mask-Merge Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Copy and Paste frame 3 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Grab your magic wand-Click inside your frame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand by 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Copy and paste paper10 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Move below the frame layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Add a dropshadow of choice to your frame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Erase anything hanging over the frame that you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;do not want (See My Tag)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Add a dropshadow to your tube&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Add Embellishments of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Resizing as needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Add a dropshadow of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Use My Tag As A Reference If You'd Like.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Crop Off Excess White&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Resize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Add your name and any saying you would like &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Add copyright and license #&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Save and your done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ffffff;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Thank you,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/7bb04765b50b98b8994935eb6a61157b.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-5054496639881394496?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/5054496639881394496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/02/ticket-for-love-ftu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/5054496639881394496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/5054496639881394496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/02/ticket-for-love-ftu.html' title='A Ticket For Love-FTU'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SY2eoOk8CdI/AAAAAAAAAig/CcWllVP2xMo/s72-c/ATicketForLove-IR-Bea.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-291017343981131758</id><published>2009-01-29T09:16:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T09:21:05.883-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>Little Miss Valentine-FTU</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SYHIdVWxfMI/AAAAAAAAAiY/xqgvp5WLSXg/s1600-h/LittleMissVal-EC-Sarah.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296735043038837954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SYHIdVWxfMI/AAAAAAAAAiY/xqgvp5WLSXg/s320/LittleMissVal-EC-Sarah.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Little Miss Valentine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Elias Chatzoudis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Tube Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Scrapkit...I am using a FTU by Scraps By CWD Called Little Miss Sampler Freebie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Which You Can Download From here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://chimerawdscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;ScrapsByCWD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Thank you for this wonderful Sample!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's Begin:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Open a 600 x 600 New image&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Floodfill white&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste paper 4 as new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Apply Mask&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Merge-Group&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a dropshadow to your mask layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;The one I used is V1, H-1, O 50, Blur 2, color black&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste frameReize by 80% two times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Magic Wand-Click inside of frame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand by 5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Move below frame layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a drop shadow to your frame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;DeselectCopy and paste tube of choice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Erase any part you do not want over the frame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a dropshadow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste frame wrap of choice as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Using your deform tool-adjust to fit frame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a drop shadow &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add embellishments of choice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Resize as needed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a dropshadow to all&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Crop Off Excess White&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;ResizeAdd your name and any saying you would like &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add copyright and license #&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Save and your done.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thank you, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/7bb04765b50b98b8994935eb6a61157b.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-291017343981131758?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/291017343981131758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-miss-valentine-ftu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/291017343981131758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/291017343981131758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-miss-valentine-ftu.html' title='Little Miss Valentine-FTU'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SYHIdVWxfMI/AAAAAAAAAiY/xqgvp5WLSXg/s72-c/LittleMissVal-EC-Sarah.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-241695062987715439</id><published>2009-01-26T13:36:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-26T15:25:14.932-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>Happy Valentines Day...Be Mine-FTU</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SX4QzkbMtkI/AAAAAAAAAiA/6VxrQb4nXn0/s1600-h/HappyValDayBeMine-IR-Bluey.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295688689971410498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 308px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SX4QzkbMtkI/AAAAAAAAAiA/6VxrQb4nXn0/s320/HappyValDayBeMine-IR-Bluey.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Happy Valentins Day...Be Mine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MPT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1 Tube Of Choice &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wordart Of Choice-The one I used I Made using the fonts 1SnappyDna and Impact&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scrapkit is a FTU by BlueDream Designs Called Love Bug&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which Can Be Downloaded Here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluedreamdesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BlueDreamDesigns&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's Get Started:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open a 600x600 New image&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FloodFill White&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and Paste Paper8 as a new Image&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apply Mask-Merge Group&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste frame6 as a new image&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resize by 80%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resize your mask layer by 115%&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grab Your Magic Wand&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click inside your frame&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand by 5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste paper4 as a new image&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Move under frame layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Position inside frame&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Select-None&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lower Opacity to 50&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drop Shadow of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hide your Background and Mask layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Merge-Visible&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unhide your background and mask layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a drop shadow of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add embellishments of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resizing if needed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drop shadow of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste Tube of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drop shadow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add your name and any sayings you would like&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add copyright Info and License #&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resize and Save.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Your done!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/7bb04765b50b98b8994935eb6a61157b.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-241695062987715439?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/241695062987715439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-valentines-daybe-mine-ftu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/241695062987715439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/241695062987715439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-valentines-daybe-mine-ftu.html' title='Happy Valentines Day...Be Mine-FTU'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SX4QzkbMtkI/AAAAAAAAAiA/6VxrQb4nXn0/s72-c/HappyValDayBeMine-IR-Bluey.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-2440987436238057911</id><published>2009-01-26T12:29:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-26T15:25:28.150-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Awards'/><title type='text'>Greatest Designer Award</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SX4BUtdIL_I/AAAAAAAAAh4/yMsYqeqHOuc/s1600-h/DesignerAward.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295671667145060338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SX4BUtdIL_I/AAAAAAAAAh4/yMsYqeqHOuc/s320/DesignerAward.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;How awesome is this....I was awarded This award by Myrtle of &lt;a href="http://myrtlestutorials.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://myrtlestutorials.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thank you so much Sweetie....I love it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Now I award this to these awesome Ladies&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;1. Bluey of&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluedreamdesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://bluedreamdesigns.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;2. Lynn of&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;3. Seachell of&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://seachellscrapz.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://seachellscrapz.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;and&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;4. Eclipse of&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jadeddelusions.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://jadeddelusions.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-2440987436238057911?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/2440987436238057911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/greatest-designer-award.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/2440987436238057911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/2440987436238057911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/greatest-designer-award.html' title='Greatest Designer Award'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SX4BUtdIL_I/AAAAAAAAAh4/yMsYqeqHOuc/s72-c/DesignerAward.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-7157469264705143540</id><published>2009-01-22T09:27:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-22T09:34:26.644-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-Blue Without You-FTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXiQumxNOGI/AAAAAAAAAgk/B7AdhyCTBfs/s1600-h/BlueWithoutYouKG-Eclipse.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294140492329334882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 313px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXiQumxNOGI/AAAAAAAAAgk/B7AdhyCTBfs/s320/BlueWithoutYouKG-Eclipse.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt; Blue Without You&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Keith GarveyYou must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;2 Tubes Of Choice 1 preferably a Closeup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Wordart Of Choice-The one I used I Made using the fonts 1SnappyDna and Impact&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Scrapkit is a FTU by Eclipse Called Blue Without You&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Which Can Be Downloaded Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://jadeddelusions.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;JadedDelusions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Remember My Tutorial is just a guide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's Begin:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Open new image 600X600&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Flood fill White&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and Paste paper12 as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Apply Mask-Merge Group&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Lower Opacity on mask layer to about 60&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste Frame 1 as a new layerMagic Wand-Click inside frame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand by 10&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste paper 4 as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Move below frame layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;DO NOT DESELECT&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste your close up tube of choice as new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Make sure it is below the frame layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Hide your background and mask layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Merge Visible&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Unhide background and mask layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Position where desired(see my tag as a reference)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Drop Shadow of choice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste main tube of choice as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Drop Shadow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Position where desired(see my tag as a reference)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add Embellishments of choice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Resizing as needed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a Dropshadow to all&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Crop Off Excess White&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Resize&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Now Add wordart of choice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I made mine Using the fonts 1SnappyDna and Impact&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a slight gradient glow to your wordart and a drop shadow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add Your Name&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add the same gradient glow and dropshadow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add your copyright Info and license #&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Save and your done.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thank you&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/7bb04765b50b98b8994935eb6a61157b.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-7157469264705143540?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/7157469264705143540/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/blue-without-you-ftu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/7157469264705143540'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/7157469264705143540'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/blue-without-you-ftu.html' title='-♥-Blue Without You-FTU-♥-'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXiQumxNOGI/AAAAAAAAAgk/B7AdhyCTBfs/s72-c/BlueWithoutYouKG-Eclipse.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-2209868462180322584</id><published>2009-01-21T09:34:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:35:09.554-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-A Little Bit Of Heaven-FTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXdArhp5GDI/AAAAAAAAAeM/xQlcbLMk4L0/s1600-h/ALittleBitOfHeaven-IR-Monica.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293771003509938226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 318px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXdArhp5GDI/AAAAAAAAAeM/xQlcbLMk4L0/s320/ALittleBitOfHeaven-IR-Monica.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt; A Little Bit Of Heaven&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;2 Tubes of choice By The Same Artist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Mask Of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Font of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Wordart of Choice...I Made my own using 1SnappyDNA and IMPACT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Scrapkit is By Monica called Little Bit Of Heaven Teaser a Freebie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Which you can download from here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://monicassweetaddiction.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Monica'sSweetAddiction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Let's Begin:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Open a 600 X 600 new image&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Floodfill white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Copy and Paste Paper 4 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Apply mask-Merge Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Copy and Paste element 12 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Resize about 80%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Magic wand-Click inside of the frame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand by 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Copy and paste paper 4 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Position-Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Move below frame layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice as new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Position-Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Deselect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Add a dropshadow of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Lower Opacity on tube layer to about 70&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Hide your background and mask layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Merge-Visible&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Unhide your background and mask layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Add embellishments of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Resize if needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Add a dropshadow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Add Your Main Tube of Choice as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Add dropshadow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Add your name and any sayings you'd like&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Crop Off excess white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Resize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Add copyright info and license #&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Save and your done&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Thank you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/7bb04765b50b98b8994935eb6a61157b.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-2209868462180322584?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/2209868462180322584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-bit-of-heaven-ftu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/2209868462180322584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/2209868462180322584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/little-bit-of-heaven-ftu.html' title='-♥-A Little Bit Of Heaven-FTU-♥-'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXdArhp5GDI/AAAAAAAAAeM/xQlcbLMk4L0/s72-c/ALittleBitOfHeaven-IR-Monica.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-8368708187949452147</id><published>2009-01-20T10:16:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:15:34.029-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-Happy Valentines Day-FTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXX6NqFBazI/AAAAAAAAAd0/08RPqqjTerM/s1600-h/HappyValDay-EC-Yvette.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293412049584483122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 308px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXX6NqFBazI/AAAAAAAAAd0/08RPqqjTerM/s320/HappyValDay-EC-Yvette.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Happy Valentines Day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Elias Chatzoudis&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Tube Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Font Of Choice I Used 1 SnappyDna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Wordart By Lisa You can download from here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lisascreativecluttertoo.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Lisa'sCreativeClutterToo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Scrapkit By Yvette Hearts Desire-FTU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;You can download from here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://misfitsscrapz.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;MisfitsScrapz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lets Get Started:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open a 600 X 600 New Image&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Flood fill White&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy And Paste paper7 as a new layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apply Mask-Merge Group&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and Paste Frame of choice as a new layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Magic wand-Click inside the frame&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand By 5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste a paper of choice as a new layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Move below the frame layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Select-None&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice as a new layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Make your frame layer active&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplicate and move above your tube layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Erase any part of your frame that you do not want on your tube&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Now make your tube layer active&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;erase any part hanging below the frame&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a drop shadow of choice to your tube and original frame layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add any embellishments of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resize if needed and drop shadow all&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add wordart of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dropshadow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crop off excess white&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add your name&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add your copyright info and License Number&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resize And Save&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85721/marie72/1d85bb671aa6c817b6cfc3147ea1b3c9.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-8368708187949452147?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/8368708187949452147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-valentines-day-ftu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-8404799826640816673</id><published>2009-01-16T12:51:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:15:21.105-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-Sweet Hearts-FTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXDXSx7wotI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/p6I9KQkdnLw/s1600-h/SweetHeartsChatzoudisMarie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291966279801938642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 288px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXDXSx7wotI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/p6I9KQkdnLw/s320/SweetHeartsChatzoudisMarie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt; SweetHearts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Elias ChatzoudisYou must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Tube of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Template By Missy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Template 93 which can be downloaded from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://divineintentionz.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;DivineIntentionz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Scrapkit-From Simply Sensational called SweetHeart-Freebie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;which can be downloaded from&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://simplysensationalscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;SimplySensationalScraps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Font of choice-I am Using AirStream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets Begin:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Open Template&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Shift D To duplicate&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Close original&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Delete the Watermark and background layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Click on the rectangle1 layer to make it active&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selection-Select all-Float-Defloat&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selection-Invert-DeleteSelect-None&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Delete The rectangle1 layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Repeat this step for the remainder of the layers on the template&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Once done add a dropshadow of choice to each Layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Make your Middle rectangle layer active&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice As new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Resize if needed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Position&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Erase any part of your tube you do not want hanging out of the template&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Dropshadow&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Merge-Visible&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Open a 650 x 650 new image(Don't worry about the size we'll resize later)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Floodfill White&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste your template as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Now Make sure your white background layer is active&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Aply Mask-Merge Group&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Resize mask layer to 110%&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add any embellishments of choice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Resize as needed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a dropshadow of choice to each&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Crop off the excess white&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Resize&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add Your Name&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add copyright Info And License Numbers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Save and your done.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thank you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-8404799826640816673?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/8404799826640816673/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SXDXSx7wotI/AAAAAAAAAZ0/p6I9KQkdnLw/s72-c/SweetHeartsChatzoudisMarie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-2499429243243910212</id><published>2009-01-14T13:05:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:15:04.567-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-Love You Always-FTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SW43sVoF-GI/AAAAAAAAAZs/1UYZ1J1X4hQ/s1600-h/LoveYouAlwaysIsmaelRacMarie+.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291227847065991266" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 316px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SW43sVoF-GI/AAAAAAAAAZs/1UYZ1J1X4hQ/s320/LoveYouAlwaysIsmaelRacMarie+.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt; Love You Always&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Ismael Rac&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;You must have a license to use his work which &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;can be purchased here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;1 Tube of choice &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Mask Of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Font of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Scrapkit is By Simply Sensational Scraps called Sweetheart a Freebie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Which you can download from here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://simplysensationalscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;SimplySensationalScraps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Lets Begin:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Open a 600 x 600 New Image&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Floodfill white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Copy and paste paper 21 or paper of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Apply Mask&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Merge Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Duplicate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;On the original go toAdjust Blur Gausian Blur 15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Copy and paste frame of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Resize about 50% &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Magic Wand-Click inside your frame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Selections Modify-Expand by 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Move below frame layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Do Not Deselect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;position the part you want in the frame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Move below frame layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Select none&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Add a dropshadow to your frame and tube layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Duplicate your frame layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Repeat above steps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Make sure you have the duplicated mask layer active&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Copy and paste the word art as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Resize 110%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Add a dropshadow of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Add any embellishments of choice you want&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Resizing if needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Add a dropshadow of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice as new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Position&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Add a drop shadow of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Crop off excess whiteResize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Add your name and copyright Info and license numbers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Save and your done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;Thank you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-2499429243243910212?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/2499429243243910212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/love-you-always-ftu.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/2499429243243910212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/2499429243243910212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/love-you-always-ftu.html' title='-♥-Love You Always-FTU-♥-'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SW43sVoF-GI/AAAAAAAAAZs/1UYZ1J1X4hQ/s72-c/LoveYouAlwaysIsmaelRacMarie+.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-3385650640988226893</id><published>2009-01-11T09:30:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:14:45.978-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-Please Be My Valentine-FTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SWoQsfUsjWI/AAAAAAAAAZk/v5zIY5oj5m8/s1600-h/PleaseBeMyValentineGarvMarie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290059068808662370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 318px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SWoQsfUsjWI/AAAAAAAAAZk/v5zIY5oj5m8/s320/PleaseBeMyValentineGarvMarie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please Be My Valentine&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Keith Garvey&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MPT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3 Tubes of choice from same artist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mask Of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Font of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scrapkit is By Seachell called Valentine Angel a Freebie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which you can download from here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://seachellscrapz.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seachell'sScraps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Let's Begin:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open a 600 X 600 new image&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Floodfill white&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice as new layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I used paper3&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resize if needed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Apply mask&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Merge group&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste frame of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ResizePosition at the left&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;top of your canvas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Magic Wand&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Click inside your frame&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand by 5&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Move below frame layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do Not Deselect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Below frame layer but above paper layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Select-None&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On your frame layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Duplicate&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Move it to the right at the bottom of your canvas&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Repeat the steps with the paper and tube&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Close off your background and mask layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Merge Visible&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unhide your layers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Position your Merged layer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;just incase its not where you want it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a dropshadow of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add embellishments of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resizing if needed&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add a drop shadow of choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add your main tube&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add drop shadow&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crop off excessive white&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Resize&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add your name&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Add copyright info and license number&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Save and your done&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-3385650640988226893?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/3385650640988226893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/please-be-my-valentine.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-6616955720604265502</id><published>2009-01-02T13:32:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:14:25.876-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-What Dreams Are Made Of...FTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SV5sD1QH1sI/AAAAAAAAAZM/qv7Lgj3y_r8/s1600-h/WhatDreamsAreMadeOfGarvMarie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286781825669650114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 312px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SV5sD1QH1sI/AAAAAAAAAZM/qv7Lgj3y_r8/s320/WhatDreamsAreMadeOfGarvMarie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt; What Dreams Are Made Of...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Keith GarveyYou must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;5 Tubes Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Wordart of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Scrapkit...I am using a FTU by BlueDream Designs Called&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Dreamer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;which you can download here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluedreamdesigns.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;BlueDreamDesigns&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Lets Get Started:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Open New Image 600X600&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;FloodFill white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Copy and paste Paper8 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Apply Mask-Merge Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Resize Mask layer 120%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Copy and paste Frame 4 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Grab your magic wand and click inside each square &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;of your frame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand By 5 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Copy and paste paper5 as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Move below frame layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Magic wand again&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Make frame layer active&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Click inside one of the squares&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand by 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Copy and paste tube of choice as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Move below frame layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Repeat this for the next 3 squares&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Hide your white background and mask layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Merge Visible Layers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Unhide your layers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Resize your Merged layer 90%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Duplicate your merged layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;On your original merged layer go to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Adjust-Blur-Gaussian Blur-15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Copy and paste your main tube of choice as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Drop shadow of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Resize if needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Add any embellishments of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Resize as needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Drop shadow of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Crop off excess white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Resize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Add name and proper copyright &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;info and license number&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Save and your done&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Thank you,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#996633;"&gt;Marie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-6616955720604265502?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/6616955720604265502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2009/01/what-dreams-are-made-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/6616955720604265502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-710106676175857163</id><published>2008-12-31T08:21:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:14:12.243-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-Beautiful Inspirations-FTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SVuAGg8J1yI/AAAAAAAAAY0/o9i1tsPVkvo/s1600-h/BeautifulInspirationsGarvMarie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285959437059217186" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SVuAGg8J1yI/AAAAAAAAAY0/o9i1tsPVkvo/s320/BeautifulInspirationsGarvMarie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt; Beautiful Inspirations&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Keith GarveyYou must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;Tube Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;Mask Of ChoiceWord Art Of Choice-Mine I just Made it up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;Scrapkit By ButterFly Kisses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;It is a Freebie Called Purple Inspirations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;You can download it here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://butterflykissesscraps.blogspot.com/search/label/free"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;ButterFlyKissesScraps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Lets Get Started:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Open a 600X600 New Image&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Floodfill White&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;I used paper 10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Apply MaskMerge Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Copy and paste the diamond rectangle as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Resize 80%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Copy and paste the diamond circle as a new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Resize 80%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Position to your liking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Grab your rectangle tool&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Background null/foreground color of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Line style solidWidth 5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Draw out a rectangle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Duplicate this 2 times for a total of 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Position to your liking&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Magic wand-click inside one of your rectangles &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;copy and paste your tube inside the rectangle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Repeat with the other 2 rectangles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Once done grab your magic wand again&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;click inside one of the rectangles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;add a new layer Floodfill with color choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Move below the tube layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Repeat for the other 2 rectangles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Once done Add a dropshadow of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Add any embellishments of choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Resize if needed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;DropshadowCopy and paste tube of choice as new layer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Crop off excess white&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Resize&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Add your name&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Add your copyright and License Number&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Save and your done.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Thank you,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;Marie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-710106676175857163?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/710106676175857163/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2008/12/beautiful-inspirations.html#comment-form' 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-151899762025233045</id><published>2008-12-30T13:24:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:14:00.517-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-PTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-I'm Just A Dreamer-PTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SVp1qm-HzjI/AAAAAAAAAYs/zUnZ-9_nmXI/s1600-h/I%27mJustADreamerGarvMarie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285666487548759602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 319px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SVp1qm-HzjI/AAAAAAAAAYs/zUnZ-9_nmXI/s320/I%27mJustADreamerGarvMarie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt; I'm Just A Dreamer&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Keith Garvey &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;MPT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;2 Tubes Of Choice 1 preferably a Closeup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;Wordart Of Choice-The one I used I just Made up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;Scrapkit is a PTU by BabyCakes Called Isabella&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;Which Can Be Purchased Here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;BabyCakesScraps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;Remember My Tutorial is just a guide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#00cccc;"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's Begin:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Open new image 600X600 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Floodfill White&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste Paper of Choice as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Apply Mask&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Merge Group&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste frame of choice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Resize if Needed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Magic Wand Click Inside of Frame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Modify-Expand By 5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste paper of choice as new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Move below frame layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a dropshadow to your frame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Grab your magic wand again&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;click inside of frame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selections-Modify-Expand by 5&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste your closeup tube as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Resize if needed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Selections-Invert-Delete Select-None&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Move under frame layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Blend Mode-Luminance Legacy&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add a drop shadow of choice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Close off your white Background and merge Visible&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Copy and paste main tube as a new layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Position your merged layer where you see fit and your tube layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;add a drop shadow of choice to your main tube layer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add any embellishments of choice&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;resizing if needed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;add a dropshadow to them also&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Crop off excess whiteResize&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add Your name&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Add your copyright Info and License Number&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Save and Your done&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Thank you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-151899762025233045?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/151899762025233045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SVp1qm-HzjI/AAAAAAAAAYs/zUnZ-9_nmXI/s72-c/I%27mJustADreamerGarvMarie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-3862883745628518056</id><published>2008-12-29T14:22:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-01-21T13:13:42.340-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Tutorials-FTU'/><title type='text'>-♥-Delight-FTU-♥-</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SVkyDg2CPnI/AAAAAAAAAYk/ynuMMpUV90Y/s1600-h/DelightEliasChatzoudisLynne-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285310673633558130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 316px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SVkyDg2CPnI/AAAAAAAAAYk/ynuMMpUV90Y/s320/DelightEliasChatzoudisLynne-1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Delight&lt;br /&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Elias ChatzoudisYou must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MPT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tube Of Choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Font Of Choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scrapkit...I am using a FTU by Babycakes Called Delight Taggers SampleWhich You Can Download From here Baby Cakes Scraps &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you for this wonderful Sample!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This Is Going to be short and sweet!!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lets Get Started:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open a 600 X 600 New Image Floodfill WhiteCopy and paste the paper as a new layerApply mask-Merge GroupDuplicate the mask Layer and on both layers go toAdjust-Blur-Radial Blur with these settings:Blur Type-ZoomBlur-Strength-50 Elliptical checkedeverything else 0click okMerge your mask layersCopy and paste frame as new layerMagic wand-click inside of your frameSelections-Modify-Expand by 5Copy and paste paper as new layerSelections Invert DeleteMove below the frame layerCopy and paste your tube of choice and erase anything below the frameAdd a dropsahdow of choice to fram and tube layerAdd any embellishments of choiceresizing as neededDropshadow of choiceCrop excess whiteresize to your likingAdd proper copyright and license numberadd your nameSave and your done.Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it.All results are welcome and all comments are welcome.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;color:#993399;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thank you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-3862883745628518056?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/3862883745628518056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2008/12/delight.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/3862883745628518056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/3862883745628518056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2008/12/delight.html' title='-♥-Delight-FTU-♥-'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail 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/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sweet As CandyKisses &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I am using the wonderful artwork of Keith Garvey You must have a license to use his work which can be purchased here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://mypsptubes.estoreadvanced.biz/index.php?p=home" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MPT&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Supplies Needed:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tube Of Choice &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mask Of Choice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Font Of Choice &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scrapkit...I am using a FTU by Babycakes Called Candy Kisses Add On Which You Can Download From here Baby Cakes Scraps &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Thank you for this wonderful Freebie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This Is Going to be short and sweet!!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lets Get Started: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open a 600 X 600 New Image Floodfill White Copy and paste bcs Satin paper as a new layer Apply mask of choice-Merge Group Copy and paste the frame Copy and paste your tube of choice Duplicate your frame layer and move the duplicate above your tube layer Now erase any part of the frame you do not wish to be on your tube Erase any part of your tube hanging below the frame Now add any embellishments of choice Add a dropshadow to your tube and your original frame layer Dropshadow all embellishments When your done crop off all the excess white and resize to your liking Add your name and proper copyright and license numbers Thats it your done. Save and your done. Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and thank you for trying it. All results are welcome and all comments are welcome. Thank you.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii282/runninbear721/?action=view&amp;amp;current=MarieBeadedWire.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-6465105108393318362?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/6465105108393318362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2008/12/sweet-as-candykisses.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/6465105108393318362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/6465105108393318362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2008/12/sweet-as-candykisses.html' title='-♥-Sweet As CandyKisses-FTU-♥-'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SVj_M0n154I/AAAAAAAAAXk/35gK6i3V2C4/s72-c/SweetAsCandyKissesGarvMarie-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8104665135602383086.post-5476280128760616855</id><published>2008-12-29T10:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T10:44:00.439-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Just Opening For My New Tuts</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;I have just opened this blog to host all of my Tutorials.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I will not post all of my older ones just my new ones.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I hope there will be something of interest for everyone here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Marie&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8104665135602383086-5476280128760616855?l=maries-tutorials.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/feeds/5476280128760616855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2008/12/just-opening-for-my-new-tuts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/5476280128760616855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8104665135602383086/posts/default/5476280128760616855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://maries-tutorials.blogspot.com/2008/12/just-opening-for-my-new-tuts.html' title='Just Opening For My New Tuts'/><author><name>Marie</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13784694109439034337</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_8uENS4L7iHI/SGwOYFnf8vI/AAAAAAAAAAg/mwMDsvUSrTw/S220/Archie+and+Marie.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
