The Red White & Blue

Supplies

1 tube of choice – I used the beautiful artwork of Elizabeth Austin which can be purchased from Up Your Art.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used  Mardian here

My Mask 8 here

Plug Ins used:

Brush Strokes – Cross Hatch

“The Red White and Blue” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Tasha  of Tasha’s Playground and is free for a limited time at Pics for Design.  You can visit her blog here.

Thank you Tasha for such an awesome kit.

This tutorial was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up a 700 x 700 blank canvas.

Flood fill white.

Copy and paste Frame 4 as a new layer.

Resize 90%.

Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.

New Raster layer below the frame.

Copy and patse Paper 8 Into Selection.

Apply Brush Strokes – Crosshatch:

Stroke Length: 22

Sharpness: 6

Strength: 1

OK

Close out your white background.

Merge Visible.

Reopen your white background.

Move the merged layer slight to the left and up a little.

New Raster layer.

Make your Selection Tool active set on Rectangle.

Create a rectangle approximately 350 x 300 pixels.

Copy and paste Paper 11 Into Selection.

Selections/Modify/Contract by 7.

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Move both the merged layer and the new frame you just made into exact position on your canvas – see my tag for reference.

Highlight the “frame” layer.

Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 2.

New Raster layer below the “frame”.

Copy and paste Paper 10 Into Selection.

Duplicate

Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 5

OK

Deselect.

Copy and patse your tube as a new layer.

Add your elements.  I used:

Fireworks 3:  Resize 40%

Fireworks 2:  Resize 30%

Stars:  Resize 60%/Duplicate

Jewel 2:  Resize 15%/Duplciate 3x’s

Lips 2:  Resize 50%/Mirror

Bow 3:  Resize 40%/Duplicate/Mirror

Flags

Butterfly 2:  Resize 30%/Duplicate/Mirror

Sparkle

Highlight your white background.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.

Apply the mask.

Resize 95%

Merge Group.

Move it up slightly on your canvas.

Add your credits.

Add your name.

Foreground: #932c2c

Background: #315792

Stroke: 2.0

Type your name.

Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Resize all layers 80%.

I’d love to see your results.
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Hugs,
Bev