FTU My Blue Heart

My Blue Heart was written by Myself on 17th February 2013. Any Similarity to any other tag or tutorial is co incidental.

Supplies Needed

Tube of choice. I have used the Stunning Artwork of Alex Prihodko. Available from Pics for design  HERE

Gorgeous FTU Scrap kit, Feeling Blue by Mary at Sweet As Honey Creationz  HERE

Filters Used

Xero- Porcelain

Open an image 700 x 700 . Paste paper 10  and resize by 80%. Load mask fom disk- fit to layer. In layer palette delete mask, merge group, duplicate and merge down. Paste frame 5 as a new layer and resize to 80%. take your magic wand and click inside the frame. Go to selections -modify-expand by 4. paste paper 3 resized by 60%. Selections-invert and hit delete. Select none.

Still on this layer take your freehand selection too and draw a semi circle on the the left side of your Inner circle. Effects -texture effects- weave with these settings. Select none.

Paste your tube and apply Xero- Porcelain- default settings.  Duplicate and move one layer below your frame. Drop shadow your original (top copy) .Use eraser tool to neaten and remove excess tube on each copy so it fits neatly in the bottom of your frame.

Paste Elements of choice and drop shadow as desired. Refer to my image as a guide, I used.....

Beads 1 - Resize 80%. Place above mask layer towards bottom of tag, Duplicate, flip and mirror. Move into desired position at top of tag.

Butterfly love - Resize 70%-Mirror. Place left of tag, above frame.

Bow 1 - Resize 40%-rotate left by 8. Place above butterfly love on left of tag.

Heart Butterfly 1 - Resize 40%- rotate left by 15. Place bottom right of tag above frame. Duplicate and image mirror to left, Move left copy higher up the frame.

Bow 4 - Resize 60%. Place left of tag beneath heart butterfly on frame. Duplicate and mirror. Place beneath right copy of heart butterfly . Bottom right of tag.

Bow 3 - Resize 40%. Place centrally at bottom of frame, beneath butterfly love element.

Hearts 1 - Resize 70%, Place Centrally, above bow 3.

Heartballoon 1 - Resize 50%. - Rotate right by 9. Place top right of tag.

Heartballoon 2 - Resize 40% - Rotate right by 9. Place Above balloon 1. 

Merge Visible. Crop/resize and sharpen to your liking. Add Name and relevant copyright info and save as PNG. All done. Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and your pleased with your tag. Sal :)