FTU - Girls Rule with snags

This tutorial was written April 25th, 2013. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well. It’s assumed that you have working knowledge on how to copy and paste and working with layers.
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Please look at my TOU for more info.

The supplies you need:
Any tube you decide on. I’m using some of the Emo tubes (4 tubes) from Michi Art at CDO.
I also used a FTU kit called “Girls Rule” by Gimptastic Scraps.

Here is a preview of the scrapkit:

Materials you need:
Mask of choice. I used “Mask 51” by AquaRebel315.
A font that matches the theme. I used “Punk Kid”.
Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow (Optional)

My settings for drop shadow: 3, 3, 70, 8, Black.

Make a new canvas, 700 x 700 pixels.
Paste Frame 4 and rotate it 15 degrees to the right. Place on the right side for now. You can move it in to place later.
Paste Frame3 and rotate it 90 degrees to the right. Place on the left side.
Paste a paper below frame 4. Do the same with your second paper choice. I used Paper4 and Paper7. Activate your Magic Wand and click inside the top part of the black frame. Expand by 5 and Invert.
Go to the paper layer and hit Delete.
Select None.
Repeat the process but click inside the bottom part of the frame instead.
Go to the other paper and hit Delete. Select None.

Paste a black paper underneath the circle frames. I used Paper2.

Click inside all 3 circles with your Magic Wand and expand by 5. Invert, activate the paper layer and hit Delete. Select None.

Now we’re going to add some close-up tubes inside the circles. Here I will explain how to it to the top one, so repeat this on the other 2 circles:

Paste a tube (from the same artist) and place it to your liking inside the circle frame. I resized mine down to 60% because they were quite big. Go to the frame layer and click inside the top circle with your Magic Wand. Expand by 5, Invert and go back to the close-up tube. Hit delete and Select None.
Change the layer option on the tube to Screen and lower the opacity to 70.
Once you have done this to all 3 circles, you can start placing elements around.

These are the ones that I used. Any changes I had made to these layers are explained (See my tag for reference):
Deco – above the bottom layer, place at the bottom right.
Star Spiral – above the bottom layer, bottom left.
Duplicate, mirror and flip this one.
Bubble1 – above the Circle frame, top right.
Ribbon – above the black frame, on the right side.
Winged Skull – above the ribbon, right side.
Arrow – above the black frame, bottom area.
OMG – above the circle frame, between the bottom 2 circles.
Girls Rule – above the circle frame, at the bottom
Flower1 – Above the top Star Spiral, top left corner.
Star1 – above the circle layer, almost centre.
Balloon2 – above the ribbon layer, right side
Kiss – above Bubble1, bottom right corner.
Bubble2 – above the kiss, bottom right corner.
I added Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow to “Kiss” and “Arrow”, using the Fat setting with white and these numbers:

Add a drop shadow on all the layers. My settings are mentioned at the top of the tutorial.
Hide the bottom layer and crop your tag with Merge Opaque.
Activate the bottom layer and paste a new layer. Select all and paste a paper in to the Selection. I used Paper6. Select None.
Add a mask to the paper layer and Merge Group. See my tutorial on how to do it HERE.

Activate your Text Tool. I used Punk Kit at 70 pixels with black as background colour.
Write your name and convert to raster.
I added the same Gradient Glow to the name, as I used earlier.
Add a drop shadow to the name.

Resize your tag. I resized mine down to 550px on the longest side.
Add the copyright info and save your tag.
I hid my bottom layer and saved as png.

Thanks for trying my tutorial.

I also made some snags that you can find HERE.
Hugs Lithy