FTU tutorial - Birth Of Spring with Sarah Bennett

This tutorial was written March 24, 2013. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well. It’s assumed that you have working knowledge on working with layers.
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Please look at my TOU for more info.

The supplies you need:
An image of choice. I used a beautiful image from Sarah Bennett. Her tubes and images can be purchased at My Tubed Art.
A scrapkit of choice. I used a kit called “Spring Delight” by Scraps Dimensions.
Materials you need:
Mask of choice. I used sg_bubble-edge by EssexGirl. All her masks start with “sg_” so you might have it already. I found out only recently that these belong to her.
A font of choice. I used “TamarilloJF”
Eye Candy 6 – Marble (Optional)

Open up the image and duplicate it. Minimize or close the original.
Delete the copyright layer and promote background layer. Change the canvas size to 700x700 pixels.
Select All – Float – Defloat – Expand by 20
Add a new raster layer and floodfill with white.
Contract by 25 and hit Delete. Select none.
Resize both layers by 80% and add a drop shadow to the frame.
I used 3, 3, 50, 8, Black.
Merge visible.

Add a new raster layer and send to bottom.
Paste “SD Flowers 2” and resize it down to 60%. Place it in the top left corner.
Do the same with “SD Flowers 1” and place it in the top right corner.
Paste “SD Stones” on the top layer, resize it down to 60% and place it in the middle at the bottom.
Add “SD Grass” and resize it to 30%. Place it at the bottom. Duplicate and place it to the left. Duplicate again and mirror
Paste “SD Flower 1” and resize it to 15%. Place at the bottom. Duplicate this 5 times, mirror 2 of them and place around the stones at the bottom.
Add “SD Ribbon 1”, resize it to 60% and place underneath the pink flowers.
Add “SD Ribbon 5”, resize it to 15% and place it on the right side just above the frame/image.
Add “SD Ladder” and resize it to 60%. Place this just above the bottom layer.
Add “SD Leaves 2” and resize it to 15%. Duplicate this as many times as you want. I did it 6 times and rotated some of them and placed them under the pink flowers.
Add “SD Daisy 3”, resize to 30% and place it at the top of the pink ribbon.
Add “SD String 3” to the layer above the ladder and resize it to 80%.
Add “SD Butterflies” on the top layer and resize it to 30%. Place it in the top right corner. See my tag for reference,
Add a suitable drop shadow to all the layers except the frame. I used the same settings as before.
Crop your tag.

Flood fill the bottom layer with a colour from your image/tube. I used #ae6b75.
Put a contrasting colour as your background. I used #b9746c.
Open Eye Candy 6 – Marble with these settings, Foreground colour is Bedrock Colour and background colour is Vein Colour:

Click OK.
Change the layer option on this one to Colour.
Add another layer and floodfill this with a 3rd colour. I used #9885a0.
Place this below your Eye Candy layer.

My goal with this was to get a similar look to the background in the image.
Feel free to play around, or just add a paper from the kit instead.

Add a mask of choice on the Eye Candy layer and merge group. Change the opacity to 75% on this one.
Repeat on the floodfilled layer, but don’t change the opacity.

Set your background and foreground colour to white and add your name, using a script font. Add a drop shadow.

Resize your tag to 550 px on the longest side.

Add your copyright info using a pixel font and save your tag in either png or jpg.

Thanks for trying!
Hugs Lithy