Justice tutorial with Erin Ewer

This tutorial was written March 23, 2013 and edited on June 17 2015. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.
It’s assumed that you have working knowledge on how to resize 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:
A tube of choice. I used a beautiful tube from Erin Ewer. Her tubes can be purchased at Digital Art Heaven.
A scrapkit of choice. I used a kit called “Old Fashion” by Saskia. This is a PTU kit you can get at DigitalScrapbooking. This is a full size kit, so all elements and papers that are used need to be
resized to fit.
Materials you need:
Mask of choice. I used Mask 61 by Sophisticat Simone.
A font of choice. I used “JustColesCursive”
Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow (optional)

Open a blank canvas that is 700x700 pixels.
Paste your tube as a new layer and add a drop shadow.
I used 3,3,50,8,Black
Add a new raster and send to the bottom.

Paste element 26, resize (to 15%) and put it below the tube.
Rotate by 25 to the right and move it towards the left side.
See my tag for placement.
Click inside the frame with your selection wand, and expand by 5.
Add a new raster and place it under the frame.
Paste a paper of choice inside the selection.
I used the paper called “saskia_oldfashion”.
Add a drop shadow to the frame and merge down. I used same drop shadow as before.

Paste element 77 above the frame and resize (to 15%) to fit.
Using the same selection method as before, paste a paper of choice inside the selection.
I used the paper called “15”.
Add a drop shadow to the frame and merge down.
I placed this below the first frame and up to the left corner.

Add another frame. I used element 40 and resized it to 20%.
Using the same selection method as before, paste a paper of choice inside the selection.
I used the paper called “8”.
Add a drop shadow to the frame and merge down.
I bet you’re thinking “more frames?” Don’t worry, that was the last lol.

Now to have some fun with placing the elements.
I have just listed what elements I have used, what layer and what I resized them to.
I use the same drop shadow on these, as I did on the frames. Place to your liking or
look at my tag for reference.

Element 25 – below the bottom frame – 15% - Duplicate and mirror it.
Element 23 – above the bottom frame – 10%
Element 42 – above the rectangle frame – 12%
Element 67 – above oval frame – 12%
Element 45 – above the oval frame – 10%
Element 12 – above the oval frame – 15% - mirrored
Element 16 – above the books – 5% - mirrored
Element 37 – below the tube – 20%
Element 43 – above the tube – 20%
Element 56 – above the tube – 5% - mirrored
Element 73 – below the teddy – 15%

Some of the elements get a white line around them if you resize them a lot. The solution to that is simple:
Stay on the layer of the element, select all, float, defloat, contract by 1, invert and hit delete.
You have to do this BEFORE you add drop shadow.

If you want to add more elements, now is the time to do so.
If not, add drop shadow to all the layers.
Crop you tag with the Crop Tool and Merge Opaque selection.

Go to the bottom empty layer and select all.
Paste a paper of choice in to the selection. I used number 9. Selection none.
Add a mask of choice to this layer and merge group.
Depending on what paper you use, you might have to duplicate this layer a few times.
I duplicated it once and merged down.

Don’t worry, we’re almost done, hehe.

Now it’s time to add your name or a saying.
Change your fore and background colour to white and type the name with the Text Tool. I used size 80px.
Add a gradient glow to the name using a darker colour from the tube. I used #968f57.
Add the same drop shadow to the name.

Resize your tag to 550 pixels on the longest side.
With a pixel font, add your copyright info and save your creation.

Thanks for trying out my tutorial.
Hugs Lithy