This tutorial

was written by me, Gems, May 28th 2009

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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I am using the wonderful art of Suzanne Woolcott

You need a licence to use Suzannes work, which you can purchase through

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this was written in PSPX
and assumes you have a good understanding

Scrapkit from the wonderful Sunf @ UrbanFairyTales
and its called "eclipse,"

Plug ins- Penta colour dot

Font i used - Valentine



ok off we go!!

Open a new canvas 650 x 450 and flood fill with white

Get paper of choice from the kit,
i used paper3

Copy and paste the paper as a new layer

Open the clipmask and minimse
Go to Layers-new mask layer-image and find the mask
invert mask is CHECKED

apply mask

go to layers > Merge > Merge Group

you will now have a bottom white layer and one mask layer.
On your mask layer, go to layer palette and
change your blend mode to hard light
Now go to your effects-photo effects-sepia toning
change the number to age to 2.

Open up eclipse6 and resize by 55% of original
paste as a new layer,
move it to the right and down on your canvas.

Now open eclipse5 and paste as a new layer
add a drop shadow if you wish.

Open up eclipse4,
this time use your pick tool to re-size and to angle the label


see my tag for reference.

add a drop shadow i used 1-1-5-50

i added the single leaf as a new layer and went to layer-duplicate.
i used my pick tool to angle them.
Add the same drop shadow.

Open the eclipse24back
past as a new layer and move it to the bottom of your canvas
now open eclipse24 and paste that as a new layer
and place it above the black squares so that they fit perfectly.
With your black squares active in the layer palette
go to effects-penta-colour dot
use these settings
change the value to 116 and the distance to 7
Now activate your eclipse24-the white frames
go to effects -photo effects- sepia toning
Have 2 in the box for amount to age.
Add your main tube and add a drop shadow
drop the tube layer below the white and black frames.

Activate your top layer and open up eclipse21
resize eclipse21 by 55% of original.
Add a small drop shadow if you wish.


Add your name and your © and licence info

Save as a jpeg or a png.

Thats it your done!!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and i hope you found it easy to follow?