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Monday, November 4, 2013

PTU - Cotton Eyed Country

This tutorial was written by me on November 4,  2013. Please do not claim as your own. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
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Mask Of Choice 

Scrap Kit - PTU scrap kit called Cotton Eyed Country By Kissing Kate
You can purchase the kit here and here

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - Artwork by Arthur Crowe. You must obtain a license from his store to use this tube.

Program - Gimp 2.6..but any program will do.

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Open New Canvas
I did 650x650.you can resize it at the end if you would like.

Open Mask
Right click on your layers 
Go down to alpha by selection
Edit > fill w/ BG color - Make sure color is #FFFFFF

Open Paper 4
Right click on your layers
Click add layer mask
Then a window will pop up 
then click black (full transparency)
Then click add
Edit > Copy 
Edit > Paste
On Layers > click on floating selection
Then right click on layers
scroll down to anchor layer
Delete first layer!!!

You should have a mask..then a black square next to it on your layers.
Image > Merge Visible Layers 
Box should pop up..click clipped to image > Merge

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Ready...
Set...
Go...

Open Frame3
Now open Paper6 and use your rectangle tool to make a square on paper6
Copy/Paste inside Frame3

Open These Elements and use the same dropshadow as above and resize to your liking!!!

Element2
Element8 (duplicate 1x)
Element10
Element11
Element15
Element21
Element25
Element28
Element38
Element47
Element48 (duplicate 6x and place around frame3)
Element51
Element54
Element55


Now dropshadow your elements with these settings.

Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 76
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Now resize your tag to 600x600 if you would like. 

When you are happy with your tag..
Add Copyright!!
Add Name!!
Merge All Layers!
Save!
Enjoy!!

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial. 

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