Butterfly Garden

3 tubes of choice,I am using the beautiful work of Caron Vinson,which you can purchase here,do not use unless you have a license to do so.

Scrapkit "Butterfly Garden"(FTU)from Gina here. This is a beautiful kit Gina,thank you!!

Template of choice or the one I used by Simply Sensational Scraps here. Thank you for sharing!

Mask of choice or the one I used from Babesdesigns(mask 33) here. Thank you for sharing!

Font of choice or the one I used,Angelica here

-This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP-

Open mask,minimize.

Open template,shiftD,close the orginal,delete copyright.

Paste paper7 on the very bottom/right click/new mask layer/from image/choose mask/invert mask date checked/layers/merge/merge group/using pick tool,move mask alittle above the template layers/layers/duplicate/image/mirror/layers/duplicate/image/flip/layers/duplicate/image/mirror/right click on copy3 layer/merge down to the first mask layer.

Highlight the large black rectangle layer/selections/select all/float/defloat/edit/paste paper9 into selection/deselect.

Repeat with the large gray rectangle layer with paper3.

Flood fill the right&left black/gray rectangles with color of choice,I used white and green(#6fda6e) Same color for center rectangle layer.

Using magicwand,click on the left gray(green in my case) rectangle,paste tube as a new layer/selections/invert/delete/deselect. Repeat on the right side rectangle with 2nd tube.

Highlight center square layer/magicwand/paste grass2/resize 30%/position/selections/invert/delete/deselect.

Hide white&mask layers/layers/merge/merge visible/dropshadow 6 6 58 11 Unhide layers.

Paste your 3rd tube/position/same dropshadow.

Paste pendant3 as a new layer/resize 35%/position/same dropshadow.

Paste flower2 as a new layer/repeat the same steps we did for the pendant layer except resize 45%.

Paste butterfly4 as a new layer/resize 40%/position/same dropshadow.

Layers/merge/merge visible/image/resize all layers 5%.

Add copyrights/name/save.

Hope you enjoyed my tut,would love to see your results.

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Hugs,Mary