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Wednesday, 4 January 2012

New Tutorial - Cityscape at Night

Finally got around to writing a new Tutorial. This tutorial was written by me on 3rd January 2012 and is my own idea any resemblance is purely coincidental. All supplies were made by me unless stipulated, please direct people to my blog to download and they are not to be used in any other tutorial without asking first. Heres what we are going to be making
For this you will need
Psp and Animation shop, i am using psp9 but any psp will do
Tube of choice, i am using the awesome artwork of Keith Garvey, to use his work you need a license. You can get his tubes HERE
Plugin - Gradient Glow
Mura Meister-Copies
Supplies
Cityscape Mask
Midnight Blue Gradient
Black and White Gradient
Moon
You can find the supplies HERE
Put Gradients into your Psp Gradient folder and Mask into your Mask folder
Font of choice - I used Amethyst Script
Animation of Choice-I used IgBlueBurst - By Lovey
You can get that HERE
Remember when downloading please leave some love, its nice to be nice

Ok lets get started

1. Open a new image 600x250

2. Paste tube close up as a new layer and resize by 85%. Copy and place to the right hand side of the image. Hide copy

3. Go back to the original tube layer, then go to Mura Meister copies, Wallpaper rotate default settings. Then Adjust Blur, Radial Blur with settings below:-


4. Add a new layer and flood fill with Midnight Blue gradient, then change the blend mode to Overlay.

5. Open the moon tube in Psp and copy then paste as a new layer in your image. Move to the lefthand side of the image.

6. Add a new layer and flood fill with the Black and White gradient. Go to layers Load/Save Mask-Load Mask from Disk and look for the Cityscape mask
Click load then delete mask layer merge group. Add a drop shadow of -1, 1, 60 and 2 to the mask layer.

7. Unhide your copy tube layer and add a medium Gradient Glow then Drop Shadow same as above.

8. Crop your image back to 600x250

9. Add a new layer then Selections select all, Modify-Contrast by 4. Selections invert and flood fill with #363690. Deselect.

10. Add your Copyright and License number then add your name using your preferred font and the same colour used for your frame.

If you don't want to animate save as a png image

TO ANIMATE

11. Hide all your layers apart from Layer 1 and 2, these are your blurred tube layer and the Midnight blue layer.

12. Right click and Copy Merged. Take over to Animation shop and paste as a new animation.

13. Open your animation and if using the same as me resize 85% x 3.

14. Click back onto your image that you bought over from psp to make it active, then ctrl, shift and L and click on the L until you have 20 layers.

15. Click back onto the animation, Ctrl A, Ctrl C then click your image layers Ctrl A, Ctrl E. Place the animation near the middle of your image.

16. Back to Psp, hide layers 1 and 2 and unhide all other layers, Right click copy merged and take over to animation shop and paste as a new animation.

17. Make your image have 20 layers by Ctrl Shift and L, clicking the L till you have the layers you require.

18. Ctrl A, Ctrl C and click onto the animated background layers, Ctrl A, Ctrl E and place onto your background.

19. Check your animation and once your happy with it save as a Gif.

Thats it done, hope you enjoyed my tutorial and if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask

Huggles
Gem xxx





Tuesday, 3 January 2012

New Template - Its a Christmas Party

I did this template as part of the Challenges for Creative Misfits, we had to make a tag using those words and i thought hey why not make a template. Meant to put it in here before Christmas but Real life took over, so am putting it in now and hoping you can find a use for it lol. Don't forget to follow the TOU and above all else have fun!! 
Here is the Preview
You can find it HERE
Heres what i made using it
Huggles to all
Gem xx

Happy New Year

Its been awhile i know and am so sorry about this, but my New Years Resolution is to get this up and running more lol. Real life has been a bit of a pita again at the moment, Alex and i split up just before Christmas and now am having hassle with the girls Dad but hopefully a trip to the solicitor on Thursday will get that sorted. Anyway i know its a bit late but i made a new template and have also written a new tutorial. Will get them uploaded to 4 shared then put them in here
Huggles to everyone
Gem xxx

Monday, 7 November 2011

Candy Elements

Here are some Elements i have made. Over here in the UK we call them sweets and lollipops over in the USA you call them Candy and Suckers i think if i've got that wrong sorry. Anyway these goes well with the papers i have made. Here are the previews and they are all in one folder to download. Hope you enjoy and if you download please leave some love
Previews


You can download HERE
Have fun
Huggles
Gem xxx

Candy Papers

Hi my friends, here are the Candy Papers as promised
Heres a Preview
You can find them HERE
Again if you download please leave a thank you it only takes a minute and please follow the TOU
Hugs
Gem xxx

So so sorry

I am so so sorry people for not being around much but real life kind of took over and i haven't been in the creating mind since. My dad took a heart attack in August and my mum isn't doing too well either after her surgery. But i have been busy i have made some new stuff to use some Candy Papers along with some Candy Canes, Lollipops and Bows. Will be posting them soon and look forward to seeing your comments
Huggles to all
Gem xxxx

Sunday, 26 June 2011

Update

Hi everyone here's an update on things going on.
Mum made it through the surgery and they managed to get all the cancer around the lung after taking out a third of her lung but at least this way she won't need chemo as she didn't want to go down that road again. She was in hospital for three weeks due to complications but is now on the mend at home and slowly starting to get things together.
We are still none the wiser on what is happening with Kirsten all we have been told is that bloods need to be taken again, so have made an appointment for Wednesday 29th June to speak to the doctor and find out exactly what is going on. Fingers crossed we can get things sorted and be somewhat wiser lol.
And finally the biggy, I am engaged to the most wonderful man on the planet. We have known each other for 26 years but lost touch due to me moving around all the time with the RAF, and finally found each other on Friends reunited and since then we have been talking and getting to know each other again (i had a huge crush on him in school and vice versa only we didn't know as the two friends we passed messages on didn't bother hehe) Anyway Alex came up for four days after proposing to me over Real Radio and me accepting and we went shopping for an engagement ring. Its a pink Sapphire with three diamonds on each shoulder and the best ring on the planet. I really can't believe my luck is finally looking good and i keep expecting something to go horribly wrong which is the norm for my life but maybe God is shining down on me again and something is going to go right for a change. Alex was up for four days and those days flew by so quick that before we knew it he was away again and i hate it and keep looking for his arm wrapped round me in bed when am sleeping!!
Anyway enough of my gossip i will be in this week with some new Templates, Masks and have made a scrapkit for a challenge in Xeracx Stalkers blogspot so am gonna try making another one and see what i can come up with
Take care all and stay safe
Huggles
Gem xxx