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Happy Valentine's Day

I made a valentine card about 3 years ago and I just loved it, it was so very pretty, I decided to make one of my own, the idea originates with a card made by Dee

Written byİDorothy

Jan/2005

Let's begin

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Supplies

Unzip your supplies to their own folder...you can work your selections from there...no need to put them in to psp selections as you will never use them again

Open your font, if you are using mine and shrink it to task bar..open your basket patch..open the D_gold....open girl...girl at desk if you are using these...open red heart...couple and couple tubed

Open a canvas 400x 400.....add a new layer....selections...load from disk....inside frame....selections...modify....contract by 1....selections ... modify...feather by 1.....flood fill with your basket patch pattern...add a new layer....flood fill with white and on the layer palette... bring the opacity down to 50...select none

Add a new layer...selections ...load from disk...frame...flood fill with you D_GOLD pattern....selections...select none

Add a new layer...selections...load from disk.....corners.....flood fill with your D_GOLD pattern....add an inner bevel with these settings

selections...select none...layers>merge visible and re name this background

Add a new layer...selections load from disk...top inside heart... click on the girl....copy...paste into selection...select none.... add a new layer...selections...load from disk... top heart...flood fill with D_GOLD...sel;ect none

Add a new layer...selections load from disk....bottom inside heart... flood fill with white....click on the girl ...copy ....paste as new layer...we will crop her in a min....place her inside the heart selection....select none ...add a new layer...selections...load from disk bottom heart...flood fill with D_GOLD... selections...select none...now with the lasso tool.. and the girl at desk layer your active layer...lasso around the heart at the bottom and delete..make sure you cut out the legs too

Add a new layer...selections...load from disk...sides....flood fill with D_GOLD.... select none....you can put the same inner bevel on if you like, I just left mine plain with no bevel...layers...merge...re name background...

Click on the couple...copy...paste as new layer and place them on your canvas...

Make sure when you add the noise that the heart layer is the active layer and when you merge the background and the heart layer make sure the heart layer is on top of the background layer

Click on the red heart...copy...paste as new layer....place this heart right on top of the pervious heart in the couple picture...make sure there is no jump ...duplicate the heart layer 2 more times for a total of 3 hearts... close off 2 hearts and with 1 heart the active layer...click on effects....noise...add and palce 50 in the in noise box and make sure random is checked....duplicate the background ...turn off the original...layers>merge....close off and re name layer 1....

Click on the next heart....effects...noise....add...and this time put 70 in the box...duplicate the background layer turn off the original.... layers>merge...close off and re name layer 2

Click on the last heart....effects...noise....add...and this time put 90 in the box....duplicate background.... layers>merge...close off and re name layer 3

Now let's put our couple on....click on the couple tubed...copy... click on the canvas...paste as new layer....place this couple right on top of the other couple making sure there is no jump....when you have it placed re name this layer couple.....duplicate this layer 2 times for a total of 3 couples

Open layer 1...drag down one of the couples....make sure it is on top of the background .... layers>merge...close off and re name layer 1

Open layer 2...drag down one of the couples....make sure it is on top of the background .... layers>merge...close off and re name layer 2

Open layer 3..drag down the last couple....make sure it is on top of the background .... layers>merge...close off and re name layer 3

Open your 3 layers and save as

Open another canvas 500x500...and with your text tool size set at 48.... stoke set at null...fill set at the gold pattern....type your message and your name...add a drop shadow, with these settings

Vertical..-1

Horizontal...1

Opacity 100

Blur 3.5....colour set to gray

edit...copy....go to Animation shop and edit ...paste as new image...now dulicate this 2 more times.. for a total of 3

Open animation shop....find your graphic .... click on the text...edit...select all...click on the graphic...edit ...select all....edit...paste into selected frames..... place the text where you want it before you click the mouse..and now is a good time to re size...I took mine to 300

All that is left is to save your tag

And that's all there is to this one, I hope you enjoyed my tut and thank you for visiting my site

....Dorothy....

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