SPARKLE LIKE A UNICORN

A back to basics tutorial.

All ideas are my own, similarities to anyone else is purely coincidental.

Materials Required

Tube of choice – I used one from The Paper Shelter

Font of choice – I used Moonstone

Mask – I used is by Vix_Mask12

Check out her blog at VIXPSP

Word Art of choice or use mine below.

Filters Used -

DSB Flux – Linear Transmisson.

Penta – Colour Dot.

Tramages – Tow The Line.

Let us begin.

Open a new canvas 850 x 850

pick out 2 contrasting colours from your tube and change to gradient.

Flood fill your layer & add Gaussian blur – Radius 25.

Apply your mask & merge group.

Apply Linear Transmission with these settings

Apply Colour Dot with these settings

Duplicate the layer & on the duplicate apply Tow The Line with these settings

Change layer to overlay.

With your preset shapes select Elipse, line style solid, width 8, Foreground colour white, Background colour Null. Draw out a large circle

(see my tag for reference)

Convert to raster.

Draw out a second circle this time line style Dashed, make this one slightly bigger than the solid line one.

I added Drop Shadow to both of these layers with these settings

H 3 V -3 Opacity 30 Blur 5 Colour Black.

Go back to your Preset Shapes pick a Star shape, change your line style back to Solid & change the Width to 10 once happy with size & placement convert to raster.

With your magic wand click inside the star, go to selections & expand by 4

Add a new layer and drag under the Star, you can now either use the same gradient as earlier and flood fill or pick a paper if you are using a Kit and paste into selection.

If using the gradient apply the Gaussian Blur as before & apply the colour dot.

Resize & paste you tube in the centre of the star, carefully erase the parts that are overlapping the star at the bottom. I click inside the star with the magic wand, go to selections and invert, then click on the tube layer and erase the parts you want to remove.

Apply drop shadow to both the star & tube layers.

Add your word art & add the drop shadow.

Add any other sparkles or brushes as you like to spruce it up.

Add your name & copyright details

Merge all layers & save as png.