Queen of Hearts - No Scraps

This tutorial was written by Miranda on 7/3/14. Any similarities to any other tutorials is purely coincidental.  

NOTE: If you get confused at any time, you can use my tag for reference!

SUPPLIES:

PTU tube by Terra Bidlespacher. You need a license to use this tube. You can find it at MyTubedArt

Penta.com - VTR 2

Xero - Porcelain

Xero - Radiance: My settings HERE

Muras Meister Copies

Pixel Font - Pixel Caps

Eye Candy 4000 - Glass

Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow

Word Art Font - Janda Apple Cobbler Solid

Open a new image 600x250

Copy/Paste your tube as a new layer. A close up is recommended for this.

Duplicate twice.

Hide the top tube layer.

 Place the other two to the left and the right.

 One should overlap the other.

Merge them together.

Duplicate.

On the bottom layer:

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur

Blur Type: Twirl

Strength: 50%

Twirl Degrees: 0

Elliptical Checked

Horizontal Offset: 1

Vertical Offset: 0

Protect Center: 25

Hit OK

Effects - Plugins - Penta.com - VTR2

Line Distance - 26

Line Width - 0

Contrast - 59

Ghost - 0

Effects - Plugins - Xero - Porcelain - Default Settings

On the top duplicated layer change blend mode to Soft Light

Text tool - Choose a pixel font of choice

Size - 8

A color from tube - I used #6b2f27

Type Queen of Hearts. Apply.

Convert to raster

Effects - Plugins - Muras Meister - Copies

The only two things I changed:

In the drop down, find Tiling

Change Tile Gap to 1

Apply

Change the blend mode to Screen

Unhide your tube layer & resize as needed

Effects - Plugins - Xero Radiance

Grab my settings above.

Add a drop shadow

Text tool - Find a thick font or use the same as I did

Type out Queen of Hearts again

Size - 72

Apply

Convert to raster.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Glass

Default Settings other than glass color. I used #6b2f27

Hit Okay

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow

Change Glow Width to 3

Choose two colors from tube

I used #8a7e7c and #6b2f27

Place four color markers, two for each color (1 & 2:#8a7e7c, 3 & 4:#6b2f27)

Apply

Add Drop Shadow

Place at the bottom

New Raster Layer

Select All

Selections - Modify - Select Selection Borders

Inside and Anti-Alias checked

Border Width - 4

Flood fill with #6b2f27 or a color of your choice

Deselect

Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add noise

Random and Monochrome checked

Noise:51%

Drop Shadow

Add your Name and Copyright info and you're done!