Arthur Crowe - Happy New Year

scraps used my New Years Freebie available on my Scraps blog HERE
I recoloured some of the elements gold, to match the tube..I will show you how.

tube is by Arthur Crowe called Happy Sexy New Years you must purchase his tubes to use them HERE
it comes with layers . and close ups for you to customise

I used 2 masks, download Vix_Masks 141-180 pack by VixPSP HERE 
download mask pack 40-50 by Vabs HERE
add masks to your mask folder..

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open up a canvas roughly 600x600 pixels

open up paper1 (the red one) from my new years kit 

copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas

then apply Vix mask number 

by going to Layers -  Load/save mask to disk
select mask number176

 

click ok or load depending on your version of PSP

then go to layers- merge - merge group

open up glitter rays from the kit
recolour it by going to adjust  - hue and saturation -Colorize

 settings are as follows

duplicate this layer then go to Images -  mirror
then go to Layers- merge down

next add the clock frame from the kit as a new layer

 recolour this gold by going to adjust -hue and saturation - colourize settings are as before

then using your erasor tool set to size 250 hardness around 70

and erase the glitter rays from the layer below from inside the frame area

 open up paper4 (gold) from my new years kit 

copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas

then apply Vabs mask number 

by going to Layers -  Load/save mask to disk
select mask number 43

 

click ok or load depending on your version of PSP

then go to layers- merge - merge group

open up close up tube resize by 80% using smartsize
remove the excess that overhangs the clock frame

change blend mode of the tube to screen
by going to Layers- Properties and change the blend mode from normal to Screen

duplicate this tube layer

open up full length resize by 70%


open up word art1 recolour it by going to adjust- hue and saturation - colorize settings are as before

copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas
then duplicate 3 or 4 times to fill the background the length of the tube

then merge down till all word art is on one layer

change the blend mode to multiply,
 then slide the word art layer between the 2 closeup tube layers

open up paper1 (red) and use this as your pattern fill set at 50% for the background fill for your text
FOREGROUND SET TO NULL

I used the font Lamplighter Script set to 72

type out the text - Happy New Year

Add a drop shadow

add artist's copyright

save your tag as a png and you are done