Soft Touch

For this tutorial you will need:

The stunning scrap kit called Soft Touch from LHD scraps here

My Mask MD_22 here

A tube of choice, I am using the art of Jennifer Janesko, to use this

tube you will need to purchase it from the Creative Design Outlet here

Load the mask into your mask folder.

Open a blank canvas 600 x 600, flood fill with white.

Add a new raster layer, go to selection, select all, Open Paper5 copy and paste into selection back to selections, select none.

Go to layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk and select mask MD_22 from the drop down menu, apply with the following settings, create mask from source luminance, orientation fit to layer options hide all mask, go back to layers, merge, merge group.

Open Ele19, copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas.

Open Frame2, copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to image, resize and resize by 70%, smart size, resize all layers unchecked, go to layers, properties, rename this layer FRAME.

select the lasso tool, selection type set to point to point, mode set to add(shift) and feather set at 0, draw round the frame as shown in the screen shot below

add a new raster layer, Open paper11 copy and paste into selection, go to selections, select none, drag this layer below the FRAME layer.

copy and paste your tube as a new layer, arrange to your liking, go to layers, properties, rename this layer TUBE, then go to image, duplicate, drag the copy of TUBE layer above the FRAME layer.

Make the copy of TUBE layer active by clicking on it in the layers palette, Select the eraser tool and erase any part of the tube below the bottom half of the frame, then repeate with the TUBE layer active.

Now with the FRAME layer active, open Ele35, copy and paste as a new layer, go to image, resize and resize by 80%.

Open Ele24, copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to image, resize and resize by 35%, arrange at the top corner of the frame, go to effects, 3D effects, drop shadow add a drop shadow with the following settings, H 5, V -4, Opacity 45, blur 6, color black, add the same drop shadow to the FRAME & TUBE layers.

Add your name and copyright info, delete the white background layer and resize if desired. your done!