Cute As A Bug

Scrap kit by Missy  http://misfitsscrapz.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html

art©suzanne woolcott www.gorjuss.co.uk

You will need the mask made by Rachel @ http://www.enchantedbydarkness.co.uk/

under downloads choose EBDMask6

You will need to save the mask in your Masks folder in your c'drive

Open a new 500x500 image and floodfill white,

I used a tube with the main colour red to match the kit by Missy.

Add a new layer and flood fill that in the colour that matches the tube.

Add the mask layer by going to

Layers--> Load/Save Mask-->Load mask from disk

Find the mask that i suggested for you by Rachel, any mask may do if you wish to though.

Go to the layers section and merge group.

Now this a choice and this is where the tag can become your own.

Firstly let's make the centre of the tag, so choose the round shape, biscuit coloured hearts scrap fron the kit and paste as a new layer ABOVE the mask layers.

Then to make the flowers behind it, *you choose your favourite flower shape from the kit* this can be done in 2 ways.....

1st way, you could literally paste the flowers behind the round scrap and do plenty of layers, OR

use Mura Meister's Copies.

settings for a 500x500 tag are...
shrink the flower by 80% twice.
Shift X & Y @ 30
change the total number until your happy with the background effect it gives.

To add the tube and give it a nice clean line around the bottom of the 'round' scrap, you need to past your tube and resize it to fit until your happy where it is, then duplicate the layer.

Drop oneof the layes UNDER the round scrap so you now have a tube under the scrap and a tube over the scrap, it is the top tube your going to erase.

Eraese the egde so it give a nice clean line across the bottom then highlight the bottom tube layer and just delete the edge to make it look neater.

In the kit you have the words, Love, Bug and  Cute, choose which ones suit your tag and arrange them across the bottom of the tag, you may need to add your own wording in between as i did, 'as a'

I added a ladybird and a butterfly for effect but you could use a bunch of the flowers to the left, or the ribbons to make the tag seem fuller,

Add your copyright correctly as it doesn't ruin the tag but makes 'the' difference!

This was a fab kit to work with and i hope you enjoy it too!

Missy xx