Supplies

Kit- Blah Blah Baby by A Taggers Scrap. Visit her blog here for info on where to get this awesome kit. It's fully pinks, purples, teals and loads of unique elements! Lots to do with it :)

Tube- I'm using the work of Celinart Pinup available at Scraps and the City here with a valid license

Plug Ins- EC4>gradient glow, Penta.com>dots and cross, Penta.com>jeans, MuraMeister>copies,

dsb flux>linear transmission

Font of choice-regular and pixel

Here we go :)

Open a new canvas 700x700

Activate your preset tool, circle, foreground null, background color or gradient of choice

convert to raster layer

selections>select all>float>defloat

selections>modify>select selection borders: both sides, width 3

add a new layer and flood fill with color or gradient of choice

Add noise of choice to border

eC4>gradient glow: fat, white, width 3

add a drop shadow

activate circle layer, selections>select all>float>defloat

c/p close up of tube as a new layer, place in selection

selections>invert, hit delete, deselect

activate your selection tool

make a box over half of the circle that will have the text

make sure your close up tube layer is highlighted and hit delete 

deselect, change blend mode to Luminance and opacity to 64

penta.com>dots and cross, default settings

Using your pixel font (I use pixelmix, size 6) type your words

MuraMeister>tiling:

on your circle layer, select all>float>defloat

highlight text layer, selections>invert, delete, deselect

activate your selections tool and delete the text on the tube side of the circle

using the steps from above :)

change text opacity to 52

activate your preset tool, choose rectangle, line width 5

draw out a rectangle at the bottom of circle, slightly to the left

add noise of choice, I used 80%

EC4>gradient glow: width 3, black halo

repeat glow: width 3, fat, white

add drop shadow

duplicate, flip, reposition, merge those 2 layers

activate your magic wand tool, click inside each rectangle

selections>modify>expand by 3

add new raster layer below rectangle borders

flood fill with color or gradient of choice

while still selected, add various parts of tube in selections

selections>invert

hit delete on the tubes so they are sitting nice in the rectangles

deselect. merge all those tube layers together

duplicate

On bottom tubes layer change blend mode to Hard light

penta.com>jeans: amount 62, width 4

on top tubes layer add a gaussian blur of 2

 change blend mode to screen, opacity 76

Add main tube of choice, duplicate

on top layer, add a gaussian blur of 2

change blend mode to screen, opacity 66

drop shadow bottom tube layer

Almost forgot! Highlight the circle layer you first made

duplicate and apply DSB flux>linear transmission

I forgot to save or screen shoot my settings, so just play with it a bit!

Do both vertical and horizontal

Now I think we're ready to add some elements lol

I added:

flame 1- add noise, add glow

button 3- duplicate, reposition

splatter 4- duplicate, mirror

glitter stars

curly ribbon 1

candle

lips

boot

glasses - rotate 15 degrees, add glow:

crop and resize your tag

sharpen and drop shadow elements

add license and copyrights

add name and any text

merge, save, enjoy :)

Thank you for trying my tut :) If you have any questions at all, or would like to show me your results (love seeing them!) please email me: bananas_68@yahoo.com