Love Hope Joy Charms

 
Written in PSPX.  Required superbladepro. Download the selections and extract it in your selection folder.
Open a canvas 600x386, transparent. Load the lhj-heart-1.  Add a new raster layer and flood fill with white. Effects/ Plugins/ Flaming pear/ Superbladepro. Use the copper.9q9 preset.

Load the lhj-safety-pin-body. Add a raster layer and flood fill with #ffffff. Apply Superbladepro, use the same preset..

Load the lhj-safety-pin-head. Add a raster layer and flood fill with #ffffff. Apply superbladepro, same preset.

Load the lhj-star-charm. Add a raster layer and flood fill with white. Apply SBP.

Load the lhj-ellipse-charm. Add a raster layer and flood fill with white. Apply SBP.

Load the lhj-heart-charm. Add a raster layer and flood fill with white. Apply SBP.

Make a selection on each of the charm loops and delete the safety pin body part. See screen shot. Deselect.



Magic wand, make a selection inside the heart charm. Selection/ modify/ expand by 2.  Add a raster layer and flood fill with any color or pattern background you desire. Move the layer down. Deselect.

Text tool, use any font you desire and type Love. Convert to raster layer. Make it selected, click on the heart fill and hit delete. Delete the text and make the fill selected. Effects/ 3D effects/ cutout. Settings: vertical 2/ horizontal -2/ opacity 75/ blur 69/ shadow color #000000.

Make a selection inside the ellipse charm. Expand the selection by 2. Add a raster layer and flood fill with any color or pattern you desire. Move this layer down. Deselect. Text tool and type Hope. Convert to raster layer.  Click on Image>Free rotate/ angle 45 right. Make the text selected, click on the silver fill and hit delete. Make the silver fill selected and apply inner bevel.  Settings: Bevel #2/ width 2/ smoothness 30/ depth 1/ ambience 0/ shininess 0/ color #ffffff/ angle 301/ intensity 50/ elevation 30. Apply drop shadow. Settings: vertical 2/ horizontal -1/ opacity 60/ blur 0/ color #000000.

Magic wand and click anywhere inside the star charm. Expand the selection to 2. Add a raster layer and flood fill with any background you desire. Move this layer down. Deselect. Text tool/ type JoY. Convert to raster layer.  Image/ free rotate/ angle 45 left. Make the text selected, click on the star fill and hit delete. Deselect. Make the star fill selected and apply inner bevel, use the same settings. Apply drop shadow, use the same settings. Deselect.

Merge the layers visible. Save your image.

End of tutorial