Wicker Heart Frame

Designed and written by Laurie Rankins 2008

Any resemblance to other tutorials is purely coincidental.

If any of the materials in my tutorial belong to you let me

know and I will credit you or remove them.

 

Here is What we will be making in Paint Shop Pro

(this is the tutorial for frame only)

 

Paint Shop Pro here

Tube and Weave Supplies here

Place the lace line and stitch tube25 in your PSP tubes folder

 Place the white doily in your PSP tubes folder

 Save the weaves17a to a folder where you can find it

Have it opened and minimized on your desktop

Place the vector tube script in your Scripts Restricted folder

Place the  heart skhearts 01 in your Preset Shapes folder

 

Ok we are ready to begin:

Open a new image 600x600 pixels, transparent

 

Grab your tubes tool and find the white doily tube

with these settings:

Scale 50 / Step 160 / Continuous / Incremental

 

Flood fill your bottom layer

 I used bright blue so I could see it

 

Go to your preset shapes and pick the skhearts 01 shape

 

Use these settings:

 Retain style checked , Create as vector checked,

Anti-alias checked, Line Style solid, Line Width 0

Foreground and background same color

 Draw out your heart like the example leaving room for your lace

 

Go to objects / align / center in canvas

 

Now click on your pen tool

and it should change to nodes around your heart

 Then go to your scripts and find your vector tube script

 Click the run button and it should place your lace around the heart on a separate layer called stroked object

It should look like this now

 

Now highlight the stroked object layer and change the name to lace You want to duplicate this layer about 5 times to darken it

Close off the vector layer and your blue fill layer

and merge visible your lace layers

 Now they should show up better

 

Open your fill layer and duplicate the vector heart

Move the duplicate of the heart above the lace layer

and change the top heart to Raster layer

Hide the vector layer. We'll need it later

 

On the heart layer, go to Selections / Select All / Float / Defloat

 Add a new layer / hide your raster heart

Go to the new layer and flood fill your selected heart with the weave17a pattern

Materials palette settings:

 Angle 0 / Scale 100

Deselect

Go to Adjust / Hue and Saturation with settings both on 0

so it will be gray scaled.

Keeping the layers separated will allow you to

recolor your layers separately

This is what you should have now

 

Now we will go back and highlight the raster layer heart

Go to Selections / Select All / Float / Defloat

 Add a new raster layer

 Grab your tube tool and find the lace line using these settings:

Lace line tube Scale 229 / Step 7 / Continuous / Incremental

Close off all your layers except for the new layer on top

Grab your tube and on your new layer drag across the selected area like screen shot

 making sure the lace lines go all the way from top to bottom

Deselect

 

This is what it should look like now:

 

 

Go to Adjust / Hue and Saturation both settings on 0 to gray scale Then Adjust / Brightness/Contrast with these settings:

 Brightness / 28, Contrast 0

Hide the lace line layer

Now find your tube of the stitch25 with these settings:

Scale 70 / Step10 / Continuous / Incremental.

Unhide your vector heart layer if it is not selected

Grab your Ellipse tool and now you should see the nodes

If not click on Pen tool and the white arrow in the tool bar

 that says "mode" then click on edge of heart

and it should put the nodes around your heart

 

Click on your vector tube script / run

and it will put the stitch tube around your heart

Hide your vector heart layer again

 

Still on your stitches layer

go to Effects / 3D Effects / Inner bevel with these settings:

Move your stitches layer to the top

and move the vector heart on top of that

Unhide it now, click on preset shape tool and you should have a box with nodes so you can size the heart for your opening in center with the nodes around the square selection and when you have the opening size the way you want it

 

Go to your vector tube script, run the script and

now you have stitches around the center heart

Go to your vector heart layer / convert to a raster layer and hide 

Go back to your center stitches layer /

add the same inner bevel you did before

This is what it should look like now:

 

Highlight the heart layer you converted to a raster layer

Select all / Float / Defloat

 

Highlight the layer with the weave pattern on it / hit delete

 

Highlight the lace strip layer / hit delete

 

Now you can delete the two black heart layers

leaving you with 5 layers of your frame and the blue fill layer.

Add a small drop shadow to the 2 stitch layers

Save  as a gray scale file

This will give you the ability to color layers as needed

 The manual color correction tool can be used to  recolor also

Delete the blue fill layer / Merge visible and you are done.

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial!

 

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Ribbon made from Joske Script

Can be found here