Valentine Cards

Lesson Index for those who are just joining in

Things you will need.

Envelope Top Envelope Bottom

A background of your choice. Some here.

Marcia's Dings - Valentine Page

The top and bottom are made to fit together. If you want a closed envelope, use the bottom only. If you want an open envelope, comp the top to the bottom, so it fits across the middle. Since they are both on transparent backs, no need to crop. Enter the bottom first and work your co-ordinates until the top fits.

Once you have it the way you want, output and save as a gif.

This will work the same as a mask. If you comp a bg using IN, you will loose the gold lines. If you first comp the envelope on a black bg, you can use MULTIPLY, and the lines will remain. Darker bgs will make them less noticable.

Decorate it with dings and/or flowers. See here for some ideas.

If you want to use it as a gif, just matte out the black, afterwards.

TIP- If you want to make the heart look like it's partly inside the envelope, you will need to make it on a seperate transparent bg. Then rotate it and crop off the parts needed. Out as a gif, then comp it over the envelope.

"With a Little Help from My Friends"

Check out Moondogee's instructions on how to make a transparent center for the envelope. You can then use it as an overlay.

VDay Tines

Moon's - How to add Gold to the center - Spectacular!