You will need a tube similar to mine

My quote-use as a tube to add to your brushes

My pattern or one of your own

These are in the supplies here

Open a new transparent canvas 500x500

In foreground box of material palette add my pattern -angle 50 repeats 250

Flood fill the canvas with this pattern

Add a new layer

With paintbrush on round 10 setting and colour in foreground palette on white-paint noughts and crosses on your canvas any size you like and as many as you like. This will make the background your own.

Effects-distortion effects-ripple-settings as in screen shot.

Effects-image effects-seamless tiling-default setting.

Layers merge visible

Reduce the opacity of the merged layer to 50

Copy and paste the tube as new layer. Arrange to the left of the canvas.

Add a new layer.

With preset shape tool on rectangle-chose a line style you like I used the dash dot for mine-width 3. Have a dark colour in the foreground box and a lighter one in the background box, to match the background on the canvas.

Draw a rectangle to the right of the tube to almost fill the rest of the canvas. Reduce this layer opacity to 50.

Layers merge visible

Open the quote tube -file-export-custom brush-leave the settings as they are and name the brush as you wish. Click on ok.

Add the colours you would like the quote to be to your material palette and then look for the quote brush in your brushes palette.

Add a new layer

Click a few times on the canvas to make the quote show-up more. Add a drop shadow -settings V and H 1 Opacity 50 Blur 5 and colour black.

Adjust sharpness -sharpen

If the quote doesn't fill your rectangle make it bigger with the pick tool.

Make sure all your layers are arranged as you wish then -layers merge all and flatten

Image- picture frame-edge design 05 or one of your choice.

Image -add border-size 15 in a colour of your choice.

With magic wand select the border. Effects-texture effects-fur-default setting

Effects-3D drop shadow with settings as before-repeat the drop shadow but change the horizontal and vertical to -1

Select none

Image -resize 70%.

Add a new layer for your text in a font and colour of your choice.

Add a drop shadow as before.

Layers -merge visible.

Resize again if you wish. I resized mine again by 90%

That is the tutorial finished.

I hope that you enjoy doing it.

Written by chrissie 2005