Girly Girl

Supplies Needed: 

PSP 

Tube of choice. I am using one by SkyScraps. You can now find the tube: here

Pattern 001 by me here

Plugin: Dsb Flux here

Toadies here

Eyecandy 4000

Font here and here

Open a new image: 650x500

Open the tube, c/p in the canvas.

duplicate and activate the original tube layer.

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 5

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - Weaver:

Effects - Plugins - Dsb Flux - Blast:

Apply blast effect again, but change the direction to: Left

Apply Weaver, same settings used.

you can leave it like this or:

Activate the tube (without an effect) duplicate again, 

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur:

Radius: 8

Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise:

Uniform

Noise Percent: 80

Monochrome

Move the layer between the tube behind the tube.

Make the Wordart

Make a gradient with two colors that match your tube. my choice:

Foreground: #d40065

Background: #eb99f2

Angle: 0

Repeats: 2

Style: linear

Invert: uncheked

Write: GIRLY GIRL (all in caps) or anything you like.

Colors:

Foreground: none

Background: the gradient 

Convert as a raster layer. Place it behind the tube and at the bottom.

Selections - All. Float - Defloat.

Selections - Modify - Contract by: 3 pixels.

Effects - Plugins - Eyecandy 4000 - Glass:

Open the pattern I made, select it in the materials:

Add a new layer and flood fill with the patter.

In the layer palette change the blend mode to: soft light.

Deselect and merge down the layers. 

I'm going to add two differents drop shadow, you can skip the steps.

Duplicate the wordart. Select the original:

Add drop shadow:

V: 0 H: 3

O: 40 B: 5

Activate the duplicate layer. 

Effects - Plugins - Eyecandy 4000 - Shadowlab:

From the menu settings apply: short perspective shadow

but with this settings:

Remove the excess of the edges with the eraser tool. It's optional.

Add copyright and your name. Merge Visible, copy and paste as new image. Export as a png or jpg.