First you will need this font, Butterfly Haven by Perry Mason. Once you have downloaded and installed this font (for instructions on how to do this please refer to my prior post titled FONTS) open your Photoshop Elements 6  program and select a new file at 1200 by 1200 pixels or 4 by 4 in with a transparent backgound.

Choose your type tool and type a capital C on your document, pretty butterfly huh. Once you have done that go over to your styles and choose glass buttons from the drop down menu. Select whatever color button you wish your butterfly to be, I have chosen light purple. Now make a duplicate layer and choose bevels in your styles dropdown menu. I am using Simple Emboss for my butterfly but try them all and find one that you like. Lower the opacity level of this layer so that the glass glow shows through the bevel, I dropped my level to 53%. Go to your layer window and shift+right click both layers, choose link layers. You do not want to merge them for this tutorial otherwise you will lose most of the glass glow.

Now we are going to add a ring so that it looks like a charm and can be hung from a bow or chain. First create another new 4 by 4 file and select your eliptical marque tool. Hold down shift key while dragging out your marque tool and you will get a perfect circle. Now we want to fill this with color, push Alt+backspace and your circle will be filled with your chosen forground color. It does not matter what color you use because once we apply a style it will appear metallic. Okay we have a circle but we want it to have a hollow center, so choose your eraser tool and change the size so that it erases most of the center of the circle. You want it to appear realistic so leave a small ring but not to small. Now we go to our styles drop down menu once again and choose Wow Chrome, I have chosen Wow Chrome-Beveled Edge.

Next step is combining the two images, first select the move tool and drag the butterfly onto the document containing the ring. Hence the reason we linked the layers earlier, if we had not we would be moving them seperately and hoping they were aligned exactly. You may need to adjust the size of the butterfly or the ring to create an realistic appearance once they are lined up together. I rotated my butterfly slightly so that it would be hanging from its wing. Once they are lined up the way you want them shift+right click your layers and merge them. You have created a hanging glass butterfly embellishment using a dingfont, pat yourself on the back and take a bow. Remeber to save as a .png file to maintain the transparency.

Goodnight and kiss your babies!

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