Make a Holographic Sticker Tattoo Flash Sheet

Open Lopsy. In the New Document dialog, set Width to 1800 and Height to 2400 pixels and click Create. That's a 3:4 portrait sheet.

Select Background, set the foreground colour to #120F26 and choose Edit → Fill. This dark indigo only shows in the thin margin round the sheet.

Rename Layer 1 to Holo Foil. Run Filter → Clouds… with Scale 5. It always renders in greys, whatever your colours are set to.

Now run Filter → Solarize… with Threshold 128. Solarize flips every tone above the threshold, so the soft clouds turn into bright crinkled ridges that wander across the page. Those ridges become the rainbow bands of the foil.

Solarize leaves everything in the darker half of the range. Spread it back out with Filter → Brightness/Contrast…: Brightness 50, Contrast 100.

Then run Filter → Gaussian Blur… with Radius 12, so the bands flow into each other smoothly. Do any tonal tweaks now, while the layer is still plain grey. Once the colour map goes on in the next step, it's much easier to judge the result.

With Holo Foil selected, choose Layer → Group Layers and rename the group Foil Lab. Click the group's effects button to open its drawer, click Add Adjustment and pick Gradient Map.

Click the handle row under the gradient bar to add stops, then select each stop and type its hex code:

• 0%: #3A2C8F
• 18%: #5FA8FF
• 36%: #7FF5DC
• 54%: #FFF1A8
• 70%: #FFA8D8
• 86%: #B99CFF
• 100%: #F6F8FF

Each grey becomes a colour, so the ridges turn into thin-film rainbow bands with dark indigo pools between them.

Real foil catches the light in broad stripes. With Holo Foil selected, click Add Layer (it goes inside Foil Lab) and name it Sheen.

Pick the Gradient tool, set it to Linear and open Advanced…. Make four stops: black at 0%, #B0B0B0 at 33%, black at 66% and #B0B0B0 at 100%. Drag from the top-left corner of the canvas to the bottom-right, then set the layer's blend mode to Screen. The stripes go through the Gradient Map too, so they come out as bright passes of colour rather than grey.

Deselect, then choose Edit → Copy Merged (Cmd+Shift+C). Select Background and paste (Cmd+V). The flattened foil lands on a new layer just above Background, outside the group. Rename it Foil.

Hide Foil Lab, then hide Foil too. From now on you'll copy pieces of this hidden layer into each sticker.

Select Background, click Add Layer and name it Sheet. With the Shape tool set to Rectangle, a Corner Radius of 56 and the fill #1E1A3A, drag out a rectangle that leaves a narrow margin, about 28 px, on every side.

Give it some depth:

• Cmd-click the Sheet thumbnail to select it. Then drag a Radial gradient (#2C2468 → #1E1945 → #141030) from just above the centre down to the bottom edge.
• Run Filter → Add Noise… with Amount 6, Mono and Gaussian, for a printed-card grain.
• In the effects drawer, turn on Stroke at Width 3 in #4A4385.

Last, add a layer called Halo and drag a radial gradient from the middle of the upper half outwards. Use #3FA9FF at 50% opacity, then #8B5CFF at 18%, then fully transparent. Set the layer to Screen. This glow will sit behind the butterfly.

Select Halo, click New Group and name it Morpho. Inside it, click Add Layer twice and name the layers Morpho Die-cut and then Wing Ink. Wing Ink should sit above the die-cut layer.

Zoom in on the upper half. You only need to draw the left wings; the right ones will be a mirror copy. Keep the wings' inner edge on the vertical centre of the page (900 on the top ruler). The body will cover that seam, and the mirror copy will meet it exactly. With the Lasso:

• Draw the forewing. Start next to the body, about a third of the way down the sheet. Sweep up and out to a pointed tip near the top left, then come down the outer edge and back in to the body.
• Hold Shift and draw the hindwing below it: a rounded lobe that bulges out to the left and down. Shift adds it to the forewing selection.

Choose Select → Grow… with Amount 9. Set the foreground to #0D0B1A and choose Edit → Fill. Then Select → Shrink… by 9 to get back to the original wing shape, leaving a 9 px ink rim showing outside it. Keep the selection.

Select the hidden Foil layer and copy (Cmd+C). The selection limits the copy to the wing shape. Select Wing Ink and paste (Cmd+V). Pasting from inside Lopsy puts the piece back exactly where it was copied from, so the foil drops neatly inside the ink. Rename the new layer Wing Foil and deselect.

You'll repeat this copy from Foil, paste above the Ink move for every sticker.

Add a layer above Wing Foil called Wing Tint. Cmd-click the Wing Foil thumbnail to select the wing. Then drag a Radial gradient from where the wings meet the body out towards the forewing tip. Use these stops:

• #0A2BFF at 0%
• #19C9FF at 22%
• #2F6BFF at 42%
• #8B5CFF at 60%
• #FF4FD8 at 76%
• #19C9FF at 100%

Deselect and set the layer to Hard Light. Hard Light keeps the foil's light-and-dark bands and lays the hue rings over them, so the wing shimmers from blue to violet to pink instead of turning flat.

Add a layer called Wing Sheen and Cmd-click Wing Foil again. In Advanced…, make an all-white Linear gradient with two bright bands, one about a fifth of the way along and one about two-thirds. Each band fades to fully transparent on both sides, which you set with the stop's opacity. Drag it from the top-left of the wing to where it meets the body.

Deselect, set the layer to Overlay and drop its opacity to 80%. The bright streaks only show on the colour, not on the black margins you're about to add.

Real morphos have a black border round the blue. Add a layer called Wing Margin and Cmd-click Wing Foil. With the Lasso, hold Alt (Option) and draw round the inner blue panel of the forewing to subtract it from the selection. Keep about 80–100 px from the outer edge at the tip, and less further in. Let the lasso run past the body on the right. Do the same for the hindwing.

What's left is a band along the outer edges. Choose Select → Grow… by 2 so the band overlaps the outline cleanly, then fill it with #0D0B1A.

Add a layer called Wing Veins and Cmd-click Wing Foil, so the brush can't stray outside the wing. With a hard Brush at Size 6 in ink colour, paint veins fanning out from the body to the edges: five across the forewing and four across the hindwing. Use a 9 px brush along the forewing's lower edge so the two wings read as overlapping.

Deselect, add a layer called Wing Spots, and click white #F3EEFF dots along the margin with brush sizes between 16 and 24. Use five on the forewing and five on the hindwing, smaller towards the body.

Merge the wing into one layer. Select each of these in turn and choose Layer → Merge Down: Wing Tint, Wing Sheen, Wing Margin, Wing Veins and Wing Spots, then Wing Foil. Merging bakes in each layer's blend mode. Rename the result Left Wing.

Choose Layer → Duplicate Layer, rename the copy Right Wing, and choose Image → Flip Horizontal. It mirrors the layer across the centre of the page, so the copy lands exactly opposite the original, with no lining up to do.

Add a layer called Body. With the Elliptical Marquee, draw a small round head. Then hold Shift and add a taller oval for the thorax below it and a long thin one for the abdomen. Fill the whole shape with ink, Shrink by 7, and fill again with #2B2163. Add an Inner Glow at Size 10 in #A88BFF.

Add a layer called Antennae. With the Pen tool set to a Stroke of 8:

• Click on the head and click again halfway up.
• Drag a smooth point at the tip, curving out and up.
• Press Enter to stroke the path.

Do the same on the other side. Finish each tip with a single 20 px brush dot.

Cmd-click the Left Wing thumbnail. Select Morpho Die-cut, Grow by 22 and fill with #F5F2FF. Do the same for Right Wing, Antennae and Body. Each fill adds to the same white shape, which gives you one rounded sticker outline.

Turn on Drop Shadow for the die-cut layer: Offset X 0, Offset Y 14, Blur 24, Opacity 80, colour #05040C.

Collapse the Morpho group to keep the panel tidy. Each small sticker gets the same setup as the butterfly. Select Halo, make a New Group (here Moon), and add two layers inside it, Moon Die-cut and then Moon Ink.

With the Elliptical Marquee, hold Cmd and drag a circle about 340 px across, below the butterfly on the left. Then hold Alt and drag a slightly smaller circle offset up and to the right; subtracting it leaves a crescent.

Ink and foil it as before: Grow 9, fill ink, Shrink 9, then copy from Foil and paste above the ink. For a pearly opal moon, use Filter → Hue/Saturation… instead of a tint: Hue -20, Saturation -35, Lightness 12.

On a Moon Face layer:

• Draw the closed eye with the Pen: two points with curved handles, stroked at 8.
• Add three short lashes. Click, then Shift-click with a 6 px brush.
• Add a soft pink #FF8FC8 blush with a 70 px brush at Hardness 0, clicked twice.

Then cut the die-cut the same way as the butterfly's.

In a Crystal group, lasso three pointed shards in the centre of the row with straight clicks:

• a tall upright one in the middle
• a shorter one leaning left
• one leaning right

Hold Shift for the second and third. Ink and paste the foil as usual.

Shade the facets:

• Crystal Shade: lasso the right half of each shard and fill with #4B2FB8, set to Multiply at 55%.
• Crystal Shine: lasso a thin sliver on each left face, Select → Feather… 4, and fill white, set to Screen at 70%.

For the facet lines, add Crystal Lines. Lasso the middle shard, then choose Select → Inverse. Now the lines for the two back shards stop where they pass behind the front one. Draw them with a 7 px brush using click-then-Shift-click straight lines: each outline, a centre ridge and a V across the tip. Deselect and draw the front shard's lines.

In a Heart group, lasso a heart shape on the right of the row. Ink it, paste the foil, and add a Hard Light radial tint from #FF2E8A through #FF6FB5 to #C455FF. On a new layer above the tint called Heart Shine, brush a white highlight stroke round the right lobe and add a dot below it.

The trick to a dagger that pierces the heart: the blade goes on a layer under the heart, and the hilt on a layer above it.

• Select Heart Die-cut and add a layer called Blade. It sits under the heart ink.
• Lasso a long blade running diagonally from the upper left of the heart to a point past its lower right.
• Ink it, then fill it with a chrome Linear gradient dragged across the blade, not along it. Use alternating light and dark greys: #5B5A9A, #E9ECFF, white, #8E93C8, #D8DCF8, #4A4785.
• Add a 5 px centre line.

The heart covers the middle, so only the tip shows where it comes out.

Select Heart Shine and add a layer called Hilt, so it sits above the heart. Lasso the crossguard as a short bar that rests across the heart's upper-left edge, where the blade goes in. Shift-add the grip, then Shift-add a round pommel at the end with the Elliptical Marquee (hold Cmd too to keep it a circle).

Ink the hilt, then fill it with a gold gradient (#FFF4C2 → #FFC94A → #FF8F5A → #FFE08A) running along the dagger. Outline the guard and add four short wrap lines across the grip with the brush.

On a Drops layer, lasso two teardrops hanging under the spot where the blade comes out. Ink them, fill them #FF3D9A, and add a white glint to each. Die-cut Heart Ink, Blade, Hilt and Drops together.

Start the bottom row with a Scarab group. With the Elliptical Marquee, make a small head and Shift-add a wider oval for the thorax. Then Shift-lasso a rounded shield for the wing cases. Ink it, paste the foil, and add a Hard Light tint from #00B8C8 to #14D97A to #D6F25A at 80%.

Select Scarab Die-cut and add a layer called Scarab Legs, so it sits between the die-cut and the ink and the legs tuck under the body. Draw six legs with a 14 px brush as click-and-Shift-click zigzags, and two short 8 px antennae.

On a Scarab Lines layer above the tint:

• Draw a straight line down the middle of the wing cases.
• Draw two curved lines where the head meets the thorax and the thorax meets the wing cases.
• Add a white streak and a white dot for shine.

Die-cut Scarab Ink and Scarab Legs together.

In an Eye group, select Eye Die-cut and add a layer called Eye Rays. Set the foreground to ink and open Filter → Sunburst…. Set:

• Rays 16
• Width 55
• Taper 100, for pointed rays
• Rotation 11.25, so no ray points straight up

Move the centre onto the eye: keep Center X at 50 and set Center Y to about 85. Length is a percentage of the distance to the farthest corner, so about 7 gives rays roughly 160 px long.

Give the rays an outline and a foil fill:

1. Cmd-click the Eye Rays thumbnail, keep Eye Rays selected, Grow by 9 and fill with ink. Growing outwards keeps the thin ray tips intact.
2. Shrink by 9, copy from Foil, select Eye Rays and paste. Rename the paste Ray Foil.
3. Add a Ray Tint layer above it, Cmd-click Ray Foil, and drag a radial gold gradient (#FF9F43 → #FFD84D → #FFF4B8) out from the centre. Set it to Hard Light.

Then the almond. Lasso an almond shape across the middle of the rays and ink it on Eye Ink, which sits above the ray layers. Paste foil into it as usual, and give that foil the moon's pearly Hue/Saturation settings.

On an Iris layer:

• Draw a circle, ink it, and fill it with a radial gradient from #2A1A8F to #6B4BFF to #36D6FF.
• Add a black pupil and two white glints.
• Add five short lashes along the upper lid.

Die-cut Eye Rays and Eye Ink.

In a Cherries group, add a Stems layer above the die-cut. Brush two curved 14 px stems that meet at the top. Lasso a leaf that comes off the join, then ink it, fill it with a mint gradient (#3BE8A0 → #E6FFB0) and give it a centre vein.

Draw two circles with the Elliptical Marquee and Shift, ink them and paste the foil. Tint them Hard Light from #FF2E63 to #E0115F to #7A1FFF. Add a 9 px ink arc on a new layer where the two cherries touch, and a curved white highlight on each. Die-cut Cherries Ink and Stems.

Select Halo, make a Title group, and add Title Die-cut and Title Ink layers inside it. With the Text tool, pick Pacifico at Size 150, click in an empty area and type Blue Morpho. Move it with the arrow keys so it's centred across the page, close to the top. Leave room above it for the white border.

Text can be used like any other shape:

• Cmd-click the text layer's thumbnail to select the letters.
• Select Title Ink, Grow 9 and fill with ink.
• Cmd-click the text thumbnail again, copy from Foil and paste above the text. Rename the paste Title Foil.
• Add a Title Tint layer above it, Cmd-click Title Foil, and drag a linear gradient from left to right: #19C9FF, #2F6BFF, #8B5CFF, #FF5FB8. Set it to Hard Light at 85%.
• Die-cut the Title Ink layer.

Select Halo and add a layer called Sparkles Cyan; you'll draw sparkles on it next. With it selected, new text lands at the top level instead of inside a sticker group. With the Text tool, choose Unbounded at 26, colour #B9A6FF. Click in an empty area and type the prices and details, with a spaced middle dot between every item:

HOLO FLASH Nº 07 · SM $60 · MD $90 · LG $150 · WALK-INS WELCOME

In the Text panel, set Letter spacing to 3. Nudge the line with the arrow keys until it's centred, halfway between the bottom row of stickers and the sheet's edge.

Select the Sparkles Cyan layer you made for the footer. Lasso four-point stars: go from tip to tip, bowing each side in towards the centre, like a diamond pinched at the waist. Shift-add the next ones as you go:

• a big one and two small ones to the left of the title
• a couple more beside the butterfly's left wing
• a few small ones in the gaps round the lower rows (you'll prune them at the end)

Mix three sizes, roughly 130, 70 and 40 px across. Fill them white and give the layer an Outer Glow at Size 24 in #5FE3FF.

Add a Sparkles Pink layer above it for the ones on the right, with an #FF7FD8 glow. Keep them in clusters near the title and wingtips rather than sprinkling them evenly.

On Sparkles Cyan, drag a Rectangular Marquee round the big sparkle by the title. Copy and paste it; the paste is selected and the Move tool is active. Then:

1. Drag it into the empty margin to the right of the butterfly's forewing.
2. Hold Cmd and drag a corner handle inwards to scale it to about 60%, keeping its proportions.
3. Hold Cmd and drag the round handle just outside a corner to rotate it. Cmd snaps to 15° steps, so stop at one step.
4. Press Cmd+D to commit the transform, then Merge Down the pasted layer into Sparkles Cyan, so it gets the cyan glow.

Step back and fix the small things:

• Close the margin gap. At the inner bottom of each hindwing, the black margin stops short of the body. Select Left Wing and Cmd-click its thumbnail. Hold Shift+Alt and lasso a wedge from the end of the margin up to the body; that keeps only the overlap. Fill it with ink. Repeat on Right Wing.
• Even out the space. The title sits too close to the top edge. Select the Title group and, with the Move tool, nudge it down about 20 px with the arrow keys (Shift + arrow moves 10 px at a time). Move the two big sparkles beside it the same way: marquee each one, then nudge it.
• Clear the gutter. If a sparkle crowds a sticker between the rows, marquee it and press Delete.
• Read the footer. Raise the footer to 30 px and re-centre it.

Save the project with File → Save Project, then use File → Quick Export PNG for the finished sheet.