Santa's Mistress

Supplies

1 tube of choice – I’m using the beautiful artwork of Angelica S. which can be purchased from Scraps and the City.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Lydia Puente here

Weescotlass Mask 208 here

Plug Ins used:

Greg’s Factory Output Vol. II – Pool Shadow

“Santa’s Mistress Kit” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Angelica S. and can be purchased from  Scrapsand the City.  You can visit her blog here.

Thank you, Angelica for such a beautiful art kit!

This tutorial was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up a 700 x 700 blank canvas.

Flood fill white.

New Raster layer.

Make your Selection Tool active set on Rectangle.

Create a rectangle approximately 625 x 400 pixels.

Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.

Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:

Gaussian and Monochrome checked

Noise: 30%

OK

Selections/Modify/Contract by 5.

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.

Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Apply Greg’s Factory Output Vol. II – Pool Shadow:

Use Default Settings accept lower the Opacity bar down to about 60.

OK

Copy and paste Element 8 as a new layer just above the paper layer.

Resize 65%/Move into position at the bottom of the paper layer – see my tag for reference.

Selections/Invert

Tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Copy and paste Element 11 as a new layer.

Resize 40%

Copy and paste Element 15 as a new layer above the frame.

Resize 37%

Center it over the frame.

Merge Down.

Click inside of the merged frame with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.

New Raster layer below the merged frame.

Copy and paste Paper 10 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Close out your white background.

Merge Visible.

Reopen your white background.

Duplicate/Resize 85%/Duplicate/Resize 85%

Move all 3 frame layers into position – see my tag for reference.

Copy and paste Element 6 as a new layer just above your white background layer.

Make your Pick Tool active and pull the bottom and right side in to shape around the glitter rectangle layer – see my tag for reference.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer in front of the 3 frames.

If you’re using the same tube as I did, resize 25%

Add your elements.  I used:

Element 1:  Resize 35%

Element 7:  Resize 25%

Element 4:   Resize 25%/Mirror

Element 2:  Resize 90%

Element 17:  Duplicate/Mirror/Flip

Highlight your white background.

New Raster layer.

Select All

Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Apply the Mask.

Merge Group

Add your credits.

Add your name.

Foreground and Background: Pattern/Paper 5

Type your name.

Convert to Raster layer.

Select All/Float/Defloat

Selections/Modify/Expand by 2.

New Raster layer below the name.

Flood fill with Gradient/Metal Brass

Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:

Gaussian & Monochrome checked

Noise: 45%

OK

Deselect.

Merge Visible both name layers.

Resize all layers 80%.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev