Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Am I on the Naughty List?

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Supplies
1 tube of choice - I used the awesome artwork of Ismael Rac. The tube I used was purchased at MPT, but now he can be found at AMI.
Font of choice - I used Dobkin here
Weescotlass Mask 167 here
“A Country Christmas” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Terry of Treasure’s by Terry and can be purchased at Butterfly Blush Designs. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Terry for such an amazing 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.

Copy and paste Frame 12 as a new layer.
Resize 70%
Duplicate twice for a total of 3.
Move them into position - see my tag for reference.
Close out the middle and bottom frame layers.

Highlight the top frame layer.
Use your Magic Wand and click inside of it.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 6.
New Raster layer below the frame.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
DO NOT DESELECT.

Copy and paste Teddy Bear 2 as a new layer below the frame.
Resize 70%
Copy and paste Teddy Bear 1 as a new layer above the other teddy bear.
Resize 70%
Move each into position.
Selection/Invert
Highlight each of the teddy bear layers and tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Close out your white background and merge visible.
Reopen your white background and middle frame layer.
Highlight the middle frame layer.
Click inside with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 6
New Raster Layer below the frame.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
DO NOT DESELECT.

Copy and paste Snowman 2 as a new layer below the frame.
Resize 70%
Copy and paste Snowman as a new layer above the other snowman.
Resize 60%
Move each into position.
Selection/Invert
Highlight each of the snowman layers and tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Close out your white background and merge visible.
Reopen your white background and bottom frame layer.
Highlight the bottom frame layer.
Click inside with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Modify/Expand by 6
New Raster Layer below the frame.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
DO NOT DESELECT.

Copy and paste Santa 1 as a new layer below the frame.
Resize 60%
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Close out your white background and merge visible.
Reopen all your layers.
You should now have 3 merged frame layers and your white background.

Move each of the merged layers into position and resize each 90%.
See my tag for reference.
Highlight the top merged frame layer and Free Rotate left 5 degrees.
Highlight the bottom merged frame layer and Free rotate right 5 degrees.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Holly 1: Resize 50%
Bow 3: Resize 50%
Candy Cane 1: Resize 50% Free rotate left 10 degrees
Poinsettia 4

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Resize 110%
Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Give it a slight inner bevel:


Resize all layers 80%.

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

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