THIS WAY SANTA - PTU

Written by Gwenda on November 18^th 2012

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used A&S Christmas Script, found

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Scrapkit is a lovely bright Pay to Use kit called A Very Special Christmas, from Niquis Designs

You can purchase this kit from PFD

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Don’t forget to visit Niqui’s blog to check out lots of wonderful freebies!

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Tube of choice. I used Sweet Christmas by Elias Chatzoudis. I bought this one when he was selling with PTE, but you can now purchase these fantastic tubes from Elias’s store.

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Mask of choice – I used WSL84 from Wee Scots Lass.

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New canvas 700 x 700

Fill white.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 1 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask WSL84

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges.

Drop opacity to 80

Element 38 (frame) – Resize 90%. Position in bottom right corner.

Adjust Hue & Saturation  78   70.

Adjust – add noise Gaussian, 60 with monochrome box checked.

Sharpen.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

Click inside the top frame with magic wand. Selections – modify – expand 2.

Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 6 into selection.

Deselect.

Free rotate paper circle left 45. Sharpen.

Duplicate – mirror – flip.

In layers palette, pull each paper 6 circle below it’s corresponding frame.

Dropshadow frames.

Element 33 (stars)– Mirror. Erase the two larger stars at the bottom, plus the little at bottom left.

Resize 50%. Free rotate right 90.

Place at top left above mask layer.

Dropshadow.

Element 18 (sparkles) – Resize 50% and position above the top Paper 6 circle.

Sharpen. We will erase the excess in a minute . .

Element 22 (hanging red balls) – Resize 40% then 60%. Position above the sparkles layer to the right of the top circle. Duplicate, and move one copy to the cover the left.

Merge both these element 22 layers together.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Click on the Paper 6 top circle. Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert. Click on the Sparkles layer and hit delete, then click on the hanging red balls layer and hit delete.

Deselect.

Element 24 (tree) – Resize 70%. Position to the right. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 1 (signpost) – Resize 60% & position above tree on right.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Element 12 (ribbon) – Position bottom right above element 33 stars layer. Duplicate – mirror flip and move down a bit.

Dropshadow both.

Element 5 (candles) – Resize 40%. Sharpen

Position above element 22 hanging red balls layer and have them peeking out from behind the tree.

Dropshadow.

Element 29 (branch) – Resize 60% and position above top frame layer to the left. Sharpen. Duplicate – flip, and move to the bottom centre of your tag.

Dropshadow both.

Element 14 (poinsettia flower) – Resize 30%. Sharpen and place beneath element 24 tree layer, to the left. Duplicate and move to centre bottom of your tag.

Duplicate – mirror and resize 75%.

Dropshadow both.

Tube – Position to the left of your tag.

Dropshadow.

Move elements around to where you want them. Sometimes it is difficult to judge where something should be, so I always go back and have a play around, tweaking things a bit lol.

Add any other embellishments of choice

Crop and resize if desired.

Add copyrights.