FTU - Santa's Naughty Helper

This tutorial was written by me on November 9th, 2012. Please do not claim as your own. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice

Scrap Kit - FTU Scrap Kit Called Christmas Traditions By Daph

You can download this kit at her blog here

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - I used the tubes in the kit

Program - Gimp 2.6..but any program will do.

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Open New Canvas

I did 800x800.you can resize it at the end

Open Mask

Right click on your layers 

Go down to alpha by selection

Edit > fill w/ BG color - Make sure color is #FFFFFF

Open Paper 1

Right click on your layers

Click add layer mask

Then a window will pop up 

then click black (full transparency)

Then click add

Edit > Copy 

Edit > Paste

On Layers > click on floating selection

Then right click on layers

scroll down to anchor layer

Delete first layer!!!

You should have a mask..then a black square next to it on your layers.

Image > Merge Visible Layers 

Box should pop up..click clipped to image > Merge

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Now its time to add elements to your tag. 

Ready...

Set...

Go...

Open These Elements and use the same dropshadow as above. 

Open Frame2

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 94

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Now open up paper15

Use your rectangle tool and make a square on paper15

Copy

Paste as new layer inside frame2

Open your tube and place it where you desire. Using the same dropshadow as above.

Open up these elements using the same dropshdow as above.

Christmas Tree

Snowman And Penguin

North Pole Sign

Suckers

Gift1

Gift3

Gift4

Sign Post

Santa Hat

Nutcracker

Kittygiftbox

When you are happy with your tag..

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial. If you have done any of my tutorials, I would love to see your results. 

You may send them to brysonsmommy2009@gmail.com