FTU - Joyous Winter Bliss

This tutorial was written by me on December 14th. Please do not claim as your own. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice - I'm using a mask by Ria. 

You can find this mask at Pimpin PSPers blog here

Scrap Kit - FTU Winter Bliss By Tasha's Playground

You can download the kit here

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - I used the artwork of Ismael Rac. You must have the proper license to use his work. 

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 4

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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Ready...

Set...

Go...

Open Wreath

Open Frame2

Now open Paper6

Use your ellipse tool and make a circle on paper6

Copy

Paste as new layer.

Open These Elements and use the same dropshadow as above. 

Tree2

Snow2

Ribbon

Candy

Snowball

Bag

Wordart

Flower1

Bear

Bow1

Open up your tube and place it in the middle.

Now dropshadow your elements with these settings.

Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 80

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Now merge all layers together

Filters > Blur > Motion Blur > Leave setting as is.

Now resize your tag to 600x600

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