FTU - Santa's List

This tutorial was written by me on December 16th, 2012. Please do not claim as your own. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice - I used Millie's new mask 

You can download it here

Scrap Kit - I used one of my FTU scrap kits called "santa's on his way" 

You can download this freebie here

Font Of Choice - Mardian & Pixelette

Tube Of Choice - I am using the ftu artist Lia. You can find this tube here

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 8

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 These Elements and use the same dropshadow as above. 

Tree2

Santa

Snowman

WA1

SantasList

Open up your tube and place on the left of your elements

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 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