PTU - Tender Little Christmas

This tutorial was written by me on December 18th, 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 - PTU by me called "Tender Christmas" 

You can purchase this kit at any of the stores I sell at on the left of my blog.

Font Of Choice - Pea Ellie Bellie & Pixelette

Tube Of Choice -  I used a tube by Pin Up Toons.  You must have the proper license to use the work. You can find this tube at CDO. You can find the store 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 6

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 Frame6

Now open Paper2

Use your ellipse tool and make a circle on paper2

Copy

Paste as new layer.

Open These Elements and use the same dropshadow as above. 

Christmas Tree

Nutcracker

Bear

Gingerbread Cupcake

Lollipop1

Lollipop2

Candy Cane

Open up your tube and place it on the left side of Frame6

Now dropshadow your elements with these settings.

Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 73

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Merge all layers together

Duplicate whole tag 1x

Change mode to overlay

Now resize your tag to 600x587

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