FTU - Precious Yet Naughty Little Christmas

This tutorial was written by me on November 24th, 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 From HorsePlay Pasture Called "A Precious Christmas"

You can download this beautiful scrap kit here

Font Of Choice - I used Bira for the name and Pixelette for the copyright

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 2

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 HPD_APC_14

Now open HPD_APC_Paper7

Use your ellipse tool and make a circle on HPD_APC_Paper7

Copy

Paste as new layer.

Now open up close up of tube.

Use your ellipse tool and make a circle around the tube's face.

Copy 

Paste as a new layer inside HPC_APC_14

Duplicate the face of the tube 1x

Open These Elements and use the same dropshadow as above. 

HPD_APC_27

HPD_APC_2

HPD_APC_35

HPD_APC_24

HPD_APC_26

HPD_APC_29

HPD_APC_6

HPD_APC_4

HPD_APC_5

HPD_APC_25

HPD_APC_23

HPD_APC_3

Now dropshadow your elements with these settings.

Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 75

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Now resize your tag to your liking. I resized mine 600x534, So I could use it on a forum if I would like!!!

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