Silver Bells

Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice, one with a close up is good

I am using the beautiful artwork of Alex Prihodko which can be 

purchased at Pics For Design

Supplies Here

Font of choice

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 20th November  2017 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open supplies

open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

copy and paste paper as new layer

apply mask

merge group

preset shapes, ellipse

width 20, foreground set to foil pattern

background null, 

draw out a small circle in the middle of your canvas

align, center in canvas

convert to raster

adjust, brightness & contrast

B54, C15

adjust, sharpen more

repeat brightness

duplicate

position side by side, but make one slightly

higher than the other and just overlapping slightly

erase the part of the bottom one that is showing

inside the top one

merge down

magic wand, feather 0, mode Add(shift)

click inside both parts of the frame

expand by 4

paste paper again

invert, delete

deselect

drag paper layer below frame layer

c/p swirl

resize by 60

position along bottom of frame

c/p berries

position on top of swirl

c/p fir

resize 40

position below swirl but to the left

duplicate, image, mirror

move so it is poking out from behind the swirl

c/p diamond circle

resize 40

image effets, offset

H-68, V54 transparent

duplicate

offset, H146, V-155

merge down

drag down to just above your mask layer

c/p snowflake swirl

resize 70

duplicate twice and flip &/or mirror 

to show some of the snowflakes to your liking

c/p silver bells

resize 30

drag to top of layer palette

position at the end of the berries stalk

c/p ribbon

position behind silver bells

Make frame layer active

magic wand, click inside the left one

expand by 4

c/p your close up tube

invert

delete

invert

duplicate tube

adjust blur, gaussian blur 9

deselect

change blend mode on bottom tube to luminance legacy

change blend mode on top tube to screen

change opacity of both tube layers to 58

drag tube layers below frame layer

c/p tube above frame layer

but below all other elements

resize to fit nicely over top of empty frame

dropshadow, tube, elements and frame

add name, copyright and license information

delete white bg layer

merge visible

save as png