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Saturday, 28 November 2020

Pink Christmas

 





This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 28th November 2020, in psp9 and assumes a working knowledge of psp.
any similarity to any other works is unintentional and purely coincidental
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Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Alec Rud
which can be purchased from Pics For Design
Scrapkit - Rennies Winter from Pink Paradox Productions
(this was a FTU kit but the site is now closed so please use whatever you have)
Mask of choice
Font of choice
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open blank canvas 700 x 700
floodfill white



c/p paper 14
apply mask
merge group

frame 9, resize 30, rotate left 6, move up the canvas a little

el 60, resize 30, position top right corner, drag under frame
duplicate, mirror & flip and move just under bottom left corner of frame

el 61, resize 40, position top left corner, duplicate, mirror and flip
move to just under bottom right corner of frame

el 59, resize 30, rotate right 20, position along bottom of frame
duplicate, flip, rotate left 30, position along top of frame

make frame layer active
magic wand, feather 0, mode add
click inside the frame, expand by 3
now click on each of the element layers and hit delete
deselect
add dropshadow to all elements

hide white background and mask layers
merge visible
unhide white background and mask layers

magic wand, click inside the frame again, expand by 3
invert selection
c/p tube, resize as desired, position face in the selection
delete
deselect
duplicate, adjust blur, gaussian blur 8
change blend mode on original tube to hard light
change blend mode on blurred tube to screen
paste tube again, mirror, resize as desired (I resized 20)
and moved my tube just to the right of the frame
duplicate
gaussian blur 8, blend mode overlay

dropshadow as you go along
el 20, resize 28,
el 47, resize 20,
el 37, resize 20,
el 30, resize 15
el 22, resize 22

make a cluster across the bottom of your tube/tag with the elements
I duplicated the poinsettia and placed one behind the sleigh
add any other elements you wish

el 72, resize 40
add a nice gradient glow and dropshadow

add your name, license and copyright information
delete white background layer
merge visible

Crop and save as png




crop and save as png