Christmas Cheer

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 29th 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 Alex Prihodko 

which you can purchase from PicsForDesign 

Christmas Scrapkit of choice (you will need a red paper and some greenery at least in the kit) 

Mask of choice Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 

700 x 700 floodfill white

c/p paper of choice 

apply mask 

merge group

open red paper and choose it as your background pattern 

in your materials palette, foreground null

preset shapes, circle, line width 0 

hold down the shift key and draw out a circle in the middle of your canvas 

objects - align - center in canvas 

convert to raster 

select all, float, defloat, 

expand by 5 

new raster layer 

floodfill with red 

add noise 100%, gaussian, monochrome 

repeat noise 

deselect 

drag below the red paper layer merge the two layers together

dulplicate twice, 

resize both duplicates by 80 

move one up and left, 

move the other down and right 

making sure the large frame is still on top and in the center

magic wand, feather 0, 

click inside the large frame 

expand by 5 

c/p paper of choice, 

invert, 

delete 

deslect, 

drag paper below frame

make left small circle active 

c/p some greenery/tree

repeat for right small circle 

add other elements of choice above the greenery 

but below the large center frame

add your tube resized to fit nicely on top of all other layers 

add some wordart if you wish 

add your name, license and copyright information 

delete white background layer 

merge visible 

crop and save as png

Xmas Ella

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 14th November 2020, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Misticheskaya 

which you can purchase from PicsForDesign 

Scrapkit - Vintage Winter from GOF designs HERE 

Mask chmask_fecnikek (4) HERE 

Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 400 x 300 

c/p paper 3 

 c/p tube, 

resize to fit position to the left of the canvas 

duplicate adjust - blur - gaussian blur 6 

change blend mode to screen 

duplicate & mirror both tube layers 

new raster layer flood fill with color of choice 

add noise, 100, uniform 

select all, contract by 2, 

delete, 

deselect 

merge all

I will call this canvas "tuberec" for the purpose of this tutorial 

put this aside for a moment we will come back to it 

 Open blank canvas 700 x 700 

floodfill white 

 c/p paper 6 

apply mask 

merge group 

 open blank canvas 500 x 500 

c/p paper 3 

selection tool - circle, feather 0 

draw out a selection to cover the entire center of the canvas 

copy & close the canvas without saving 

 paste as new layer on top of mask 

select all, float, defloat 

new raster layer 

flood fill with color of choice 

add noise 100%, uniform 

contract selection 5, 

delete 

deselect 

 go back to tuberec - copy paste as new layer on top of circle on main canvas

 c/p element 20, 

resize 40, 

 duplicate twice, 

mirror one of them place in a line under tuberec, 

but so some is poking out from behind the top of it 

c/p tube, 

resize to fit, 

position in center of tag 

 element 39, resize 25, 

duplicate several times, 

position along bottom of tuberec but on top of main tube 

I used elements 4, 11, 25, 33, 38, 59, 73, 89 & 106 resized and positioned

 along the bottom of your tag to your liking 

covering the bottom of the tube 

 add name, license and copyright information 

delete white background layer 

merge visible 

crop and save as png

Christmas Joy

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 5th December 2020, and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies needed:

tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of  VeryMany

which can be purchased from the store Very Many Tubes

Scrapkit - As The Wind Blows from Horseplays Pasture

My frame (save from bottom of post)

Mask of choice

Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper 15, apply mask

c/p frame, resize 30

c/p the following elements under the frame layer

elements 12, 46, 61, 18, 22, 21 - all resized by 50

duplicate, mirror, flip, rotate as you see fit

and make a cluster of the elements around the frame

dropshadow all elements

Make frame active

magic wand, click inside the frame, expand by 5

click delete on each element layer

invert selection

c/p tube close up as new layer just under the frame layer

resize as necessary, position to the left side of the frame

delete

deselect

change blend mode to hard light

duplicate, adjust blur, gaussian blur 8, change blend mode to screen

c/p full tube above frame layer

resize as necessary

elements 18, 19, 26, 34, 37, 38, 66, 

(and anything else you would like to use)

resized appropriately and position along the bottom of

the tag to your liking

dropshadow all elements

add some wordart if you wish

add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

(click to open full size and save)