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, 

contract 50

delete

deselect

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

New Year Kisses

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the stunning artwork of Alex Prihodko
which you can purchase from Pics For Designs

My Scrapkit - New Year 2018 HERE

Mask of choice

Font of choice

NYKTag (save from bottom of post)

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 14th November 2018 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 blank canvas 700 x 700
floodfill white

c/p paper 13, apply mask, merge group

Dont forget to dropshadow as you go 2,5,40,10,black

element 55, resize 85, move it up and left a little
element 7, resize 50, position bottom left of frame
element 22, resize 90, position next to the bottle
element 29, resize 30, position bottom right of frame, slightly overlapping gold cone
element 39, position in front of previous elements
element 35, resize 40, position behind crown to the right slightly
c/p NYKTag position bottom right of tag, rotate left 5
element 56, resize 40, position behind NYKTag

c/p tube just above mask layer, position so face is in the middle of the frame
erase any tube that is outside of the frame, change blend mode to luminance
duplicate, adjust blur, gaussian blur 6, change blend mode to screen
lower opacity to 62 on both tube layers

make crown layer active, paste tube again, resize to fit
(60 if using the same as me and mirror)
position to the right of the tag
erase any showing below the NYKTag.

add name, copyright and license information
delete white background layer
merge visible
crop and save as png

(click to open full size and save to your computer)

Starry Night

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 5th May 2018 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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Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the stunning artwork of Alex Prihodko

which can be purchase from Pics for Design

My Scrapkit Starry Night

My Miz_Mask 187

Font of choice

My supplies HERE

Filters - Muras Meister - copies

Eye Candy 4000 - glass

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Open supplies, place selection in your selections folder

open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper 3

apply Miz_mask 187

resize 110

c/p element 39

resize 70

duplicate - merge down - repeat

c/p element 8

resize 20

muras meister, copies

encircle

change Number to 22

Shift x & Y to 57

dropshadow

(you may need to move the flower ring over a few pixels

just to center it perfectly)

open paper 5

load selection from disk

choose Miz_roundrec

copy

paste as new layer on your canvas

close paper 5 without saving

repeat for paper 3

drag the paper 5 rectangle below the lace layer

resize 80

effects - eye candy4, glass

on the basic tab

13.76, 75, 30, 35, 50, 0, 50 inside marquee, color white

on the lighting tab

86, 10, 100, 40, 0, 300, highlight color white

image effects, offset

horizonal 0, vertial 143, transparent checked

drag the paper 3 rectangle below the lace layer but on top of the first rectangle

resize 50

repeat glass effect

image effects, offset

horizontal 120, vertical 113, transparent checked

duplicate, mirror

now erase all parts of the rectangles showing inside the lace circle

c/p tube as new layer on top of all other layers

resize to fit

c/p elements 1, 3, 4, 7, 13, 14 & 19

resize each one between 20 & 30 to your liking

and arrange to your liking along the bottom of your tag

c/p element 12, resize 70, position among the flowers

duplicate, resize, mirror & flip any elements you wish

and position some behind your tube

really fill it up with flowers!

c/p element 20, resize 60

rotate right a little, position along bottom of tag

duplicate, mirror

add any other elements you wish

make one of the smaller rectangles active, duplicate & flip

then move it in towards the center a little, but so its still

poking out from behind the flowers

duplicate, mirror

dropshadow all elements 2,5,50,8,black

add your name, copyright and license information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

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