ITS CHRISTMAS

This tut was written by Mama Berd on November 25, 2008. Any similarities to any other tutorial is merely coincidental

 This tut is a guide. Please feel free to use different papers, embellishments, tubes, fonts etc! You are only as limited as your imagination

You will need

Paint Shop Pro. I wrote this in Paint Shop Pro 9 but I'm sure it will work in other versions

The stunning work of Archie Dickens. Please do not use this tube unless you have a license to do so. You can obtain a license HERE 

The beautiful Scrap Kit Blue Christmas by Scrappy Lippy, which you can purchase  HERE   Thank you, Lippy, for the beautiful scrap kit!

 Font of Choice

Start with an image 600 x 600 Set your preset tool to rounded rectangle, width 20 foreground paper 33 background null and draw out a large rectangle. When you have it as you would like it go to align, center in canvas, then promote to raster layer

Click inside the rectangle selections modify expand by 4, then copy and paste paper 26. If you want you can resize the paper so more of the Merry Christmas is showing. I resized mine by 75 then by 90 Adjust sharpen selections invert delete Selections none. Move this layer under your frame layer.

Click on your preset tool, and change the foreground to null, and the background to your pattern and draw a small rectangle vertically down your tag. Look at mine for reference. Place it where you'd like it, convert to a raster layer, then add a drop shadow of -5 -5 100 5. Duplicate this layer then image mirror. Place it on the other side of the tag. At this time add the same drop shadow to your frame, then another drop shadow but change the first two numbers to 5.

Copy and paste doodle 9 Resize by 50 then by 75 Adjust sharpen and add a drop shadow of 2 2 50 and 5. Place this at the one of your vertical lines. Duplicate mirror, and place this one at the top of the other line. Duplicate this layer, image flip and put it at the bottom of the line. Duplicate once more image mirror and place it at the bottom of the other line.

Copy and paste the frame and place it so the middle of the frame is between your two vertical lines.

Paste your tube onto your canvas, and place it on the frame where you like it. Duplicate your tube, and move this layer under your frame, and carefully erase the top tube to make it look as if she is coming out of the frame. If you need to erase anything that is showing under the frame. Add your drop shadow of 2 2 50 and 5 to the BOTTOM tube layer, as well as your frame.

At this time you can add any embellishments you'd like. I used the hearts and the Christmas tree. If you need to resize any embellishments, don't forget to go to adjust sharpen, and add your drop shadow to all layers.

Add your copyrights and your text, and don't forget to add the drop shadow to your text layer

Merge your layers visible and resize to your liking. Adjust sharpen and save your tag. 

Now, your It's Christmas Tag is done!