Merry Christmas 2 - Alicia Mujica

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X7, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Alicia Mujica -Merry Christmas Special edition tube 2

which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using Alicia's matching kit - Merry Christmas

Template 869 by Millie's PSP Madness

Font of choice, I am using Declara

Plugins: Xero Porcelain




Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Add a drop shadow of your choosing to tubes & elements throughout. I usually use 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.
 

Let's get started!


Open your template, shift D to duplicate and close the original

Change canvas size to 950 x 975 
Delete the following layers

Made by Millie

Fill the layers with papers, to do this make sure the layer you want to fill has been clicked on in your layer palette. 

I resized all papers to about 800 x 800 pixels before I used them
Click inside the shape with your magic wand, selections, modify, invert, open your paper, copy and paste as a new layer, 
click delete on your keyboard.
Delete the original template layer

Some layers, like the frames, you may just want to flood fill with a color from your kit. To do this, click on the layer in your layer palette, add another raster layer above it,
click inside the shape with your magic wand, and flood fill it with your color
Delete the original template layer

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize by 40%
arrange in your tag below the circle layers
erase the bits that hang out below where you don't want them

Fill the following layers with these papers or colors:

layer 5 use paper 1c
layer 2 & 3 use color changer tool and change to a color from your tube
layer 1 use paper 1i
layer 13, 10, 7 color changer tool change #fc7260 to #ede2c5
layer 5, 8 , 11 flood fill with #e0b5bf

Copy and paste your resized tube, and go on layers 7, 10, & 13
make them active, using the same technique as you do to fill with a paper,
then copy and paster your tube in each
then, apply Xero Porcelain with the factory settings for each one

Flood fill layer 14 with #e0b5bf, adjust, add remove noise, 85%
selections, select all, float, defloat, expand 3, add new raster layer, 
flood fill with white, add drop shadow to white layer

add the following elements:
branch 2a resize 35% rotate right 90 arrange on right,duplicate & mirror
label 1 a resize to 645 on longest side arrange above white background

crop and resize

add your copyright and credits as needed

add your text and save