Santa's Reindeer

Snaggable versions of this tag in my Fotki album

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 Keith Garvey, Sexy Reindeer & the Santa tube which are free tubes in his store, which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit, Christmas with Alyce by Scrappin With Lil Ole Me 

Font of choice, I am using Christmas Card

Mask: WSLMask84 by Weescotslass Creations 

links to her masks are down the page a little bit and on the right sidebar

Plugins: No outside plugins

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 a new canvas 950 x 950 pixels with a white background

open element 29 copy and paste as a new layer, resize 90%

click inside with your magic wand, selections, modify, expand 2, selections, invert

open paper 27 copy and paste as a new layer 

click delete on your keyboard,

Copy and paste your Santa tube as a new layer,

arrange in your frame

click delete on your keyboard, make sure Santa is under the frame layer

Copy and paste your main tube as a new layer, mirror & arrange in front of the window

now add your elements:

element 40 resize 75% arrange on the right side of window

element 91 resize 55% mirror & arrange between chair and tube on the right

element 39 resize 90% arrange on left side of window

element 38 resize 45% arrange in front of tree on left side

element 49 resize 40% arrange to the left of the other gift

element 12 resize 35% arrange behind tube to the right of element 49

element 109 resize 25% arrange in front of santa bag and chair

element 35 resize 25% arrange in tree

element 31 resize 28% arrange by chair

copy and paste paper 20 above the white background

add your mask and merge group, resize 110%

I then erased the parts of the mask that was showing at the very bottom

crop and resize

add your copyright and credits as needed

add your text and save