Santa's lil Helper

Supplies Needed:

PSP 

Tube of choice. I am using an exclusive tube from PFD. You can find it here

Exclusive Scrap Christmas in the City (FTU) by Nicky. 

You need to register at SATC forum to download

Template by Leah from Gimptactic Tuts here

Mask by Vaybs from: Creative Misfits here

Xero Plugin here

Font here

Open the template, Shift + D, close the original.

Delete the layers:

credit

top dots

bottom dots

stars 1

stars 2

lrg star 1

lrg star 2

Image - Resize at 85 - Bicubic. 

Select the crop tool and apply with these settings:

width: 595

height: 515

Image - Canvas Size: 650x600

placement: center

Select the background layer and floodfill with white of delete.

Open Paper 9, Copy - Paste, as a new layer. 

Layers - Load mask: DBVMisfitmask4 - Merge group.

Activate the layer: square 2. Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat.

Open: Paper 2. copy- paste as a new layer. Resize at 70 - Smart size.

Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Activate the layer: square 1. Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat.

Open: Paper 11. copy- paste as a new layer. Resize at 70 - Smart size.

Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Activate the layer: oval 4. Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat.

Open: Paper 2. copy- paste as a new layer. Resize at 70 - Smart size.

Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Activate the layer: oval 3. Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat.

Open: Paper 12. copy- paste as a new layer. Resize at 70 - Smart size.

Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Activate the layer: oval 1. Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat.

Open: Paper 10. copy- paste as a new layer. 

Effects - Artistic Effects - Halftone:

Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open the closeup of your tube. copy- paste as a new layer. Resize if is needed.

Arrange it in the place of your choice. 

Effects - Plugins - Xero - Radiance:

Default settings. 

In the layer palette change the blend mode of the layer to: Lighten. Duplicate. Image - Mirror.

Select the oval layer. Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat. Activate the close up layer. 

Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear. Selections - Invert. select the duplicate and do the same.

Activate the layer: thin rect 2. Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat.

Open: Paper 11. copy- paste as a new layer. Resize at 70 - Smart size.

Selections - Invert. Edit - Clear.Deselect and delete the original layer.

Activate the layer: words. Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize:

Hue: 0

Saturation: 0

Open the tube. Copy - Paste, as a new layer. Rezise if needed and place it.

Now add all the elements you want to finish your tag. I've used these elements:

bow 2

cupcake 5

curly ribbon 1

curly ribbon 2

deer

flower 1

holly

penguin 1

santas bag

snowflake charm 9

train cases

tree 5

wreath 1

apply drop shadow:

V: 1 H: 4

O: 50 B: 5

Add your name and copyright. Save as jpg or png.