This tutorial was written by me on December 18th, 2019 and is my own creation. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

PSP Version used: PSP 2019

This tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies:

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Anna Liwanag. You can purchase her tubes here.  

Dear Santa PTU kit from Irish Princess Designs. 

You can purchase it here.  

Christmas Mask 19 from Tonya’s Temptations. You can find it here. 

Font of choice. I am using Chasing Snowflakes.

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Ok let’s get started.

Open Frame 4. Set the canvas size to 800 x 800. Resize by 75%, all layers unchecked. Now resize all layers by 75%.

Open your mask & Paper 14. Resize your paper by 60%. Paste your paper as a new layer onto your frame canvas. Move below the frame layer. Apply your mask, merge group.

Open Element 86. Resize by 60%. Paste as a new layer above your mask layer. Place a little to the left of the frame. Duplicate, mirror horizontal. Merge down.

Open Paper 24 & resize by 60%, then copy. On the frame layer, use your magic wand & click inside the frame. Selections, modify, expand by 10. Paste your paper as a new layer. Selections, invert & press delete. Deselect, then move the paper below your frame layer.

Now let’s add our remaining elements:

45 – resize by 30%. Paste as a new layer above the frame layer. Place to the top of the frame.

78 – resize by 25%, flip horizontal. Place to the upper left side of the frame.

14 – resize by 50%. Place over the pine.

132 – resize by 50%. Place to the right side of the frame.

112 – resize by 62%. Paste as a new layer.

16 – resize by 50%. Place to the bottom.

67 – resize by 30%. Place to the left side of the frame.

115 – resize by 35%. Place to the bottom right of the tree.

33 – resize by 25%. Place to the bottom left of the tree.

75 – resize by 16%. Place to the bottom of the stacked presents.

11 – resize by 15%. Place to the top of the stacked presents.

9 – resize by 30%. Place over the left side of the stacked presents.

39 – resize by 25%. Place to the bottom of the stacked presents.

151 – resize by 40%. Place to the bottom.

26 – resize by 25%. Place over the white ornament.

72 – resize by 20%. Place to the bottom right of the toy sack.

76 – resize by 12%. Place to the bottom left of the teacup.

24 – resize by 15%. Place to the bottom of the red ornament.

127 – resize by 15%. Place to the bottom, at the center of the berry spray.

65 – resize by 62%. Paste as a new layer.

Open your tube, resizing as necessary. Paste as a new layer just above the first sparkle layer. Place over the frame opening. Duplicate your tube, gaussian blur, 3.00. Set the blend mode to Screen, 70.

Add your name, copyrights, & license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice to your layers, then merge visible. Save as a png.

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