Golden Christmas

This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Seven on 28th November 2009.




For this tutorial you will need:

- Candy Coated Scraps' PTU-kit Golden Holiday which you can purchase here
- A tube of your choice (I used the beautiful artwork of Marco Guaglione which was in the MPT christmas gift.)
- Mask of choice (I used Vix_Mask109 which you can get here)
- font of choice (I used MT Under Your Skin)



Let's begin:

- Open a new canvas 550x550px.

- Copy and paste a paper of your choice and apply the mask.
Duplicate this mask layer and merge down.

- Copy and paste the round wood frame (elem14) and resize if necessary.

- With your magic wand click inside of the frame and expand the selection about 10px.
Add a new raster-layer.

- Copy an other paper of your choice and paste it into the selection.
Selection none.
Move this layer under the frame layer.

- Highlight your frame layer and dropshadow it

- Copy and paste the wreath (elem42), resize and dropshadow it.

- Copy and paste your tube and arrange it in the frame/wreath.
Erase the parts of the body which are looking over the wreath.
(see my tag for help)
Dropshadow it.

- Copy and paste a star (elem68), resize it and move it on the top of your wreath (under the tube layer).
Add a dropshadow.

- Copy and paste the bells (elem67) and move it on your wreath to the left side.
Resize and dropshadow it.

- Copy and paste the balls (elem79), move it to the ride side, resize and dropshadow it.

- Copy and paste a golden tree (elem73) move it to the left, resize and dropshadow it.

- Copy and paste one of the presents (elem12) and arrange it in front of the tree.
Add a dropshadow.

- Choose a paper in your background color and write your name on your tag.
Dropshadow it.

- At least just add copyright and/or watermark infos and save as.

Ready ♥

Sweet Winter Wishes

This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Seven on 14th November 2009.




For this tutorial you will need:

- Bea's PTU-kit Christmas for a Princess which you can get here
- A tube of your choice (I used a totally sexy tube of Elias Catzoudis which you can purchase at MPT)
- 2 Masks of choice (I used WSL_Mask236 which you can get here and Vix_Mask306 which you can get here)
- font of choice (I used unchanges thoughts$)


Let's start:

- Open a new canvas 550x550 px

- Copy and paste a paper of your choice and apply WSL_Mask236.

- Copy and paste the paper again and apply VIX_Mask306.
Duplicate this layer and mirror it horizontal.

- Copy and paste deco03, arrange it and add a dropshadow.

- Copy and paste the ribbon frame (frame09).

- With your magic wand click inside the frame and expand the selection about 5px.

- Copy and paste a new paper and move it under the frame layer.
Invert the selection and hit delete.

- Copy and paste the ice (ice01) and move it a bit to the top.
Hit delete again.

- Copy and paste the star bling (bling01) and move it over the ice.
Hit delete again.

- Selection none.

- Add a dropshadow to your ice, bling and frame layer.

- Highlight your frame-layer.

- Copy and paste your main tube and move it a bit to the right.
Erase these parts of it so that it looks if your tube will come outside of the frame.
(see mine for help ;) )
Add a dropshadow.

- Copy and paste the bells (bells03), resize it a bit and move it over the knot to the right side.
Dropshadow it.

- Copy and paste the lollipop (candy03), resize it and move it over the knot to the left side.
Rotate it a bit and add a dropshadow.

- Copy and paste the candy cane (candy01), resize it and move it over the lollipop.
Add a dropshadow.

- Set your foreground colour to white and your background colour to a maching colour.
Write your name on your tag and add a small dropshadow.

- At least you just need to add copyright and/or watermark and save as.

Ready! ♥

Glass Name Effect

This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Seven on 11th November 2009.

Many people already asked me how I often made my glass-effect.
And today I'm going to tell you how to do it.
I got this effect from my friend Caro!
Thank you sooo much! ♥

I'm sorry that most of the previews are in German but I'm only the German PSP 9 Version.
But I think you can compare and rethink!



For this tutorial you will need:

- a fat font of your choice (I used Coolsville)
- Eye Candy 3.01 - Glass


Let's start!

- Choose a foreground colour or pattern and a matching background colour.

- Choose your textool and search for a fat font.

- Adjust your font size to a size for your liking and the pixel to two or 3, what ever looks like the best.
I added you a picture of my settings for my sample.
(click image to enlarge)


- Change the vector layer to raster layer

- Selection - All - Free - Not free

- Reduce the selection about one mor pixel than your pixel of the font foreground-colour.
For example if you used 3 as a pixel size to your font you have to use a 4 for your reducing of the selection.

(You can maybe also click with your magic wand inside of the font)

- Use the inner bevel with the following settings
(click image to enlarge)




- Apply your Eye Candy 3.01 - Glass plugin with the following settings
(click image to enlarge)

- Selections - none

- Add a nice dropshadow to your writing :)


This was easy, or?