This tutorial is © tagcatz design 2024. It may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part without my written permission

This tutorial assumes a basic working knowledge of PSP. I'm using X5 for this tut.

Scrap kit is Gingerbread Dreams, available at my stores:
Tagcatz Design store HERE

Scrap Designs 'n Company HERE

Glamourous Designs HERE

Scraps 'n Company HERE

Mask of choice. I used Mask0379 from Sophisticat Simone, available free on her blog HERE

Load your mask to the masks folder in PSP

Font is Airnon, free from DaFont.com, HERE

Open a new transparent image 700 x 700 - you can resize later if you like
Load your mask with Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas and Hide All Mask checked
Merge group
Effects, Texture Effects, Mosaic Antique
Layers, Properties, set opacity to 60
Layers duplicate, and then pull down from the top, and Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur, 5:

Open element 1, resize and move to the right and up a bit
Open element 5, resize to about 400 width, copy, close and paste as new layer
Move up and to the left a bit
With your Magic Wand, click inside the wreath
Selections, Modify, Expand, 20
New raster layer
Open one of the papers you like, copy, close and paste into selection
Select None and move below the wreath layer
Click your mask layer to activate it
Open element 14, copy, close and paste as new layer
Move up and to the left
Duplicate this layer and move to the right side
Click the wreath layer to activate it
Open element 22, resize and move down a bit
Open element 32, resize to about 400 width, copy, close, paste as new layer
Move down and to the left
Open element 35, resize and move to the right and down a bit
Open element 43, resize and move down a bit and to the right
I resized elements 11 and 18 and put in front of Santa
And then element 20, in front of the sleigh to the left side
Go through your layers and add drop shadows to your elements
I used, 0, 4, 27, 13, black
If you're going to resize the tag, do that now before adding text
For text I used #3c6b3a, font is Airnon, drop shadow of 0, 2, 17, 2, black
Add your watermark too - I used Pixelette, black and reduced opacity to 50
Merge visible and save as a png file
I hope you enjoy your new tag!