Tutorial "Candy Cane Lover"

This tutorial was written by me on 20th December 2010. It was done with PSP9 but it might work with other versions, too. This tutorial is copyrighted to me, any resemblance is purely coincidental and not intentional!

You need: "Candy Cane Lover" Tagger Kit by Kirsty's Scraps which you can purchase at Sophisti-Scraps and a lovely tube and close-up, I used the beautiful artwork of Celine Bonnet (the tube I used was in the MPT Christmas Gift 2010) but usually you can purchase Celine's gorgeous artwork MPT and font AceBinghamSH

1. Open KISM-CandyCaneLover-Frame2.png, with Shift D make a copy, close the original, selection, custom selection - Left 315/Top 0/Right 576/Bottom 275, selection invert, press delete, select none, take your crop tool, layer opaque, double click, image, canvas size - Width 522/Height 550, Placement Up Right, duplicate layer, image mirror, merge down, duplicate layer, image flip, merge down, image, canvas size - Width 650/Height 650, Placement Center, resize frame 90% (resize all layers not checked)

2. Selection, Custom Selection Left 105/Top 90/Right 545/Bottom 560, open KISM-CandyCaneLover-Paper7.jpg, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, arrange layer, send to bottom, highlight frame, add Dropshadow 0/0/40/3 #000000

3. Open KISM-CandyCaneLover-SnowFlake2.png, resize 35%, copy and paste as new layer, move it up to the left corner of the frame, duplicate layer, image mirror, merge down, duplicate layer, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow, arrange layer, send to bottom, highlight top layer, open KISM-CandyCaneLover-SequinScatter.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, image mirror, move it up to the left, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow, arrange layer about the snowflakes layer

4. Highlight top layer, open KISM-CandyCaneLover-FlowerSpray.png, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the left and a little up (Position x 15/Position y 0), duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, arrange the duplicated one above the scatter layer

5. Highlight top layer again, open KISM-CandyCaneLover-GlassDroplet.png, resize 40%, copy and paste as new layer, move it up to the left, duplicate layer, image mirror, merge down, add Dropshadow, open KISM-CandyCaneLover-Poinsetta.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it up to the left corner of the frame, add Dropshadow

6. Open KISM-CandyCaneLover-RibbonFlower.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it up to the right corner of the frame, add Dropshadow, open KISM-CandyCaneLover-StringBow.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it up to the right, place it on the flower, add Dropshadow

7. Open KISM-CandyCaneLover-Holly.png, resize 35%, copy and paste as new layer, move it down to the right corner of the frame, add Dropshadow

8. Highlight the paper layer under the frame, select all, selection float, selection defloat, open your close-up, copy and paste as new layer, place her as you wish, selection invert, press delete, select none, set the opacity of the close-up to 50, open KISM-CandyCaneLover-SnowFall.png, resize 75%, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the right, this layer is above the close-up and beneath the frame layer

9. Highlight top layer, open your tube, if it is the same than mine, image mirror, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the left or place it as you like, add Dropshadow of your choice, now open KISM-CandyCaneLover-Paper2.jpg, set it to background pattern (Angle 0/Scale 25), foreground #93040c, Line Style Solid, Stroke Width 0,5, write down your name and/or text

Please don't forget to add copyright information and save your tag as .png or .jpg! Hope you had fun ♥