Dear Santa
You will need
A tube of your choice
I used the artwork of Danime Chan
My supplies which include:
preset shape tag
Mask 086
3 backgrounds
gold pattern.
Open your 3 backgrounds in psp.
Select bg1 as your background.
Open a new image 500*500 pixels.
Fill with your bg1.
Layers > Load mask 086> check source luminance, fit to canvas, show all mask.
Merge group.
Drop shadow V&H1, Opacity 80 blur 5.
With a preset star shape, width 2, line style solid, foreground gold, background bg2.
Draw a large star covering the mask layer.
Convert to raster.
Draw another star approx. the same size over the first star. Change the background to bg3.
Image rotate > Free rotate > Left > 20 > no boxes checked.
Add your tube and suitable drop shadow.
Open a new image 150*300 pixels.
Using your tag preset shape, foreground gold, background #B30000
fill the image with the tag.
Select all, select float, effects 3d effects, cutout
V&H 1
Opacity 90
Blur 30
Color #800000
Edit copy, edit paste as new layer on main image.
Image resize this layer by 80%
Image>rotate>free rotate>Left>20
position just under the top point of the red star.
Drop shadow as before.
New Layer.
with your paintbrush set at 5 and your gold pattern
Draw a line through the hole of the tag and looping over the point of the red star.
Drop shadow as before.
Merge visible layers.
Text tool
Using font of choice, background set to #145C29
Size 22, width 0
write your message out and rotate to fit on the tag.
Inner bevel
Drop shadow, V1, H0, Opacity 80, Blur 1
Add your name, repeating the inner bevel and drop shadow at the bottom of the complete tag
Add embellishments, your choice.
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