A Victorian Christmas

A Victorian Christmas
©Barbara Butler
October 2013

Materials
Template-Temp77 by tamie williams.  This can be found at www.addictivetemplates.com

The holiday season is approaching quickly.  I'm not ready for the shopping and craziness of that it brings but I'm excited for all the beautiful kits that come out this time of year.  So without further ado here is my first of many tuts for the season.   It is using the beautiful kit Victorian Christmas by Amy Marie.  This kit can be found at www.amymarieskits.com.

01.  Open up template.  Check to make sure its at 72dpi.  Duplicate and close the original template.  Delete the copyright layer.  Resize the canvas to a size of your choosing, I used 949X949.  This is to insure that the elements will fit nicely on the tag. 

02.  Raster 8-Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp17 into the selection.  Select none.

03.  Raster 7-Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp9 as a new layer.  Invert the selection and hit the delete key.  Select none.  Delete or close the original layer.

04.  Raster 5-Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp2 as a new layer.  Invert the selection and hit the delete key.  Select none.  Delete or close the original layer.

05.  Copy of Raster 5-Repeat the last step.

06.  Raster 4-Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp7 as a new layer.  Invert the selection and hit the delete key.  Select none.  Delete or close the original layer.

07.  Raster 3-Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp1 as a new layer.  Invert the selection and hit the delete key.  Select none.  Delete or close the original layer.

08.  Copy of Raster 3-Repeat the last step.

09.  Raster 6-Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp8 as a new layer.  Invert the selection and hit the delete key.  Select none.  Delete or close the original layer.

10.  Copy of Raster 6-Repeat last step.

11.  Raster 2-Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp14 into the selection.  Select none.

12.  Copy of Raster 2-Repeat the last step.

13.  Paste Element 3 on to the canvas.  Resize by 75% twice.  Place on the left side.

14.  Paste Element 6 on to the canvas.  Resize by 75% once.  Place on the right side.

15.  Paste Element 7 on to the canvas.  Resize by 75% twice.  Mirror it and place it on the bottom left.

16.  Paste Element 11 on to the canvas.  Resize by 75% twice.  Place it on the right side of the candles.

17.  Paste Element 18 on to the canvas.  Resize by 75% twice.  Place on the left side of the stocking.

18.  Paste Element 32 on to the canvas.  Resize by 50% once.  Place on the right side.

19.  Paste Element 93 on to the canvas.  Resize once by 50% then again by 75%.  Place beside the other one.

20.  Paste Element 95 on to the canvas.  Resize by 50% once.  Place between the two presents.

21.  Paste Element 97 on to the canvas.  Resize by 50% once.  Place on the left side and behind the candles.

22.  Paste Element 90 on to the canvas.  Mirror it and place it behind the tree to where the tail peaks out on the right.

23.  Paste Element 35 on to the canvas.  Resize it by 50% once.  Place in front of the candles.

24.  Paste Element 1 on to the canvas.  Resize by 75% once.  Place behind the elements on the left side.

25.  Paste tube of choice on to the canvas.  Resize as needed.  Add copyright.

26.  Add name and save as a pspimage.  Add any effects you would like.  Crop and resize as needed.  Save as a png and you are done. 

Thank you for taking a look at my tut.