ForgiveMeSanta

Forgive Me, Santa?

~Supplies~

~Tube of choice with available closeup - I've used I've used the work of Keith Garvey, though this tube that cannot be bought as it was in a Holiday gift pack sent out by MPT to it's customers. What a nice gesture in these times!!! You can find Keith's tubes HERE, please do not use without a license.
~Template created by Abstract which you can find HERE
~All glitter by ZaZa at Scrap And Tubes FTU section HERE or you can use your own stash.
~Filters - Tramages Tow The Line, Eye Candy 3.1 drop shadow & glow, Xero Gray Scaler (gives a more crisp gray tone than psp, but optional), Mura Meisters Copies
Fonts of choice - I've used Oh La La (pixel font) and MA Sexy

~♥~Let's Begin~♥~

1. Open template - duplicate - close original. Delete watermark layer & background layer. Change canvas size to 750x750 to give you elbow room, we'll crop and resize later.

2. Open your tube - duplicate - close original. Choose one main color from your tube for your foreground color in your materials palette - make background color white.

3. Highlight black rectangle strips (raster 5) in your layer palette - Selections - select all - float - defloat - Layers - add new raster layer - flood fill this layer with main color from tube - deselect - delete original black strips. Back on strip layer - Effects - Tramage - Tow the Line with the following settings:

4. Highlight Raster 2 circle - Selections - select all - float - defloat - Layers - add new raster layer - flood fill this too with main color from tube - deselect - delete original black circle.

5. Highlight Raster 3 circle - Selections - select all - float - defloat - Layers - add new raster layer - flood fill with white - deselect - Adjust - add noise - uniform, monochrome, 51 - delete original circle.

6. Highlight Raster 4 circle- Selections - select all - float - defloat - Layers - add new raster layer. In your foreground color palette, make a foreground/background gradient of your main color and white, angle 26, repeat 1 - flood fill circle - deselect - delete original circle. On all three circles now add a drop shadow of 0, 0, 50, 5.00.

7. Back on gradient circle again - using your pixel font set to 8 - 10, anti alias set to none type out your text once - Objects - align - center in canvas - convert to raster layer. Effects - mura meisters copies - tiling, default settings except change tile gap to 2 - back to circle again - Selections - select all - float - defloat - move to text layer - invert - click delete - select none. Change blend mode to soft light or that of your choosing.

8. Open your tube close up - copy & paste onto gradient circle checking that some of it overhangs a bit - mirror, move it to the far right - on circle - Selections - select all - float - defloat - on tube, invert - delete - select none. Change blend mode to soft light and lower the opacity to about 63. Copy and paste another close up onto gradient circle - Effects - Xero - Gray Scaler with these settings: 255 - 0 - 21 - change opacity to 76.

9. On the words layer (raster 8) - eye candy 3.1 glow - settings of 2, 100, fat & white - duplicate words - merge down - glow again - change settings to 1, 100, med, red - add drop shadow of 1, 1, 70, 3.00.

10. Find your green circle bling (or that of your choice) and past above red circle layer. Paste red glitter first on the top of all your layers and duplicate it till your happy with your positioning - merge these layers and move to the bottom of your palette. Merge all these layer together now.

11. Copy and paste your tube onto your tag - use Eye Candy drop shadow (it's much deeper) with settings of 5,10,49 first at the direction of 315 and then again at 249. This tag is busy so you want her to stand out. Add your artist's copyright information and your name, crop and resize and you're done!!

~♥~ I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial ~♥~

This tutorial was written by Artmama on November 18th, 2009, and it's resemblance to any other tutorial is merely a coincidence.