Our girl Tasha over at Tasha's Playground asked me to make some naughty Christmas templates and this is what I came up with. I hope you all can enjoy them :)

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tuts is purely coincidental. This tutorial is for personal use only, using it for monetary gain is against our TOU's.

Supplies:

Gimp or program of choice

PTU kit Peppermint Winter from Sarah's Tags N Things

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Ismael Rac. You must have a licnese to use these tubes. You can purchase them at his store HERE.

Fonts- Chunkyness, Sweet Cheeks & Simply Glamorous

-File>New 600x600 px.

-Open element 39. Layer>Scale Layer 70%. Select the magic wand and click inside the frame. Select>Grow 5. Open paper 2 and move below the frame layer. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Open tube. Make tube the top layer. Place tube on top of frame. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Move the duplicate below the frame layer in the layer box. Delete. Select>None. Make the top (original) tube layer active. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 5, black, 50. Duplicate the tube. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to overlay and lower the opacity to 50. Layer>Merge Down twice (to merge the blurred tube with the original tube and the original tube with the drop shadow).

-Open element 37. Move below the main tube in the laye rbox. Scale 70%. Place on the square frame. Repeat drop shadow,

-Open element 32. Make the bottom layer. Scale 60%. Select the rotate tool and click canvas. In the angle box put 15. Add paper 3 to this frame (repeat steps above for adding pape to square frame). Select none. Make the frame acitve. Layer>Layer To Image Size. Duplicate. Select the flip tool and click canvas to flip the duplicate frame. Add paper 7 to this frame. Repeat drop shadow on both of these frames.

-Make the top layer active. Select the text tool. Font: Chunkyness, Size: 50, Foreground color: white. Click canvas and type 'Peppermint'. Place text below the tube. Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection. Grow 2. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below current layer. Change your foregorund to ee0909. Select the bucket fill tool and fill selection. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.80. New layer. Move below current layer. Grow 2. Bucket fill with white. Select none. Add drop shadow of 2, 2, 5, black, 80. Make the top text layer active. Filters>Decor>Add Bevel. Uncheck work on copy.

-Make the top layer active. Still using the text tool change Font: Sweet Cheeks, Size: 50, Foreground: ee0909.Click canvas and type 'kisses'. Place this text below the peppermint text. New layer. Move new layer below current text layer. Alpha to selection. Grow 2. Bucket fill white. Select none. Repeat noise & drop shadow.

Other elements:

25

19

30

15

10

18

6

9

35

33

4 - rotate 15

38 - rotate -10

-Add your name with the Simply Glamorous font. Also add your copyright and you're done!



Oh how I love seeing the awesome stuff my CT creates!!!!!!

Here are some fantastic tuts using my newest PTU kit called Elf and Candy Cane

This hot tut is from Millie @ Millie's PSP Madness, it's called Gift For You

This adorable tut is from Belinda @ BKC Designs, it's called Elfin Christmas

This fantastic tut is from Hannah @ Sugar Coated Tuts N Tags, it's called Drummer Girl

Love all of these!!!!!!! Great stuff ladies ♥

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tuts is purely coincidental. This tutorial is for personal use only, using it for monetary gain is against our TOU's.

Supplies:

Gimp or program of choice

PTU kit Gingersnap Greetings Collab from A Taggers Scrap. You can find this kit exclusivley at Heartfelt Perfections.

Tube of choice. I am using the art of FourXDesigns. You must have a licenst to use these tubes. You can purchase these tubes at her store HERE.

Fonts- Sverige Script Demo & Lydia Puente

-File>New 600x600 px.

-Open frame 3. Layer>Scale Layer 75%. Place in center of canvas. Select the magic wand and click inside the frame. Select>Grow 5. Open paper 7 and move below the frame layer in the layer box. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Open tube. Make the top layer. Scale 65%. Place in the middle of frame. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Move duplicate tube below the frame layer. Delete. Select>None. make the original (top layer) tube active. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 5, black, 50. Layer>Merge Down (to merge tube with its shadow layer). Select the eraser and erase the bottom prtion of the tube so it looks like she is sticking out of the frame. Make the frame active and repeat drop shadow.

-Open frame 5. Make the bottom layer. Scale 60%. Place to the right side of the othe frame. Add paper 4 to this frame (repeat above). Make the frame layer active. Layer>Layer To Image Size. Duplicate. Select the flip tool and click canvas. Add paper 1- to the duplicate frame. Repeat drop shadow on both frames.

-Open frame 2. Make the bottom layer. Scale 85%. Place in the center of tag. Repeat drop shadow,

-Open froame 4. Make the bottom layer. Scale 75%. Place in center of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open tinsel. Move below the top tube layer. Scale 75%. Place at the bottom of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

Other Elements:

flower 1

flower 2

flower 4

stars

star

star 2

pinecone

bead string

candle

bow 1

tree 1

gingerbread santa

snowflakes

-Make the top layer active. Select the text tool. Font: Sverige Script Demo, Size: 50, Foreground color: 6c5155. Click the canvas and type 'Snow Princess'. Place text to the bottom right of tag. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.40. Later>Tranparenct>Alpha To Selection. Select>Grow 2. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below the text layer. Change foreground to white and select the bucket fill tool. Fill selection. Select none. Repeat drop shadow.

-Add your name withthe Lydia Puente font. Also add copyright and you're done!

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WOOT!!!!!! That's right, it's time for another awesome ride on the January Rain Blogtrain...

The color and theme this month were Winter Berry.

This fun little kit contains 20 elements, 3 frames and 6 papers. 

You can grab the kit HERE

Be sure to check out all of the other stops on the blogtrain...

This kit was inspired by an adorable tube by Joanna Bromley. It is filled with all kinds of Christmas magic and contains 55 elements, 6 frames and 10 papers. 

Below is a tag I made with both the tube & kit...