Xmas Shape

Supplies needed

Scrapkit of choice

Font of choice

Eye candy 5 - Impact - Glass

My shape - click to open full size and save to your computer

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on November 8th 2015

written in psp9 but any version should work

any resemblance to other works is entirely coincidental

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Open blank canvas 800 x 800 

copy and paste my shape as new layer

select all, float, defloat

copy and paste paper as new layer

selections, invert, hit delete on your keyboard

keep selected

copy and paste several elements of choice

and hit delete on your keyboard each time

to delete any overhanging bits

When happy with your elements, 

invert the selection again, 

new raster layer

effects, eye candy 5 - Impact - Glass

with the following settings

new raster layer,

selections, expand by 4

floodfill with a colour/graident of choice

adjust, add noise 85, uniform, monochrome checked.

selections, contract by 8, hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

layers, arrange, send to bottom

hide glass layer

merge visible all other layers

Text Tool

type out your name or initial (doesnt matter what color)

convert to raster

select all, float, defloat, 

make your shape layer active, right click in the layer palette

and promote selection to layer

deselect

delete the text layer

On the promoted selection layer 

apply the following inner bevel twice

you can now move your text to your liking within the shape

or leave it where it is, its upto you!

Unhide the glass layer

copy and paste any other elements you wish

to decorate the shape

dropshadow 2,5,50,8,black

merge visible

crop and save as png.

Here is another example