My Christmas Rose

For this tutorial you will need:

A tube of choice, I am using the art of Stan Dudin to use this tube

you will need to purchase it from PicsForDesign here

The stunning scrap kit I am using is called Christmas Rose

  by MellieBeans, you can purchase it here

My Supplies here 
Plug-in needed - Unplugged

1. Put the mask MD-14_16 into your Mask folder.

2. Open a transparent canvas 600 x 600, flood fill with white.

3. Add a new raster layer, go to selections, select all then open pp06, copy and paste into selection on to your canvas, go to layers, save/load mask, load mask from disk, find MD_14_16 in the pull down menu, source luminance checked, fit to canvas checked, hide all mask checked, go to layers, merge, merge group, move the mask slightly to the right. 

4. Open e57 copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to image, resize and resize by 78%, with these settings, resample as bicubic, resize all layers unchecked.

5. Open e52 copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, arrange in the center of the mask, go to effects, plugins, Unplugged-X apply Tan deform with the default settings.

6. Go to layers, duplicate, change the blend mode of this layer to screen, on the original layer go to adjust, blur, gaussian blur, set at 2, apply, add a drop shadow to this layer of H&V 2, opacity 33, blur 5, color black (this drop shadow is used throughout).

7. Open e42 copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to image, resize and resize by 65%, arrange on the left hand side.

8. Open e37 as a new layer, go to image, resize and resize by 60%, repeat step 6 on this layer.

9. Open e17 copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to image, resize and resize by 40%, add a drop shadow, arrange at the foot of the lamp post.

10. Open e15 copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to image, resize and resize by 25%, add a drop shadow arrange also at the foot of the lamp post.

11. Open e09 copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to image, resize and resize by 15%, add a drop shadow arrange next to the other rose.

12. Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize and arrange to your liking, repeate step 6 on this layer but add the drop shadow twice.

13. Open e21 copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to image, resize and resize by 15%, add a drop shadow arrange as desired.

14. Open e26 copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, go to image, resize and resize by 15%, add a drop shadow arrange next to the other bauble.

10 Open MD_WordArt supplied, copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, arrange at the top (see my tag for reference).

Add your name & copyright info. Resize & delete the bottom white layer if desired. Your done!

Christmas Shimmer

For this tutorial you will need:

A tube of choice, I am using the art of Vermany to use this tube

you will need to purchase it from Verymany Tubes here

The stunning scrapkit I am using was made by MellieBeans, you can purchase it here

My mask here 

Put the mask MD-14_12 into your mask folder.

Open  a transparent canvas 600 x 600, flood fill with white, go to layers, new raster layer, go to selections, select all, open pp08, copy and paste into selection, go to layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk, in the pull down menu find MD-14_12, source luminance checked, fit to canvas checked, hide all mask checked, apply, go to layers, merge, merge group.

Open e23, copy and paste as a new layer, go to image, resize and resize by 47%, resample by bicubic, resize all layers unchecked.

Activate the magic wand, tolerance & feather set at 0, click in a space outside the frame as shown below

go to selections, modify, contract by 4 pixels, open pp02, go to image, resize and resize by 60%, copy and paste as a new layer then hit delete on your keyboard, selections, select none, drag this layer beneath the frame layer.

Open e03 copy and paste as a new layer, go to image, resize and resize by 70%, arrange on the left hand side of the frame, add a drop shadow with the following settings H -3, V 3, opacity 66, blur 13, color black (this drop shadow is used throughout the tutorial).

Open e12, copy and paste as a new layer, go to image, mirror then back to image, resize and resize by 80%, arrange on the right hand side of the frame (see my tag for reference)add a drop shadow.

Open e15, copy and paste as a new layer, go to image, resize and resize by 27%, arrange on the right hand side (see my tag for reference) add a drop shadow.

Open e20, copy and paste as a new layer, go to image, resize and resize by 38%, arrange at the base of the tree.

Open e06, copy and paste as new layer, go to image,mirror, then image again, resize and resize by 35%, arrange on the bottom left of the tree, add a drop shadow.

Open e31, copy and paste as a new layer, go to image, resize and resize by 33%, arrange on the bottom left of the tree, add a drop shadow.

Copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer, resize and position to your liking, go to layers, duplicate, on the original layer, go to adjust, blur grassian blur, set at 2, add a drop shadow then on the duplicate layer change the blend mode to screen.

Add your name and copyright info. Your done!