Hey everyone ♥ Just wanna wish you all a Happy New Year whatever your doing tonight! Me personally, im having a quiet night with the bf & pooch lol Hopefully 2011 wil be the best one yet for us all! So where ever you are & whatever your doing be safe & have fun!!! See you next year! lol Sharon ~x~

~Supplies Needed~ Tube ~ Im using the awesome artwork of Ismael Rac which you need a licence to use & can get here ~ XERACX ScrapKit ~ Girly Christmas PTU by Tammy here ~ Tammy's Scraps Filters ~ Xero Porcelain Font ~ Cutie Pop Mask of choice Drop shadow ~ 1 1 50 5 ~Lets Begin~ New raster layer 600x600, paste Wreath1 as new layer, resize 80%, click inside wreath with magic wand & modify expand by 8, paste paper 2 as new layer, resize 50%, invert delete, drag under wreath, KEEP selected. Paste tube as new image, resize 80%, copy & paste onto canvas, position how you want, with your eraser erase any bits of tube that hang below wreath, select none. Xero Porcelain & add drop shadow Paste Bells on Ribbon 2 as new layer, all we want are the bow & bells so erase the rest of the bow, place at bottom of wreath in the middle, resize to suit, see my tag. Add drop shadow Paste Bow 7 as new layer, resize 60%, move to left of tag & position on wreath like mine, drag under tube Paste Hanging Ornaments 1 as new layer, resize 60% twice, drag under Bow 7, merge down, Xero Porcelain & add drop shadow Paste Button 3 as new layer move to right, resize 50% 3 times, paste Tag 1 as new layer resize 20% drag under Button, use pick tool & move Tag to the left slightly. Paste Bow 6 s new layer, resize till it fits ontop of Bow, pick tool again & move slightly to left, add drop shadows to each then merge them all down onto same layer With your font type out your name so it fits on Tag, use pick tool to move it slightly to left. I added some noise & gradient glow white, add drop shadow Paste Paper 2 as new layer at bottom of layers, new mask layer from image, find mask, merge group, resize 80% depending on the mask you use, opacity 80 Crop tool & crop tag. Add © & if your happy save as Png! I hope you enjoyed my tut ♥ Sharon ~x~

~Supplies Needed~ Tube ~ I'm using the awesome artwork of Tyson McAdoo, was in the Xmas Pressie that we got from MPT, you need a licence too use which you can get here ~ MPT Scrapkit ~ Bah Humbug by Diane here ~ Candy's Treats Font ~ Kwekel Filters ~ Xero Porcelain Mask of choice Animation of choice ~Lets Begin~ Open up Cluster Frame1, resize canvas 600x600, magic wand & click inside frame plus inside the circles, modify expand 4, paste paper1 as new layer, resize 50%, invert delete, move paper below frame, click inside frame again with magic wand, expand 2, paste Santa tube as new layer resize to suit & place where & how you want. Invert & with eraser erase any bits you dont want. I did it so it looks like Santa is popping out of frame. Select none, Xero Porcelain Wordart ~ Bah Humbug, with shadow, paste as new layer bottom of frame, resize 80% Stocking2 ~ paste as new layer, mirror & resize 50% place to the right, see mine Add drop shadow to frame, Santa & stocking layers. Add © & name Add new layer at bottom & floodfill white, another new layer & floodfill with colour to suit, new mask layer from image, find mask etc then merge group, resize if needed Copy merged into animation shop, add your animation, resize 550, once happy save! Thats it we are done! Hope you enjoyed my tutorial, sorry its abit late ♥ Sharon ~x~

Merry Christmas everyone i hope you all had an awesome time! I must apologise for being absent for so long but things got kinda difficult for me. Money worries aint so good at this time of year lol i didnt know if i was going to be able to buy pressies let alone get back online! Thankfully things came good in the end. I also have some good news....... **Drum Roll* ..... I got engaged!! Woo Hoo! lol Things will now be back to normal from today, gony revamp my blog & new tuts are coming soon, i have few christmas tuts to do as i didnt get a chance with being offline! :-( Also hopefully some templates & FTU tuts!! Anyways gotta go just now but i'll be back!!! Hope you all had a fab Christmas & didnt miss me too much lol Sharon ~x~