FTU - Gothic Christmas 2

This tutorial was written by me on December 16th, 2012. Please do not claim as your own.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

------------------------------------------------

Mask Of Choice

Scrap Kit - FTU Scrap Kit Called Gothic Christmas By Lexi Creationz
You can download it here

Font Of Choice

Tube Of Choice - I used the artwork of Ismael Rac. You must have the proper license to use his work. You can visit his store here.

Program - Gimp 2.6..but any program will do.

Template - Template 2 By Lexi
You can download it here
---------------------------------------------

Open New Canvas
I did 900x900.you can resize it at the end

Open Mask
Right click on your layers
Go down to alpha by selection
Edit > fill w/ BG color - Make sure color is #FFFFFF

Open Paper 3
Right click on your layers
Click add layer mask
Then a window will pop up
then click black (full transparency)
Then click add
Edit > Copy
Edit > Paste
On Layers > click on floating selection
Then right click on layers
scroll down to anchor layer
Delete first layer!!!

You should have a mask..then a black square next to it on your layers.
Image > Merge Visible Layers
Box should pop up..click clipped to image > Merge

-----------------------------------------

Open New Canvas

Open Your Template
Delete The Credits

Right click on paper1
Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on square
Edit > Fill With Pattern

Delete Dither Pattern

Right click on paper5
Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on rec1
Edit > Fill With Pattern

Right click on paper5
Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on rec2
Edit > Fill With Pattern

Right click on paper4
Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on lgstar1
Edit > Fill With Pattern

Right click on paper4
Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on lgstar2
Edit > Fill With Pattern

----------------------------------------------------------------

Now that the hard part is over..you are ready to add elements and your tube

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element1
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Tube
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element10
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element11
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element12
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element16
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element18
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element21
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element24
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element4
Duplicate 1x
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element5
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open LCS_Gothic_Holiday_Element6
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!