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Decorating the Ornament
13. Drawing Snowflakes: Go into the Custom Shape Tool and select a Snowflake icon. Draw 2 snowflakes. Double click on each shape and put in the these Blending Options
14. Crop the icon to the ornament : While holding down the CTRL key click on the main circle's Layer Thumbnail to highlight the shape. Go to each of the Snow Flake icon and click on the Add Mask Layer Icon. This will crop the snowflakes down to the highlighted shape.
15. While holding down the CTRL or Shift Key select all of the Christmas Ball Layers and drag them to the Folder Icon to place into a folder. Duplicate the folder by dragging it to the new layer icon. To make the duplicated Christmas ball smaller press CTRL+T on the folder and drag a corner down while holding down the Shift Key.
16. Now the message : You can use any font you like. For this demonstration, we went to the Jellyka Delicious Cake font page in www.dafont.com, and downloaded the font jellyka_delicious_cake.zip to write out the Postcard message using the colours below. The front of the postcard is now finished!
You can now stop, or continue on to part 2 where we . . .
NEXT: CREATE the BACK side of the card.
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