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Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Using the Ellipse Tool (U), we may represent many small ellipses, each one on a separate layer.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert a rectangle on several of the made ellipses, applying the Rectangle Tool (U).

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Now we have combine in a group all the ellipses’ layers and the one belonging to the rectangle (press CTRL button to select the necessary layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel). Set Fill to 0% for the made group.

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and go to Blending Options: Custom, find Advanced Blending and check Layer Mask Hides Effects.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Add Drop Shadow:

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make a copy of the recently created group containing the ellipses and the rectangle. Remove the Layer style – Drop Shadow from the copy. Put the group’s copy into a rasterized layer by selecting it firstly in Layers panel and then press CTRL+E to Merge Down. Hold CTRL button when clicking on the rasterized layer in Layers panel to get the next selection.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Select after that the layer containing the snowflake in Layers panel and click on the bottom part of the Layers panel on Add layer mask. Press after that this combination: CTRL+I to Invert the color in the mask.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

 

Hide the rasterized layer of the group’s copy because we don’t need it anymore. Insert the mask on the snowflake’s layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Hard Round brush of black color

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask to hide the rest of the snowflake on its right side.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on the group containing the circles and the rectangle by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask to hide the unnecessary elements on the top and bottom parts.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Finally insert the greeting text on our holiday card. Select the Horizontal Type tool (T). Select a font, size and color in the Character panel. I used this font from FontSquirrel.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Click in the canvas and type ‘Merry Christmas’. Press Enter to apply the text.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

Merry Christmas Card – Paper Snowflakes on Green Background in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Our Christmas Greeting Card is finished!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

View full size here.

Download free Layered PSD file.

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