What your mother, father, sister, brorher, etc would like to get on Christmas more than anything, is a hand-made greeting card. If you have no color paper and glue, create it in Photoshop.

Start creating the file (File>New), that would have 800x300 px and 100 dpi. 

Using the Rectangle Tool (U), try to represent the background of the picture we want to have on the final stage of our work.



Select the next parameters by making a mouse click on the layer we work with on the layers’ panel: Blending Options>Gradient Overlay



Gradient’s parameters:

 



Using the Ellipse Tool (U), try to draw now the primary layer of a Christmas toy decoration



The layer’s parameters: Blending Options>Outer Glow



Blending Options>Gradient Overlay



Gradient’s parameters:

 



Select the previous instrument and picture out three more toy decorations of different colors.



The parameter Blending Options>Outer Glow is the same for all the toys (the same with the red toy decoration). The parameters for the blue toy decoration: Blending Options>Gradient Overlay



Gradient’s parameters: