santa

 these are the planning i have design for the project which i used pathfinder and appearance to create the shapes (tree, star, the rectangle and the snowflake)
 
     
      after designing and planning:

1. put image for the background.
2. i made the snowflakes from the line segment tool and the star tool
3. i increased the stroke on the snowflakes and change it to red
4. on the rectangle i used the appearance 
5. i put 2 stokes on the rectangle
6. 1 black and 1 yellow
7. click on the yellow one
8. click on 'stroke'
9.  and tick on 'dashed line'