CHRISTMAS DAZZLE PTU

Written by Gwenda on November 25^th 2012

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used A&S Christmas Script, found

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Scrapkit is another beautiful Pay to Use kit called Dazzle Me by Nicky of Devilish Designz. Thanks for letting me play with this kit Nicky.

You can purchase this kit

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Christmas Pixie by Keith Garvey. You can purchase these beautiful tubes from Keith’s store.

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Mask of choice – I used WSL84 from Wee Scots Lass.

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My Supplies – frame, scenery & Snow

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New canvas 600 x 600

Fill white.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 7 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask WSL84

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 8 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask WSL84

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges. Mirror.

Merge both mask layers together.

Grey scalloped frame (from my supplies) – Resize 90%. Position in centre of canvas.

Selections – select all. Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 11 into selection.
Deselect.

Give inner bevel of choice.

Adjust – add noise uniform 40 with monochrome box checked.

Delete grey template.

Winter S&I - Resize 85% and position beneath the frame.

Don’t worry about the excess – we will be sorting that out later.

OK . . . now for the fun bit – the Snow!!

Click on Winter S&I, which should be sitting just under the frame.

Go to Snow 484 x 484 and copy frame 1.

Back to your tag, and paste as a new layer. Rename SNOW1

If you don’t want to animate, do not paste any more snow layers, but go directly to ***

Back to Snow 484 x 484 and copy frame 2

Back to your tag and paste as a new layer above SNOW1.

Rename this one SNOW2.

Keep doing this with all the snow frames from Snow 484 x 484, pasting each one above the other and renaming as you go.

You should end up with 10 snow layers and a really messy looking tag lol.

Don’t Panic! Tidy-up time.

*** Click inside frame with magic wand. Selections – modify – expand 6. Layers – new raster layer. Fill with # f2edd3. Selections – invert. Click on Winter S&I and hit delete. Click on each of the snow layer(s) in order, and hit delete.

Deselect.

Drop opacity of pale circle to 44.

Dropshadow frame.

Now in layers palette, go to each of the snow layers, and click the little eye to the left to close it. Do this to all snow layers except SNOW1.

Candle 2 – Mirror. Flip. Resize 60% and position top left of frame.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Tube  – position to the right. Dropshadow.

Gift 4 –Resize 40% then 75%.

Sharpen.

Dropshadow.

Place to the bottom of the tag. Remember you can always shift things around once all elements are in place J

Gift 3 – Resize 35% then 80%. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Position to the right of Gift 4

Candy Cane 1 –Resize 50% then 80% & position on left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Ribbon 1 – Resize 50%. Sharpen. Position in bottom right corner.

Dropshadow.

Kitty – Resize 60% then 85%. Sharpen

Position to right.

Dropshadow.

Gift 5 – Resize 30% Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Position just to the left on top of the Kitty.

Champs & Decor – Mirror. Resize 60%. Sharpen and place to the left.

Dropshadow.

Champs Glass –Resize 60% then 80%.  Free rotate right 15. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Ornaments 1 – Resize 40%. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Holly – Resize 25%. Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Sparkles 2 – Resize 80%. Position at top of your tag. Sharpen

Duplicate – flip.

Erase any sparkles off the Girl’s face.

Add any other embellishments of choice

Crop and resize if desired.

Add copyrights.

Close off white background.

Ready to Animate??

Open Animation Shop.

In PSP make sure all snow layers are closed off, except SNOW1

Edit – Copy Special – Copy merged.

Go to Animation shop. Edit – paste – as new animation.

Back to PSP.

Close SNOW1 and open SNOW2.

 Edit – Copy Special – Copy merged.

Go to Animation shop. Edit – paste – after current frame.

Back to PSP.

Close SNOW2 and open SNOW3.

 Edit – Copy Special – Copy merged.

Go to Animation shop. Edit – paste – after current frame.

Repeat this last step, closing off one snow layer and opening the next until you have 10 frames in Animation shop.

In Animation Shop.

Edit – select all

Animation – animation properties.

Check box opaque and change colour to white. Click OK.

Edit – select all

Animation – frame properties. Change display time to 5

Save as a gif file.

I hope this wasn’t too confusing, as it’s a lovely snow effect if you take the time to do it.

Thanks for trying this tutorial and I would love to see your results!