PINK CHRISTMAS FTU

Written by Gwenda on November 1^st 2013

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

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

HERE

Scrapkit is a lovely Free to Use kit called Pink Christmas by Chatita’s Creationz

You can download this kit

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Christmas 2012 by Keith Garvey. You can purchase his awesome tubes from his online store.

HERE

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

HERE

Snow and Winter scene

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New canvas 700 x 7600

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.

Duplicate – mirror. Merge both mask layers together.

Duplicate – flip. Merge both mask layers together.

Lace Frame – Resize 120% twice. Paste above mask layer.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Deco 1 – Resize 105% twice. Paste above Lace frame layer.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Merge Lace frame and Deco 1 together.

Frame – Paste above merged deco 1 and lace frame layer.

  

Winter Village (from my supplies) -  Paste below frame. Don’t worry about the excess – we will be sorting that out later.

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

Click on the Winter Village scene, 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 4. Selections – invert. Click on the Winter Village scene and hit delete. Click on each of the snow layer(s) in order, and hit delete.

Deselect.

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.

I erased everything showing through the holes on the frame. – Up to you if you want to do this or not.

Tube – Paste above Frame and slide to the right. Position as desired

Dropshadow.

Deco 6 – Resize 60%. Paste above tube layer and slide left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Poinsettia –Resize 50%. Paste above Deco 6 layer and slide left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Gift 1 – Resize 40%.

Paste above Poinsettia layer and slide left

Sharpen. Dropshadow

Gift 2 – Resize 40% then 80%.

Paste above Gift 1 layer and slide left and down.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Folded Ribbon – Paste above Gift 2 layer. Free rotate Left 90. Mirror

Slide to bottom.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Poinsettia 2–Resize 50% then 80%. Paste above Folded Ribbon layer and slide down and left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Poinsettia 1–Resize 40% then 90%. Paste above Poinsettia 2 layer and slide down.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Candle – Mirror. Resize 60%. Paste above Poinsettia 1 layer and slide to bottom left.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Bearmouse 1– Mirror. Resize 60%. Paste above Candle layer and slide to bottom right.

Sharpen. Dropshadow.

Add any other embellishments of choice

Resize 85%, all layers checked.

Add copyrights

If you don’t want to do the animation, stop here.

Ready to Animate??

Open Animation Shop.

In PSP, close off white background.

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!