CHRISTMAS KITTENS PTU

Written by Gwenda on November 24^th 2014

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Font of choice – I used Santa’s Big Secret, found

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Scrapkit is a gorgeous PTU Christmas kit called Ellen’s Christmas, by Nika of Devilish Dezines. It’s beautiful! Thanks Nika.

You can purchase this kit from Scrapsncompany

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Tube of choice. I used Hot Tea by Trinita.

You can purchase these great tubes from PicsforDesign

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Mask of choice – I used 0Mask011

I’m not sure where I got this mask, so I have supplied it. Please let me know if this is yours, and I will either remove, or supply credits.

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Snow

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Open new canvas 700 x 700.

Fill white.

Layers – new raster layer.

Selections – select all. Paste Paper 5 into selection.

Deselect.

Apply mask 0Mask011

In layers palette, merge group.

Stretch mask to all edges

Frame 4

Resize 80%.

Paste above mask layer

With magic wand, click inside the frame.

Selections – modify – expand 4. Layers – new raster layer. Paste Paper 2 into selection.

Deselect.

Sharpen Paper

Sharpen frame

Dropshadow frame.

In layers palette, move Paper 2 to sit below the frame.

Element 7 (Trees)

Resize 70%.

Paste above paper 2 layer

Sharpen

Dropshadow.

Element 26 (Church)

Resize 70%.

Paste above element 7 layer

Sharpen

Dropshadow.

Element 34 (star scatter)

Mirror – Flip

Resize 70%.

Paste above element 26 layer

Slide to top right corner

Sharpen

Dropshadow.

Element 2 (Candy cane cluster)

Mirror

Resize 50% then 70%.

Paste above element 34 layer.

Slide to the right

Sharpen

Dropshadow.

Element 25 (Holly)

Resize 50%

Paste above element 2 layer.

Free rotate Right 45

Slide to the bottom centre

Sharpen

Dropshadow

Element 14 (Berries)

Flip

Resize 60% then 80%.

Paste above element 25 layer.

Slide to the bottom right corner

Sharpen

Dropshadow

Element 38 (silver branch)

Mirror

Resize 50%

Paste above element 14 layer.

Slide to the top left

Sharpen

Dropshadow

Element 1 (Red bow)

Resize 35% then 80%.

Paste above element 38 layer.

Slide to the top left corner

Sharpen

Dropshadow

Tube

If using the same one as me, resize 40% then 90%.

Paste above element 1 layer.

Slide to the bottom left corner

Sharpen

Dropshadow

Element 47 (lamp)

Resize 60%

Paste above element tube layer.

Slide to the bottom right corner

Sharpen

Dropshadow

Element 42 (Hanging Decoration)

Resize 50%

Paste above element 47 layer.

Slide to the top right corner

Sharpen

Dropshadow

Now is the time to move your elements around if you want to.

Add any other elements of choice.

Add copyright

Resize your tag 88%, all layers checked.

OK . . . Snow Time

 Click on the element 26 (church), 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

It should cover the inside your frame, with no overhang.

If you don’t want to animate, do not paste any more snow layers – You’re all finished. Just save your tag in the normal way

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 above the Church layer, and a really messy looking tag lol.

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.

Ready to Animate??

Open Animation Shop.

In PSP, close off your 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.

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!