Winter Angel

Supplies
2 tubes of choice - I used the beautiful artwork of Zindy S.D. Nielsen here
Font of choice - I used Bonheur Royale - I'm sorry, I no longer can find a link for this font.
My Template 56 here
Monti Circle Mask here
Snow which I’ve supplied here
Animation Shop
“Winter Angel” is a FTU tagger size scrap kit created by Artmama Scraps and can be found here.
Thank you Artmama for such a beautiful kit! I totally enjoyed it!
Please leave a simple thank you when downloading. It’s a small gesture for hard work given freely.

This tutorial was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
Delete the credit layer words layer.

Highlight Right Stamp Back layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Right Stamp Square layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Right Stamp Frame layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Repeat the above steps with Left Stamp Back, Square, and Frame layers.

Highlight Right Stamp Square layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Repeat the above step with Left Stamp Square using a different tube.

If you would like the feathered look that I have do the following:
Highlight the square layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Selections/Invert
Selection/Modify/Feather
Number of Pixels: 53
Tap the delete key until you have the desired affect.
Deselect.

Highlight the square layer again.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Selections/Invert
Highlight your feathered tube layer.
Tap the delete key.
The edges should be nice and clean now.

Add your embellishments. I used:
Embell 37: resize 50% Free rotate left 80 degrees
Embell 8: Resize 80%

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste a paper of choice Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.

Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

Merge Visible all layers that are BEHIND the frames accept for your mask and white background.

Merge Visible remaining layers accept for your mask and white background.

You should now have 4 layers - 2 of them merged, your mask, and your white background.

Highlight your mask layer.
Open up the snow supplied.
Copy Frame 10 and paste as a new layer on your working canvas.
Rename Snow 10
Go back to your snow.
Copy Frame 9 and paste as a new layer on your working canvas.
Rename Snow 9
Continue this until you have all 10 snow layers copied and pasted onto your working canvas.

Highlight your mask layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
Selections/Invert
Highlight each of the snow layers and tap the delete key.
Deselect.

Be sure all snow layers are closed out accept keep Snow 1 open.

Edit/Copy Merged.

~Time to Animate~

Carry into Animation Shop.
Edit/Paste/As New Animation
Go back into PSP.
Close out Snow 1.
Open up Snow 2.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back Into PSP.
Close out Snow 2.
Open up Snow 3.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back Into PSP.
Close out Snow 3.
Open up Snow 4.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back Into PSP.
Close out Snow 4.
Open up Snow 5.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back Into PSP.
Close out Snow 4.
Open up Snow 5.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back Into PSP.
Close out Snow 5.
Open up Snow 6.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back Into PSP.
Close out Snow 6.
Open up Snow 7.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back Into PSP.
Close out Snow 7.
Open up Snow 8.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back Into PSP.
Close out Snow 8.
Open up Snow 9.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back Into PSP.
Close out Snow 9.
Open up Snow 10.
Copy/Merge

Carry into AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

View your animation and save if your like it.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev