~♥~ HorsePlay's Pasture Tutorials ~♥~: Sprinkles of Winter

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Sprinkles of Winter

Supplies

1 tube of choice – I’m using the beautiful artwork of Mitzi Sato-Wiuff which can be purchased from PSP Tube Stop. You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used The Daily Bread here

Weescotlass Mask 84 here

Plug Ins used:

Eyecandy 5: Nature – Snow Drift

Animation Shop

Snow which I supply here. The snow is to be used only for this tutorial. If you would like to use it for anything else please ask.

“Christmas Fairy” is a tagger size scrap kit created by me, Bev of HorsePlay’s Pasture Designs and can be purchased from PSP Tube Stop. You can visit my designing blog here.

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

~♥~ Let’s get started ~♥~

Open up a 700 x 700 blank canvas.

Flood fill white.

Copy and paste El 48 as a new layer.

Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.

New Raster layer below the frame.

Copy and paste Paper 18 Into Selection.

Copy and paste El 23 as a new layer.

Resize 50%

Move into position below the frame – see my tag for reference.

Deselect.

Copy and paste El 45 as a new layer.

Resize 40%

Click inside of it with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.

New Raster layer below the frame.

Copy and paste Paper 16 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Highlight the frame layer.

Merge Down.

Move this merged layer into position just above your white canvas and at the left side of the round frame – see my tag for reference.

Duplicate/Move to the right side of the round frame.

Copy and paste El 45 again.

Resize 40%

Free rotate Left 7 degrees.

Move into exact position in front of the round frame – see my tag for reference.

We’re going to add the elements below the frame. Don’t worry about what overhangs it, we’ll clean that up in a bit.

El 26: Resize 40%/Free rotate Left 7 degrees. Put it in exact position/Duplicate/Change the Properties to Multiply.

El 18: Resize 35%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Duplicate whatever trees you like and position amongst the snow bank.

El 4: Resize 25% and 70%

Once you have all the elements in position below the frame:

Highlight the paper layer that’s below the elements.

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Highlight each element and tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Add the remaining elements. I used:

El 54: Resize 60%/Duplicate/Mirror/Merge Visible these 2 branch layers

El 24

El 25

El 12: Resize 35%

El 10: Resize 70%/Free rotate Left 7 degrees

El 59: Duplicate

Highlight the merged branch layer and apply Eyecandy 5: Nature – Snow Drift:

Settings Tab:

Large, First Flakes

Basic Tab:

Use Default Settings accept lower the Drift Height to 10.65

Lighting:

Default Settings

Highlight your white background.

New Raster layer.

Select All

Copy and paste Paper 8 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Apply the Mask.

Merge Group

Add your credits.

Add your name.

Foreground and Background: #d00e37

Type your name.

Convert to Raster layer.

Select All/Float/Defloat

Selections/Modify/Expand by 2.

New Raster layer below the name.

Flood fill with #ffffff

Apply a slight Inner Bevel:

Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:

Gaussian & Monochrome checked

Noise: 40%

Deselect.

Merge Visible both name layers.

Decorate it with El 25

Open up the snow that I provided.

Open up all layers.

Highlight Frame 10 layer.

Copy.

Highlight your working canvas.

Highlight the layer that is just below the tiled frame layer.

Paste - your snow layer should appear.

Rename it S10 (short for Snow 10)

Don’t worry about what overhangs the frame. We’ll clean that up in a bit.

Highlight the animated snow layers.

Highlight Frame 9.

Copy

Highlight your working canvas.

Paste

Rename S9.

Continue to copy and paste all 10 snow layers onto your working canvas.

Once you have all snow layers copied and renamed on your working canvas highlight the paper layer (that belongs to this frame).

Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.

Highlight each snow layer and tap the delete key.

Deselect.

Keep S1 layer open and close out all other snow layers.

Copy Merge.

~Time to Animate~

Open up Animation Shop

Edit/Paste/As New Animation

Back in PSP.

Close out S1.

Open up S2.

Copy Merge

Back in AS.