The Christmas Wish

 

Supplies

1 tube of choice - I used the gorgeous artwork of Steve Baier which can be purchased from Up Your Art.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Simply Glamorous here

Weescotlass Mask 208 here

Scrap Rebellion Template 62 here

Supplies of Snow here and Glass here.  Do not share either element.  If you would like to use for anything else please email me. 

Animation Shop

“Winter Tenderness” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Conchi of DnScraps and can be purchased from Butterfly Blush Designs.   You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Conchi for this beautiful seasonal kit.

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.
Image/Canvas size:
700 x 700
OK
Highlight Background layer.
Flood fill white.
Delete Info, Dotted Circles, 3 lines, both small Circle layers and the frames that go with them.

Highlight Top Rectangle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer over the paper.
Change the Properties to Overlay.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Btm Rectangle layer.
Repeat the above step.

Highlight Gradient Circle layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Copy and paste Wintertendernessbubble as a new layer - Rename “Scenery”
Resize 73%
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Copy and paste Wintertendernessmoon as a new layer.
Resize 25%
Selections/Invert
New Raster layer.
Open up the glass that I supplied.
Copy - close it out.
Paste Into Selection on your working canvas..
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Add your elements.  I used:
Bowjingledn2:  Resize 25% and 80%
Leafdn2:  Resize 35%/Duplicate/Mirror
Trunk:  Resize 40%
Snowflakes:  Resize 50%

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

Open up the snow that I provided.
Open up all layers.
Highlight Frame 1 layer.
Copy.

Highlight your working canvas.
Highlight the layer just below the Scenery layer..
Paste - your snow layer should appear. 
Rename it S1 (short for Snow 1)
Don’t worry about what overhangs the frame.  We’ll clean that up in a bit.

Highlight the animated snow layers.
Highlight Frame 2.
Copy

Highlight your working canvas.
Paste
Rename S2.

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 round paper layer.
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.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back in PSP.
Close out S2.
Open up S3.
Copy Merge

Back in AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back in PSP.
Close out S3.
Open up S4.
Copy Merge

Back in AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back in PSP.
Close out S4.
Open up S5.
Copy Merge

Back in AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back in PSP.
Close out S5.
Open up S6.
Copy Merge

Back in AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back in PSP.
Close out S6.
Open up S7.
Copy Merge

Back in AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back in PSP.
Close out S7.
Open up S8.
Copy Merge

Back in AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back in PSP.
Close out S8.
Open up S9.
Copy Merge

Back in AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Back in PSP.
Close out S9.
Open up S10.
Copy Merge

Back in AS.
Edit/Paste/After Current Frame.

Animation/Resize Animation:
Percentage of Original checked
Width x Height: 80
OK

View your animation.
If you’re happy with it then save.

Resize all layers 80%.

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

Elegant Holiday

Supplies

1 tube of choice - I used the gorgeous artwork of Steve Baier which can be purchased from Up Your Art. You must have a license to use.

Font of choice - I used Scriptina here

Dee’s Sign Post Template “Linda - Deanna Collab Templates” here. You’ll find it under Saturday, October 9, 2010.

“Elegant Holiday” is a tagger size scrap kit created by Kesha of KnC Scrapz and can be purchased from her store Lollipops n Gumdrops. You can visit her blog here.
Thank you Kesha for another beautiful holiday kit.

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.
Image/Canvas size:
700 x 700
OK
Highlight and open Bg layer.
Flood fill white.
Delete the top 5 layers, Left Shape, and Right Shape layers.

Open up Paper 1.
In your layers pallet set the foreground to Pattern/Set it on Paper 1
Angle: 0
Scale: 100
Make your Target Tool active and colorize Raster 4 layer of your working canvas.
Duplicate

Make Paper 1 active.
Copy
Make your working canvas active.
Highlight Glitter Oval layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
New Raster layer.
Paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise:
Monochrome and Gaussian checked:
Noise: 43%
OK
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Glitter Rectangle layer.
Repeat the above step.

Highlight Oval layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.
Duplicate
Change the Properties to Multiply.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Right Black Circle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Element 2 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Left Black Circle layer.
Repeat the above step.

Highlight Blue Rectangle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Pink Circles layer.
Click on the left circle with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Element 4 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Move the element up slightly - see my tag for reference.

Highlight Pink Strip layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 4 Into Selection.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Apply the same Noise effect accept lower the percentage to 20%.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Stamp Frame Bg layer.
Click on both squares with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 7 Into Selection.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer just over the paper.
Selections/Invert
Tap the delete key.
Lower the Opacity to about 30.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Stamp Frame layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 5 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.
Apply the same Noise effect.

Highlight Stars layer.
Click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Selections/Invert
New Raster layer
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Apply the same Noise Effect.

Highlight Blocks layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Add your elements. I used:
Branch 1: Resize 25%/Duplicate/Mirror
Candle: Resize 45%/Duplciate/Mirror
Branch: Resize 35%/Duplicate/Mirror
Butterfly: Resize 25% and 60%
Key: Resize 25%

Add your copyrights.

Add your name:
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:


Resize all layers 80%.

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