Winter Chill

Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice – I used the artwork of Alec Rud which was a November loyalty gift from Picsfor Design.

Font of choice – I used Mountains of Christmas Regular here

Monti Circular mask here

Vix 451 here

Plug In used:

Eyecandy 5: Nature – Snow Drift

“Aquamarine Winter” is a beautiful tagger size scrap kit created by Laura of Tiny Turtle Designs and can be purchased from her store 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.

New Raster Layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 25 Into Selection.

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 26 Into Selection.

New Raster layer.

Copy and paste Paper 23 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Resize each paper 70%.

Free Rotate the bottom paper Left 5 degrees.

Free Rotate the top paper Right 5 degrees.

Highlight each paper and give it a slight Inner bevel:

Without moving the papers around too much, match up the top left corners of each paper – see my tag for reference. 

Minimize this working canvas for now.

Open a new 700 x 700 blank canvas.

Flood fill white.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 27 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Apply the Monti Circular mask.

Merge Group.

Open up element 63.

Make your Freehand Selection Tool active set on Point to Point and section out only the tree:

Copy.

Paste it onto your working canvas.

Duplicate/Mirror

Move both trees near the edge of the mask.

Give each tree a drop shade and then Merge Visible both trees.

Apply the mask to the merged layer. 

Use your Eraser Tool, barely touch the sides if you see any harsh lines near the edges of the mask.

Copy, paste, and resize your tube as a new layer and move into position between both trees – see my tag for reference.

Highlight the masked paper layer.

Paste your tube as a new layer.

Change the Properties to Soft Light and move into a position you like – see my tag for reference.

To this tube layer apply the mask.

Merge Group.

If you can see some of this tube through the trees or near the bottom of the first tube then erase what you don’t want to see.

Close out your white background.

Merge Group.

Copy.

Reopen your other working canvas.

Highlight the top layer in your layer’s pallet.

Paste as a new layer.

Resize 80%

Move into position over the paper – see my tag for reference.

Add your elements.  I used (see my tag for reference):

28:  Resize 120%

141:  Duplicate

102:  Resize 50% (place between the papers)

73

6

57:  Resize 25%/Duplicate/Resize 70%

107:  Resize 30%/Duplicate/Use Pick Tool to move this way and that

93:  Resize 25

117:  Resize 25%

88:  Resize 30%

45:  Resize 20%/Mirror

102:  Resize 25%

61:  Resize 25%

Highlight your white background.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 24 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Apply the mask.

Resize 110%

Merge Group.

Duplicate and change the Properties to Multiply.

Duplicate

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

Color Pallet:

Foreground: #5f5f5f

Background: #766962

Stroke set on .5

Type your name.

Convert to Raster layer.

Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Apply Eyecandy 5: Snow Drift to your name –

Match your settings to mine:

Close out your white background.

Resize all layers 600 pixels.

Save your tag as a PNG.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.   

I’d love to see your results.

Email me!

Hugs,

Bev