Winter Green 6

Supplies Needed

Font of choice – I used Laughing and Smiling here

Vix mask 452 here

Plug Ins used:

Greg’s Factory Output Vol II – Pool Shadow.

“Winter Green Collab” is a collaboration of 6 designers and can be purchased from Digital Art Heaven here.  For this tutorial I used my portion.  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 5.

Resize 70%

Duplicate and resize 90%

Duplicate

Move all 3 frames into position making the biggest frame the center one – see my tag for reference.

To each frame:

Click inside the frame with your Magic Wand.

Selections/Modify/Expand by 4.

New Raster layer below the frame.

Copy and paste Paper 9 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Open up Paper 13.

Make your Rectangle Tool active.

Make your settings to match mine:

In your layers pallet close out the foreground.

Set the background to Pattern/Paper 13:

Angle: 0

Percentage: 100

Create a rectangle approximately 180 x 580 pixels.

Convert to Raster Layer.

Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Affects/Edge Effects/Enhance

Affects/Edge Effects/Enhance More.

Move into position just above the white background – see my tag for reference.

Close out Paper 13.

Open up Paper 12.

Make a rectangle approximately 50 x 625 pixels.

Repeat the above step with the bevel and enhancements.

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

53:  Free rotate Left 90 degrees/Duplicate

35:  Duplicate for a total of 4 snow elements

20:  Resize 70%/Duplicate/Mirror/Flip

21:  Resize 50%/Duplicate/Mirror/Flip

21 again:  Resize 50%/Free rotate Left 45 degrees/Duplicate/Mirror/Flip

285:  Resize 70%/Free rotate Left 15 degrees

19:  Resize 70%/Duplicate/Free rotate Left 45 degrees(this one goes behind the left bottom of the center frame)

46:  Use your Eraser Tool to soften each of the ends

30:  Resize 50%

Highlight your white background.

New Raster layer.

Select All.

Copy and paste Paper 7 Into Selection.

Deselect.

Apply the mask.

Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.

Color Pallet:

Foreground:  Pattern/Paper 17

Background: Pattern/Paper 12

Set the stroke to 1.0

Type your name.

 Convert to Raster Layer.

Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Use same settings

Select All/Float/Defloat

Apply Greg’s Factory Output Vol. II – Pool Shadow:

Use Default Settings

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.   

I’d love to see your results.

Email me!

Hugs,

Bev