The Best Present

Font: Wendy Medium

Filter: Tramages – Tow the Line

Filter: Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Nature – Snow Drift

Filter: Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow

Artwork by Carmen Keys

This tube was part of MPT Christmas gift 2009

Scrapkit – PTU – Nightmare Before Christmas by Designs by Stina

It is available for purchase at Aussie Scrap Designs

Scene here

Let’s Begin

Open a new 700x700 white layer

Resize tubes to suit as you go

Paste holly4 as a new layer

Resize by 80% x 2

Move to bottom left

Duplicate and mirror

Duplicate and flip

Duplicate and mirror

Close off background and merge visible

Resize by 80%

Position in middle

Reopen background

Use magic wand and click inside holly to select

Selections – Modify – Expand x 6

Paste a paper of choice as a new layer

I used 12

Selections – Invert

Hit delete key

Selections – Select none

Move this layer below frame

Paste scene over paper layer

Duplicate frame layer and send to bottom

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian – 15

Apply

Tramages – Tow the Line

Go back to top frame layer again

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Nature – Snow Drift Width – 6

Under settings select – Dusting Moderate

Add a tree and apply the same dusting of snow

Add your main tube

Add a quote if desired and a white gradient glow

Add your name

Go over your layers and apply a drop shadow

I used 0, 0, 50, 12, black

Do not apply it to paper, scene or tramage layers

Resize tag by 80%

All layers checked

Go over your layers and sharpen where necessary

Add your copyright details

If you do not wish to add animation

Merge all – flatten

Save your tag

Continue for animation

Close off down to scene layer

Copy merge from scene layer down

Paste into Animation Shop

Open animation

Now duplicate your tag to 10 frames to match

On animation – crop to make smaller to fit frame area

Select all - copy

On tag – select all – paste into selected frame

Place snow over scene

In PSP close off opened layers and open closed layers

In PSP copy merge your top remaining layers

Paste into AS as a new animation

Edit – Propagate paste

Drag onto main tag and when in position release

Run your animation

Save your tag