Black Ice Tut...

Supplies Used:

Stockings Christmas tube by Roberto Alvarado. Tube was part of the xmas gift 2011 from PTE.

Awesome Goth Christmas scrapkit called Black Ice by my girl Tasha from Tasha's Playground. You can buy this kit at SATC.

Font Used:

Aquarelle

Filter used:

VDL Adrenaline (Snowflakes)

Open a new image size 800 by 800 (You can resize later but be sure to do it before you animate!)

C/P Frame 4.

Using your magic wand tool select all the way around your outer circle.

 Save this selection to disk where you can find it later if you plan to animate.

KEEP SELECTED til I tell you to deselect.

Click on your background layer.

C/P Paper 13 into selection.

C/P Paper 1 into selection. Change the Blend Mode to Luminance.

Deselect.

C/P Tree Element. Resize by 50%. Duplicate 2 times for a total of 3. Position trees ate varying heights on the right side of your frame layer.

C/P Trees. Resize by 50%. Position at the bottom right of you frame layer. You can move the black trees around under it to make it all look full.

C/P House. Resize by 75%. Position between 2 of the black trees so that just the ice shards are sticking out.

C/P Snow mound at the bottom of the frame. Duplicate and mirror.

C/P Snowflake. Resize by 20%. Duplicate a few times and stagger them over the top half of your frame.

C/P your tube. I added a very light drop shadow to mine.

If you want to resize the tag now is a good time to do it.

Add your copyright and watermark.

(If you don't want to animate you can add your name and save now :)

Select your background layer and floodfill with choice of color. I used black and added some red brushes.

Select your Paper 1 Layer.

Selections, Load/Save selection, Load the selection we made earlier.

Add a new raster layer.

Apply VDL Snowflakes with the following settings...

KEEP SELECTED!

Add a new raster layer. Repeat VDL Snowflakes but change your random seed to 100.

Add a new raster layer. Repeat VDL Snowflakes but change your random seed to 200.

Select none.

Hide the top 2 snowflake layers so that only the bottom one is showing.

Copy Merged. Copy into animation shop as a new image.

Close the bottom snowflake layer and open the middle snowflake layer.

Copy Merged. Copy into animation shop after current frame.

Close the Middle snowflake layer and open the top snowflake layer.

Copy Merged. Copy into animation shop after current frame.

Select Frame 1. Edit, Select all. Then go to Animation, Frame Properties and change to 20.

To add your name...Make sure propagate paste is checked in Animation shop.

Back in PSP type out your name. I used color #a52424.

Add inner Bevel with the following settings...

Duplicate inner bevel.

Add same drop shadow you used for your tube.

Change the opacity to 70.

Go to Edit, Copy. C/P into animation shop as a new image. Drag into frame one on your tag. View the animation. If it blinks you forgot to click propagate paste. Just undo the drag and undo on your name. Select Propagate paste and move to the first frame.

Hope you enjoyed this tut :)

Here is the unanimated version...