The First Snowfall

The First Snowfall This tut is dedicated to a dear sweet lady Janeann, thank you so much for being such a wonderful friend and for your support!! Tube of choice, I used Suzanne Woolcott and Rion Vernon Scrap used First Snow by Irene Alexeeva Font of choice I used Filigree Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9 This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro, All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity with any other tutorial is purely coincidential. Please do not copy my tutorials to anyplace, please link back to my blog! Open a new image 750x750 and flood fill white, (you can ALWAYS resize later, I like having plenty of room to work) Open Ial_fis_paper04 resize this by 19% smartsize, c/p as a new layer and apply a mask of choice, I used Becky_mask22 Now lets open ial_fis_frame4 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 48% now rotate this to the left by 12%, now lets open ial_fis_wooden_box, c/p as a new layer and resize this by 19% place to your liking, open ial_fis_tree1 c/p as a new layer, arrange this layer below the box layer but above the frame layer, resize by 19%, now open ial_fis_stone2 c/p as a new layer and bring this layer to the top, resize by 9% now open ial_fis_berries4 c/p as a new layer resize this by 9% and arrange near your rock, now lets open ial_fis_berries1 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 10% arrange this layer below your other berries layer, open ial_fis_berries3 c/p as a new layer arrange this layer below your frame layer and resize this by 25% and arrange so it peeks out from the left of the frame, duplicate and flip arrange together now open the ial_fis_berries4 again c/p as a new layer again below the frame layer and resize this by 25% and then rotate to the right by 45% duplicate and flip this as well, now paste again and resize by 25% now rotate to the right by 90% arrange with the other berries, Open ial_fis_bird1 c/p as a new layer bring to the top and resize this by 18% place on top of the box, open ial_fis_bird2 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 18% place near the rock, now open ial_fis_fence2 c/p as a new layer arrange this layer right below your frame layer and resize this by 18% now lets open ial_fis_paper08 resize this by 19% c/p as a new layer right below your fence but above the berries, arrange in the frame opening how you would like, grab your magic wand and click inside the frame opening, selections modify expand by 8 now selections invert, go to the paper layer you just added and hit delete, leave selected, now open ial_fis_snow1 c/p as a new layer, right above your fence layer, resize this by 30% you will have to do this a couple times to fill your frame up, I also turned the opacity down on the snow layers a bit too, open ial_fis_leaf c/p as a new layer and resize 13% arrange this layer down with the berries layers, and have it sticking out from behind the frame as well, I duplicated mine and rotated it a bit as well to the right. now duplicate again this time mirror it and place it near the bottom of your box, when you are happy with your tag, add a dropshadow of choice and a tube of choice, hide the white background layer and merge visible. I always resize my finished tag BEFORE adding my copyright info, it makes this seem clearer, add your name and copy right information and Save the way you prefer to save tags, I hope you enjoyed this tut smiles christy Ü