It's Still Winter Here!

It's Still Winter Here! Tube of choice, I used Suzanne Woolcott and Rion Vernon Scrap used Winter Day by Gemini Creationz Font of choice I used Chateau Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9 Filter/plugin used Mura's copies 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 Gemini_WinterDay_paper11 c/p as a new layer resize this by 85% and apply a mask of choice, I used Gems_mask197 Now open Gemini 'winter day' frame 4 c/p as a new layer Open Gemini 'winter day' snowflake 2 c/p as a new layer place this below your frame layer, and resize by 30% now apply these settings below using Mura's Copies.

now move this up and to the left just a little bit, now open Gemini 'winter day' paper04 resize by 85% now grab your magic wand and click inside the frame opening modify and expand by 9 and then invert, c/p the paper as a new layer below the frame, hit delete and select none now open Gemini 'winter day' leaves and c/p as a new layer bring this to the top and place near the bottom of your frame duplicate and mirror,resize both by 80% now open Gemini 'winter day' branch 1 c/p as a new layer and resize this by 80% and place this below the leaves layers, duplicate and mirror this, now paste it again this time bring the layer to the top and resize by 50% and flip it, now duplicate and mirror now open Gemini 'winter day' bird c/p as a new layer resize this by 50% place off to the right of the leaves, now open Gemini 'winter day' flower 1 c/p as a new layer resize by 40% and place in the center of your bottom area now open Gemini 'winter day' flower 4 c/p as a new layer resize this by 40% place near your other flower, now paste it again this time move this layer to right above your leaves layer resize it by 40% now duplicate and place another one on the other side of the leaves area, (use my tag as a reference) do the same with flower 1 resized by 40% I place 2 of these behind my leaves, Now open Gemini 'winter day' bow 4 c/p as a new layer bring this layer to the top rotate to the right by 36% and place it towards the top left of the frame, (I did recoler my background and the snowflakes to blend more with the color of the leaves and turned the brightness up just a tiny bit as well on these) now add a dropshadow and tube of choice to your tag (I did not dropshadow my snowflakes! when you are happy 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