Merry Little Xmas

Tutorial is made in PSP10 and Animation Shop 3

Supplies

My Supplies HERE

(Including Clusterframe, Glass and gradient glow setting, wordart and snow)

My Northern Light kit HERE

Licensed artist work is by Keith Garvey

Plugins used

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Gradient Glow

Font I've used is called Whisper

Let's start

Add the "Vaybs Big Button" file to your installed Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact -

Settings - Glass folder, and the "Vaybs Double Small" file goes in the same Settings

folder but in the folder called - Glow . Then we're ready :)))  

Open my clusterframe, close the top layer and go to the grey background circle, 

Selections; select all, float, defloat.

Open paper 7, copy and close it again, paste into selection (Ctrl+Shift+L), 

Add the tree, resize to 40%, add the 3 pines, resized to 40%,  

add the deers, resize to 20%, move them to your liking.

Add your tube of choice and place it.

Add a new raster layer below the clusterframe, I've still got the circle selection

active, if you don't select again ;).  add the Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass -

Vaybs Big Button to the new raster layer.

Invert selection and delete access from the tube layer, trees and anything else you may

have decorated with that sticks out on the side of the circle.

Add the little wordart to the clusterframe tag, or make your own ;)

Remember proper © and then we're ready to animate.

Close the © layer, wordart, clusterframe and Glass effect (every layer from the glass

effect and up) If you want the white background or another color, use it, I'm 

using it without background.

Copy Merged (Ctrl+Shift+C), (Don't merge and Copy, esp when you use transparent backgrounds

cos then you don't get all the access space around the circle that we need to add the 

frame later.)

Paste as new animation in Ani shop 3 then paste after current (Ctrl+Shift+L)

 til you've got 10 frames.

Open the snow animation circle, select all, copy. (Ctrl+A , Ctrl+C)

On the tag circle, Select all then paste into selected frames (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E).

Back in PSP, close the open layers and open the layer from Glass and up.

Copy Merged again (Ctrl+Shift+C), 

and paste as new animation in Ano Shop, paste after current

til you have 10 frames (Ctrl+Shift+L), then select all, copy.

On the snow circle paste into selection (Ctrl+E) and make sure you get it centered, so no

areas get cut ;) (Look to the right and left to get the leafs inside the tag area)

view animation to see that it's all good ;)

Select all and copy, paste it into psp and save it as a psp file for safekeeping and posibility

to open it in ani shop and add names to it later, (I never include name layers when I animate).

Add names to your tag, give it a double glow using my Eye Candy 5 Impact - Gradient Glow - 

Vaybs Double Small, change the black color to a color from the tag I picked a light red from 

the girls dress.

Copy the name and paste as new animation do the same steps you've done twice now 

to add it to your tag. 

View animation and Save as...

Settings are here if you use a transparent background

And you're done

Hope you've had fun.