Soft Winter

Snaggable versions of this tag in my Fotki album

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Paint Shop Pro, I am using PSP X7, you should be able to use any version.

Tube of choice, I am using the artwork of Pinup Toons-Individual Tube 206-1 which you need a license to use.  

Scrap kit of choice. I am using a PTU kit, Tranquil Winter by Ladyhawwk Designs

Font of choice, I am using Rage Italic

Mask: Horse Play's Pasture Mask 11

Plugins: no outside plugins used

Just remember that my choices of papers and elements is just a suggestion, change it up and make it yours! You don't have to follow mine exactly.

Add a drop shadow of your choosing to tubes & elements throughout. I usually use 1, 1, 50, 5 unless otherwise noted.

Let's get started!

Open a new canvas 950 x 950 pixels with a white background

open frame 7 copy and paste as a new layer

Take your freehand selection tool set on point to point, click on the upper left hand corner of the frame, hold your shift key down and go to the bottom left corner, click on it.
do the same for the next two corners, then once you get back to where you started, double click to end your selection.

Now go to selections, invert

open paper 8 copy and paste as a new layer below the frame

click delete on your keyboard, leave selected

open element 21 copy and paste as a new layer, resize 70% arrange in the frame

click delete on your keyboard and deselect

take your eraser tool and erase where the tree & snow show between the two sections of the frame

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize by 90%

now add your elements:

element 22 arrange between your tube and frame layers

element 24 resize 45% arrange on bottom left

element 9 resize 45% arrange behind boxes on left

element 39 resize 60% arrange below and left of tube

element 64 resize 60% arrange behind skates

element 19 resize 60% arrange behind the skates on right, duplicate, mirror, drag behind boxes and skates

element 41 resize 40% arrange behind & above boxes

element 61  resize 40% arrange by tube

copy and paste paper 3 as a new layer above the white background

apply your mask, merge group

duplicate & merge together

crop and resize

add your copyright and credits as needed

add your text and save