Dear Santa





This tutorial was written for those that have a working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies Needed:
PSP 9 (any version will work)
Scrap kit by Nit Wit Collections Twas The Night kit plus lil bits
Moon cloud by Rainbow Coffi which you can get from PSP-Playground
Font of choice - I am using '1 Snappy DNA'

Filter used - VM Natural - Sparkle

Lets get started

New canvas 700 x 700 we can resize this later - flood fill white

Open up the scalloped mat from the lil bits kit-resize-copy and paste this onto your canvas
Using the selection tool-set on rectangle-draw out a rectangle shape in the center of the mat
New raster layer-flood fill black-add the filter-VM Natural-sparkle-change the max size to 10-click ok
Selections-select none

Copy and paste the moon cloud-resize and arrange as above

Choose a ribbon from the kit-resize-copy and paste onto your canvas
Arrange at the top of the black rectangle-use the selection tool to cut off any excess
Duplicate then arrange this at the bottom of the black rectangle
Duplicate-rotate-left by 90-arrange on to the left of the rectangle-cutting off any excess
Duplicate-image-mirror-image-flip-arrange this on the right of the rectangle
You should have ribbon all around the black rectangle

Open up the Dear Santa wordart from the lil bit kit
Resize-copy and paste onto your tag-arrange this near the bottom of your tag
Selections-select all-float-defloat-modify-expand by 2.00-new raster layer
Flood fill with white-selections-select none-move this layer below the Dear Santa wordart
Drop shadow of 1, 1, 30, 3.00 black

Add any other elements from the kit-I added some presents, holly and the naughty and nice tags
Add drop shadow of 1, 1, 30, 3.00 to any elements you add

Using a font of choice-add your name place where desired

Crop and resize if needed

Add any copyright info

Now let's animate your tag:

Open up Animation Shop ready

In PSP we want to copy and paste the tag you have so far into AS
Edit-copy merged-in AS paste as new animation
Back to PSP

Open up Santa Sleigh from the kit-resize-you want this quite small
Copy and paste onto your tag-move this layer just above the moon clouds
Place santa's sleigh bottom left hand corner of your center rectangle
For now you only want a bit of the reindeer showing
See screenshot below



Using the selection tool-set on rectangle-draw around the part of the santa sleigh that is outside the center rectangle
See screenshot below



Hit delete so all you got showing is a little bit of the reindeer



Selections-select none-edit-copy merged-back to AS
On the tag you already got in there-paste after current frame
Back to PSP-press undo 3 times so the sleigh comes back
Now move the santa sleigh a little to the right



Using the selection tool again-set on rectangle-draw around the part of the santa sleigh that is outside the center rectangle
Hit delete-selections-select none-edit-copy merged-back to AS
Paste after current frame
Back to PSP and repeat the above keeping moving the sleigh to the right a little bit each time
You won't need to erase the sleigh once it is fully in the center of the rectangle

Once the reindeer reaches the right of the rectangle
You will need to start deleting from that end





Keeping moving right, deleting and pasting into AS until you have just abit of the sleigh showing



Now you should have all your frames in animation shop to make Santa move across the rectangle
In AS-click on the very first frame-edit-copy-now click the very last frame
Edit-paste-after current frame-edit-select all
Animation-frame properties-change that to 20-click ok
Now test your tag and Santa should move across your tag

Save your tag as .gif

Thanks for trying my tutorial. I hope you have enjoyed it


This Tutorial was written on 10th December 2008. And the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted. Please feel free to print it out for your personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or re-write without permission. The image you create using this tutorial is for you to do what you wish except for monetary gains or for merchandising. © Missy 2005 - 2008 Any Resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental. Proud Member of TWI

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