Candy Cane Express

For this tutorial I used the Candy Cane Express kit by Tooty Pup and you can purchase this adorable kit HERE
Vix Mask 307 found in my quick links and presaved to your masks folder
Animation shop.


To begin I opened Paper 7 and applied the mask. Source Luminance, Fit to canvas, hide all mask.

Layers, Merge, Merge Grooup, Drop Shadow, 1, 1, 50, 1, black.

Layers, New Raster Layer, flood fill off white (I used #f6dcde). Move this layer under your mask layer in your layers palette.. I changed the name of this layer to background.

Open Bar 2 and place at the top center as a new layer., Drop shadow 5, 5, 100, 8, black. (This will be the drop shadow we will use for the rest of this tut unless specified.)

Open Christmas Tree 5, and resize 50%, place as a new layer in the center of your work canvas with a drop shadow.

Open Clock 2 resize 60% and place to the left of your tree also with a drop shadow.

Open Mr & Mrs Clause resize 75% and place to the right of the tree with a drop shadow.

Open snowman 1 and resize 30% and place in front of your lamp post, with a drop shadow.

Add your watermark, and any copyrights if you have used other tubes.

In your layers palette hide the background layer and the merged layer by clicking on the eye.

Click on your top layer. Merge Visable I named this new layer Tag layer.

Add your MAIN wording here (on my tag that would be the Happy Holidays. Convert to Raster layer, (by right clicking on the layer in the palette and converting) Add a drop shadow with the same settings as before but this time change the color to white. Name this layer Main Text.

Hide Main Text and Tag layer. Using your group (mask) layer as your center focal point add your "From our home to Yours" or what ever you would like seen first, convert to raster layer with the same white drop shadow. Change the name to Text 1. Hide this layer

Add what you would like your closing text to be (mine was Tooty Pup, the designers name) convert to raster, apply drop shadow and rename this text 2. Hide this layer.

You should now have a total of 5 layers. Resize 45% Open Animation shop

With the layers Background, and Text 1 as the ONLY visable layers, copy merged.

Paste into Animation Shop as a new animation

Back in PSP Hide text 2

Show layers Background, tag and main text. Copy Merged

Paste after current frame in Animation Shop

Back in PSP hide Main text and tag layers, and show text 2 layer. Copy merged

Paste after current frame in Animation shop.

Click on your first frame of the Animation, Right click on the blue bar around it.

Insert Image Transition, Fade, length 3.0 secs. If you notice up top you should be starting with your first frame and ending with your second.

Now I would like you to click on your last frame of your tag layer, mine is frame 14, right click on the blue bar, and insert image transition again, same settings.

This should leave you with 27 frames.

Run your animation and save your tag Ü

Questions Ü

I got this questionnaire from Carey

thank you so much Carey ♥ :-)

So here it is....

1. How long have you been using PSP, PS?

Using seriously about 4 years but I have been playing
around for about 7 years.

2. How did you get into making tags, scrapkits?

I began making tags out of just wanting specific things,
I did not know much back then about copyrights ect, then I joined a myspace group
that I adored and I learned from there, I was talked into learning the correct
way and making offers and I just have never stopped!
I have to do something to keep me from going nuts LOL

3. Who`s your fave artist?

Keith Garvey& Suzanne Woolcott
they are about the only ones I use.

4.Who`s your favorite Scrap Designer?

I do not have one favorite. I like kits
no matter who you are if I like the kit and I
believe I can do something with it then woo hoo
but the same people at times have kits I don't care for
it is all preference in what I want and the mood
I am in at the time

5. Which three blogs do you visit everyday?

All of my friends case closed LOL

Winter Magic

For thsi tutorial I used the Beautiful A Touch of Winter Magic Kit by Ali which can he purchased HERE
The Artwork of Keith Garvey which can be purchased HERE (Remember please that you need a licance to use his work)

To begin lets open paper 22 and then minamize it,

Open Christmas Window 1.

Using your selection tool cut out the inside of each pane of glass.

Copy and paste onto your paper layer. Resize as desired I tilted mine a bit Place a 3, 3, 100, 3 black drop shadow.

Open Icecicles 1 and place inside the largest frame with a drop shadow, but tis time change the blur to around 10

Open Tag 2 and place at the bottom outside of the frame, also with a drop shadow.

Open Bow Ribbon 2 and place over top left frame with a drop shadow.

Open your tube of choice, Place it over the large frame, slightly overlapping so as to appear to be popping out of the frame.

Back on your tube, copy the tube and paste as a new image on your workspace.

Sepia tone the picture 50% (effects> Photo Effects>Sepia toning)

Cut parts out of the picture and resize, place in the smaller frames as desired.

Open Ploar Bear 1 and mirror, place him in the bottom frame.

Open Word Art 1 and place at the bottom of the frame with a drop shadow.

Add name, and all copyrights!

Resize and save your tag :)

Thanks Ali for allowing me to join yor CT Team and I hope that you like the tag Ü

A Down Under Christmas

For this tutorial as well as the tag below it I used the Aussie Christmas Collab kit from Stina and Tooty Pup which can be purchased HERE
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Gradiant Glow found in my quick links.
The art of Keith Garvey which can be purchased HERE

Open Frame 1, resize 50% Rorate left.

Open a blank canvas 800x800

Place the frame on to the canvas as a new layer, off center to the left a bit, Duplicate, Mirror, Make sure they appear to look like an open desk frame, you may have to move them around a bit.

Using your selection tool on persepective, drag the bottom of each frame side down a bit so to give it a 3D appearance.

Merge Visable, Apply a drop shadow 5, 5, 100, black, 5

Open the background paper you would like for each side of the frame, place them under the frame and cut of whatever you do not need using the freehand selection tool.

For the left side of my frame I made the paper balck and white by Effects>Photo Effects>Black and White

Apply what eer elemebts you would like inside the frames, I used Christmas Gum 08, Candle 02, deco 7.

Apply all wording and convert to a raster layer.

Effects>Plugins>Eyecandy5>Gradiant Glow. I used the green glow with the settings below.


Apply all copyrights

Save tag!

The Reason

For this tutorial I used the Holiday Shimmer Kit from Vicki at Gemini Creationz which can be found HERE or HERE
Vix Mask 303 (in my Quick Links)
The Art of Suzanne Wolcott which can be found HERE

To begin pick your background paper and resize it to 60%

Open a blank canvas 800x800

Paste Your background paper in the center of this as a new layer.

Open Garland and resize 65%

Use this to frame your background layer

Open Swirl tree and place as a new layer, you may want to adjust the size or width of this. I made mine a tad more narrow, and moved it over to the right side.

Decorate the tree as you wish, I had to resize everything for that to about 20% and I applied drop shadows 2,2,100, 2, black to each element.

Open the Misteltoe and place at the top middle of your frame.

Add your tube as well as any wording and copyrights that you wish,

Save tag as a .png file so as your background is transparent. Ü

Wintersong 1

For this tutorial I used the beautiful Wintersong from Stina which you may purchase HERE
The Included mask... I have no idea where I got this as it has been years, I have left the file name so if you know please let me know so I can fix this issue.

First Open your background paper and then apply the mask. Merge Group. Drop Shadow 6, 6, 100, 6, Black.


Add Winter Scene to the middle 'window' resizing as needed.

Add mailbox off to the right side of the winter scene. Also resize as needed.

Add Postlight to the Right 'window frame'

Useing your selevtion took on PERSPECTIVE, stretch it out to make it look more 3D in the frame by pulling on the one side a touch from the bottom as shown.



Add Bow 11 after resizing to about 50% to the top corner of the middle frame.

Add anything else you would like

Merge Visible.

Using your selection tool on Scale now, resize the tag down so you have some free work area in your canvas.

Add all wording and copyrights

Save your Tag!

I know pretty simple but a lot of people do not know about the perspective tool and so I thought I would share this with you all.

Angels of Winter

For this tutorial I have used the Scrap kit Holiday Shimmer by Vicki from Gemini Crationz which you can purchase HERE
A beautiful Angel tube by Ronne Barton which can be purchased HERE
Animation Shop

First open your paper of choice for your background. I chose hs-11
Now you can play around and use what ever elements and such that you want to but I picked the swirl tree, santa, tag, lt purple poinsettia, lights, mistletoe, and ribbon 01 You can do this however you want, the only tutorial part of this is for the lights Ü

After you have your tag just the way you want it including all your copyrights, Resize 70%

I want you to hide your lights, and merge visable.

Unhide your tag, Copy Merged to Animation Shop as a new animation

Back in PSP hide tag so all you see is your lights.

Adjust>Brightness>-120 (that is negative 120)

Unhide your tag, Copy merged to Animation shop and paste after current frame.

CTRL + A

Animation>Frame Properties, 50

Run and Save