In this tutorial I used the tube “Winter Evening” from

Alex Prihodko.

This is a really beautiful tube and can be purchased at

Verymany’s store.

The kit is “Peace on Earth”.

I love the soft colours in this beautiful kit which matches the tube so well!

You can purchase it at

Deedles n Doodles store.

For the animation you will need Animation Shop and my

Small Snowanimation.

Font of choice.

I used a drop shadow of vertical 0, horizontal 5, opacity 65, blur 10.

Open a new transparent canvas 650 by 750 pixels and fill with white.

Paste spray 9, resize 75%, duplicate and merge the copy down onto the orginal.

Paste spray  8 and resize 95%.

Paste spray 7.

Move these three sprays into place.

Paste element 92, resize 40%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Pastes the tube, resize 30%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 10, resize 50%, position behind the tube and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 57, resize 15%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 81, resize 50% and mirror, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 8, resize 25%, duplicate, place in position and apply the drop shadow to each.

Paste element 69, resize 35%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 22, resize 25%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste frames from papers 4, resize 35% and rotate 20 degrees to the left and place in position. 

Paste element 64 behind the frame, resize 75% and position in the frame, select the interior of the frame with your magic wand, expand the selection by 5, invert the selection,  hit delete on the element, deselect and apply the drop shadow to the frame. 

Paste element 59b, resize 15%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 95, resize 25%, duplicate, mirror one copy, place in position and apply the drop shadow to each.

Paste element 16c, resize 25%, duplicate, rotate the original copy 20 degrees to the left, place in position and apply the drop shadow to each.

Paste element 16, resize 20%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 6, resize 18%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 71, resize 18%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 21, resize 40%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 54, resize 15%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 18, resize 25%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 23, resize 25%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 79, resize 18%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 30, resize 12%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 77, resize 25%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 62 on the top, resize 17%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 60, resize 13%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 39b, resize 25% and mirror, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 7, resize 23%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Paste element 73, resize 17%, place in position and apply the drop shadow.

Crop your tag now and add your copyright information and text.

ANIMATION

Start at top, close off all your layers down to and including the frame and then merge visible, close off the merged layer, open the top closed ones and again merge visible. 

Open the snow animation in Animation shop, select all the frames and go to Animation - Rotate and rotate it 20 degrees to the left.  Copy the bottom merged layer and paste it in Animation Shop “as a new animation”. You will see it has 10 frames so you need to duplicate your merged layer until that also has 10 frames.  Select all the snow frames and copy them, then select all the merged layer frames, right click on the first one, go to “Paste into selected frame” and paste them over the copy of the paper that was below the frame.  Back in Paintshop, copy your top merged layer, again paste it in Animation Shop as before, duplicate it until you have 10 copies, select them all and copy them and paste them on your animation.  When you are done, run your tag through the Optimisation Wizard and save as a gif.