Holiday Card {Animated}

“Holiday Card”

What you need:

Tube of choice, I used artwork by Suzanne Woolcott or you can use a family photo

Scrapkit, Joyful Times here

Fonts of choice, I used HarabaraHand & Courier New

Mask of choice

Supplies, winter graphic & animated snow here

Graphic Program of choice, I use PSPX2

Animation Shop

Let’s Begin!

1. Open a new transparent image

Open all of your supplies

2. C/P the frame of choice

Add drop shadow

Create a new raster layer behind the frame layer

Using your selection tool, rectangle, trace along the open area of the frame

C/P the winter graphic into the selection

Do not merge layers

Create a new raster layer above the graphic layer

2. C/P the candy canes from the kit

Re-Size as needed

Add drop shadow

C/P the pine tree branch as a new layer

Add drop shadow

Place behind the candy layer

C/P the ornament frame from the kit

Add drop shadow

C/P a bow of choice

Add drop shadow and place above the ornament as shown above

Create a new raster behind the ornament frame

Using your lasso tool trace along the open area of the frame

C/P a paper of choice if you plan to use a tube or C/P a photo of choice

Add any wording, names, and copyright info if needed

*We will now begin to create the animated frames*

3. Open animation shop

Open the animated snow

Copy the first frame of the snow

Paste it as a new image inside PSP

Now select your selection tool, rectangle, and trace along the open area of the large frame

Select the raster layer above the winter graphic

Select your flood fill tool and flood fill the first snow pattern into selection

De Select everything

Save as frame 1

Go back to PSP and hit the undo button until just the selection is surround by the “dancing ants”

Go back to animation shop and select the second frame of the snow

Go to PSP and paste as a new image

Repeat this step a total of 10 times, so you have 10 frames for your tag.

Once completed, go to animation shop and open your animation wizard

Select the speed as 10 and press play

If you are happy with the speed, save and you are done!

This tutorial was written on Nov. 16th, 2009 by Pimp’d Tagz Exclusively for Digital Scrap World