SUPPLIES NEEDED

PSP X2 (Any version will work)

TUBE OF CHOICE

I use artwork by Keith Garvey you can get it HERE

Tamie's Xmas Template 9 and you can get it HERE

I purchased this very beautiful scrapkit called A Touch of Winter Magic by Designs by Ali and you can get it HERE

Rainbow Coffi's White Forest, her tubes were obtained from PSP Playground website which is currently closed.

Supplies includes Rainbow Coffi's White Forest and large diamond HERE

Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow

Muras Meister - Copies

Xero - Radiance

Romance Fatal Serif font

Open the template

Delete the credits

On the rectangle layer, grab your magic wand tool and click inside the rectangle, add a new layer and on the material properties foreground to #f6a9c0 and background to #ffffff and change it to gradient with the settings on Angle - 0 and Repeats - 1 then flood fill it. Keep it selected, open the white forest tube and copy & paste as a new layer, move it to the right and go to Selections - Invert and hit delete. Keep it selected, keep pasting the white forest till it's all filled and select none. Colorize it with Hue and Saturation settings on Hue - 242 and Saturation - 207.

Copy and paste the bow as a new layer, resize it to your liking and place it on top of the trees. Copy and paste the bauble as a new layer, resize it to your liking and place it on the trees. I colorized mine with the same Hue and Saturation settings. I resized mine at 20-30% smartsize.

Open the swirly snow1 from Ali's A Touch of Winter Magic kit, copy & paste as a new layer and resize it at 85% bicubic size and place it. Back on the rectangle layer, grab the magic tool wand and click inside the rectangle, go to Selections - Invert and back on the swirly snow and hit delete then select none.

Hide the text layer for now, we will get to it shortly. Delete the dotted lines layer.

On the strip layer, grab the magic wand tool and select inside the rectangle. Add a new layer and flood fill it with #f6a9c0.

On the circle layer, Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat and add a new layer then flood fill it with the same gradient as we did earlier. Keep it selected, open the close up tube and copy & paste as a new layer, Selections - Invert and hit delete. Select none, go to Effects - Xero - Radiance and apply by default. Lower the opacity to 75% or to your liking.

Open the Frame1 from the kit, copy & paste as a new layer, resize it at 55% smartsize and colorize it with the same Hue and Saturation settings. Open the Star Sparkles 1 from the kit, copy and paste as a new layer and resize it at 50% smartsize. Apply same dropshadow to the glittercircle and glitterstrip layers.

Delete the dotted circle layer. Colorize the smallglitter circle to your liking. On mine, I added a new layer, flood fill it with the same colour and apply add noise - 35, uniform & monochrome checked, used the freehand tool and draw around the white one then back on the pink circle and hit delete.

on the small circle layer, Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat and add a new layer, flood fill it with #f6a9c0. Select none, grab the selection tool and draw around the white half and hit delete. On the original small circle layer, go to Effects - Texture Effects - Weave and use the settings on Gap size 1, Width 6, Opacity 1, Weave Color and Gap Color on #f6a9c0 and Fill gaps checked.

On the wordart layer, apply same noise and dropshadow. On the wordart2, add a new layer and flood fill it with #f6a9c0 then back on the wordart layer, Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat - Invert and back on the fill layer and hit delete. Apply same noise as before.

Delete text2 layer, unhide the text layer and add a new layer then flood fill it with #b05670. Back on the text layer, Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat - Invert and back on the fill layer and hit delete. Select none, hide the pink text but still on that layer, grab the selections tool and draw around the blue texts then open the pink text and hit delete. Hide the pink text again, grab the selections tool again and draw around the white texts then back on the pink text and hit delete. Merge visible these layers together then move it onto the small circle layer, on the small circle layer Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat - Invert and back on the text layer hit delete and grab the selections tool, delete the rest of the text but don't delete the middle one like shown on my tag.

Open the bow 1, copy & paste as a new layer resize it at 25% smartsize and colorize it with the same Hue and Saturation settings. Apply same dropshadow as before and open the large diamond, copy & paste as a new layer and apply same dropshadow.

Open the tube, copy and paste as a new layer and apply dropshadow with the settings on V & H both on 1, Opacity 40 and Blur 10.89. Grab your text tool, I used Romance Fatal Serif font and apply noise, gradient glow and dropshadow.

Wooohooo you're done!!

Hope you enjoy my tutorial

Hugs Salsa