·I'll be home·

This tutorial was written for those that have a working knowledge of PSP. Supplies Needed: PSP X (any version will work) Tube(s) of choice I used artwork by Suzanne Woolcott. To use this artwork please visit HERE Kit or supplies of choice, I used Home for the Holidays by me Animated falling snow which you can get here http://groups.msn.com/PSPgepruts/glittersbubbels.msnw Font of choice The scrapkit I used was called Home for the Holidays by me. It can be found HERE or HERE Ok let's get started... Open up a transparent canvas 600x600 Open your supplies and minimize them in your psp. Pick a paper or color of your choice and place this in your foreground color and make your background color null. Open up your book and place this in the middle of your canvas. On one side of the book using your elipse preset shape draw out a large oval in the middle of the paper. Go to layers convert to raster layer. Using your magic wand tool click inside of the circle and go to selections modify expand by 2 then go to selections invert go back to your book layer and hit delete on your keyboard. You should now have a empty space in the book. Now keeping your marching ants selected go to layers new raster layer and flood fill your circle with a black or dark grey. Open up your snowbank and place this above the filled layer but below the frame. go to selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard to get rid of any excess snow. Place your house or other decorations that you would like above the snow layer. After you have done this x out your book layer and go to layers merge visible So now your scenery is on its own layer. Go ahead and copy and paste this into animation shop as a new animation and duplicate this to make a total of 10 frames. Go back to psp and decorate the outside of your book with whatever you desire. Adding a drop shadow to each layer. Place your tubes where you desire on your tag. Write out any saying that you like on the opposite side of the book. Place your name and your copyright on your tag. Now make sure that your scenery is gone and go to layers merge visible. Copy and paste this into animation shop as a new animation. Now open up your snow animation and resize this to fit the needs of your scenery. Go to edit select all and copy and paste this into the scenery that you created. Open up a new white canvas at a size that your book will fit on. Make a total of 10 frames and go to edit select all. Place your Animated Scenery on the side where the hole of the book will be and then place the book over the top of the scenery. Your book is now animated save your tag as a gif and your done.

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