Christmas Stocking!

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - a leggy tube wearing stockings is best for this tut

I am using the gorgeous artwork of Barbara Jensen

Scrapkit - Silver Bells from Pink Paradox Productions

Mask #153 HERE

Font of choice

Supplies HERE

Animation Shop

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 10th November 2018 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper 18

apply mask

merge group

c/p paper 39

resize 50

c/p frame 6

resize 50

move paper layer up a little so you can see some

of the snow on the ground

on frame layer, magic wand, mode add, tolerance & feather 0

click inside the frame, expand by 3, invert

on paper layer, delete

deselect

hide frame layer

copy merged

open Animation shop

paste as new animation

duplicate frame until you have 30 frames

open snow animation

edit - select all

edit - copy

back to your canvas

edit - select all

edit - paste into selected frame

position so the snow is in the circle

and click once

Now it may get complicated so concentrate and stay with me here

on the snow animation

click on the first frame

hold down shift and click on the 10th frame

edit - cut

now click on the last frame (20)

edit - paste after current frame

edit - select all

edit - copy

back to your canvas

edit - paste into selected frame

position in the circle but slightly more to the left

click once

back to the snow animation

repeat above steps

until you paste onto your canvas, this time move it 

slightly to the right

click once

Now leave this canvas here, while we go back and finish our tag in psp

You can close the snow animation now, without saving

Now back to psp

unhide frame

c/p element 66 under frame, resize 15

image effects - offset - h 81, v-108, custom & transparent checked

duplicate and move across to the left side so the 

right hand edges match up to make a whole fence

merge down

c/p tube as new layer above frame

resize 70

image effects - offset - h-120, v0

selection tool - circle, feather 30

draw out a circle from the little fingernail

on the right hand out to the outer edge of the frame

invert

hit delete on tube layer 2 or 3 times

deselect

c/p element 57, resize 40, position at bottom of tube 

c/p element 52, resize 40, position to the right of the bucket

c/p element 63, resize 60, position on left, drag under the bucket layer

c/p elements 86, 87 & 99, resize 20,

position to your liking across the top to hide

any harsh straight edges of the tube still showing

c/p word art

make sure all your elements have a dropshadow and 

are positioned to your liking

add your name, copyright and license information

now hide the white background, mask & paper layer

copy merged

now back to AS

paste as new animation

duplicate until you have 30 frames

edit - select all

edit - copy

on your canvas that we left here earlier

edit - select all

edit - paste into selected frame

line it up so the inner edge of the frame

is lined up with the edge of the circle

click once

save as gif