I’m using the beautiful art of Joel Adams.

You can purchase his art at CILM.

This tutorial was entirely created by me,

any resemblances to any other tutorials are purely coincidental. 

This tutorial was created on 29th November 2008

Supplies needed:

I use Paintshop Pro 9,

other versions can be used too.

Lokas Software – 3D shadow HERE

FTU scrap kit Winter Wishes from Clairey’s Desingz HERE

Font: Scrap Cursive HERE

(PTU but cheap)

Open Snowflake frame

Shift + D

Close the original frame

You can resize later if you want to

Click inside the frame

Selections > Modify > Expand > 5

Add a paper underneath the frame

Selections > Invert

Delete

Add Snow_overlay

Layers palette > duplicate x2

so you have three snow layers

Move the three layers so it will snow when you animate the tag

Go to snow layer 1 > delete

Repeat with snow layer 2 and 3

Deselect (CTRL + d)

Drop shadow on frame

H and V: 1

Opacity: 70

Blur: 5

Add embellishments

H and V: 1

Opacity: 75

Blur: 5

Add a tube

Lokas 3D shadow

Add your copyright

Add your name

Drop shadow as above

Save as .png (if not animated)