Christmas - No Scrap tag

Plug ins used - Mura meister, Funhouse, VM Natural

Word art of choice

If you want to animate, I used an animation from Simone - HERE 

Tube - Exclusive to Magical Moments - HERE

Instruction for animating are below this tut

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600x300

Make a gradient with 2 colors from tube

Radial/Angle 90/repeats 1

Flood fill with gradient

Duplicate

Top layer - Adjust/blur/motion/angle 45/strength 100

Effects/reflection/rotating mirror Horizontal 10/angle 225/edge mode/wrap

Layer opacity at 40

VM Natural/sparkle/top #17

Bottom layer - Funhouse/xaggerate/24/87

Adjust/sharpen/sharpen more

VM Natural/sparkle/top #17

Grab you rectangle shape tool using you gradient....draw 3 thin rectangles and add a glass effect

Position your word art

New raster layer and flood fill with a dark color from tube

Add noise of choice

Selections all/modify/contract by 6/delete/select none

Add a glass effect 

Position your tube

Crop tag/add proper copyright/save

IF YOU ARE GOING TO ADD THE SNOW

Crop tag/add proper copyright

We will add tube to finished tag

Open your AS

Open your snow of choice (I used 167-mng)

Edit/select all

Back in PSP - copy merged

Paste as new animation

Hold down CTRL and hit L for a total of 30 frames

CTRL and A to select all

Grab your first frame of snow and drag on to your first frame of image/release

View animation....if happy grab your tube and paste in AS

Hold down CTRL and hit L for a total of 30 frames

CTRL and A to select all

Grab your tube and position

Save