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This tutorial was written by me on Dec 3, 2012.

Any similarity to any other is just coincidence.

Used pspx2 but any version should work.

Artist: Ismael Rac

Scrapkit: There's Snow Friend Like You by Scraps By Danielle

Mask: 2 masks of choice

Plugins: xero - porcelain

Font: Any of your choice

File - new - 700x700 flood fill with white, rename background

Open snowflake frame, c/p as new layer

Open paper2, c/p as new layer, move under the frame

Open your tube, c/p as new layer, place face inside frame

with your selection tool, draw a rectangle around your frame

On tube layer, invert, delete, invert

On your paper layer, invert, delete, deselect

Back on tube apply xero - porcelain, default setting, sharpen

Close background layer, merge visible, open background layer

Move your frame up almost to the edge at the top

Open stockings and lights, resize by 85%, sharpen, c/p as new layer

Move all the way to the bottom of your frame

Open snowman with snowballs 2, resize by 50%, sharpen, c/p as new layer

Place to the right of the frame

Open snowman, resize by 50%, sharpen, c/p as new layer

Mirror, place to the left of the frame

Open snow flake candy, resize by 50% 2x sharpen, c/p as new layer

Place where you want then duplicate it and place second one where you want

You may want to resize it some more, I did with my deform tool

Open the wordart, resize by 75%, c/p as new layer, place at the top of the frame

You might want to move the frame down some, with deform tool resize this

Make sure u make it smaller by using the bottom and middle node

Go to your background layer, new layer, flood fill w gradient using 2 colors from your tag

Apply your mask, merge group, do the same for the second mask

delete bckground layer and merge visible

Add your credits and name

Thanks for trying my tutorial :)