You will need my tube here or one of your own

Open a new transparent canvas 500x500

Copy and paste the tube onto the canvas as new layer.

Duplicate this layer 3 times so that you have 4 layers with the snowman on each.

Separate the images slightly so that you can see the effects you adding.

Click on the bottom of the snowman layers which is called raster 2.

Have the stroke box of the material palette black

Effects-artistic effects-hot wax coating-default setting

Click on the next layer up which should be Copy of raster 2

Effects-artistic effects-halftone on default setting.

Click on the next layer up in the layer palette which is Copy(2) of raster 2

Effects-Artistic effects-enamel-default setting

Leave the top layer as it is.

You can try other effects if you like or other settings to make different effects-it is amazing how many you can come up with if you experiment.

Arrange the different snowman layers slightly down from each other as I have. When you are happy with the arrangement -layers-merge visible

Duplicate this layer twice so you have 3 of the merged layer now-hide the top two and click on the bottom one.

Effects-texture effects-mosaic glass-default setting

Hide this layer and unhide the next layer up-click on the layer and image mirror.

Unhide all the layers and arrange as you wish-look at my tag if you want an idea

Add a new layer -bring this layer to the top-and flood fill it with a colour or gradient of your choice-this should not be too pale

Effects-illumination effects-sunburst-default setting.

Effects-image-effects-seamless tiling

Layers arrange-send to the bottom

Image-picture-frame-add one of the edge effect frames-I used the edge design 05 for mine

If you find it cuts off some of your snowmen move them in a bit

Image-add border-size 5 -colour of your choice.

Resize as you wish-I always resize a bit at a time-I resized to 85% then repeated that-then go to adjust -sharpness-sharpen

Add a new layer for your text-I found that a gold pattern for the stroke worked well. The font I used is called Christmas

That's the tutorial finished.

I hope that you enjoyed doing it

written by chrissie 2005