You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
VDL Adrenaline - Snowflake here
Image of choice.  I'm using Thierry Beaudenon.  You can visit this talented artist here
Font of choice, I'm using Almonte Snow here
 

Lets get started.  Open your graphic image in PSP, shift+D to duplicate, and close the original.  Add a white border of 10, and convert to raster layer.  Resize your image by about 75, depending on the size of your original graphic, and then resize your canvas to 500 x 500.

Now go to Effect/Geometric Effect/Perspective - Horizontal and add the following settings.

Using your deforming/pick tool, drag the left side in until the image is back to the size it should be.  You should have something like this.

Now using the background as white, and foreground to null, click on your rectangle preset tool, set to vector, and draw out a rectangle the same height as the highest part of your card.  Convert to raster.

Add the same perspective effect as you added to the image.  Move below the front of the card, and adjust the size to your liking using your deforming/pick tool.  You should now have something like this.

Add a drop shadow of H=0, V=14, Opacity 55, and blur 15 to the top layer.  Merge visible, and then add another drop shadow of H + V = 0, Opacity 75, and blur 5.

Add a new layer, flood fill with white, and drag it below the card layer.   Position your card in the centre of the canvas.

Add your copyright, and text.  I'm using Almonte Snow for my text, with the shaded colour of the snow on my image for the background, and foreground set to null.  Convert to raster, and using  your magic wand, select inside all the blank areas, selected/modify/expand by 1.  Add a new layer, and flood fill with white.  Move below your name, and merge these two layers together.  Add the following inner bevel.

Rotate your text 90 degrees to the left, and position at the seam of your card.  Add the same drop shadow we last used for the card twice.  You can save as a jpeg now, or you can go on to add a snow effect.

With your card layer active, take your lasso selection tool, and select the image on your card.  Doesn't matter if you go into the white border, as long as you get all of the image.

Add a new layer, and go to VDL Adrenaline/Snowflake, and add the following settings.

Add another two layers, adding snowflake to both, moving the Random seed up to the middle, then towards the end.  Select none.

Hide the top two layers of snowflake, copy merged, and paste over in to Animation shop as a new animation.  Go back into PSP, hide the snowflake layer, and unhide the next one up.  Copy merged, and paste in animation after the current frame.  Repeat with the final snowflake layer.

Animated and save as a gif file.

You are done.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 18th November 2006 by Faerie Queen.