Buon anno!

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\documentclass

{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{poisson}% http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/185419/13304
\usepackage{charter}

\usetikzlibrary{backgrounds,
fadings,
shapes.symbols,
}

\pgfdeclarelayer{stars}
\pgfsetlayers{background,stars,main}

\tikzset{snow/.style={
starburst, random starburst=#1,
inner sep=2.75pt,scale=0.15,
inner color=Snow1, outer color= Snow3,
},%
lights/.style={
starburst, random starburst=#1,
inner sep=2.75pt,scale=0.15,
inner color=yellow, outer color= orange!80!yellow,
},%
}%

\newcommand\fadingtext[3][]{%
\begin{tikzfadingfrompicture}[name=fading letter]%
\node[text=transparent!0,inner xsep=0pt,outer xsep=0pt,#1] {#3};%
\end{tikzfadingfrompicture}%
\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=(textnode.base)]%
\node[inner sep=0pt,outer sep=0pt,#1](textnode){\phantom{#3}};%
\shade[path fading=fading letter,#2,fit fading=false]%
(textnode.south west) rectangle (textnode.north east);%
\end{tikzpicture}%
}%

\begin{document}%
\edef\mylist{\poissonpointslist{12}{4}{0.45}{50}}%
\edef\myotherlist{\poissonpointslist{12}{4}{0.55}{20}}%
\begin{tikzpicture}[inner sep=0pt]
\begin{pgfonlayer}{background}
\path[bottom color=blue!70!black,top color=blue!70!black!80] (0,0)rectangle(12,4);
\end{pgfonlayer}

\node[minimum width=12cm,minimum height=4cm,anchor=south west](txt) at (0,0){\fontsize{50}{42}\selectfont Happy 2015!};
\node[yshift=1.5pt] at (txt.center){\fadingtext{top color=red!65,bottom color=red!80!black}{\fontsize{49.2}{42}\selectfont Happy 2015!}};

\begin{pgfonlayer}{stars}
\foreach \xpos/\ypos in \mylist {
\node[snow] at (\xpos,\ypos) {};
}
\foreach \xpos/\ypos in \myotherlist {
\node[lights] at (\xpos,\ypos) {};
}
\end{pgfonlayer}
\end{tikzpicture}%
\end{document}
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