Open a new canvas 700x700 and flood fill with white.

Open your tube, duplicate and close original. Paste as a new layer on your canvas.

Open up a frame you would like to use and resize if necessary and paste as a new layer on your canvas.

Open up a paper you would like to use and paste as a new layer. Resize if necessary. Sometimes the pattern on the paper is too large to see at 100% and you need to resize to fit behind the frame so that you can see the actual pattern. Make sure the paper layer is BELOW the frame layer in the layer palette.

In the layer palette highlight the frame layer and select your magic wand tool with these settings and click inside the frame shape:

Selections/modify/expand by 3 and then selections/invert and in the layer palette make sure the paper layer is highlighted and hit delete once. It should delete any of the paper that was beyondthe frame.

Selections/select none.

Make sure the tube layer is below the frame layer in the layer palette. Position the tube to where you like it. Duplicate the frame layer and drag it so that one is above the tube layer and one is below the tube layer.

If there is part of the tube layer going beyond the frame on the bottom, select your eraser tool and erase anything that hangs over.

Make sure the top frame layer is selected and then grab your eraser tool. Erase the parts of the frame that are over her head. It will make it look like her body is inside the frame and her head is outside of the frame like in my example tag.

Add a drop shadow to the tube layer and the frame layer but make sure it’s the BOTTOM frame layer that you add the drop shadow to otherwise it will look funky on the top one because you erased part of the frame. =)

Open up a flower element or the daisy element in the kit I used and paste as a new layer. Duplicate the daisy/flower and then resize and move them around the tag where you like them. Do the same thing with a button or brad element.

X out everything except your flower layers and merge/merge visible. UN-X the layers. Add a drop shadow to the flowers making sure to check the box “shadow on new layer”.

Open up a ribbon or fiber element and resize if needed and paste as a new layer. Position it and add a drop shadow. I positioned mine to look like one of the flowers was holding it on one side and a button on the other. You can do something similar by opening up another button or brad and pasting as a new layer. Add drop shadow to the button when done.

Now if you don’t want to use a pattern for your font you can skip this next step. To use a paper as a pattern, continue.

Open up a paper you like to use as a pattern on your font fill. In this tutorial using this kit I used pp1.jpg. Minimize this paper but don’t close it.

Select your font tool and find a font you like with these settings:

Then click on the fill square to the right like in this picture:

Now when you click on the pattern button you will see a bunch of images there like this:

Find the paper pattern you have minimized and click it. I changed my scale to 16. Set this to whatever you like.

I used black for my stroke layer. You can use whatever color you prefer.

Once you type out the name you will see a little plus sign in the layer palette next to the text like this:

Click the plus sign and you will see this:

Duplicate this layer and then double click on the text “sarah” or whatever name you have typed there.

It will open up your font window like this:

Just click on the null sign for the stroke in your materials palette and hit apply:

Now double click the text for the SECOND name layer and then when the font window pops up click on the null for the fill layer and hit apply.

Right click on both the text vector layers and convert to raster layer.

Duplicate the black text layer twice for a total of three layers. Add a drop shadow to the bottom black layer making sure to check the box for “shadow on a new layer”.

The 1st black text layer go to Alien Skin Constellation with these settings:

Repeat for the second and third black text layers hitting the random button ONCE on each subsequent layer.

Resize tag if needed .

Add your copyright information to the tag ONLY after resized. Otherwise the text will not be readable. I used pixelette, size 8, anti-alias OFF.

Select your magic wand tool with same settings as before except change the tolerance to about 25.

Duplicate your flower/daisy layers twice for a total of three layers.

Take the magic wand and select inside the yellow of each daisy.

On the first layer go to effects/dsb flux/bright noise. I used the setting of 54 and mix.

Go to the second daisy layer repeating the dsb flux filter and clicking on the text “mix” twice.

Repeat for the third layer but this time click on the text “mix” three times.

In the layer palette you can X out the font layers. Make sure to X out the pattern text layer AND the black layers and also don’t forget the shadow layer. X out the daisy layers and their shadow layer also.

Merge/merge visible.

Now we need to animate !

UN-X all layers and then go and X out the 2nd and 3rd layers of the daisy and black text layers. We only want the top daisy layer and the top black text layer plus their shadow layers UN-checked.

Edit/copy merged.

Open Animation Shop and paste as a new animation.

Go back to PSP and X out the top daisy and black text layers and UN-X the second daisy and black text layer.

Edit/copy merged.

Go to animation shop and click on the first frame you pasted, right-click, paste AFTER current frame.

Go back to PSP and repeat for the third layers and then pasting into Animation shop.

Animate. If everything looks good save as a GIF file.

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