What you will need for this tutorial.

Paint Shop Pro - mine is done in PSP X2, but I think this should be achievable with any version.

Animation Shop

Tube of choice. I am using a tube by Carlos Cartagena which was in their 2009 Christmas gift to their customers. Carlos's work is licensed through MPT and you may only use his work if you have a license and buy your tubes from them.

Becky's Mask 28 or mask of choice.

Christmas Accents and paper of choice.

Filter - VDL Adrenaline Snowflakes

Let's get started

Open a new image 600 x 600 pixels at 72 dpi and flood fill with white.

Add a new raster layer and flood fill with a colour to match your tube

Apply your mask to this layer.

Now go to Effects, Texture Effects, Straw Wall and apply to the mask layer with the following settings:-

This will give your masked layer some depth to it's look:-

Now take your preset shape tool set to rectangle with line width 12:-

Set your foreground to white, background null, and draw out a medium size rectangle. Convert to a raster layer and then rotate the rectangle 20 left .

Selections, select all, float then defloat then find Effects , Artistic Effects , Coloured Foil and use the following settings:-

Make the colour the same as the colour you used for your mask.

Select none.

Using your magic wand, click inside the rectangle, then expand your selection by 3.

Copy and paste your paper as a new layer below the frame layer, invert the selection and hit delete to remove any excess .

Selections none.

Now copy and paste your tube as a new layer and duplicate. Make sure you have one layer above the frame, and one below.

Click into the frame again and expand by three as before, invert the selection, then with the tube layer below the frame active, hit delete.

Selections none.

Add a drop shadow of choice to the bottom tube layer.

Now make the top tube layer active, and use your eraser tool to remove the areas of tube you don't want overhanging the frame.

Also add a drop shadow of -2,2,60,4, black to the frame.

Your tag should now look something like this :_

Add any accents you want to the tag.

Add your name in a nice script font.

Resize to your liking. I resized mine 85%.

Now add the copyright, license number and your taggers mark if used.

If you are not going to animate, you can now save your tag as either a jpeg or png as required.

Otherwise, duplicate the paper layer under the frame twice, to give a total of three layers. Hide the top two for the moment.

On the original layer, selections, select all , float then defloat.

Go to VDL Adrenaline , snowflakes and set as follows:-

Repeat this on the other layers, changing the Random Seed on each layer.

Selections none.

Now making sure you have the bottom paper layer active,and the others hidden, right click into your image and copy merged.

Take this to Animation Shop and Paste as a New Animation.

Back in PSP, hide the bottom paper layer, and open the middle one. repeat your copy merged, and when you take this to Animation Shop,right click into the first frame and choose Paste After Current Frame:-

Repeat with the top paper layer, and clicking into Frame 2 in AS.

Change the frame properties to 15 then save your tag as a gif.

This Tutorial was written in November 2009.
And the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
Please feel free to LINK to the tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use,
but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or re-write without permission.
The image you create using this tutorial is for you to do what you wish except for monetary gains or for merchandising.
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