In this tutorial I used a current bonus tube “Crusin for a Brusin” from

Barbara Jensen.

You can purchase Barbara’s tubes from

her store.

The kit is “Forest Fairy” from

Pink Paradox Productions.

Another fabulous kit from Carrie that can also be purchased at

Barbara’s store.

You will need the png mask 348 from

Mizteeque’s Digital Designs.

I used animation 25 from pack 7 from

Kiya’s Designs

also available at

Barbara’s store.

Font of choice.

I used a drop shadow of vertical 0, horizontal 5, opacity 55, blur 10.

Open  a new transparent canvas 750 by 750 pixels and fill with white.

Paste the mask, select all, float and defloat, paste paper 29 into the selection, deselect, delete the original black mask layer and resize the paper one 110%.

Paste element 125, resize 30% and move into place.

Paste element 104, resize 50%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 56, resize 25% and mirror, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 66, resize 35%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 5, resize 10%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 65, resize 35%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 96, resize 20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 117, resize 45%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 53, resize 30%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 120, resize 20% and mirror, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 121, resize 20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 83, resize 8%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 81, resize 8%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 108, resize 8%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 43, resize 20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 39, resize 10%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste the tube, resize 40%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 17, resize 15%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 25, resize 20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 22, resize 8%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 26, resize 15%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 31, resize 8%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 64, resize 20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 69, resize 30%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 63, resize 35% and mirror, position below element 69 and apply the shadow.

Paste element 19, resize 25%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 82, resize 10%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 33, resize 12%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 20 on the top, resize 25%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 90, resize 15%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 21, resize 15%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 23, resize 8%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 121 again, resize 15%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 109, resize 8%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 80, resize 5%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 84, resize 3%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 18, resize 15% and mirror, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 3, resize 15%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 134, resize 30% and move into place.

Check your layers and add your copyright information and text.

ANIMATION:

Starting at the top, close off all your layers down to but not including the pond and merge visible, close off the merged layer, open the previously closed ones and again merge visible.

Open the animation in Animation Shop and note that it has 31 frames then go to Animation - Resize Animation and resize it 25%.  Copy the bottom merged layer of your tag and paste it in Animation Shop then duplicate it so you  have 31 frames the same as the animation.   Select all the animation frames and copy them, select all the tag frames, right click and paste the animation onto the tag.  Now copy the top merged tag layer and paste it in Animation Shop, duplicate it 31 times, copy all the frames and paste on top of your base tag and animation frames as before.  

Run your tag through the optimization wizard and save as gif.