This tutorial was written by me on August 7, 2020. The results are of my own imagination.  Any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.  

Please DO NOT claim this tutorial as your own.

This was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.

Please keep in mind that I write the tutorial as I am creating it.

Sometimes I may not explain properly where to place things so please see my example if you are ever in doubt :)

Supplies needed

I am using PSP 2018 but this tutorial should work with any version.

Animation shop (optional)

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous exclusive kit called "Brenda" created by Hania's Design.  You can purchase the kit at Elegance Fly here. 

PTU Tube:  I am using Jenny's beautiful tube "Brenda".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license.  You can purchase this beautiful tube at Elegance Fly here.

I am using the extended license tube.

PTU Animation:  I am using Kiya Designs awesome animation from pack 13.  You can purchase her animation here.

Mask: I am using the mask included with the kit.

Please read all the Artist's/Designer's TOU.

Font of choice for your name.

Plug in: None

Drop shadow of choice.

Vivienne's Paintbox has awesome drop shadow settings that I use a lot.  You can find the settings here and check out her awesome tutorials :)

Anytime you resize an element or tube you should sharpen it.  Go to adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

Let's get started.

Remember to save your tag often in case psp crashes.  I always save my tags as a pspimage.  It keeps all the layers and if you make tags for others you will always have the template.

Open a new 750x800 transparent image. 

Add a new layer and flood fill with white.

Open element 84, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 60% and move to the upper right.

Open element 90, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 60% and move to the bottom left.  Select all, float, defloat.  Add a new raster layer.  Open paper of choice, I am using paper 5, copy and close the original.  Standing on the new raster layer, go to edit, paste into selections.  Select none and delete the original mask layer.

Open element 78, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 35%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top right of the lower mask.

Open element 24, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top right of the upper mask.

Open element 36, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top right of the hill.

Open element 92, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Drop shadow and move up to the left slightly.

Open element 34, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 50%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the sand of the top hill and slightly to the left.

Open element 1, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top of center of the top mask.

Open element 86, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top right of the upper mask.

Open element 29, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 25%, sharpen, duplicate and merge down.  Repeat the duplicate and merge down then drop shadow.  Move to the lower right of the mirror.

Open element 21, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the right of the mirror.

Open element 30, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top left of the lower hill.

Open element 37, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move over the lower hill.

Open element 61, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the lower hill.

Open element 63, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the lower hill.

Open element 80, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the cauldron.

Open element 96, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 60%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the grass.

Open element 22, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right of the mask.

Open element 27, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 400%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move over the books.

Open element 60, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right of the books.

Open element 54, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 20%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the snake.

Copy your tube.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 20%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move down slightly.

Open element 73, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right of the tube.

Open element 82, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the tube.

Open element 2, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 35%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the leaves.

Open element 6, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right of the fence.

Open Wordart 3, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right of the tube.

Add any other elements you like and make any adjustments to the layers.

Crop away any extra space.  Resize 650 on the longest side, all layers checked.

Add your copyright and name.

Animating the tag.  Make sure your tag is saved as a psp image file as you do not want to loose it if psp crashes.

Might want to grab a coffee :)

If you do not want to animate, hide the white background layer and export as png.

Open Kiya's animated 37 in animation shop.  

Go to animation, resize by 40%.

Back to psp.

We need to prepare our tag to take into animation shop.

Starting from the bottom, hold down your ctrl key and click all the layers up to and including the web layer.  Layer, new layer group.

ok we are now ready to start to animate.  

Select group 1 and go to edit, copy.

Back to animation shop.

Edit, paste as new animation or Ctrl + V.

There are 24 frames in Kiya's animation so we will need 24 frames for our tag.

Holding down the Shift + Ctrl tap the L on your keyboard 23 times.  We now have 24 frames.  It will show you how many frames you have in the bottom right corner of AS.

Go to edit, select all.

Back to Kiya's animation, select all, edit, copy.

Back to the base tag.  

Go to edit, paste into selected frames.  

The animation will be handing off your mouse pointer but it will be hard to see.  I clicked on the first brand on the left of the tree.  See my screen shot below.

View your animation by going to view, animation.  Mine is just over the web.   If you are happy with placement continue to the next step.  If you do not like the animation placement, hit ctrl + Z on your keyboard to undo the last step then ctrl + E to paste into selected frames.

You can close Kiya's animation as we no long need it.  Do not save changes.

Back to psp.

Select the group 1 layer and click on the eyeball to hide the group.  Now we will only have the top of the tag visible.  Go to Edit, copy special, copy merged.

Back to animation shop.

Edit, paste as new animation or Ctrl + V.

Holding down the Shift + Ctrl tap the L on your keyboard 23 times.  We now have 24 frames.  It will show you how many frames you have in the bottom right corner of AS.

Go to edit, select all, edit, copy.

Back to the base tag.  

Go to edit, paste into selected frames.

I lined the pumpkin up with the right side of the mirror.

View your animation by going to view, animation.  Mine is just over the web.   If you are happy with placement continue to the next step.  If you do not like the animation placement, hit ctrl + Z on your keyboard to undo the last step then ctrl + E to paste into selected frames.

Go to file Save as, gif and click next and next until you hit finished.  I use the default settings.

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.  I would love to see your results.