This tutorial was written by me on August 22, 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 kit called "Secret Garden" created by Hania's Design.  You can purchase the kit at Elegance Fly here. 

PTU Tube:  I am using Attila's beautiful tube Mia.  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. I am using the extented license tube for this tutorial.  You can purchase this beautiful tube at Elegance Fly here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Sophisticat Simone's animation that is included with the kit.

Mask:  Mask 4hwmask2 by Fecnikek. Thank you for your awesome masks.  You can download it from her blog here. I am using the jpg versions for this tutorial.  Open and minimize in PSP.

Please remember to read the artists/designers 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.  We will resize later.

Add a new layer and flood fill with white.

Select the white layer, copy 4hwmask2 and close the original. Paste as a new layer. Resize 20%. Select the pick tool and pull the sides of the mask in slightly.   Select all, float, defloat and add a new raster layer.  Open paper of choice, I am using paper 11, copy and close the original.  Select the new raster layer, edit, paste into selections.  Select none and delete the black mask layer. 

Open element 75, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 60%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top left of the mask.

Open element 3, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the house.

Open element 18, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 60%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the right so it is beside the tomb stone of the mask.

Open Wordart 1, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 50%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the right of the mask so the B lines up with the bottom cloud.

Open element 32, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 70%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the mask.

Open element 50, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 50%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the dirt.

Open element 97, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste. Resize 50%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the T in the wordart.

Open element 13, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Drop shadow and move to the top right of the dirt.

Open element 2, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 50%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the dirt.

Open element 66, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 20%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top of the hill.  See mine for placement.

Open element 55, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom right of the book.

Open element 39, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the hill.

Open element 14, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom over the weed layer.  Duplicate and drag this layer under the hill layer.  Move so it is by the G in the wordart.

Open element 59, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the top branch.

Open element 36, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 60%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the hill.

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

Open element 29, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the top of the mushroom.

Select the layers you wish to use.  Edit, copy special, copy merged.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 20%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move down to the bottom so it looks like she is sitting on the leaves.

Open element 42, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom of the tube by her shoe.

Open element 19, copy and close the original.  Select the top layer and paste.  Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow.  Move to the bottom left of the basket.

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.

Make sure your tag is saved as a psp image file as you do not want to lose 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 Sophisticat Simones Animation mng file in animation shop.  In the bottom right corner it will show you there is 3 frames.  We will need this many frames for our tag.

Go to Animation, resize animation and when the pop up box show up, select percentage of Original and change the number to 40.  Click ok.

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 bottom branch layer just above the hill.  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 3 frames in Simone's animation so we will need 3 frames for our tag.

Holding down the Shift + Ctrl tap the L on your keyboard 2 times.  We now have 3 frames.  It will show you how many frames you have in the bottom right corner of AS.

Go to edit, select all.

Back to Simone'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.  Move just on the right side of the hay bale

View your animation by going to view, animation.  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 Simone'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 2 times.  We now have 3 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 leaves with the dirt layer on the bottom.

View your animation by going to view, animation.  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.

Select all, Animation, Frame Properties.  Change the Display time to 20 and Click ok.

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.