This tutorial was written by me on April 24, 2021. 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 PS.

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 Adobe Photoshop 2021 but this tutorial should work with any version.

You can download the 7 day trial of PS here.

PTU Tube:  I am using Verymany's beautiful tube "Mother's Day".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. You can purchase it here.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "A Mother's Love" created by Doodle by Design.  You can purchase her beautiful kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Rebel Dezigns awesome animation 1741 from pack 579.  You can purchase her awesome animations at CDO here.

Mask: 92 by Vivienne's Paintbox.  You can download it from her blog here.  Thank you for your awesome masks.  I'm using the png version for this tutorial.

Please see Rene's Animation How-to for PS here.  

Font of choice for your name. 

Plug in: None

Drop shadow of choice.

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

To open an image, I click on the element or paper in the file folder and drag it into PS.

To transfer an element or paper in PS to my tag, I left click and drag it into my working canvas.  

The other way is to left click and drag the element from the folder right onto your tag. 

Either way you will get the same results but the resizing will be different :).  I will be using the both method for this tutorial.

For resizing and rotating I use the Ctrl+T command.

To mirror or Flip go to Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal (mirror) or Flip vertical (Flip).

Remember to save often.

Let's get started.

Open a new 800x800 transparent image.  We will resize later.

Go to layers, New fill layer, solid color.  When the pop up window appears type in FFFFFF and click ok.

Drag Vivienne's mask into the tag.  Pull the right side in slightly. Click the check mark.

Drag paper 7 into your tag.  Click the check mark.  

Right click on the paper layer and select "Create a clipping mask".

Drag Frame 4 into the tag.  Resize 55% and move into place.

Drag paper 15 into the tag.  Resize 47% and move into the frame.

Select the frame layer.  Using the magic wand, click in the center of the frame.  Select>Modify>expand by 3.

Select the paper layer.  Go to Layers>Mask Layer>Reveal selection.

Drag the close up tube into the tag.  Resize 40% and move into the frame.  Holding down the Alt key, select the mask layer on the paper layer.  

Still holding down the Alt key, drag the mask onto the close up tube.  You should now have two masks.  One on the paper layer and one on the close up tube.

Change the blend mode to Soft light.

Select the layer under the paper of the frame.  We are going to work under the frame.

Drag element 172 into the tag.  Click the check mark. and to the top left of the mask.

Drag element 146 into the tag.  Resize 36% and move to the top left of the frame.  Duplicate, mirror and move to the top right of the frame.

Drag element 107 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the lower left of the frame.  Duplicate and move to the lower right of the frame.

Drag element 157 into the tag.  Resize 52% and move to the top right side of the frame.  Duplicate, mirror and move to the top left side of the frame.

Drag element 139 into the tag.  Resize 21% and move to the upper left side of the frame.  Duplicate, mirror and move to the upper right side of the frame.

Drag element 114 into the tag.  Resize 19% and move to the top left of the frame.  Duplicate and move to the top right of the frame.

Drag element 138 into the tag.  Resize 11% and move to the lower left of the frame.  

Drag element 124 into the tag.  Resize 26% and move to the lower left of the frame. 

Select the frame layer.

Drag element 166 into the tag.  Resize 28% and move to the left side of the frame.

Drag element 90 into the tag.  Resize 32% and move to the left side of the frame.

Drag element 26 into the tag.  Resize 56% and move to the bottom left side of the frame.

Drag element 28 into the tag.  Resize 56% and move to the bottom left side of the frame.

Drag element 54 into the tag.  Resize 54% and move to the bottom right of element 26.

Drag element 34 into the tag.  Resize 67% and move to the far right of the frame.

Drag element 31 into the tag.  Resize 52% and move to the bottom left side of the frame.

Drag element 62 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the bottom center of the fence.

Drag element 10 into the tag.  Resize 46% and move to the bottom center of the fence.

Drag element 76 into the tag.  Resize 46% and move to the bottom right of the fence.

Drag element 18 into the tag.  Resize 72% and move to the bottom of the wheel.

Drag element 33 into the tag.  Resize 37% and move to the bottom left of the wheel.

Drag element 21 into the tag.  Resize 31% and move to the bottom of the wheel.

Drag element 22 into the tag.  Resize 21% and move to the bottom left of the clay pots.

Drag element 30 into the tag.  Resize 22% and move to the bottom of the clay pots.

Drag element 75 into the tag.  Resize 43% and move to the bottom left of the fence.

Drag element 47 into the tag.  Resize 35% and move to the bottom right of the fence.

Drag element 46 into the tag.  Resize 35% and move to the bottom of the milk cans.

Drag element 64 into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the bottom of the hat.

Drag the main tube into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the bottom center of the mask.

Drag element 163 into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the bottom right of the tube.

Drag element 116 into the tag.  Resize 12% and move to the bottom center of the tube.

Drag element 110 into the tag.  Resize 22% and move to the bottom left of element 116.

Drag wordart 1 into the tag.  Resize 75% and move to the bottom of the tube.

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

Crop away any extra space.  

Image, Image Size and resize 650 on the longest side.  

Oh almost forgot we need to drop shadow all of our elements.  I actually do the drop shadow at the end :)

Select the element on the bottom of your tag in the layer pallet and double click it.

A layer style window will pop up.  Click on Drop shadow. and use the following settings.

Now right click on the layer you just applied the drop shadow.  Click copy layer style.

Now click on the layer above and hold down the shift key, select the layer under the paper layer.  Right click and paste layer styles.  

Select the frame layer, holding down the shift key, select the top layer.  Right click and paste layer styles.  Drop shadow complete :)

Select the Wordart Layer.  Double click on the FX as we need to add a stroke to the wordart.

I used the following settings:

Stroke Size 2

Position outside

Blend Mode Normal

Opacity 100%

Color fce0dc

Add your copyright and name.

If you do not want to animate.  Hide the white background layer Save your tag and export as png.

Might want to grab a coffee :)

Select the tube layer, right click and duplicate.

Standing on the duplicate layer, right click and clear layer style.  Go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur and type in 3.  Click ok.  Change the blend mode to soft light.

Open Rebel Dezigns psd file in PS.  You will notice that there is 25 layers in this animation and it does not have the group layer.  That is ok as we are going to learn how to do this so it matches the animation layers of the tube.

We need to group all odd the layers.  Starting from layer 25, hold down your control key and select each odd layer so the next one will be 23 then 21 etc.  Once all the odd layers are selected (the layers will be highlighted in blue) we need to group them.  All odd layers selected? 

Next we need to group these layers.  Go to Layers, Group layers or Ctrl + G on the Keyboard.  You will see group 1 folder at the top.  Make sure Group 1 is selected.

Select the layer you would like the animation to be placed.  I selected the frame layer.

Back to the animation.  Click on Group 1 and drag it into your tag.  Ctrl+T and resize 70%.  Move to the right side of the frame.  

Close the original animation and don't save changes.

Click on the little white arrow beside Group 1 to expand it.  Click on the eyeball of each layer to hide it but leave frame layer 1 visible.  Click on the arrow beside group one to hide it as we do not want to accidentally make any changes.

Next make sure your Timeline viewer is open on the bottom of PS.  I you do not see a row that has Timeline on the bottom, go to Windows, Timeline.

In the center of the Timeline viewer you will see a drop down box.  On the drop down select Create Frame Animations.

Next is animating.

Click on the little icon (four white lines) at the right end of the animation screen then select make frames from layers.

You are going to see a big mess in the animation window but we are going to fix this.

Click on the first frame and click on the trash can in the animation window.  Repeat this until you reach the first frame of the animation.  

Now you should be at the first frame of the animation.  Click on frame 14 and hit the trash can.  Repeat for all the remaining frames.  You should be left with 13 frames in the animation window.  This is the amount of frames for our animation.

This next step is very important.  Any changes you do from here you must be on frame 1 in the Timeline viewer. It will be highlighted in blue.

Go to the bottom of your tag in the layers pallet.  Make sure you have animation frame 1 selected.

Click on the eyeball beside each layer to make it visible.  For the white base layer you may have to click on the eyeball a couple of times to make it visible in all the animation frames.  It's a Photoshop thing.  Do not touch the group layer.

Next, I want to slow down the animation.  With the first frame selected, hold down the shift key and click on frame 13.  This will select all the frames.

Next, click on the little black arrow beside the 0 sec as we want to change the speed.  A pop up window will appear.  

I selected 0.2 Sec.  Now click on the play button to view the animation.  Click on it again to stop it.

Click frame 1 again so we don't accidentally make any changes.

Now to save our tag as a gif.

Go to File>Export>Save for Web(Legacy).

A new pop up window will appear.  Change the settings to my screen shot below.  Click on the image to enlarge it if needed.  Click save.  My screen shot will look different but the settings are the same.

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