This tutorial was written by me on March 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 "Bunny 11".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. You can purchase it here.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Bunny 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 here.

Mask: DD_NFM2017_1 by Dee.  You can download it from her blog here.  Thank you for your awesome masks.  I'm using the jpg version for this tutorial.  The blog is now closed.

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 paper 17 into your tag.  Hold down the shift key and pull on the corner until the paper fills the canvas.  Click the check mark.  

Drag Dee's mask into the tag.  Click the check mark.

Standing on Dee's mask layer, click on the Channels tab in the layer pallet.  You will see for mask layers.  We are going to work with the RGB layer.

Holding down the Ctrl key, click on the RGB thumbnail.  You should see marching ants.  Now select the layers tab in the layers panel.

Select the paper layer and go to Layers>Layer Mask>Reveal selection.  You can now delete Dee's mask that is above the paper layer as we no longer need it.

Drag Frame 1 into the tag.  Click the check mark.

Select the layer under the frame and drag paper 3 into the tag.  Click the check mark.  

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

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

Select the mask layer as we will be working under the frame.

Drag element 23 into the tag.  Resize 65% and move to the outside center of the frame. 

Drag element 73 into the tag.  Resize 18%, drag this layer under element 23 layer.  Move to the top left of element 23.  Duplicate x14 for a total of 15 layers and move it around the frame.

Drag element 124 into the tag.  Resize 44% and move to the top of the cluster.  Duplicate, rotate 90 degrees and move to the left side of the cluster.  Duplicate this layer and move to the right side of the cluster.

Drag element 83 into the tag.  Resize 10% and move to the top left of the frame.  Duplicate x11 for a total of 12 flowers.  Move them around the frame.

Drag element 83 into the tag.  Resize 11%, rotate -52.91 degrees and move to the top left of the frame.

Duplicate, rotate -72.45 degrees.  Move down slightly on the left.  We need to do this three more times and move them around the left side.

Duplicate rotate -138.12 degrees and move into place.  Duplicate one more time and rotate -138.12 degrees and move into place.

Select the original element 83 layer.  Duplicate, mirror and move to the top right.  Repeat the duplicate and mirror for the remainder of the flowers on the left and move them around the right

side of the frame.

It is so much easier with Mura Meister copy but I have not been able to find the 64 bit version yet and the 32 bit does not work in PS.

Select the frame layer.

Drag element 119 into the tag.  Resize 62% and move to the bottom of the frame about midway.

Drag element 3 into the tag.  Resize 34% and move to the bottom right of the frame.  See my example for placement.

Drag element 9 into the tag.  Resize 43% and move to the right of the sack.

Drag element 8 into the tag.  Resize 23% and move to the left of the frame.

Drag element 18 into the tag.  Resize 24% and move to the right of element 8.

Drag element 95 into the tag.  Resize 70% and move to the bottom right of the frame.  Duplicate and mirror.  Move to the bottom left of the frame.

Drag element 98 into the tag.  Resize 61% and move to the bottom left of the frame.  Duplicate and mirror.  Move to the bottom right of the frame.

Drag element 27 into the tag.  Resize 42% and move to the top left of the frame.

Drag element 92 into the tag.  Resize 57% and move to the bottom of the left leaf.  Duplicate and mirror.  Move to the bottom of the right leaf.

Drag the main tube into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the center of the frame.

Drag element 33 into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the bottom of the tube.

Drag element 21 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the bottom of the grass.

Drag element 94 into the tag.  Resize 51% and move to the bottom center of the grass.

Drag element 74 into the tag.  Resize 33% and move to the bottom center of the flowers.

Drag element 29 into the tag.  Resize 58% and move to the bottom right of the grass.

Drag element 28 into the tag.  Resize 32% and move to the bottom left of the basket.

Drag element 5 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the bottom left of the grass.

Drag element 102 into the tag.  Resize 17% and move to the bottom of the clay pots.

Drag element 57 into the tag.  Resize 17% and move to the bottom of the leaves.

Drag element 30 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom of element 57.

Drag element 32 into the tag.  Resize 9% and move to the bottom of center of the roses.

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 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.

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 :)

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.  

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 50%.  Move over 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.