This tutorial was written by me on March 19, 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 Amber's beautiful tube "Barbara".  Please do not use this tube without a proper license. You can purchase this tube at VM Artists here.

PTU Kit:  I am using a gorgeous kit called "Cherished Beauty" created by Doodle by Design.  You can purchase this beautiful kit here.

PTU Animation:  I am using Kiya Designs awesome animation 229 from pack 76.  You can purchase her awesome animations here.

Mask:  368 by Mizteeques. Thank you for your awesome masks.  You can download it from her blog here. I am using the png versions for this tutorial.  

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

Font of choice for your name. I am using an FTU CU font called Brighton.  You can download it here.  

Plug in: Penta - Dots and Cross.  You can find it here.  It's part of the garbage collection.  You will need to scroll down to find it. 

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 Mizteeque's mask into the tag.  Click on the checkmark and move to the top left of the canvas.

Duplicate and move to the bottom mask layer to the bottom right of the canvas.  Once happy with placement, holding down the ctrl key, select the top mask layer.

Right click and merge layers.

Drag paper 12 into the tag.  Holding down the shift key, Pull up and down on the corners until it fits the canvas and click the checkmark.

Standing on the paper layer, right click and select create a clipping mask.

Drag frame 1 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the top left of the mask.

Select the mask layer and drag paper 3 into the tag.  Resize 60% and move under the frame.

Select the frame layer.  Using the magic wand, click in the center of the frame.  Select>modify>expand by 3.  Go to Layers>Layer Mask>Reveal Selection.

Standing on the paper layer, drag the close up tube into the tag.  Mirror and resize 60%.  Move her into a spot you like best inside the frame.

Once happy with placement, hold down the alt key and select the mask thumbnail on the paper layer.  Still holding the Alt key, drag the mask onto the tube layer.

You should now have two mask thumbnails.  One on the paper and one on the close up tube.  Change the blend mode of the tube to hard light.

Holding down the Ctrl key, select the paper layer under the tube.  Right click and merge layers.  

Go to Filter>Penta>Dots and Cross and apply the following settings:

We are going to work under the frame.

Drag element 138 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top center of the frame.

Drag element 67 into the tag.  Resize 116% and move to the top center of the frame.

Drag element 127 into the tag.  Resize 75% and move to the top left of the frame.

Drag element 83 into the tag.  Resize 28% and move to the top left of the frame.  Duplicate x2 and move one to the right side of the frame and second one to the lower left side of the frame.

Drag element 61 into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the top left corner of the frame.

Drag element 84 into the tag.  Resize 50% and move to the top left corner of the frame.  Duplicate and move to the top right corners

Select the frame layer.

Drag element 94 into the tag.  Resize 10% and move to the bottom left of the frame.

Drag element 22 into the tag.  Resize 52% and move to the right side of the frame.

Drag element 137 into the tag.  Resize 38% and move to the bottom right corner of the frame.

Drag element 44 into the tag.  Resize 38% and move to the bottom of the frame.

Drag element 28 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the bottom center of the frame.

Drag element 116 into the tag.  Resize 29% and move to the bottom of the frame.

Drag element 87 into the tag.  Resize 19% and move to the bottom center of the frame.

Drag element 4 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the bottom right corner of the frame.

Drag element 23 into the tag.  Resize 23% and move to the bottom left of the cameo.

Drag element 51 into the tag.  Resize 16% and move to the bottom of the cameo.

Drag element 82 into the tag.  Resize 23% and move to the bottom of the cameo.

Drag element 18 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the bottom of the ribbon.

Drag element 30 into the tag.  Resize 27% and move to the bottom left of the lantern.

Drag element 24 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the bottom right of the lantern.

Drag element 105 into the tag.  Resize 13% and move to the bottom left of the bottle.

Drag element 119 into the tag.  Resize 15% and move to the bottom of the bottle.

Drag element 142 into the tag.  Click the check mark and move to the top right of the frame.

Drag element 17 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the lower right of the mask.

Drag element 1 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the lower left of element 17.

Drag element 120 into the tag.  Resize 30% and move to the bottom of the clock.

Drag element 84 into the tag.  Resize 45% and move to the bottom of the oak leaves.

Drag the main tube into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the bottom right of the mask.

Drag element 27 into the tag.  Resize 32% and move to the bottom of the tube.

Drag element 129 into the tag.  Resize 36% and move to the bottom right of the tube.

Drag element 107 into the tag.  Resize 40% and move to the bottom left of the spray.

Drag element 60 into the tag.  Resize 48% and move to the bottom of the flowers.

Drag element 42 into the tag.  Resize 15%, rotate 28 degrees and move to the top right of the clock.

Drag element 14 into the tag.  Resize 8% and move to the bottom center of the ribbon.

Drag element 16 into the tag.  Resize 10% and move to the bottom right of the candle.

Save my Wordart below. Left click to enlarge the right click and save as.  Open it in PS.  

Drag my wordart into the tag, from PS, and move to the bottom of the tube's legs.

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 of the frame.  Right click and paste layer styles.  

Select the frame layer, holding down the shift key, select the layer just under the wordart.  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 Kiya Designs 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) we need to group them.  

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 to the bottom of the frame so it is also over the right side of the mask.  See my example for placement.  

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 at the right end of the animation screen (4 lines) 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 animation window. 

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.