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This tutorial was written for those
that have a working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies Needed: PSP 9 (any version will work)

Tube of choice
I used artwork by - Suzanne Woolcott

Font of choice,i used Satisfaction

Scrapkit you can purchase at NitWit Collections - Keep You In Stiches under Nitwits on pg 4.

Animated hearts came from a group if this is yours please contact me and i will give credit or remove it.

You can get them - here

..::Let's Begin::..

Open a 500x500 transparent canvas,flood dill white.

Open your scrap supplies in paintshop and paste your stichery_friends quilt as a new layer add drop shadow of choice.

Click on your background layer and paste your patchworksquare_2 as a new layer.take your raster deform tool and move it to the left then turn it to the left a little bit like this:



Click on your top layer and add your journalstrip_4 as a new layer.place it at the bottom of your quilt like this:


add drop shadow of choice.

Open your scallop_floral and paste as new layer.move it below your journalstrip. if you have any pieces sticking out of the sides click on your selections tool and draw around the parts that can be removed, and hit delete on your keyboard.

Paste your heart as a new layer and bring it to the top.take your raster deform tool and turn it to the left a little bit.add drop shadow of choice.

Place your ribbonbow_navy as a new layer go to iamge/mirror. if there is any sticking out just take your selections tool again and hit delete on your keyboard.add drop shadow of choice.

Yours should look like this so far:


Paste your flower_wine as a new layer.add drop shadow of choice. take your eraser tool and remove these parts from your flower:



Yours should look like this:


Add your burgandy button as a new layer and place it on the left side of your ribbon. go to image/mirror and add drop shadow of choice.

Click on your stichery_friends quilt and paste your tag with pin as a new layer. add your name to it, add drop shadow of choice.

Add your main tube and place it above your heart.add drop shadow of choice.

Add your copyright info and merge visible.

..::Animation::..

Open animationshop and paste your tag as a new animation.

Open your hearts in animationshop,i colored mine to match my tag. go to edit/select all minimize your hearts for now. go to your tag and duplicate it until you have 8 frames total.once you have all your frames go to edit/select all.

Bring up your hearts and go to edit/copy/propagate and paste and paste them into selected frame place them wherever you like.

Play your animation and save as gif!

Hope you enjoyed doing this tut!

This Tutorial was written by Teresa on November 8,2007 .
And the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
Please feel free to LINK to the tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use,
but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or re-write without permission.
The image you create using this tutorial is for you to do what you wish except for monetary gains or for merchandising.
© Teresa 2007 Any Resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental. Proud Member of TWI