I'm A Sucker for You

My tutorials require a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro!

Supplies Needed:

*Paint Shop Pro

*Animation Shop

*Font of choice, I used Love Letters HERE

*Vix_Mask184 HERE

*Xero Fritillary

*"My Funny Valentine" PTU kit by Pimp My Tags With Scraps available for purchase HERE.

*Tube of choice. I am using the awesome artwork of Elias Chatzoudis which is available for purchase from MPT. Please do not use the same tube unless you have the proper license to do so.

Let's Begin--

Open a 600 X 600 White Canvas.

Open the round from from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas.

Open a paper of choice from the kit. Click on your background layer then copy and paste the paper onto your canvas. Resize the paper by 50%. Use your eraser tool to erase the parts of the paper that are outside of the frame. Click on the frame layer and apply a drop shadow.

Open your tube. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize if needed. Duplicate it and move the original below the frame layer. Close off the copy of your tube and click on the original. Use your eraser tool to erase any parts of the tube that are sticking out of the bottom of the frame only! Open back up the copy of your tube and add a drop shadow. Use your eraser tool again to erase the bottom part of the tube again all the way up to the edge of the frame making the tube appear to be underneath the frame only at the bottom. See my tag for reference.

Open the word art from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by 65%. Add a fat gradient glow if you wish and then add a drop shadow.

Open one of the worn hearts from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by 35%. Add a drop shadow and rotate it to the left by 10 degrees. Move it the top right hand side of the frame but not covering up your tube. See my tag for reference.

Open the clip from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by 40%, add a drop shadow, and place it on top of the corner of the worn heart to make it appear to be clipping the heart onto the frame.

Add your name or text of choice to the heart like shown in my tag.

Open the heart sucker from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by 40%, rotate it to the right by 10 degrees, place a little bit of the stick behind the word art. See my tag for reference.

Open a paper of choice from the kit. Click on your background and then copy and paste the paper onto your canvas. Open the mask in PSP. With the paper layer active, go to Layers-New Mask Layer-From Disk, choose the mask from the drop down menu and click ok, then right click on the mask layer in your pallet and merge group.

Move the mask down a little bit.

Click on the mask layer. Duplicate it twice. Click on the original layer. Go to Effects-Plug Ins-Xero-Fritillary, keep the default settings then click ok. Click on the next copy of the layer, go back to Fritillary and click on random and then click ok. Click on the last copy of the mask, go back to Fritillary and click on random then click ok. Close off the 2 copies of your mask.

Add your copy right information. Crop and resize if needed.

Right click on your tag and copy merged.

Open Animation Shop. Paste as new animation. Go back to PSP, close off the bottom copy of the mask layer and open up the next one. Copy merged.

Go back to AS, paste after current frame.

Go back to PSP, close off the layer and open up the last copy of the mask layer. Copy merged.

Go back to AS, paste after current frame.

Play your animation to check it then save as gif!