Sparkalicious

My tutorials require a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro!

Supplies Needed:

*Paint Shop Pro

*Animation Shop

*Font of choice, I used Inspiration

*"Sparkalicious" PTU kit by Clarey available for purchase HERE. Visit Clarey's blog HERE.

*DSB Flux Bright Noise

*Tube of choice. I used the sexy artwork of Jose A. Cano which can be purchased at  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 wrappedframe1 from the kit, copy and paste it onto your canvas, resize it by 80%. Grab your lasso tool and select around the edges of the frame like this:

Open a paper of choice from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Go to Selections-Invert, hit your delete key. Selections-Select None. Drag the paper layer below the frame layer.

Open your tube of choice. Copy and paste it onto your canvas, mirror it, drag it below the frame layer but on top of the paper layer, use your eraser tool to erase any parts of the tube that are sticking out of the frame. Add a slight drop shadow then change the layer properties to Luminance Legacy. Close off your background layer and merge visible the frame, tube and paper. Open back up your layers. Click on the merged layer and rotate it to the left by 10 degrees.

Open one of the long frames from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by 55%, rotate it 90 degrees in any direction. Grab your magic wand and click inside each square of the frame while holding down your shift key. Selections-Modify-Expand by 4. Open a paper of choice, copy and paste it onto your canvas, go to Selections-Invert, hit delete key. Move the paper layer below the frame layer. Copy and paste your tube of choice onto your canvas, move it below the frame layer and place it where you would like behind the frame. Use your eraser tool to erase any parts of the tube that are sticking out of the frame. Close off all of your layers except the layers you just added (long frame, tube behind it, and paper) then merge visible. Open all layers. Click on the layer you just merged and rotate it to the right by 5 degrees. Add a drop shadow.

Open the acrylic heart frame from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by about 60% and rotate it to the right by 15 degrees. Place it around the bottom right hand corner on top of both frames, see my tag for reference.

Open a string of choice from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by 30%, add a drop shadow, place it on the bottom left hand side, see my tag for reference. Duplicate it then go to Image-Mirror, then Image-Flip.

Open the diamond swirl from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by 80% and place it to the right a bit on top of everything, see my tag.

Open the "Sparkalicious" sticker from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas, add a drop shadow, add it where you would like it or see my tag for reference.

Copy and paste your tube onto your canvas. Resize if needed and add a drop shadow. Position it where you want it.

Open one of the blank journaling tags and copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it down as needed and add a drop shadow. Put your name on this journaling block.

Open the pink diamondswirl2 from the kit. Click on your background layer and copy and paste the swirl onto your canvas. Resize it by 80%, move it to the bottom right hand side, duplicate it, Image-Mirror, Image-flip. Merge Down those 2 layers. Duplicate the merged pink swirls twice so that you have 3 of them. Close off the top 2 and click on the original. Go to Effects-PlugIns-DSB Flux-Bright Noise. Change the number to 75 and make sure mix is selected, then click ok. Close off that layer and open the next one and click on it. Go back to Bright Noise, but click on mix once and then click ok. Close off that layer and open up the last one and click on it. Go back to Bright Noise again and click on mix twice then click ok. Close off the top 2 copies of the swirl and open the original.

At this time please crop and resize your tag to how you would like it then add your artists copyright information.

Now, right click and choose copy merged. Open Animation shop and then right click and choose paste as new animation. Go back to PSP, close off the original swirl layer with the bright noise and open the next one up. Right click on your tag and copy merged. Go back to AS and right click on the animation and choose paste after current frame. Go back to PSP, close off that layer and open up the last one. Copy merged, go back to AS, paste after current frame. Play your animation to make sure it's working and then save as gif!