In this tutorial I used the tube “Mermaid’s
Tears” from

Julsey.

The tube can be purchased at

Elegance Fly.

The matching kit “Mermaid’s Tears” is from

Hania’s Designs

and can also be purchased at

Elegance Fly.

The animation is by

Sophisticated Simone

and is included in the kit.

You will also need Animation Shop.

You will need my png mask

0084.

Font of choice.

Other than the
dolphin, I used a drop shadow of vertical 0, horizontal 5, opacity 55, blur 10.

Open a new transparent
canvas 750 by 750 and fill with white.

Paste element 61,
resize 30% and move down and to the left.

Paste the mask, resize
85%, select all, float and defloat, make a new layer, paste paper 02 into the
selection, deselect and delete the original black mask layer.

Paste element 32 and move
into place.

Paste element 35,
resize 75%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 11,
resize 60%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 23,
resize 80% and move into place.

Paste element 08,
resize 60% and move into place.

Paste element 10, resize 60% and move into place.

Paste word art 4,
resize 40%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 95,
resize 50% and move into place.

Paste element 106 and
resize 35%, select the interiors of each section of the frame, expand the selection
by 15, make a new layer below it and paste paper 05 into the selection,
deselect, apply the shadow to the frame, merge it down onto the paper and move
into place.

Paste element 22 and
resize 25%, move into place and apply a drop shadow of vertical 5, horizontal
15, opacity 55 and blur 10.

Paste the tube, resize
23%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 47, resize
40%, position below the tube and apply the shadow (remember to change the settings back).

Paste element 81, resize
50% and mirror, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 62, resize
30%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 58, resize
30%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 36, resize
30%, duplicate, mirror one copy, position and apply the shadow to each.

Paste element 104, resize
20%, position on the left, duplicate, 
mirror this copy position on the right below the blue flowers and apply
the shadow to each.

Paste element 07, resize
60%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 38, resize
30%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 15, resize
60% and move into place.

Paste element 56, resize
20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 84, resize
20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 94, resize
20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 75, resize
20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 73 on the
top, resize 20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 06, resize
15%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 48,resize
15%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 68, resize
30%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 79, resize
20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 97, resize
25%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 91, resize
17%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 83, resize
20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 89, resize
20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 88, resize
20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 21, resize
70% and move into place.

Paste element 31, resize
50%, position and apply the shadow.

Check your layers now,
add your copyright information and text and crop.

ANIMATION:

Open Simone’s
animation in animation shop and resize it 20%.  Copy your tag and paste in Animation Shop as a
new animation then duplicate it until there are 17 frames the same as the
animation.  Select all the Animation
frames and copy them, select all the tag frames, click on the first one, right
click and “paste into selected frame” and paste the animation onto your
tag.  Run the tag through the Optimization
Wizard and save as a gif.