In this tutorial I used the tube “Incatneato” from

Jeff Haynie.

I love Jeff’s art!

You can purchase his tubes at

CDO estore.

The kit is “Romantic Steampunk”.

A lovely freebie kit from

My Tagging Addiction.

You will need the png mask 242 from

Mizteeques Digital Designs.

 

I used a drop shadow of vertical 0, horizonal 5, opacity 75, blur 10.

 

Open a new transparent canvas 700 by 700 pixels and fill with white.

Paste the mask, select all, float and defloat, make a new layer and paste paper 1 into the selection, deselect, delete the black mask layer and resize the paper one 95%.

Paste element 35, resize 90%, duplicate, position one copy top right and the other move down and to the left, apply the shadow to each.

Paste element 38, resize 25%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 60, resize 25%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element, 36, resize 30%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 59, resize 25%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 61, resize 45%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 30, resize 70%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 23, resize 25% and rotate 90 degrees to the left, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 15, resize 40%, duplicate, erase one of each candle so they are on separate layers,  position so they are closer together then merge them together again and apply the shadow. 

Paste the tube, resize 65% and mirror, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 22, resize 30% and rotate 40 degrees to the left.

Paste element 47, resize 15% and rotate 40 degrees to the right, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 57, resize 30%, position on the right, duplicate, mirror the copy and position it on the left, apply the shadow to each.

Paste element 52, resize 50% and mirror, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 49, resize 40%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 51, resize 35%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 15 again, resize 55% as before, erase the two candles on the left, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 29, resize 50%, position and apply the shadow.

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

Paste element 6, resize 30%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 56, resize 13%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 20, resize 30%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 48, resize 20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 8, resize 25%, position and apply the shadow. 

Paste element 58, resize 20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 3, resize 25%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 32, resize 15%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 39, resize 20%, position and apply the shadow.

Paste element 25, resize 15%, position and apply the shadow.

Check your layers and add your copyright info and text.

ANIMATION:

Duplicate both candle layers three time so you have four copies of each, close the first, third and fourth copies.
Open your warp brush and set the strength to 40, click on the open layer of the double candle element, hold your curser on the candle flame and very, very gently tug it up, now go to the second candle on that layer and again  move he candle flame very slightly, you can push it down or over to one side.  Close this layer, open the next copy and do the same moving the tip in a different direction. You to do it just the tiniest amount.  Repeat with the top copy and then repeat with the layers on the single candle.

Open Animation Shop, close off all copies of both candles apart from the first one, right click, copy it and paste in AS as a new animation, close off these two copies and open the next copies up, again copy and paste in AS before current frame, repeat with the last two copies.  Now select all he frames, go to Animation - Frame properties and change the display to 30.  Run your tag through the animation wizard and save as a gif.