font used in header '2peas Mister Giggles'

HERE is my scrapkit 'Swheat Cream' ......I created for this tutorial.

I used the artwork of ©Suzanne Woolcott, it does require a license, you can purchase her tubes HERE.  

This is going to be a short tutorial, cause you can 'build' the tag any way you would like.. using any scrapkit...the way I do it is just a suggestion on how to do that..

There are just a few things on how I put mine together...

As you can see by the finished tag above..

1. I copied and pasted the papers that came in the scrapset... I had to resize them down to 13% . I used my deformation tool to turn them the way I wanted.

2. I added all the elements and positioned them the way I wanted.. DON'T forget the 3D drop shadows... that makes your projects look so much better to use nice drop shadows..

3. There are different elements in the scrapkit you can use for your project here.

4. I added a new layer and dragged it right above the very bottom bkg layer... You can use any brush you would like.. with the opacity on 50%  use it around the edges of the paper layers where it shows some, like the above sample. You can use a coordinating color or one of the papers in the foreground  materials box.. to do this 'stamping'

5.  When ever thing is in place... Copy and paste the tube your going to use.. For this particular project I used two of the newest Gorjuss Fairy girls.. they were exact same size and pretty much in same position.. except for arms and hands.. which made it work out quite well.. if you have any tubes that are the same matching characters in pretty much the same position.. you can use those instead.

6. I copied and pasted both fairies on the canvas.. I positioned them by matching the left wings.. lining them up where they overlapped.

7. I added a 3D drop shadow on the fairies... and made sure the  shadow on new layer was checked... then

As it shows above here.. I erased the shadow part that was under the wings.. so they wouldn't be so dark.. and be transparent like they were made to be..

8. The only thing now to do is to X out or HIDE the fairy layers on the layer palette.. and merge / visible all the other layers. Name your fairy layers 1 & 2.. now hide one of the fairy layers and just have the merged layers and ONE fairy layer showing.. go to top of canvas window and right click.. COPY MERGE and then go to your animation shop and right click on the AS desktop and PASTE AS NEW animation... then back to PSP and hide that one fairy layer and UN hide the other one now.. and COPY MERGE then back to animation shop and right click on the one frame (new animation) and paste after current layer..

9.  ok here is a TRICK I did.. to make the bodies match

After I put the frames together in animation shop, I selected both frames and clicked  Shift + X to export the two frames back to PSP.. or go to FILE/EXPORT  then I used point to point selection tool and around the body that I liked the BEST.. I did a selection as shown above.. then I copied... then go to the OTHER frame.. and paste INTO selection.. that makes both bodies.. MATCH...so there wont be  any movements below the arms... I hope I am making myself clear ..on this.. it looks so much better when the bodies match.. Click the X up at the top right of the graphic..

Then

This will take the new animation back to animation shop... now on the first frame.. right click and go down to frame properties, change to 40 display time... then in the 2nd frame of the animation.. change the display time to 100... preview your new animation now.. to see if it looks good. If your happy with it... SAVE AS a GIF.. make sure you go to customize after you name it.. and have the settings on the colors tab set to optimized median cut.

That should be it... I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.. Thanks and see you on the next one!!

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