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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on May 4, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Corner here

Lace here

Plugins

Mura Meister Copies

Eyecandy Texture Noise

The tube I used Venus is by Joahannah von Frankenstein aka Koffin Kandy, you can get this tube from ART here

The name of my font is Mothers Day

I used size 60

Open a new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Paste your tube as a new layer, I used raster 2 from my tube which is faded

Apply mura meister copies

Wallpaper rotate

Add gaussian blur, radius 12

Paste your lace as a new layer

Change layer properties to soft light

Add drop shadow

Paste your main tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Add drop shadow

Activate your magic wand, tolerance 30

Hold down your shift key and click on the little squares behind the head of the tube

Duplicate 2 times

Apply eyecandy texture noise

Settings>tie dye

Repeat on other 2 layers clicking the random seed button each time

Deselect

Paste your close up tube as a new layer

Resize smaller than your main tube

Position in a lower corner

Add drop shadow

Duplicate & mirror

Paste your corner as a new layer

Resize to 20%

Position in lower left corner

Flip

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Change layer properties to soft light

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide animation 2 & 3

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 1 & unhide #2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 2 & unhide #3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with ATT Sharon & the tut name in the subject line

You'll find my email blinkie on your left

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