I used the wonderful art of Popeye Wong.
This artist allows use without a license.
Thank you so much Popeye!
You need PSP and Animation Shop

In this project I used 2 plugins.
DBS and Xenoflex constellation.

I used a scrap kit from called Rosie Elegance by Monica at Simply Sensational Scraps.Thank you for sharing your talent Monica.
You can get the free kit

HERE

I used a mask from Weescotlass Creations~WSL_75.
Thank you for sharing your talent Chelle.
You can get the WSL mask collection

HERE

Other Supplies:
Tube of choice
Font of choice

Supply Zip

Open your tubes and mask in PSP.
Open a new white image 600 x 600.
Go to layers, add a new raster layer.
Copy and paste a paper from the scrap kit ( I used paper16) as a new layer.
Go to layers, new mask layer, from image. Find your mask in the drop down and apply.

On your layer palette, highlight mask layer, right click mouse, delete.

Highlight group layer, right click mouse, merge, merge group.

Rename layer Mask.
Copy and paste the heart frame onto your project as a new layer.
With your magic wand, click inside the frame.
Go to selections, modify, expand, by 3.
Keep the ants marching.

Highlight the mask layer, go to layers, add new raster layer.
Flood fill that layer with color of choice, I used #FC96BA
Effects, texture effects, WEAVE.

These settings:
Gap size = 2 , Width = 7 , Opac = 1 , weave color white-gap color white- check mark in fill gaps.
Click ok.


Effects, texture, look in the drop down and find fine paper.
Size 39% Smooth = 2 , Depth = 1, Amb = 0, Shine = 0, Angle = 315, Intensity = 50, Elevation = 30
Color white.
Click ok.

Selections-- select none.

On your layer palette, X out white background layer and mask layer.
Highlight heart layer and merge visible the outside frame with the inside patch.
Rename that layer heart.


UnX white background and mask layer.
Highlight heart layer.
Go to effects, Eye Candy 3, GLOW.
Use these settings:
Width = 6 , Opac = 100 , Opac Dropoff = Medium ,
Color = #FC96BA
Click the check mark.
Now you have a glow on the outside of the heart.


With the heart still highlighted on your layer palette, select all, float.
Select all defloat, modify, expand by 10.
Keep ants marching.
Highlight MASK layer on your layer palette and add a new raster layer.

Flood fill that layer with a color of choice for an outside glitterglow.
I used #A60E57.
Selections - select none.
Rename that layer, glow.
Duplicate that layer 2 x's for a total of 3 glow layers. Rename glow 1, glow 2, glow 3.
Now we're going to add some noise to those layers.
Highlight glow 1 layer, adjust, add noise @ 50. dot in uniform.
Highlight glow 2 layer, adjust, add noise, click on uniform 2 x's.
Highlight glow 3 layer, adjust, add noise, click on uniform 3 x's.
X out glow layers 2 & 3.

Highlight heart layer on your layer palette.
Copy and paste your main tube onto your project.
Add a drop shadow to your tube.
Time to add some elements from your scrap kit.
I used some butterflies.
Place your elements anywhere you like and use as many as you like.
When you have all your elements placed, X out everything on your layer palette except the elements.
Merge all your elements visible and rename that layer to EL.
UnX everything.

Add your text as a vector layer. Rename layer Text
Place it where you want, and when your satisfied with it, right click on mouse and convert to a raster.
Add your tagger mark and the copyright information as vector layer.Rename layer CR

Time to add effects to our main tube.

Highlight tube layer on your layer palette.
Using your freehand tool to make selections in the areas on your tube you want to add effects.
I selected the gals outfit and shoes to add DBS noise.
Once you have your selections made, right click on your layer palette, PROMOTE SELECTIONS TO LAYER.
That puts the parts you have selected on a new layer.
Duplicate that layer 2 x's.
Total of 3 layers for effects.
Rename the layers. DBS 1, DBS 2, DBS 3.
Highlight DBS 1, go to effects, plugins, DBS, bright noise @ 28, dot beside MIX. Click ok.
Highlight DBS 2 layer, effects, plugins, DBS, bright noise, click on the dot at mix 2 x's.
Highlight DBS 3 layer, effects, plugins, DBS, bright noise, click on the dot at mix 3 x's.
If you don't have the DBS plugin, you can use the add noise in your psp program.

X out DBS layers 2 & 3.

I added constellation effect to the ribbon on her hair.
If you want to do this too, highlight the tube layer again.
Use freehand tool to outline that selection. Keep ants marching.
Right click mouse on layer palette and promote this section to a layer.

Duplicate that layer 2 x's. Total of 3 layers for the ribbon.
Rename those layers Cons 1, Cons 2, Cons 3.
Highlight cons 1.
Effects, plugins, xenoflex2, constellation.


Highlight cons 2 layer, back to the plugin, and click on random seed once.
Highlight cons 3 layer, back to the plugin, click random seen once.

X out con layers 2 & 3.
I added some sparkles to my butterflies.
Duplicate the butterfly layers 2 x's.
Apply sparkle effect on each layer of the butterflies.
X out 2 & 3 butterfly layers.

We're ready to put it together in Animation Shop.

This is what your layer palette should look like.
All # 2 & # 3 layers are X out.
Highlight white back ground layer on your palette.
Edit, copy merged, over to AS, edit paste as a new animation.
Back to PSP.
UnX all #2 layers, and X out all #1 layers.
Edit, copy merged, paste into AS after current frame.
Back to PSP.
UnX all #3 layers, X out all #2 layers.
Edit, copy merged, paste into AS after current frame.
You have 3 frames in Animation Shop.
If you want to resize, do that now.
Resize to 90 % - bicubic resample.


Click to view animation.


If you're happy with it, save as a .gif
:o)

In this project I used the beautiful art of Penny Parker


Mask is unknown~if this is your mask, please contact me so I may give proper credit.

Supplies needed:

PSP and Animation Shop
Tube of choice
Mask of choice
Font
VM Natural plugin~sparkle ( optional)

Supply Zip

Unzip and extract supply folder.
Open tube and mask in your PSP.
Minimize tube for use later. We start off with the mask.
Open a new white canvas ( image) 600 x 600. We will resize later.

Set up your colors. Pick 2 colors from your tube and put them in your color palette.
I used Deep Rose~#A94351 in my foreground, and off white ~#F6F6F6 in my background palette.

Activate your new canvas.Go to layers, add a new layer, raster layer.

Click on your fill tool and fill that new layer with color # A94351
Go to layers~add new mask layer~from IMAGE.
A box will pop up and in the drop down look for the mask that is in your workspace.
The heart mask is~nk heart1
Apply mask with settings as shown below:

Over on your layer palette you will see new layers added.



Highlight layer "mask" right click on your mouse, click delete.

Highlight layer "group" right click on your mouse, click MERGE GROUP.
Rename this layer "MASK".

Open your tube. Activate tube, go to edit, copy.
Activate your project, edit paste as a NEW LAYER.
Your tube is now on your project. Place it where you like.
Rename that layer "tube".
You now have 3 layers on your palette. White background, mask and tube.
Add your text as a vector layer. Place it where you like.
When your happy with it, right click on mouse and convert to a raster layer.
Rename that layer "TEXT".

Here is the time to add your CR info. Right click mouse, convert that layer to a raster and move DOWN under your text layer.
Highlight your text layer. We are now going to add effects to the text.



Effects~drop shadow~V=0,H= -2, opac = 65, blur = 3.00 CHECK MARK IN THE "SHADOW ON NEW LAYER".
(This will add a new layer with the drop shadow only)
Click ok.
Text layer still highlighted, go to selections~select all~~float ~selections ~defloat~selections~modify- contract 1.

The ants are marching around the text. Right click mouse on layer palette and duplicate that layer 2 x's.
Total of 3 text layers and 1 text shadow layer. We are going to work on the text only layers. Not the shadow layer.
Rename those text layers, tx 1, tx 2, tx 3.
Highlight tx 1 layer.
Go to adjust, add/remove noise, add noise with these settings.
Uniform dotted, noise @ 50, monochrome checked off.
Click ok

Tx 2 layer, highlighted, go to adjust, add noise, click the uniform dot 2 x's.
Tx 3 layer, highlighted, go to adjust, add noise, click the uniform dot 3 x's.

X out all text layers including the shadow.
We are going to work on the tube now.

Highlight your tube layer.
With your freehand tool, go around the areas in the tube you'd like to add glitter/noise.
When u have all the areas you want glittered, right click on your layer palette and PROMOTE SECTION TO A LAYER.

This puts those sections on a separate layer so we can add effects.
Ants are still marching.
Rename that promoted layer to gl 1. duplicate that layer 2 x's. Rename those layers, gl 2, gl 3.
You now have 3 layers of the sections you want to add glitter.
Highlight gl1 layer. Adjust, add noise, same settings as before, but change the amount from 50 to 33. Click ok.

Highlight gl 2 layer, add noise, click on the uniform dot 2 x's.
Highlight gl 3 layer, add noise, click on the uniform dot 3 x's.
When u have finished adding noise on those layers. go to selections, select none.
X out gl 2 and gl 3 layers.
This is what your layer palette should look like.


If you would like to add sparkles to the mask, now is the time to do it.
Duplicate your mask layer 2 x's, for a total of 3 mask layers.
Highlight mask 1~effects, plugins, VM NATURAL~SPARKLES.
Settings : Max size @ 21--- random seed @ 99 click ok.
Highlight mask 2 layer~apply the sparkles, change the random seed to 47, click ok.
Highlight mask 3 layer~apply the sparkles, change the random seed to 21, click ok.
X out Mask 2 & 3 layers.

Now it's time to put it together in Animation shop.

Highlight white background layer on your layer palette.
X out's on ~~~text #2 & #3~~ gl #2 & gl# 3~~ mask #2 & #3.
Go to edit, copy merged.
Over to Animation Shop~~ edit, paste, paste as a new animation.
Back to PSP.
X out all your #1 layers, UnX your #2 Layers.
Edit, copy merged.
Animation Shop, Edit, paste after current frame.
Back to PSP.
X out all your #2 layers, UnX your #3 layers.
Edit, copy merged.
Animation Shop, Edit, paste after current frame.
You now have 3 frames in animation shop. You can resize now if you want.
Click to view animation.


If you're happy with it, save as a .gif.

:o)

This is a tut to show you how to add a pre-made glitter to the outside of a tube/image.
Remember it's all in the layers :o)
Understanding glitter:
Glitter is noise added to a color. Each layer has a different volume of noise.
When those layers are put together in animation shop the noise becomes what is called "glitter".
To use those glitters on a project you must open the glitter swatch in Animation shop and export the frames to PSP.
This tut will show you how to achieve those steps.

Here's my tube.


Here's the glitter I'm using:


Let's get your tube ready for glitter.
Open your tube in PSP.
Copy and paste it onto a new canvas as a new layer.
(I prefer to use a white or black canvas, because I don't like changing my animation shop preferences everytime I make an animation)

Close your original tube.

On your layer palette, rename that layer to "tube".
On your tool bar click selections--select all--selections--float--selections--defloat.
The ants will be marching all around your tube.
Selections--modify--expand--
(this number will depend on the size of the outline glitter you want. The larger the number the wider the outline you will fill with glitter)

I used expand by 8.
Keep the ants marching.

Now go over to your Animation shop
Browse to find the glitter swatch you want to use and open it.
You'll see how many frames it has, usually 3 or 4.
Now you want to bring those frames over to psp to use as your pattern fill.
Go to EDIT--SELECT ALL ( this selects all the frames)


Go to FILE--EXPORT TO PAINT SHOP PRO

Now go back to PSP and you will see your glitter swatch there.
Activate it and look on your layer palette.
It will show you how many layers you will need to add onto your project.


Mine has 3 frames.
This means I must add 3 new raster layers to my project.
Activate your tube project. Go to layers, add new raster layers. Do this 3 times.
Rename those layers. fill 1--fill 2--fill 3--.
Right click on your layer palette and arrange your tube layer to bring it to the top.
This is what you should have on you layer palette.

TUBE
FILL 3
FILL 2
FILL 1
BACKGROUND or if transparent RASTER.

Activate your glitter frames you'll see the frames on your layer palette numbered already.
X out frame 2-3 and make sure you highlight frame 1.
Go to your pattern section on your color palette. Find the glitter pattern and click ok.


Activate your project.
X out fill 3-2- and highlight fill 1
Make sure fill 1 layer is highlighted.
Using your fill bucket, fill it that layer with glitter.

Activate your glitter swatch, X out frame 1--UNX frame 2
In your color palette, set the pattern again.
Activate your project.
X out fill 1 and UNX fill 2.
Fill 2 layer is highlighted on your layer palette, fill with glitter.

Activate your glitter swatch again, X out frame 2 --UNX frame 3.
In your color palette, set the pattern again.
Activate your project.
X out fill 2 and UNX fill 3.
Fill 3 layer is highlighted on your layer palette, fill with glitter.

Ok now you're ready to animate that glitter.

On your layer palette, highlight the background layer.
Xout fill 2-3 layers.
Edit--copy merged.
Over to Animation shop, EDIT--- PASTE AS A NEW ANIMATION.

Back to PSP, X OUT FILL 1 LAYER, UNX FILL 2 LAYER,
Edit---copy merged.
Over to Animation Shop, EDIT--- PASTE AFTER CURRENT FRAME.

Back to PSP, X OUT FILL 2 LAYER, UNX FILL 3 LAYER.
Edit---copy merged.
Back to Animation shop, EDIT--PASTE AFTER CURRENT FRAME.

You now have 3 frames in animation shop. Click to view.
If your happy with it, save as a .gif


Just remember to make sure you have the same amount of layers as you have frames of glitter. With glitters that have more than 3 frames, just add new raster layers to equal the same amount of frames on your project.
Hope this tut has helped you learn a bit about glittering around the outside of a tube.

Below will show you how to use your freehand/lasso tool to add glitter to a portion of a tube.
You can export the frames of glitter into PSP as shown above and use the fill in the areas you have freehand cut or you can add the glitter using noise in your PSP program.
Here's my project:


I just want to glitter the bow.
Using the freehand tool, I go around the bow from one end to the other.


Duplicate your tube layer 2x's

Now add the noise to each layer
1st layer noise at 40---2nd layer noise at 45---3rd layer noise at 50

Selections-- Select none.

X out layers 3 and 2. Highlight background layer.
Edit, copy merged.
Paste into animation shop as a new animation.
Go back n forth to PSP and copy merged your other 2 frames till you have 3 frames in animation shop.
View your animation, and save as a .gif.

Recently I tried to explain these steps but found it's so difficult to explain in words so I thought I'd show with ss's.
Usually a mask and tubes are on separate layers, but in this case, I didn't add a layer before adding my cloud tubes and the clouds are directly on the mask layer.
It worked out fine, because I didn't want the mask outside the frame anyway.lol.
But here is how I removed all the outside stuff and left only the tubes inside the frame.

My steps to this point were, new transparent image.
I flood filled with white.
New layer flood filled with yellow, and applied a mask.
Applied auto cloud tubes and copy & pasted my mouse tubes on as a new layer.
This is what it looks like:

I want to remove everything outside the frame.
So here are the steps to achieve that result.
Highlight the frame layer.
Using your magic wand, click inside the frame.


Ants will be marching inside the frame area.
Go to selections


--MODIFY--EXPAND by 3

SELECTIONS---INVERT---

Highlight the maskcloud layer



HIT DELETE key on your keyboard.

Everything outside the frame will be removed.


Select none.
Here's the finished image.

:o)Hope this helps if you ever find yourself needing to delete stuff.