You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Xenofex 2 - Crumple
Tube of your choice.  I'm using the art of Nolan Worthington.  You can purchase his art from Artistic Minds Inc.
Gradient of your choice
Brushes of your choice (optional)

First open a new canvas 600 x 450, flood fill with white.  Add a new layer and flood fill with a gradient close in colours to the tube of your choice.

I'm using Landscape night, at angle 45, repeats 1.  Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur of 10.  This will just smooth out the lines.

Next go to Xenofex 2/Crumple, setting Glossy Paper, and add the following settings, or play around with them until you are happy with the results.  Then resize by 95%.

Next copy and paste the tube of your choice as a new layer, and resize until you are satisfied with the size.  Duplicate this tube, and mirror the top image.  Position them back to back, or face to face, depending on how you wish your finished tag to look.  Merge these tubes together, and add a drop shadow of V-2, H2, Opacity 74 and Blur 10.

Now add your text.  I used Jalapeno, vector, size 72, bold, with stoke black at size 2, and fill with the gradient used before.  Move text beneath the tubes, adjust size until happy.  When satisfied, convert layer to raster.  Take your magic wand, Tolerance 30, Mode set to Add, and click inside each letter.  Once each letter is selected, go to Selection, Modify, and contract 1.

Add a new layer and now add you brush of choice.  Merge down to your text, and add the same drop shadow you added to your tubes.

Finish off how you like.  I used sticky tape in the corners of the crumpled paper, and added a drop shadow to the crumpled background.  Add your copyright and then merged visible.  You should now have something like this.

Now if you want to make your eye's blink, continue, otherwise save your finished tag as a jpeg.

Duplicate your layer twice, so that you have three layers.  X out the top two layers and activate the bottom layer.  Zoom into the eye of one of your figures, and using your brush on the following settings and with a compatible colour of your eye outline colour it in.

You should have something like this.

Now uncheck the top two layers, activate your top layer and do the same with the opposite figure.  You should now have two layers with eyes coloured and one layer without.

Now open Animation Shop, and copy and paste each layer in after the other.  Paste the untouched layer in again after one of the altered ones.  So you should have four layers in this order, coloured eye, not coloured, coloured, not coloured.  Select all and change the Frame Properties to 80.  View animation and save.

You are done.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 23rd February 2006 and rewrote on 8th August 2008 by Faerie Queen.