You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Masks here and here.  Thank you MzKel for the mask
Snowflake blings, which you can dowload from Angel's Darkroom.
Font of choice or mine, Christmas Card here.
Tube of your choice.  I'm using one from Mitch Foust art.  Please visit his site here.
 

Lets get started.  Put the masks in your mask folder.  Open new canvas, 500 x 500 flood filled with white.  Add two more new layers and flood fill each with two complimenting colours from your tube.  I'm using a dark and light blue.  I had the darker colour on top.  Go to Layers/ Load/Save Mask/ Load Mask from Disk, and find the mDshimmery mask and use the settings as below.

Merge group, then merge the masked layer down to the coloured layer.  Your should now have the white background, and the merged layer.

On the merged layer add the 218MaskkelsWWA mask.  This time you will need to have the 'invert transparency' checked.

Merge group, and resize by 85%.

Add your tube and resize and position to the right of your canvas.  Add a drop shadow of H=-3, V=3, Opacity 45 and Blur 8.

Now add your copyright and text.  I'm going to use the font Christmas Card, using the darker colour of the two I used earlier.  Resize, convert to raster and add the same drop shadow as before.  Position in the bottom left hand corner of your tag.

Hide your white background layer and the masked layer, with your tube layer active, merge visible.  Hide this layer and unhide the other two layers, and again merge visible.  You should now have two layers.  Crop your image.

Copy your background layer and paste in to Animation Shop as a new animation.  We are now going to add our bling snowflakes.  Open the blings you are going to us.  I'm going to use two difference snowflakes.  The snowflakes have three frames.  Duplicate your background layer so you have the same amount of frames.  On your bling, select all, copy.  Back on your background frames, select all, and paste into selected frames.  I'm adding both blings twice, so I have four in total like so.

Back in Paint Shop, copy your merged layer and paste in Animation Shop as a new animation.  Duplicate until you have the same number of frames as before, select all, copy, and paste into selected frames of your animation.

Click view animation and save as a gif file.

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 19th November 2006 by Faerie Queen.