You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Clock face and Hands from dozi's Scrap
New Year Party Scrap Kit from Simply Sensational Scraps, supplied with permission. 
(Thanks Monica)
Hazy mask of choice
Tube of choice.  I'm using the art of Dominic Marco.  You can purchase his tubes from CILM
Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow - optional
Fonts of choice

Okay, lets get started.  Open a new canvas of 500x500, flood filled with white.  Copy and paste your choice of papers from the kit.  I'm using the black with starry background.  Resize by 95%, all layers unchecked, and then apply your choice of mask.  Merge group.

Open your clock faces.  Copy your choice of face, and paste as a new layer on your active canvas.  If like me you are using the one without numbers, resize by 75, all layers unchecked.  If using the one without numbers you will notice there is no central dot.  You can do what I did, and using your magic wand, select the dot from the centre of the numbered clock, and copy and paste as a new layer on your canvas.  This should automatically central it.

Open your clock hands.  You'll want one small and one large.  Copy and paste each into your canvas, and resize both by 25%, position below your dot, with the small hand below the big hand.  Duplicate the big hand and with the copy, free rotate it left by 6%.  Position it so it lines up under the dot, then go Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.  Duplicate this, and rotate again 6% to the left.  Sharpen again and position.  Duplicate this one more time, and rotate by 6% to the left, sharpen, and position.  Now hide the previous three minute hands.  Active the hour hand and duplicate this.  Free rotate this to the left by 6%, sharpen and position.  Hide the original.  You should now have four minute hands and two hour hands, with all hidden except the approaching minute and hour hand.  We will animate this later.  Add a light drop shadow to these if you like.

Now open your kit, and select some decorations.  I'm adding balloons (resizing by 75%), stars (resizing by 65, moved below the clock face), champagne flutes (resized by 45% and moved to the top), confetti (resized by 85%, positioned below the clock and lower the opacity to 50%), and firework (positioned above the confetti and lowered opacity to 50%, position central with the clock).  That seemed enough for me.

Copy and paste your tube of choice, and resize if necessary.  Position it to either the left or right out of the way of the clock hands.  Add a drop shadow of choice.

Now using a font of choice, add your Happy New Year.  I'm using gold gradient for this, converted to raster, then added a gradient glow.  But that is optional.  Add a drop shadow, then lower your opacity to 0 as we are going to faze this in.

Now add your name and copyright, and we are ready to start animation.

Okay, with all layers in view, accept two minute hands nearest to the hour, one minute hand on the hour and the one hour hand on the hour, and with the HNY opacity down to 0, copy merged and paste in Animation Shop as a new animation.  Back in PSP hide the minute hand and unhide the next.  Copy merged, and paste in AS after the current frame.  Do the same with the next one.  Then on the final one you are hiding both the minute and hour and unhiding the last minute and hour hands.  At the same time, and on your HNY change the opacity to 20.  Copy merged and paste in AS after current frame.  Then in PSP keep moving the opacity up by 20, and copy merged and pasting them over into AS until you have copied over the last frame at 100% opacity.

In AS, you should now have eight frames.  On the first three, change the frame properties to 100, and change the eighth frame to 200.  Save as a gif file, and you are done.  Play around if you don't like the frame settings.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  Happy New Year xxx.

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 28th December 2008 by Faerie Queen.