Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
Animation Shop
Tube of choice, best a full tube and a close up, mine is by Ismael Rac and used with a license
A Scrap Kit, mine is by Bluedream Designs and it's a taggersize freebie.
A Blinkie Template, I used one by Lori
Font(s) of choice, mine is Licorice
Filters Cybia-The Works
Mask 12 by Gabee
You should have some knowledge of working with layers for this.

Open a new canvas, 600x600 and paste one of the papers into it. Apply Gabeemask12, merge group. Take your selection tool, set to ellipse and draw an ellipse roughly the same as the ellipse in the masked paper. If you only get it almost right like me, always too far to one side, you can edit the selection. with the selection active and in the wrong place, go to selections/ edit selection,. you will now see a red ellipse. You can move that with your move tool and change the size and dimensions with the raster deform tool. Once you're happy, go to selections/ and click on edit selection again. While you're there, invert selection. Copy and paste your close up as a new layer and hit delete on your keyboard.

To this you apply Cybia Edgeworks, I used Depth at 67 and then Glitter at 133 & 155. Find out what works best with your tube. Then I changed the blendmode to Multiply and lowered the transparency to 67. Hide the bottom layer and merge the mask layer and tube visible.
Now pick the blinkie you want to use and copy it via a selection from the template. Paste once as a new image and minimise for now and once onto the tag. Pick one you think your name fits in best. Move it on the tag where you later want your name to be. Rename this layer name. It is only a space keeper.

I now pasted my other tube onto the tag and mirrored it. Add all the embellishments you fancy, and don't forget some dropshadows for some depth. Remember to not cover up the blinkie. If you want to use the BD-BCA-2009-Wrap1 like I did, just mask it also with the same mask set to 'fit to canvas'.
Happy? Then delete the name layer and merge all other layers visible. Resize all layers. Add credits legibly and merge down.

Now we will work on the blinkie we minimised earlier. Note that these exact instructions will only work for the same blinkie I used. Open it up and zoom in about 400%. With the selection tool set to rectangle, make a rectangle the same size as the outer frame. Invert selection. Paste a paper as a new layer, drag it underneath the template and hit delete. Name it 'back' and duplicate it. Activate Raster 1 and rename it frame. With your magic wand set to Add, RGB Value, Tolerance and feather to 0, click into the space between the two frames. Floodfill with a contrasting colour from your tag. Now duplicate the frame layer also.

Now click into each heart with the magic wand. Select two colours from your tag as foreground and background. Floodfill, set to RGB Value, the hearts on one frame layer light-dark-light-dark etc. and vice versa on the other. Select none when you're done. Now resize it the same percentage you resized your tag. Hide the copy layers, merge 'back' with 'frame', hide that, unhide the copies and merge them visible. If you want to use again as a blank, save it now. Add your name to the blinkie. Dropshadow. Now resize the blinkie canvas so you can add a dropshadow to both merged layers. You still with me?

Open AS. Copy and paste your one layered tag into AS as a new animation, duplicate, so you have two frames. Edit/select all.
Back in PSP, hide the middle layer of your blinkie and 'copy merged' the bottom layer with your name. Paste as a new animation.
In PSP, unhide the hidden layer and hide the bottom layer. Copy merged and paste into AS after current frame on the blinkie frame.
Edit/select all. Copy and paste the blinkie into selected frame on your tag. Move it until it sits where you planned it to be and then click onto the tag. Now we need to adjust the speed. Go to animation/frame properties with both frames still selected. I set the speed on mine to 22. I also changed the animation properties. I set mine to white, you can set them to the colour background you will use you tag on. Save as gif.

For the forum set I used the scrapkit GhostTrain by Life With Shal.

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