Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
Animation Shop
Tube of choice, mine is by Jasmine Becket-Griffith and used with a CILM license
A Scrap Kit with a dangly item, mine is 'What's Up, Little Witch' by Sevens Scraps and you must purchase it to get creative with it.
Font(s) of choice, mine are Lipstick Script SSK and 2Peas Fat Frog.
Filters AAA Frames Texture
Mask You'll make this yourself from a kit item.
You should have some knowledge of working with layers for this.

Open a new canvas 600x600. Paste paper 13. Open one of the haunted houses. Shift+D to make a duplicate, close the original. Add a new raster and send to the bottom, floodfill this with white and merge visible. This is your mask, activate your canvas and go to Layers/ New Mask Layer/ From Image. Find the mask, invert mask data checked and apply. Merge group and add a dropshadow.

Add template02 as a new layer, arrange below the masked layer and also add a dropshadow. And add paper12 as your bottom most layer. Highlight the topmost layer and add your tube as a new layer, give it a dropshadow. Now add the embellishments you fancy, maybe add some writing. Don't forget the dropshadows. Make sure you add a dangly spider and place where it won't dangle off your tag. ;o)

Once you are happy merge all visible after hiding your dangly item. On the merged layer apply AAA Frames texture with these settings.
Width 12, stroke checked and set to 0, Brightness -44, Soften 3, Opacity 68. Resize 85%. Add all credits and hide the spider again, merge visible.

Now prepare the spider animation. Duplicate the spider layer until you have 5 layers.
1. layer: Image/Rotate/Free rotate 18 degrees right
2. layer: Image/Rotate/Free rotate 10 degrees right
3. layer: Leave as it is
4. layer: Image/Rotate/Free rotate 10 degrees left
5. layer: Image/Rotate/Free rotate 18 degrees left
You now need to align all the ends of the string to the same place where the one from Layer3 is. Hide the spider layers apart from layer3 and the one you're aligning.

Add your name, I duplicated the name and set the top layers blendmode to multiply, merge down.
Now hide the 4 top spiders, right click on your tag and copy merged. Paste into Animation Shop as New Animation. In PSP hide the bottom spider and unhide te 2nd layer, copy merged and paste in AS after current frame. Carry on doing this until you have 5 frames in AS. Make sure you have them in the correct oder.
Play the animation to check, and also to check if you aligned the tops of the strings well. If you haven't you have to go back to PSP and do it again for that frame. Simply copy merged again. In AS delete the faulty frame and activate the one beforehand, so you can paste after current again.

Happy with it all? Then hold shift and click on frames 1-4 to select them. Right click copy, click on frame 5 to select it and paste after current frame.
Do not deselect anything. Go to Animation/Reverse Frames. Play the animation, the spider should now dangle nicely from side to side. Save as a gif. ;o)

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