Supplies:

Kit- "A Little Birdie Told Me" by Farrah's Designs here. This is part a FTU blog train done by some of the designers and CT from Designer's Scraps. Make sure you check out all the stops!

Tube- Artwork by Suzanne Woolcott. You can find her Gorjuss girls here. You must have a valid license to use this art work.

Font- Eight Fifteen, a FTU font here

Plug Ins- penta.com>dots and crosses

Animation of choice- I used 'Sparkles Animation 3 Patricia' which you can get here (thank you, Marty for letting me know the link for this!)

Basic knowledge of Animation Shop is needed for this tutorial

Here we go :)

Open a new canvas whatever size you want our banner to be. 

I like mine 650x200

resize and c/p paper 1 onto canvas

resize and c/p paper 2 onto canvas-see my tag for placement

resize and c/p paper 5 onto canvas-see my tag for placement

add drop shadows

resize and c/p frame onto canvas

Image>rotate>free rotate to the right 15%

duplicate and mirror frame layer

Using your magic wand tool, click inside each window of one of your frames

selections>modify>expand by 5

c/p tube of choice under frame

selections>invert

on tube layer, hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

duplicate and mirror tube layer

merge tube layers

Duplicate your tube layer

Adjust>blur>gaussian blur 3

change blend mode to screen, opacity 66

duplicate and change blend mode to soft light

add main tube of choice, place above frames and center it

add drop shadow

add elements from the kit:

ribbon

flower 1

birdhouse

trim

flower 1- duplicate, mirror

flower 2- duplicate several times and place along bottom of banner

Once you have everything how you want it, crop your tag back to the original size

Highlight your background layer

selections>select all>float>defloat

selections>select selections borders:

Inside, 4

add a new raster layer and flood fill with color or gradient of choice

move this layer to the top of your tag

penta.com>dots and cross:

72, 10, 2

effects>inner bevel

highlight bottom layer again

selections>select all>float>defloat

selections>modify>select selections borders

Inside, 6

add a new raster layer

flood fill with color or gradient of choice

move to the top under your other frame layer

add noise about 60%

add dropshadow:

1, 1, 50, 2

-1, -1, 50, 2

add copyright and license info

add name and any text

If you aren't going to animate, merge your layers and save.

To animate:

close off your border layers, copyright, license, and main tube layer

copy merged

Open as a new animation in animation shop

duplicate this so you have the same amount of layers as in whatever ani you're using

Highlight your ani frames- select all>copy

Highlight your banner- select all>paste into selected frame

back to psp.

Unhide your borders, copyright, license and main tube layers

Hide the rest of the layers

copy merged and open as a new animation in AS

duplicate so you have the same amount of layers as your previous image

select all>copy

highlight your banner you just added the ani to

select all>paste into selected frame

View your animation

if you're happy with it, save as a .GIF file

For the avatar:

Open an image 150x150

I closed off layers from my banner until I got to the tube images under the frames

Copy merged, paste as a new layer on avi canvas

Add borders following the directions for the banner

but change the first border to 2 pixels

and the second to 4 pixels

Add copyright, license and name

merge and save!!

Thank you for trying my tut! If you have any questions or would like to show me your results, please email me: bananas_68@yahoo.com