Supplies needed... a Tube of your choice
                   Your own or my blinkie template
preset shape or decorative elements
Animation Shop

If you do not use animation shop you can make a static blinkie tag

Open a new canvas 500 x 500 and floodfill with white

Add a new layer - click on your selection tool set to rectangle

Draw out a circle in the middle of your canvas to cover about 60%

Go to Selections - Modify  - Feather and set to 45

Floodfill with a dark colour from your tube

Copy and paste the blinkie template as a new layer

You May colourise the blinkie to suit your chosen tube

Name this as Blinkie 1 on your layer pallette

Duplicate this layer and rename Blinkie 2

Close off Blinkie 2 and make sure you have Blinkie 1 active

Take your Brush tool set to square and a size which just fits neatly over
the small blinkie squares along the top. 

In your colour pallette have light colour for foregrand and a dark colour for fill

Hover over the first square and click the left mouse button..
Hover over the second square and click the right mouse button...

Repeat these two steps until you have coloured all squares top and bottom

This image shows where your colours should be on both layers

Close off your Blinkie 1 and open Blinkie 2 and make active

Follow the same steps in reverse for this layer

Look at the sample image as a guide

This done add your tube as a new layer making sure it is the top layer

Add a drop shadow to the tube and words if you wish

I then added a couple of decorative shapes from the preset menu

You may add any elements or scraps to suit

Add your copyright and credit information

Add your name

Now to animation Shop for those who wish to make it blink

In PSP make sure you have one of the blinkie layers closed

Now Copy/Merged your Tag and Paste as a new animation in AS

Back to PSP.... hide the blinkie layer you had and open the other one

Now Copy/Merged again and paste after the current image in  AS

Go to edit select all and change frame properties to 20

Save your animation as a Gif

If you have any questions please ask

Hope you enjoy the tutorial

Hugs Jennie

Artwork copyright Bobbie Allen
Background by JJDezignz