Poinsettia

Open the poinsettia tube. Press shift and d to make a duplicate and close the original.

Click on the magic wand tool.

Use the magic wand settings in the screenshot.

Click on the petals of the flower to select them. Don't worry if you don't get every part of the petals. We just need most of the petals selected.

Go to your layer palette and right click on the flower. Click on Duplicate. Do this again so you have 3 layers with the flower on. Click on Layer 1 to make it the active layer.

Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise

Use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on the first Copy of layer 1 to make it active.

Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on the second Copy of layer 1 to make it active.

Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise and use the settings in the screenshot.

Save as a psp file.

Open a new image.

Flood fill it with white

Go to Image > Borders > and use the settings in the screenshot. It doesn't matter what colour is in the colour box as we're going to flood fill the border.

Select the border with the magic wand and flood fill it with solid colour #db4840. Keep the border selected. Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel and use the settings in the screenshot.

Go to the layer palette and duplicate the background layer twice so you have 3 layers of the frame. Click on the bottom layer to make it the active layer.

Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on the first copy layer to make it the active layer.

Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on the second copy layer to make it the active layer.

Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise and use the settings in the screenshot.

Save the image as a psp file in a folder of your choice

Open a new image big enough for your text.

Click on the text tool and use the settings in the screenshot. Set your foreground to Null (null means no colour) and your background colour to #db4840

Click on your new canvas and type your text in the text entry box when it opens.

Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel and use the settings in the screenshot.

Go to the layer palette and duplicate Raster 1 layer twice so you have 3 layers with text on. Click on raster 1 to make it the active layer.

Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on the first copy layer to make it the active layer.

Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on the second copy layer to make it the active layer.

Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on the Crop tool

Click on Snap Crop Rectangle to Layer Opaque

This is what you will have.

Click on the tick to perform the crop.

This is what you will now have.

Save as a psp file to a folder of your choice.

Open Animation Shop and open the 3 psp files.

Click on the flower file. Go to Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy or press ctrl and a, then ctrl and c on your keyboard. Click on the frame file and go to Edit > Select All then Edit > Paste > Into Selected or press ctrl and a then ctrl and e on your keyboard. Move the flower where you want it and click once to position it.

Click on the text file. Go to Edit > Select All then Edit > Copy or press ctrl and a, then ctrl and c on your keyboard. Click on the frame file and go to Edit > Select All then Edit > Paste > Into Selected or press ctrl and a then ctrl and e on your keyboard. Move the text where you want it and click once to position it.

Save and you're done :o)

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