Baby Days

For this tutorial I used the work of Laurie at Candy Coated Scraps. The Kit name is My Angels and can be found HERE
Vix Mask #333 you can find the link to that in my quick links on the right hand side of the page.
Animations Shop you can find the link to that in my quick links on the right hand side of the page.

To begin you will ned to open elements 16 and 17, the flower frames.

Useing your freehand selection tool you are going to want to select around one of the flower bunches. and Copy

On your other flower frame you are going to paste as a new layer. Move this so it covers the same flower on the new frame.

Go back and repeate these steps with every other flower bunch, or how ever you would like until your new frame looks the way you would like it.

Layers>Merge Visable Minamize this canvas.

Open 2 papers of choice, one blue and one pink.

Apply the Vix Mask 333 to one of your papers. Copy Merged

Paste on your other Paper. I added a drop shadow of 2, 2, 100, 10 black

Copy Merged

Open Frame back up and Paste this as a new layer Under your frame.

Using your freehand selection tool, draw around the inside of the frame. Invert Selection, making sure you have the papers layer seleced hit delete on your keyboard.

You should now have the background only inside your frame.

This is where you can get creative and you can add what ever elements you would like to your frame.

Add any wording you would like.

Remember your copyrights

Merge ALL

Add your rocking horse and place where you would like it, with the nose of the horse pointed slightly downwards.

Resize, I made mine to around 400x400

Copy Merged

In Animation Shop Paste the as a new animation

Back to PSP, Rotate the rocking horse so it appears to be sitting level and copy Merged

Animations Shop> Paste after current frame.

Back to PSP

Rotate again until the tail in pointed downwards, Copy Merged

Animation Shop, Paste after current frame.

Select your 2nd frame by making sure it is the only frame with a red and blue line around it, Copy

Paste this after frame 3\

Select all by hitting Ctrl + A

Animation>Frame Properties and change this number to around 40

Run your animation and save!