Open 500x500 px canvas, flood fill with Pattern BWS836~DW1 with these settings: Angle 0, Scale 100.
Open the couple tube, Image/Resize 70%, All layers - unchecked. Adjust/Softness/Soften More. Place tube in the center of the canvas.
Activate the bottom layer then click in Layers/New Raster Layer. Selections/Select All; Selections/Modify/Select Selection Borders - inside ticked, border width=10. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow V and H 1, opacity 70, blur 3, color black. Repeat drop shadow changing V and H to -1. Selections/ Select None.
Layers/New Raster Layer. Get the Selections tool, Selection type: Rectangle, Mode: Replace, Feather: 0. Draw a rectangle leaving a space of approximately 20-25px from the inside border of the frame below.
Apply the same drop shadow effect as the frame below. Selections/Modify/Select Section Borders; inside ticked, border width=5. Apply the same drop shadow again.
Selections/Select None. Layers/Merge/Merge Down. Effects/3D Effects/Buttonize H=47, W=64, opacity=38, transparent-checked, color=white.
Now click on the top layer (the couple tube). Open the Pearl Divider tube. Edit/copy. Close the tube. Edit/paste as New Layer. Place the accent below the Couple, (see my tag for example).
Layers/Merge/Merge Down.
Get the text tool; in the Materials Palette set the foreground to color=#da969c and background to color=#f9eef1.
Font - 'Londonderry Air NF sizw:55 Bold anti-alias:Smooth Stroke width:1. Type your text and place right above the couple. (Squeeze the text to fit inside the inner frame if necessary)
Layers/Convert to Raster Layer. Effects/Plugins/Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000/Impact/Glass; see diagram below for settings:

Adjust/One Stop Photo Fix. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow with these settings: V 5, H 0, Opacity 50, Blur 9, Color black.
Add you name and copyright info if applicable. Close the bottom (Flower pattern) layer. Click on the top layer. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible. Duplicate this layer 2 times.
Get the white sparkle tube with the tube tool and place sparkles on the roses (and the Pearl divider if you wish to) in different places on these 3 layers.
Close off all 3 tube layers.

Making the Kaleidoscope

NOTE: If you do not want to make the Kaleidoscope use the Template provided in the supplies, just paste each layer to the canvas and follow the **assembly instructions below.
If you are using your own background pattern then you may want to create your own Kaleidoscope, just use a bottom border mask.

Layers/New raster layer. Make sure this layer is below the tube layers.
In the Materials Palette select the flower pattern again with these settings: Angle 0, Scale 50. Flood fill the new layer.
Layers/Load Mask from disk - burngardendworish_small.jpg (New Mask Layer if you have the mask image open on your workspace), use these settings: All of these ticked - Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas, Invert Transparency, and Show All Mask; color white.
Layers/Merge/Merge Group. Duplicate this layer 2 times. Effects/Reflection Effects/Kaleidoscope; see the diagram below for settings apply to the first mask layer,

Apply the effect to the next two layers changing the 'Radial Suction' to 7 and then 5. Click on the 2nd Kaleidoscope layer; Image/Free Rotate - Right 18 degrees, all layers unchecked. Do the same with the 3rd layer changing direction to 28 degrees.
Click on the 2nd Kaleidoscope layer. Adjust/Hue and Saturation/Hue Map; see diagrams below and apply the exact settings diagram 1 to the 2nd layer and diagram 2 to the 3rd layer.

Now click on the bottom (background) layer and activate it (open it if it is closed). Duplicate this layer 2 times.
**You now have nine layers, 3 framed tube, 3 kaleidoscope, and 3 backgrounds.
Click on the top layer. Close the 2nd and 3rd layers. Now close the 2nd and 3rd kaleidoscope layers. Now close the 2nd and 3rd background layers.
Layers/Merge/Merge Visible. Now close the top (merged) layer. Click on and open the 2nd layer of each group. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible. Repeat with the last group of layers.
You now have 3 layers which are your 3 frames for animation. Click on your first frame. Edit/copy. Open your favorite Animation editor and click on Edit/Paste as new animation.
Go back to PSP and repeat the Edit/Copy with the 2nd frame. Paste into the animator as a 'new frame' or 'after current frame'; then the 3rd frame.
Set the frame speed in the animation properties to 20 and save as .gif file.

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