6. Now your outline should look something like this, with the Text inside the Sprite

and your document should look like this:

7. Now use the Rectangle tool to drew and rectangle, under the Shape windows, select Radial Gradient, and make the color effect in your perferance. I used lime green-white here.  Rename your shape, in this case I named it to “RM”

See screenshot

8. Make sure your document looks something  like mine

9. Now make sure your Outline looks like this

Remember use are using Bottom As Mask, therefore the text is alway at the bottom (RMTEMPLATES.COM is at the bottom in this tutorial)

Continue to step 3