This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tuts is purely coincidental. This tutorial is for personal use only, using it for monetary gain is against our TOU's. Supplies Needed: ~Gimp (any version will do) ~Tube of choice. I used the adorable artwork of Suzanne Woolcott. You must have a license to use her work which you can get HERE. ~A Pirate's Life PTU scrapkit which you can get from Creative Intentionz HERE. ~Mask of choice. I used WSL mask353 which you can get HERE. ~Font of choice. I used BlackJack and VTKS Black. Let's get started!!! 1. Open a new canvas (I prefer a large canvas, so I make mine 1050x656). Make your canvas transparent (Layer > Transparency > Color to alpha). 2. Open Frame #2, add drop shadow (Filters > Light & Shadow > Drop Shadow). 3. Open your tube, add drop shadow 4. Open and place the following elements: Map Flag RibbonWrap 3 Ship Parrot BeadString 2 Bow 1 PalmTree GoldCoins ~Add drop shadow to all elements~ 5. Open Paper 11 6. Open mask 7. Add mask to paper (right click on paper layer in layer box > add layer mask > black full transparency). ~Select mask layer in layer box, right click on mask layer (on canvas) > copy. ~Make mask layer invisible (click on eye next to mask in layer box). ~Select paper in layer box, right click on paper (on canvas, all you will see is the outline of the paper) > Paste. ~Anchor layer (click on anchor next to trash can on layer box). ~Right click on paper layer in layer box > apply layer mask. ~Delete mask from layer box 8. Add "A pirate's life for me" text 9. Merge layers (Image > Merge Visible Layers) 10. Crop Image (Image > Autocrop Image) 11. Scale image to desired size (Image > Scale Image) 12. Add copyright info and name 13. Save as .png TA DA!!!!!! You are done!!!!!