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: Gimp- Any version should work Tube of choice. I am using the work of Ismael Rac. You must have a licence to use his art. You can purchase his tubes HERE. Beautiful PTU scrap kit 'Autumn Wind' from Artmama Made HERE. Wanna Puck template from CrazyCakesScraps HERE. WSL Mask 81 HERE Font- Aquarelle Let's begin! -Open your template in Gimp. Delete Raster 1, dotline1 & 2, star 1 & 2 and the copyright info. Using your crop tool, crop the template as closeto the edges as possible without cutting off any of the template. After you crop, go to Image>Scale Image. In the width column put in 425 and press enter on your keyboard. Then press scale. Now go to Image>Canvas Size. Make your canvas size 450x450 pixels. Press center. -Make your oval layer active. Right click the layer in the layer box and press layer to image size. Using your magic wand click outside the oval. Delete this layer by pressing the little trash can icon on the bottom of the layer box. Open paper 16. Right click the layer in the layer box and press add aloha channel. Now go to Layer>Scale Layer by 50%. Press delete on your keyboard to delete the excess paper. Go to Select>None. Layer to image size again. Right click the layer in the layer box and press alpha to selection. Go to Select>Grow by 3. Add a new layer above this layer. Using your bucket fill tool, fill with 7ba277. Now go to Select>Shrink by 5. Press delete on your keyboard. Select none. Go to Filters>Light and Shadow>Drop Shadow of 2, 2, 2, black, 40. -Make the backtangle layer active. Layer to image size and click outside using the magic wand.Open paper 5. Add alpha channel and scale by 50%. Select none. Layer to Image size. Alpha to selection and add new layer above this layer. Grow by 2. Fill new layer with the same green color as before. Shrink by 4. Select none and add same drop shadow. Delete the backtangle layer. -Make the circle layer active. Layer to image size and click outside using the magic wand. Open paper 19. Add alpha channel and scale by 50%. Press delete on your keyboard. Select none and layer to inage size. Delete the original circle layer. -Make the glitterframe layer active. Layer to image size and alpha to selection. Add new layer above this later. Fill with fdcd8e. Select none and add drop shadow. Delete the glitterframe layer. -Make the square layer active. Layer to image size. Click outside with magic wand. Open paper 18. Add alpha channel and scale by 50%. Press delete. Select none. Layer to image size and alpha to selection. Add new layer below this layer. Grow by 3 and fill with cream color used before. Select none. Delete the original square layer. -Make the backcircle layer active. Layer to image size. Using magic wand click outside circle. Open paper 1. Add alpha channel and scale by 50%. Press delete. Select none. Layer to image size and alpha to selection. Add new layer below this layer. Grow by 4. Fill with 573912. Select none. Add drop shadow. Delete back circle layer. -Make the frontangle layer active. Layer to image size. Click outside with magic wand. Open paper 11. Add alpha channel and scale by 50%. Press delete. Select none. Layer to image size. Alpha to selection. Add new layer above this layer. Grow by 3. Fill with same brown color. Shrink by 4 and press delete. Select none and add drop shadow. Delete frontangle layer. -Make the star 1 layer active. Layer to image size and using the magic wand click INSIDE the star. Add new layer above this layer and fill with green color from before. Select none. Add drop shadow. Delete the star1 layer. Do the same with the star 2 layer, but fill with cream color used before. -Open your tube. Move this layer to the top in the layer box. Go to Layer>Duplicate Layer and duplicate. Click the little eye next to one of your tube layers to hide the layer. Make sure your visible tube layer is active. Scale by 65%. Using your flip tool, flip your tube. Move this tube layer above the oval in the layer box. Make your oval layer active. Using the magic wand, click outside the oval. Make your tube layer active again. Press delete. Select none and layer to image size. Change the mode to grain merge. Unhide your other tube layer and make it active. Scale by 40%. Layer to image size and add drop shadow. Make your oval layer active agai and click outside with magic wand. Make your tube layer avtive again and erase the left side of the tube that is sticking out of the oval. See my tag as a reference. Select none. Element time! Add drop shadow to all element layers. See my tag as a reference as to where to place element layers. -Element 5 Move layer to the very bottom Scale by 65% -Element 29 Move layer to the top Scale by 50% -Element 46 Move layer to the bottom Scale by 40% -Element 34 Move layer below the rectangle layer Scale by 35% -Element 9 Scale by 50% -Element 31 Scale by 85% -Element 36 Move below main tube layer Scale by 35% -Element 8 Move layer below oval layer Scale by 35% Using the rotate tool, rotate by -50 -Element 32 Move above other ribbon Flip using the flip tool 85% -Element 6 Move to the bottom Scale by 50% -Element 23 Move to the bottom Scale by 50% -Element 40 Move to the top Scale by 35% Duplicate and flip -Next we are going to add a mask. -Now add your name. I used the brown we used earlier and the outline is the cream color we used before. Add drop shadow. -Add copyright. -Go to Image>Merge Visible Layers. Now go to Image>Autocrop Image. Save and you are finished!