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

PTU kit from Sam's Scraps called Lessons Of Love. You can purchase it at the PSP Project HERE

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Anna Liwanag. You must have a license to use these tubes. You can purchase them at PTE HERE

Mask 330 from weescotslass HERE

Fonts- Yellowtail & Signericia Fat

Let's begin!

-File>New 600x600 pixels.

-Open frame 2. Layer>Scale Layer 65%. Place towards the left of the canvas. Select your magic wand. Click inside the 1st square of the frame. Select>Grow 4. Open paper 16. Move paper below frame layer. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Open tube. Place tube in the selection. Delete. Select>None. Change the mode of the tube to value. Lower the opacity to 50. Make the frame active. Using the magic wand, click inside the 2nd square of frame. Add paper 13 (repeat steps above). Add your tube (same way as before). Change th mode of the tube to grain merge. Make the frame active. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 0, black, 50.

-Open tube again. Make the top layer. Scale 75%. Place at the end of frame (right side). Add drop shadow of 2, 2, 2, black, 50. Kayer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 50.

-Open frame 3. Make the bottom layer. Scale 50%. Select the rotate tool. Click the canvas. In the angle box put -20. See my tag for placement. Add paper 3 to this frame. Repeat drop shadow on frame.

Elements:

photo corner

flower 2

leaves 1- rotate -90

element 1

love letter

bow 1

brad 1

heart 2

flower 1

bird

-Open paper 4. Apply mask. Click HERE to learn how to use masks.

-Make the top layer acitve. Select the text tool. Change font to Signericia Fat. Change the foreground color to white. Size 30. Click canvas and type "Life is beautiful'. Place text at bottom of tag. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below text layer. Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection. Grow by 2. Change foreground to black. Select the bucket tool and fill selection. Select none. Repeat drop shadow.

-Add your name using the yellowtail font. Add your copyright.

All finished!