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 Bibi's Collection called Lollipop Babe. You can purchase it at The PSP Project HERE

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Verymany. You must have a license to use these tubes. Purchase them at Pics For Design HERE

Template 126 by me HERE

Mask 21 by Witchys Heart HERE

Font- Milkmoustachio

Lets begin!

-Open template. Delete credits. Image>Scale Image 450x281 px. Image>Canvas Size 600x600 px and click center.

-Let's add papers to the template layers. Make the template layer active (see below). Right click template layer in layer box and choose alpha to selection. Open paper (see below). Right click paper layer in layer box and choose add alpha channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Select>None. Delete the original template layer.Here are the template layers and which papers I used:

2- paper 2 Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 0, 0, 10, black, 80

3- paper 3

5- paper 5

7- paper 1 Drop shadow of 2, 2, 2, black, 50

8- paper 1 repeat drop shadow

9- paper 4 drop shadow of 0, 0, 10, black, 80

-Make layer 1 active. Alpha to selection. Change foreground color to 5f042f. Select the bucket fill tool and fill selection. Select none. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all the sliders (except alpha) to 0.40. Add drop shadow of 2, 2, 2, black, 50.

-Make layer 4 active. Colors>Colorize. Change the lightness to -100. Repeat drop shadow. Repeat for layer 5.

-Make words 1 active. Colorize: Hue: 325, Saturation: 63, Lightness: -24.

-Repeat drop shadow on words 2 and words 4.

-Open tube. Move below the word layers. Layer>Scale Layer 55%. Place tube in the middle of tag. Repeat drop shadow. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 50.

Elements:

43

20

16

81

5

19

37

6

51

55

56

15

71

-Open paper 8. Make the bottom layer. Apply mask. Click HERE to learn how to use masks.

-Add name and copyright.

All finished!