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 (or progran of choice)

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Keith Garvey. You must have a license to use his tubes. You can purchase the tube I used starting 5-01-12 at PSP Tubes Emporium

Template 4 from Brunette & MzDixi over on the Creative Misfits Blog

FTU scrap kit Time Flies from Aurelie

Font- Lovers Quarrel

-Open template. Delete credits & blurred pink ciecle layer. Image>Scale Image 450x450 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. Right click layer in layer box and choose Scale Image. Scale by 15%. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Select>None. Delete the original template layer.Here are the template layers and which papers I used:

pink circle- paper 7 Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 10, black, 50

copy of black rectangle- paper 4 repeat drop shadow

black rectangle- paper 6 repeat drop shadow

-Make the small grey square layer active. Alpha to selection. Open paper 9. Add alpha channel. Scale 15%. Invert & delete. Open tube close up. Scale 65%. Place in the selection. Delete. Select none. Change the mode of the tube to grain merge. Repeat for small grey square 1 (using paper 2 and setting the mode of the tube to hard light) and small grey square 2 (using paper 1 and setting the mode of the tube to value).

-Repeat drop shadow on raster 1.

-Make raster 2 active. Colors>Colorize: Hue: 13, Saturation: 85, Lightness: 2. Repeat drop shadow. Rpeat for raster 2.

-Open full body tube. Select the flip tool and click canvas to flip tube. Place in the middle of the tag. Add drop shadow of 2, 2, 2, black, 50. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 50.

Elements:

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30

14

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46

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15 - Rotate -25

-Add name and copyright and your done!