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 program of choice

PTU kit Hibiscus from Gimptastic Scraps

Template 59 by me HERE

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Zlata M. You must have a license to use her tubes. You can purchase the one I used at The PSP Project.

Mask 5 from Melissaz Creations

Fonts- Jenna Sue & Japan

-Open template. Delete credits. Image>Scale Image 450x258 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. FIlters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 0, 0, 5, black, 80. Delete the original template layer.Here are the template layers and which papers I used:

circle 1- paper 3

circle 2- paper 4

circle 3 & circle 4- paper 8

circle 5 & circle 6- paper 7

rect- paper 2

-Open the tube layer. Make the top layer. Layer>Scale Layer 60%. Place in the center of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open leaf 2. Make the top layer. Place at the bottom of the tube. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Move duplicate under the tube layer. Repeat drop shadow. Make the top leaf layer active. Erase the part of the leaf covering the tubes hand. Make the tube active. Erase the bottom half sticking below the leaf.

Elements:

branch

flower 1

lei - duplicate & flip

cocktail - rotate -15

wave - duplicate - flip - flip again pressing ctrl

flower 2

net

kiwi

head dress

twig

shell 3

-Make the text tool active. Font: Jenna Sue. Size 100. Foreground color 60d213. Click canvas and type 'Aloha'. Place text at the bottom of tag. Alpha to selection. Grow by 2. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below text layer. Foreground: c1244f. Select the bucket fill tool and fill selection. Select none. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.30. Repeat drop shadow.

-Add your name with the Japan font. Also add copyright.

All Done!