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 Summer Lolita from Tasha's Playground

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Alex Prihodko. You must have a license to use these tubes. Purchase the one I used at Pics For Design

Template 135 from me HERE

Fonts- Bank Gothic & Clipper Script

-Open template. Delete credits. Image>Scale Image 450x352 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 7

5- paper 5

7- paper 6

8- paper 4 Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 2, black, 50

9- paper 3 repeat drop shadow

10 & 12- paper 1 repeat drop shadow

11- paper 2

-Make layer 1 active. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.40. Repeat drop shadow.

-Make layer 3 active. Colors>Colorize Hue: 180, Saturation: 0, Lightness: -77. Repeat noise & drop shadow.

-Make layer 4 active. Repeat colorize, noise and drop shadow.

-Make layer 6 active. Repeat noise and drop shadow.

-Open tube. Make the top layer. Layer>Scale Layer 35%. Place tube to the right side of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open frame 3. Move below the tube layer. Scale 70%. Select the rotate tool and click canvas. In the angle box put 90. Place frame at the bottom of tag. Select the magic wand. While pressing shift, click inside all 4 boxes of frame. Select>Grow 2. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below frame layer. Change foreground color to 9d0000 & background color to 454545. Select the blend tool. Gradient: FG TO BG (RGB), Shape: Bi-Linear. Click the top left corner of the 1st box of frame ad drag to the bottom right corner of the 2nd box. Open tube again. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Place 1 tube in the 1st box of frame and the other in the 2nd box of frame. Merge these tubes together (Layer>Merge Down). Invert & delete. Select none. Change the mode of the tube layer to value. Repeat drop shadow on frame.

Elements:

sparkle 2

bird

bow 2

papaer heart

flowers

hearts

flower

flower 2

water

flair

palm tree

cherry lips

butterfly - rotate 15

-Make the top layer active. Select the text tool. Font: Bank Gothic, Size 45, Foreground: white. Click canvas and type Summer Hottie. Alpha to seleciton. Grow by 2. Add new layer. Move new layer below text. Change foreground to red from earlier. Select the bucket fill tool and fill the selection. Select none. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Repeat noise. Make the text active. Repeat drop shadow.

-Add name with the clipper script font and also add copyright.

All done!