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 Golden Moments from Gimptastic Scraps

Tube of choice. I am using Pinuptoons. You must have a license to use these tubes. Purchase them at Creative Design Outlet

Template 135 by me HERE

Mask 194 from weescotslass

Font- Great Vibes

-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 1

5- paper 7

7- paper 2

8- paper 5 Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 2, black, 50

9- paper 9 repeat drop shadow

10- paper 3 repeat drop shadow

11- paper 10

12- paper 4 repeat drop shadow

-Make layer 1 active. Alpha to selection. Change foreground color to b99e6f. Layer>New Layer. Select the bucket fill tool and fill selection. Select none. Delete layer 1. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.30. Add drop shadow of 1, 1, 11 black, 50.

-Make layer 3 active. Alpha to selection. Add new layer.  Bucket fill selection with bo7e27. Select none. Add drop shadow of 2, 2, 2, black, 50.

-Repeat drop shadow on layers 4 & 6.

-Open tube. Make the top layer. Layer>Scale Layer 75%. Place tube in the center of tag. Repeat drop shadow. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode of the duplicate tube to soft light. Lower the opacity to 65.

-Open frame 3. Move this layer below the tube layers. Scale 55%. Place frame to the left of tube. Select the magic wand and click in the 1st square of frame. Select>Grow 5. Add new layer and move layer below frame. Bucket fill with black. Open tube again and place her face in the selection. Invert & delete. Select none. Change the mode to value. Repeat for the pther square of frame, but this time bucket fill with bo7e27 and change the mode to hard light. On the frame add a drop shadow of 2, 2, 5, black, 50.

Elements:

wine - rotate 15

sash

leaf 3

flower 1

lace

candle

key - rotate 80

rose

deco 3

-Open paper 6. Make the bottom layer. Apply mask. Click HERE to learn how to use masks in gimp. Scale paper layer 85%. Repeat using paper 1.

-Add your name and copyright and you're finished!