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

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Bonnie's Creations. You must have a license to use these tubes. You can purchase the one I used at The PSP Project.

FTU kit Between You & Me from Fanfan

Template 122 from Divine Intentionz. Scroll dow a little and you will see her template downloads on the left side.

Mask 209 from Weescotslass

Font- Quickier

-Open template. Delete credits. Image>Scale Image 450x367 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). Layer>Scale Layer 500x500 px. 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 2, 2, 2, black, 50. Delete the original template layer. Here are the template layers and which papers I used:

thin rectangles- paper 4

square- paper 5

shape- paper 3

shape 3- paper 2

shape 2- paper 1

-Open e 3 (frame). Make the top layer. Scale 15%. Place in the middle of tag. Open tube. Make the top layer. Scale 55%. Place tube on top of frame. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Move duplicate tube layer under the frame layer in the layer box. Make the frame active. Select the free select tool. Make a square selection on the frame. Invert. Make the duplicate tube active. Delete. Select none. Make the original tube active. Repeat drop shadow. Layer>Merge Down (to merge tube with drop shadow). Select the eraser and erase the bottom portion of the tube so it looks like she is sticking out of the frame.

Elements:

7

6

21

18

12

33

16

28  flip

25  flip

-Open paper 5. Make the bottom layer. Scale 600x600 px. Apply mask. Click HERE to learn how to use masks in Gimp.

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