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 Booga Booga from Sarah's Tags N Things

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

Template 2 from Mythical over at Creative Misfits Creations

Mask 3 from Melissa also at Creative Misfits Creations

Font- Mathilde

-Open template. Delete credits. 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. 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:

raster 8- paper 6 no drop shadow

raster 6- paper 5

raster 5- paper 2

raster 4- paper 4

raster 3- paper 3

raster 2- paper 7

raster 1- paper 1

-Make raster 9 active. Colors>Colorize. Change only the lightness to -100. Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection. Select>Grow 2. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below raster 9. Change foreground color to c7157e. Select the bucket fill tool. Fill selection. Select none. Filters>Noise>RBG Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.35. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open tube. Move above the circle layer. Layer>Scale Layer 65%. Place tube in middle fo tag. Repeat drop shadow. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode of this layer to soft light. Lower the opacity to 50.

Elements:

34

14

2

7

37

33

19

20  rotate -15

30 duplicate & flip

4  flip

-Open paper 3. Make the bottom layer. Apply mask (you need to scale the mask to 600x600 px). Click HERE to learn how to use masks in gimp.

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