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 Needed:

~Gimp (any version will do).

~Tube of choice. I used the artwork of Alehandra Vanhek. You must have a license to use this art which you can get from Pics For Design HERE.

~Ice is Nice PTU scrapkit by A Taggers Scrap, which you can get HERE.

~Mask of choice. I used  WSL mask 218 which you can get HERE.

~Font of choice. I used Alex Brush.

Let's get started!!!!!

1. Open a new layer ( I prefer a large canvas, so I make mine 1050x656). Make your canvas transparent (Layer > Transparency > Color to alpha).

2. Open Frame 4 (round frame), add drop shadow (Filters > Light & Shadow > Drop Shadow).

3. Open Paper 14 center it behind Frame 4, remove excess paper using a cutting tool or eraser.

4. Open Frame 5 (rectangular frame), place it over Frame 4 & Paper 14 in your layer box. Add drop shadow.

5. Open Paper 12 center it behind Frame 5, remove excess paper using a cutting tool or eraser.

6. Open tube, add drop shadow.

7. Open and place the following elements:

Snowy Ground
Snowy Branch
Branch 5
Star 3
Jeweled Stars
Bow 4
Tree 5
Leaves
Candle 2
Cherub
Pinecone
Snowballs
Wordart 1

~Some elements may need to be sized down. Using the Scale Tool in your tool box adjust pixels to desired size~

~Add drop shadow to all elements (except Snowy Ground)~

8. Open Paper 16

9. Open mask

10. Add mask to paper (click HERE for a tut on using masks).

11. Merge layers (Image > Merge Visible Layer).

12. Crop image (Image > Autocrop Image).

13. Scale image to desired size (Image > Scale Image).

14. Add copyright info and name.

15. Save as .png

You are finished :)