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 Peppermint Winter from Sarah's Tags N Things

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Ismael Rac. You must have a licnese to use these tubes. You can purchase them at his store HERE.

Fonts- Chunkyness, Sweet Cheeks & Simply Glamorous

-File>New 600x600 px.

-Open element 39. Layer>Scale Layer 70%. Select the magic wand and click inside the frame. Select>Grow 5. Open paper 2 and move below the frame layer. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Open tube. Make tube the top layer. Place tube on top of frame. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Move the duplicate below the frame layer in the layer box. Delete. Select>None. Make the top (original) tube layer active. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 5, black, 50. Duplicate the tube. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to overlay and lower the opacity to 50. Layer>Merge Down twice (to merge the blurred tube with the original tube and the original tube with the drop shadow).

-Open element 37. Move below the main tube in the laye rbox. Scale 70%. Place on the square frame. Repeat drop shadow,

-Open element 32. Make the bottom layer. Scale 60%. Select the rotate tool and click canvas. In the angle box put 15. Add paper 3 to this frame (repeat steps above for adding pape to square frame). Select none. Make the frame acitve. Layer>Layer To Image Size. Duplicate. Select the flip tool and click canvas to flip the duplicate frame. Add paper 7 to this frame. Repeat drop shadow on both of these frames.

-Make the top layer active. Select the text tool. Font: Chunkyness, Size: 50, Foreground color: white. Click canvas and type 'Peppermint'. Place text below the tube. Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection. Grow 2. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below current layer. Change your foregorund to ee0909. Select the bucket fill tool and fill selection. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.80. New layer. Move below current layer. Grow 2. Bucket fill with white. Select none. Add drop shadow of 2, 2, 5, black, 80. Make the top text layer active. Filters>Decor>Add Bevel. Uncheck work on copy.

-Make the top layer active. Still using the text tool change Font: Sweet Cheeks, Size: 50, Foreground: ee0909.Click canvas and type 'kisses'. Place this text below the peppermint text. New layer. Move new layer below current text layer. Alpha to selection. Grow 2. Bucket fill white. Select none. Repeat noise & drop shadow.

Other elements:

25

19

30

15

10

18

6

9

35

33

4 - rotate 15

38 - rotate -10

-Add your name with the Simply Glamorous font. Also add your copyright and you're done!