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 Gingersnap Greetings Collab from A Taggers Scrap. You can find this kit exclusivley at Heartfelt Perfections.

Tube of choice. I am using the art of FourXDesigns. You must have a licenst to use these tubes. You can purchase these tubes at her store HERE.

Fonts- Sverige Script Demo & Lydia Puente

-File>New 600x600 px.

-Open frame 3. Layer>Scale Layer 75%. Place in center of canvas. Select the magic wand and click inside the frame. Select>Grow 5. Open paper 7 and move below the frame layer in the layer box. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Open tube. Make the top layer. Scale 65%. Place in the middle of frame. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Move duplicate tube below the frame layer. Delete. Select>None. make the original (top layer) tube active. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 5, black, 50. Layer>Merge Down (to merge tube with its shadow layer). Select the eraser and erase the bottom prtion of the tube so it looks like she is sticking out of the frame. Make the frame active and repeat drop shadow.

-Open frame 5. Make the bottom layer. Scale 60%. Place to the right side of the othe frame. Add paper 4 to this frame (repeat above). Make the frame layer active. Layer>Layer To Image Size. Duplicate. Select the flip tool and click canvas. Add paper 1- to the duplicate frame. Repeat drop shadow on both frames.

-Open frame 2. Make the bottom layer. Scale 85%. Place in the center of tag. Repeat drop shadow,

-Open froame 4. Make the bottom layer. Scale 75%. Place in center of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open tinsel. Move below the top tube layer. Scale 75%. Place at the bottom of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

Other Elements:

flower 1

flower 2

flower 4

stars

star

star 2

pinecone

bead string

candle

bow 1

tree 1

gingerbread santa

snowflakes

-Make the top layer active. Select the text tool. Font: Sverige Script Demo, Size: 50, Foreground color: 6c5155. Click the canvas and type 'Snow Princess'. Place text to the bottom right of tag. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.40. Later>Tranparenct>Alpha To Selection. Select>Grow 2. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below the text layer. Change foreground to white and select the bucket fill tool. Fill selection. Select none. Repeat drop shadow.

-Add your name withthe Lydia Puente font. Also add copyright and you're done!