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 Zlata M. You must have a license to use these tubes. Purchase the one I used at The PSP Project.

PTU kit Summer Lolita from Tasha's Playground.

Mask- 352 from weescotslass

Font- Frosting for Breakfast

-File>New 600x600 px.

-Open frame 5. Layer>Scale Layer 75%. Place toward the left side of canvas. Select the fuzzy select tool (magic wand). Click inside the frame. Select>Grow 5. Open paper 5. Move below the frame layer in the layer box. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Select>None. Make the frame active. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 5, black, 50.

-Open tube. Make the top layer. Scale 50%. Place towards the right side of frame. Repeat drop shadow. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 35.

-Open frame 4. Make the bottom layer. Scale 75%. Place to the right side of tube. Add paper 3 (repeat above). Repeat drop shadow on frame.

-Open frame 3. Move below tube layer. Scale 85%. Select the rotate tool and click canvas. In the angle box put -20. Place frame to the left side of tag. Select the magic wand. While pressing shift on your keyboard, click inside each of the 4 frames. Grow 2. Layer>New Layer. Move this new layer below the film strip frame layer. Change your foreground color to a60300. Change your background color to white. Select the blend tool. Gradient: FG TO BG (RGB), Shape: Linear. Click the top left part of selection and drag down to the bottom right part of selection. Open tube. Move below film strip layer. Scale 60%. Place in selection. Invert & delete. Select none. Change the mode to grain merge. Make the frame active and repeat drop shadow.

Elements:

sand

beach ball

palm tree

label

bow

flower

flower 2

flowers (flip)

necklace

flip flops (flip)

sparkle 2

-Open paper 6. Make the bottom layer. Apply mask. Click HERE to learn how to use masks in Gimp. Lower the opacity to 30.

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