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).

~Love Birds PTU scrapkit by Tasha's Playground which you can find HERE.

 ~Tube of choice. I used the artwork of PinUpToons, you must have a license to use this art which you can now get HERE.

~Template of choice. I used DD Your Kiss template which you can get HERE.

~Font of choice. I used CAC One Seventy.

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 template in PSD format, move layers of template around until they are the way you like them.

~Add paper from scrapkit to individual layers of the template (Right click on template layer in layer box > Alpha to Selection > CTRL I > Select paper layer in layer box > Delete).

These are the papers I used:

Paper 1

Paper 5

Paper 7

Paper 9

Paper 10

Paper 11

~I colorized some of the template layers to better match the scrapkit (Colors > Colorize > play with the setting until you get the desired color).

~Add drop shadow to template layers (Filters > Light & Shadow > Drop Shadow).

3. Open tube, add drop shadow.

4. Open and place the following elements:

Doodle 2
Flags
Flower 1
Flower 7
Tape 1
Clip
Star
Star 2
Bird 1
Bird 2
Bird 3
Bracket 1
Key
Flair 1
Label

~Some of the elements may need to be sized down. Using your scale tool in your tool box adjust the pixel size until element is the correct size~

~Add drop shadow to all elements (except Doodle 2)~

5. Crop Image (Image > Autocrop Image).

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

7. Add copyright info and name

8. Save as .png

ALL DONE!!!!!!!!!!

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).
 
 ~Sweet Love PTU scrapkit by A Taggers Scrap which you can find HERE.

 ~Tube of choice. I used the artwork of PinupToons, you must have a license to use this art which you can now get HERE.

~Font of choice. I used Pea Mily Mix.

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 6, add drop shadow (Filters > Light & Shadow > Drop Shadow).

3. Open Paper 8 center it behind frame, remove excess paper using a cutting tool or eraser.

4. Open tube, add drop shadow.

5. Open and place the following elements:

Background
Wordart 4
Tree
Flowers 1
Jigsaw Piece
Love Letter
Lantern
Cushions
Coffee
Pebble
Gem
Heart
Bottle
Cake

~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 Wordart 4, Tree & Flowers 1)~

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

7. Crop image (Image > Autocrop Image).

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

9. Add copyright info and name.

10. Save as .png

You are finished :)

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance any other tut 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 Tatjana Art. You must have a license to use these tubes. Purchase the one I used at The PSP Project.

FTU kit Vintage Valentine from Tasha's Playground 

Mask- 350 from weescotslass

Fonts- AlexBrush & Great Vibes

-File>New 650 x 650 px.

-Open frame 3. Select the rotate tool and click canvas. In the angle box put 90. Layer>Scale Layer 85%.  Place center of canvas. Select the fuzzy select tool. Click inside frame. Select>Grow 5. Open paper 2. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Scale 75%. Place in selection. Select>Invert. Press delete on keyboard. Select>None. Make the frame active. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 5, black, 50.

-Open tube. Make the top layer. Scale 70%. Place on frame. Repeat drop shadow. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change mode to hard light and lower opacity to 25. Duplicate. Change mode to screen.

-Open leaf. Move below tube layers. Place to the bottom right of tag. Duplicate. Layer>Layer to Image Size. Select the flip tool and flip duplicate leaf. Merge both leaf layers together (Layer>Merge Down). Repeat drop shadow.

-Open flower 3. Move above leaf layers. Scale 40%. Place on the center of leaf. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open frame 2. Make the bottom layer. Rotate 80. Place center of tag. Add paper 3 to frame (repeat above). Repeat drop shadow on frame. I erased the part of this frame and paper that was below the tube.

Other Elements:

tag (rotate -15)

flair

leaves (duplicate & flip)

owl

ribbon

heart (rotate 20)

clock

cloth flower 1 & 2

locket

-Open paper 1. make the bottom layer. Add alpha channel. Apply mask. Click HERE to learn how to use masks in Gimp.Lower opacity to 40..

-Make the top layer active. Select the font/text tool. Font: AlexBrush Size: 55 Foreground Color: white. Click canvas and type 'Dare to dream'. Place text bottom right of tag. Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection. Grow 1. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below text layer. Change foreground color to 363621. Select the bucket fill tool and fill selection. Add drop shadow of 1, 1, 2, black, 50.

-Add name with the Great Vibes font. Also add copyright and you're done!!

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance any other tut 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 My Dotty Valentine from Gimptastic Scraps 

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Suzanne Woolcott. You must have a license to use these tubes.

Font- Janda Apple Cobbler

-File>New 700 x 700 px.

-Open frame 3. Layer>Scale Layer 45. Select the rotate tool and click canvas. In the angle box put -15. Place to the left side of canvas. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Layer>Layer To Image Size. Select the flip tool and click canvas (to flip duplicate frame). Make the left frame active. Using the fuzzy select tool (magic wand) click inside the frame. Select>Grow 5. Open paper 6. Move below frame layer. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on keyboard. Open tube. Place in selection. Delete. Select>None. Change the mode to screen. Duplicate. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to soft light. Repeat for the other frame. On the frame add a drop shadow of 2, 2, 5, black, 50 (Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow).

-Open tube. Make the top layer. Place center of tag. Repeat drop shadow. Duplicate. Repeat blur. Change mode to soft light.

-Open frame 6. Make the bottom layer. Scale 60%. Place to left side of tag. Duplicate, layer to image size, flip. Add paper 7 to both frame. Repeat drop shadow on frames.

-Open paper piece. Make the bottom layer. Rotate 90. Place at the bottom right of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open paper piece again. Make the bottom layer. Rotate -90. Place at the top left of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open dots. Make the bottom layer. Place at the top of tag. Duplicate. Rotate 180. Place at bottom of tag. Add drop shadow of 1, 1, 2, black, 50.

Other elements:

Tag 2 (rotate 90, duplicate, rotate 90)

hearts

flower 1

plate

heart 3 (rotate 15)

present

arrow

flower 2

heart wire

wa

washi tape (duplicate, rotate 90)

scatter (duplicate & flip)

love

lips

rose

ribbon

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

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance any other tut 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 Rotate from Gimptastic Scraps. Purchase this kit exclusively at The PSP Project.

Tube of choice. I am using the matching tube for the kit from KiwiFireStorm. You must have a license to use these tubes. Purchase the one I used at The PSP Project.

Fonts- Xtreem Thin Demo, Jive & LD Jilly Nilly

-File>New 650 x 650 px.

-Open frame 5. Layer>Scale Layer 75%. Place center of canvas. Using the fuzzy select tool (magic wand), click inside the top part of frame. Select>Grow 3. Open paper 4. Move paper layer below frame layer in the layer box. Place paper in the selection. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on keyboard. Open tube. Place in selection to the left.. Layer>Duplicate. Place in selection toward the middle. Duplicate and place in selection at the right. Merge all the tube layers together (Layer>Merge Down). Delete. Select>None. Change the mode to screen. Repeat for the 2 remaining part of frame. I used papers 5 & 8. make the frame layer active. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 5, black, 50.

-Open frame 4. Make the bottom layer. Scale 90%. Place center of tag. Click inside frame using the magic wand. Grow 5. Open paper 6. Move below frame. Add alpha channel. Invert & delete. Select none. Repeat drop shadow on frame.

-Open frame 6. make the top layer. Scale 75%. Place center of tag. Click inside using magic wand. Grow 5. Open paper 10. Add alpha channel. Move below frame. Invert & delete. Open tube. Place in selection. Duplicate. Make duplicate the top layer. Make the original tube active. Delete. Select none. Make the duplicate tube active. Repeat drop shadow. Merge shadow and tube. Select the eraser tool and erase bottom of tube to it looks like she is sticking outside of the frame.

Elements:

tape

swirl

brad 1 (rotate -10)

brad 2

grunge

fuzzy dice

caution tape (duplicate & rotate 90)

skull 1 (rotate 15)

zipped heart

bullet (rotate -15)

wire (duplicate & rotate 90)

beaded necklace

goggles

cat

-Make the top layer active. Select the font tool. Font: Xtreem Thin Demo  Size: 55  Foreground Color: f06ea8. Click canvas and type 'One F nger'. It is supposed to be finger, I left out the i on purpose (you will see why). Place text at the top right of tag. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise on default. Layer>Transpareny>Alpha To Selection. Grow 1. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below text layer. Change foreground to black. Select the bucket fill tool and fill selection. New Layer. Move below black filled layer. Grow 1. Bucket fill with white. Select none. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open finger element. Scale 35 %. Move below text layers. This will be our 'i' in the word finger, so place this where the 'i' was supposed to be. Repeat drop shadow.

-Make top layer active. Select font/text tool. Font: Jive, Size: 65, Foreground: black. Click canvas and type 'SALUTE'. Place below other text. Alpha to selection. Grow 1. New layer. Move new layer below this text layer. Bucket fill with same pink. Repeat noise. Select none. Repeat drop shadow.

-Add name with LD Jilly Nilly font. Also add copyright and you're done!!

TOOT TOOT!!!!!!!! The Fantastically Free Blog Train has left the station folks and this month our theme was Vintage Valentine. Our palette was soft and sure to put you in the mood for good ol' fashioned romance. 

Be sure to check out the rest of the stops on this train...

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Wicked Princess Scraps

Drama Bomb Designs

Rissa's Designs

Tasha's Playground

Cakes Creations

Gimptastic Scraps

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).
 
 ~Times Like These PTU scrapkit by Sweet Cravings Scraps which you can find HERE.

 ~Tube of choice. I used the artwork of Martin Abel, you must have a license to use this art which you can now get HERE.

~Font of choice. I used Surf Safari.

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 1, add drop shadow (Filters > Light & Shadow > Drop Shadow).

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

4. Open tube, add drop shadow.

5. Open and place the following elements:

Paint Mask

Snow 2

Mailbox

Ribbon 2

Snow Mound

Deer

Dog

Ticket

Candy 2

Snowballs

Cup of Cocoa 1

Cupcake 2

~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 Paint Mask & Snow 2)~

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

7. Crop image (Image > Autocrop Image).

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

9. Add copyright info and name.

10. Save as .png

You are finished :)

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance any other tut 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 Vintage Girl from A Taggers Scrap 

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

Template EI#198 from Elegant Inspirations  

Font- Xiomara

  -Open template. Delete credits & all the dotted layers. Image>Scale Image 650x650 px. Image>Canvas Size 700x700 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, 5, black, 50. Delete the original template layer. Here are the template layers and which papers I used:

3 Brown Circles- paper 1

3 Cream Circles- paper 4

3 Green Circles- paper 3

3 Blue Circles- paper 11

Cream Circle 1 & 2- paper 9

Blue Circle 1 & 2- paper 8

Green Circle 1 & 2- paper 6

Brown Circle 1 & 2- paper 14

Green Circle 3- paper 5

Cream Circle 3- paper 13

Brown Circle 3- paper 15

Cream Circle 4- paper 10

Blue Circle 3- paper 12

Green Circle 4- paper 16

4 Brown Circles- paper 19

4 Blue Circles- paper 18

4 Green Circles- paper 17

4 Cream Circles- paper 24

-Open tube. Make the top layer. Layer>Scale Layer 50%. Place to left side of tag. Repeat drop shadow. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change mode to soft light and lower opacity to 65.

-Open frame 8. Make the bottom layer. Select the rotate tool and click canvas. in the angle box put 5. Place center of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open frame 4. Move below tube layer. Scale 27 %. Place on the left small white circle. Select the fuzzy select tool and click inside frame. Select>Grow 4. Open tube. Move below frame. Place in selection. Invert & delete. Select none. Change the mode to value. Add drop shadow of 1, 1, 2, black, 35 to frame. Repeat this 2 more times for the 2 remaining small white circles. Feel free to change the modes of each tube.

Elements:

bottle (rotate -10)

deco 2

deco 3

envelopes

flower pot 1

stamp

net

leaves

clock 2

flower 2, 4, 7, 13 (flip), 

dragonfly

butterfly 

butterfly 2 

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

This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance any other tut 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 Rainbowise. You must have a license to use these tubes. Purchase the one I used at The PSP Project 

FTU kit Dark Passenger from Gimptastic Scraps

Font- Tipsy Giggles

-File>New 650 x 650 px.

-Open tag back. Layer>Scale Layer 75%. Place center of canvas. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 0, 0, 10, black, 80.

-Open frame 2. Make the top layer. Scale 75%. Place center of tag back. Select the fuzzy select tool. Click inside frame. Select>Grow 5. Open paper 2. Move below frame layer. Layer>Transparency>Add Alpha Channel. Scale 75%. Place in selection. Select>Invert. Press delete on keyboard. Select>None. Add drop shadow of 2, 2, 5, black, 50 to the frame.

-Open tube. Make the top layer. Scale 65%. Place on center of tag. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open deco. Move below paper layer. Scale 75%. Select the rotate tool and click canvas. In the angle box put 90. Place to the right side of tag. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Rotate 180. Place to the left side of tag. Repeat drop shadow on both.

-Open frame 6. Move below tube layer. Scale 50%. Rotate 15. Place to right side of tag. Click inside both parts of frame with magic wand. grow 3. Open paper 3 Move below frame. Add alpha channel. Place in selection. Invert & delete. Open tube. Place in selection. Delete. Change mode to soft light. Repeat drop shadow on frame.

-Open mesh. Make the bottom layer. Rotate 90. Place to left of tag. Duplicate. Rotate 180 and place to right of tag. Repeat drop shadow on both.

Elements:

creepy can

skull

blood drop

flames

hand print

knife

bottle

chain

web

bottle 2

butcher knife

necklace

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