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 :)