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).

~Come Fly With Me PTU scrapkit by Sweet Cravings Scraps.

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

~Mask of choice. I used WSL mask 363 which you can get HERE.

~Font of choice. I used dearJoe4.

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

3. Open image center it behind Frame 7, remove excess using a cutting tool or eraser.

4. Open and place the following elements:

Tree
 House
Moss Rock
Vine Stems
Grass Mound
Mushrooms 2
Bird
Meerkat
Bunny
Flower 3
Flower 4
Flower 5
Flower 8
Leaf 1
Baskets
Vase
Bottle

~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~

5. Open Paper 14

6. Open mask

7. Add mask to paper (click HERE for a tut on using masks).

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

9. Crop image (Image > Autocrop Image).

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

11. Add copyright info and name.

12. Save as .png

You are finished :)