Supplies:

Gimp

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Roman Zaric. You must have a license to use these tubes. You can purchase the tube I used starting today at PSP Tubes Emporium HERE

FTU kit from Artistic Dreams called Twilight HERE

Font- Monika Italic

Lets get started!

-File>New 600x225 px.

-Open paper 5.

-Open tube. Place to the far right. Layer>Layer To Image Size. Change the mode to grain merge. Lower the opacity to 50. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Select the flip tool and click canvas. Change the mode of the flipped tube to soft light.

-Open tube again. Layer Scale Layer 75%. Place in the middle. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 2, black, 50. Duplicate. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 70.

-Open doodle 1. Place to the right side of the main tube. Layer to image size. Repeat drop shadow. Duplicate. Flip.

-Open shadow. Move below the doodle layer. Scale 30%. Place to the right. Lower the opacity to 60. Layer to image size. Duplicate and flip.

-Open apple. Move above the paper layer. Place on the right side. Duplicate. Move duplicate to the left side.

-Open wordart 1. Scale 35%. Place in the upper left corner. Lower the opacity to 50. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open wordart 1 again. Scale 40%. Select the rotate tool. Rotate 90. Place to the right. Lower the opacity to 50 and repeat drop shadow.

-Make the top layer active. Layer>New Layer. Change foreground color to black. Select the bucket fill tool and click canvas. Layer>Transparency>Alpha To Selection. Select>Shrink 8. Press delete on your keyboard. Select>None. Add a gaussian blur of 10.0.

Add new layer. Change foreground to 9f2600. Bucket fill canvas. Alpha to selection. Shrink by 7. Delete. Select none. Filters>Decor>Add Bevel. Uncheck work on copy.

-Add new layer. Alpha to selection. Shrink by 3. Bucket fill selection with black. Shrink 1. Delete. Select none.

-Add name and copyright.

Avatar:

-Make everything above the doodle layer invisible (click the eye next to each layer).

-File>New 150x150 px.

-Edit>Paste As>New Layer.

-Open tube. Scale 35%. Place to the far left. Repeat drop shadow. Duplicate. Add gaussian blur of 5.0. Change mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 70.

-To add the border repeat steps above for banner.

-Add name or initial. Also add copyright.

All done!