-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:

Raster 1- paper 8

Raster 3- paper 1

Copy of Raster 3- paper 4

Raster 2- paper 10

Raster 8- paper 5

Copy of Raster 8- paper 9

Raster 7- paper 7

Raster 4- paper 2

words 1- paper 1

-Make words 2 active. Repeat drop shadow.

-Open tube. Move below the word art layers. Layer>Scale Layer 70%. Place on the big pink circle. Repeat drop shadow. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to soft light.

-Open frame 5. Move below the tube layers. Place at the bottom of tag. Select the fuzzy select tool (magic wand). Press shift on your keyboard and click in the 3 boxes of frame. Select>Grow 2. Change your foreground color to ff6aae and your background color to fef700. Select the blend tool. Gradient: FG TO BG (RGB), Shape: Linear. Layer>New Layer. Move new layer below frame in layer box. With your mouse, click the middle left of the frame and drag all the way to the middle right of frame. Open tube. Place in the 1st box of frame. Duplicate. Place duplicate in 2nd box. Duplicate and place in the 3rd box. Merge these 3 tube layers together (Layer>Merge Down). Invert & delete. Select none. Change the mode to screen. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.30. Make the frame active and repeat drop shadow.

Elements:

WA 1

dots

techy 2

tapes

frame 2

fireworks

bubble 1

bubble 2

smear

keyboard

-Open paper 3. Apply mask. Click HERE to learn how to use masks in Gimp.

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