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: Gimp- Any version should work Beautiful PTU kit from Florjuscraps called Enchanted Sea HERE Tube of choice. I am using Elias Chatzoudis. You must have a license to use his tubes. You can purchase them HERE Template # 75 by me HERE Mask 223 by weescotslass HERE Font- ValentinaJF Let's get started!! -Open template. Delete the credits. Image>Scale Image 500x420 pixels. Image>Canvas Size 600x600 pixels 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. Layer>Scale Layer by 15%. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Select>None. Delete the original template layer. Here are the template layers and which papers I used: circle 1- paper 8 circle 2- paper 11 Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 2, black, 50 circle 3- paper 16 Filters>Repeat Drop Shadow lrg square- paper 5 circle 4 & circle 4#1- paper3 Repeat drop shadow square 1- paper 14 repeat drop shadow square 2 -paper 7 repeat drop shadow square 3- paper 4 repeat drop shadow square 3#1- paper 2 repeat drop shadow -Make the lrg square frame layer active. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise on default. Repeat drop shadow. -Open element 20. Make the top layer. Scale by 21%. Place on the circle. Repeat drop shadow. -Open element 25. Make the top layer. Scale 15%. Place at the bottom right of tag. Repeat drop shadow. -Open tube. Make the top layer. Scale 80%. Place on the shell element. Prepeat drop shadow. Layer>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode of the duplicate tube layer to soft light. Elements Add a drop shadow of 2, 2, 2, black, 50 to all element layers unless otherwise stated. See my tag for placement. 62 6 52 54 no drop shadow 27 22 41 no drop shadow 81 7 74 91 66 116 no drop shadow 14 no drop shadow -Open background 1. Scale 600x600 pixels. Apply mask. Change the opacity to 65. -Add your name and copyright and you are finished!!!

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). ~Back to Basics PTU scrapkit by Wicked Princess Scraps which you can find HERE. ~Tubes of choice. I used the artwork of Verymany, you must have a license to use this art which you can get HERE. ~Template of choice. I used the High School Template which you can get from Sarah's Tags -N- Things HERE. ~Font of choice. I used 12 Ton Goldfish. 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 2 Paper 10 Paper 14 ~I added noise to some of the template layers to make them look glittery (Filters > Noise > RGB Noise). ~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 tubes, I used both a full body and 2 close-ups. I changed the mode on the close-ups to Grain Merge (at the top of your Layer Box you will see where it says Mode, click the arrow and select Grain Merge from the drop down menu). The close-ups have been added to the template in the same way you add paper (Right click on template layer in layer box > Alpha to Selection > CTRL I > Select tube layer in layer box > Delete). Add drop shadow to the full body tube. 4. Open and place the following elements: Wire Flowers Star Sticker Tape Folder Calculator Red Crayon Stacked Books Ruler Scissors Glue Stick Red Paint Tube Brush ~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~ 5. Merge Layers (Image > Merge Visible Layers). 6. Crop Image (Image > Autocrop Image). 7. Scale image to desired size (Image > Scale Image). 8. Add copyright info and name 9. Save as .png ALL DONE!!!!!!!!!!