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 Welcom Autumn from KnC Scrapz HERE Template 414 from Divine Intentionz HERE Tube of choice. I am using Vinegar. You must have a license to use these tubes. You can purchase them HERE Mask 10 by Vix HERE Font- ALS Script Let's begin! -Open template. Delete credits. Layer>Scale Layer 500x301 pixels. Image>Canvas Size 600x600 pixels and press 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 60%. 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 3- paper 10 circle 5- paper 5 Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 2, black, 50 circle 1- paper 4 Filters>Repeat Drop Shadow square 2- paper 9 repeat drop shadow square 1- paper 1 repeat drop shadow -Make the frame back 3 layer active. Alpha to selection. Select your bucket fill tool. Set your foreground color to a8d51b. Fill the selection. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise on default. Open tube. Place face in the selection. Invert & delete. Select none. Change the mode of the tube to grain merge. -Make the frame back 2 layer active. Alpha to selection. Fill the selection with 300100. Repeat noise. Open tube. Place in selection. Invert & delete. Select none. Change the mode to grain merge. -Make the frame back layer active. Alpha to selection. Fill with ecd7a4. Repeat noise. Open tube and place in selection. Invert & delete. Select none. Change mode to grain merge. -Repeat drop shadow on the frame, frame 2 & frame 3 layers. -Make the brush layer active. Colors>Colorize. Leave the hue and saturation slider alone, but change the lightness slider to 100. Repeat drop shadow. -Open tube. Make top layer. Scale 75%. Repeat drop shadow. Elements Add drop shadow of 2, 2, 2, black, 50 to all element layers unless stated otherwise. See my tag for placement. red floer green ribbon no drop shadow branch no drop shadow paper bird leaf 1 no drop shadow basket no drop shadow ring element 3 welcome sign leaves no drop shadow violin plastic leaf no drop shadow -Open paper 8. Make bottom layer. Apply mask. -Add your name and copyright. You're finished! We would love to see your results. Send them to Gimptasticblog@yahoo.com.