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).
 
~Deep in the Forest PTU scrapkit by A Taggers Scrap which you can find HERE.

~Tube of choice. I used the artwork of PinupToons, you must have a license to use this art which you can get from CDO HERE.

~Font of choice. I used 1 Snappy DNA.

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

3. Open Paper 19 center it behind Frame 7, remove excess paper using a cutting tool or eraser.

4. Open Frame 3 (stick frame), place it under Frame 7 & Paper 19 in your layer box.

5. Open tube, add drop shadow.

6. Open and place the following elements:

Leaf Scatter

Leaf 1

Flower 2

Flower 11

Sign Post

Door

Grass

Lantern

Mushroom

Boxes

Ladybird

Hedgehog

Frog

Bag

Basket

Boot

Berries 2

Branch

Moss

~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 (except Leaf Scatter, Leaf 1 & Moss)~

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

8. Crop image (Image > Autocrop Image).

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

10. Add copyright info and name.

11. Save as .png

You are finished :)