Tut Time!

Here's a Preview of the taggie we will be making today:

For this tutorial you will need the following:

Gimp

Kit: Lexi Creation's Chocolicious PTU Kit

Tube: Cuten Toonz's Kiki 7

Both of which you can get at http://berryapplicious.com/store/

Mask and Font of Choice

Open element19 as layers and resize to 470x470 and place to the upper left hand side of your canvas

Open as layers paper5 and move below your frame

on you frame layer use the magic wand tool to select inside your frame

make the paper layer active again and expand your selection by 6

select the invert and cut (may want to fit paper to canvas size to avoid issues if you resize later

Open as layers CNTKiki7-4.png

Move this layer below your frame layer and scale down slightly. arrange her face to your liking inside the frame. Make your paper layer active and go to layers. select transparency and alpha to selection. back on the poser layer, select the invert and cut

Make the frame layer active again and open CNTKiki7-5.png and scale down so the entire poser fits on your canvas and place to the right of your frame

Open as layers element18.png and move this layer below CNTKiki7-5 and scale down slightly. place behind her legs slightly to the right

Open as layers element2.png and place below her legs on the left hand side

Make your poser layer active and open as layers above that element7. scale down and place to the left hand side of her foot

Open as layers element1.png and scale down. place to the left hand side of the cupcake slightly overlapping the wrapper

Open as layers element4 and scale down. place to the left hand side of the bottom of the frame

Open as layers element5.png and scale down. place to the right hand side of the flower you just placed

Open as layers element12 and scale down. place to the bottom of the cupcake you just placed

Open as layers element13.png and scale down. place to the bottom of the chocolate box

Open as layers element22.png. Scale down and on your layers and channels menu move below element1.png. place towards the bottom center of your canvas

Open as layers element35.png and place to the bottom of your canvas. move this layer to the bottom of your layers and channels menu, but above your white background layer

Make your top layer active and open as layers element30 and place towards the center of your tag

Go to your bottom white layer and open as layers paper6

Open as layers your mask of choice

apply your paper to the mask and delete the mask layer

Apply drop shadows to all layers but the paper layers

Add your name and copyright and remove your white background layer. 

Save as .png and tad! super cute tag created!!!!