FTU - Spring On My Mind

This tutorial was written by me on March 19, 2013. Please do not claim as your own.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice 

Scrap Kit - FTU Kit by Stacie Cakes Called "Thinking Of Spring"

You can download the kit here

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - I Used The artwork Zlata_M. You must have the proper license to use this tube. You can find this tube at PFD

Program - Gimp 2.6..but any program will do.

Template - By Millie

You can download it here

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Open New Canvas

I did 900x900.you can resize it at the end

Open Mask

Right click on your layers 

Go down to alpha by selection

Edit > fill w/ BG color - Make sure color is #FFFFFF

Open Paper 2

Right click on your layers

Click add layer mask

Then a window will pop up 

then click black (full transparency)

Then click add

Edit > Copy 

Edit > Paste

On Layers > click on floating selection

Then right click on layers

scroll down to anchor layer

Delete first layer!!!

You should have a mask..then a black square next to it on your layers.

Image > Merge Visible Layers 

Box should pop up..click clipped to image > Merge

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Open New Canvas

Open Your Template

Delete The Credits

Right click on paper 2

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on layer 1

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper 4

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on layer 2

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper 5

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on layers 3 & 4

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper 3

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on layers 5 & 6

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper 2

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on layers 7 

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper 1

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on layer 8

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

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Now that the hard part is over..you are ready to add elements and your tube

Add elements and use this drop shadow with these settings

Grass

Balloon

Rainbow

Cloud

Flower2

Bunny

Snail

Flower1

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 80

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open your full body tube. Place in middle of template. 

Now open your half body tube and place in layer 6

Move to the left of your full body tube

Change mode to grain merge.

Duplicate 1x

Move to the right of your full body tube

Now merge all elements layers together.

Colors > Desaturate 

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!