PTU - Nautical Retreat

This tutorial was written by me on April 12th, 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 - PTU kit by Kaci at Scrappin Krazy Designs called Nautical Retreat

You can purchase this at any of the stores Kaci sells at on her blog.

Visit Kaci's blog here

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - The new multi-layered tube by DiHalm. You must have the proper license to use this tube

You can visit PFD here.

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

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Open New Canvas

I did 650x650.you can resize it at the end if you would like.

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 12

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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Ready...

Set...

Go...

Open  frame2

Use your rectangle tool and make a rectangle on paper 3

Copy

Paste as new layer inside frame2

Open These Elements and use the same dropshadow as above and resize to your liking!!!

Sand (duplicate 1x)

Bird2

Boat1

Chair

Cloud4

CupOfShells

Driftwood1

Net3

Ring1

Shell1

Shell2

StarFish3

Wave

Open up your tube and place it in the middle

Now dropshadow your elements with these settings.

Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 60

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Now merge all layers together

Duplicate tag

Filters > Blur > Motion Blur > Radial > Default Settings

Change mode to grain merge

Opacity of 67.3

Merge Again

Now resize your tag to 600x600 if you would like. 

When you are happy with your tag..

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial.