You will need

FM Tile Tools

My zip file HERE

Please respect the makers of the contents and do not change file names

Place the gradient in your gradients folder and your mask in your masks folder.

1: Open a new transparent canvas 625X500. Set your foreground to #e0cdb0 and then to the gradient dmsspecialday gradient. Angle 0, repeats 0, style linear. Invert is not checked. Set your background to #f7f1d9.

Settings will remain the same unless otherwise noted.

2: Fill the canvas with #f7f1d9.

3: Layers new raster layer.

Fill with the gradient.

4: Layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk. Locate the sdtMask133-vi and apply with the following settings.

Layer, merge, merge group.

5: Effects, 3D effects, drop shadow with the following settings.

6: Open the tube les 142 tube. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Image resize 75% making sure all layers is not checked. Pull below the mask layer.

Using the eraser remove the little pieces of fern that come outside the mask frame to the right.

Lower the opacity to about 75%.

7: Click on the top mask layer to make it active.

8: Open the MMDesignz_Cr014128 tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top, copy. Paste as a new layer.

Image resize 80% making sure all layers is not checked. Repeat resize once more and apply the following drop shadow.

9: Open the swdrings1 tube. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Apply the same drop shadow as in 8.

10: Open the DovesNcolors~V tube. Using the freehand selection tool feather and tolerance set at zero select the cream coloured Dove in the top left corner.

Edit copy. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

Apply the same drop shadow as in 8.

11: Apply any text you may require. I have added mine to the zip file if you wish to use the same one.

12: Image add borders 30 #e0cdb0.

13: Open the dmsspecialdayframe frame. Click on the bar at the top. Back to the working canvas. Paste as a new layer.

14: Merge all, flatten.

15: Add your watermark and any other text you require save as a jpg and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on September 17, 2009

No copyright infringement is intended as this is purely for the learning experience gained through creating this tag.

This tutorial must not be passed through e-mail, groups or by any other method without written permission from myself.

Thank you to Cody for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2009