For this tutorial you will need

Autumn Scrap set courtesy of Kelly: HERE (Thx Kelly! I appreciate it hon)
Filter: Fantastic Machines/Paint Engine HERE
Tube of your choice
Font of your choice (I used Arial for the small font and Impact for the large font)

I am using the artwork of © Marjolein Gulinski.  Please visit her website HERE.  If you would like to use her artwork, you will need to purchase a license from Stickerchick HERE

Lets begin.

Remember to save often.

Open a 600 x 600 transparent canvas. Change your foreground colour to white. Select your flood fill tool and flood fill this canvas white.

Change your foreground colour to a dark colour from your tube of choice. Background Null. Select your preset shape set to rectangle, Create as Vector Checked. Width: 15.

Draw out a rectangle shape in the lower portion of your canvas. Please refer to above for guidance.

Select a lighter colour from your tube for your background colour, foreground NULL. Select your font tool and use a plain font, small size (I used Arial, size 12) and type out your name over and over. Select your mover tool and move this font so it sits perfectly on the top portion of your rectangle.

Duplicate. Go to Image/Flip. Image/Mirror. Select your mover tool and drag this duplicate to the bottom portion of your rectangle.

Again, select your font tool and type your name again, this time not as many times as we want it to fit on the sides.

Go to Image/Rotate/Free Rotate: 90 degrees, to the RIGHT. Select your mover tool and position this font to the right side of your rectangle.

Duplicate this font layer. Go to Go to Image/Flip. Image/Mirror. Select your mover tool and drag this duplicate to the left side of your rectangle.

HIDE your white background. Merge/Merge all visible. UNHIDE your white background.

Select your magic wand. Click INSIDE your rectangle. Go to Selections/Modify/Expand: 3. Over on your layer palette, add a new raster layer. Drag this BELOW your rectangle shape.

Select another colour from your tube (I went with a green tone) for your foreground, but change your texture to one of your choice. I went with "Grass 01"

Select your flood fill tool and flood fill this new raster layer with the texture of your choice.

Activate your preset rectangle shape (the one with your name written around it) and add a large/blurry drop shadow of your choice.

HIDE your white background. Merge/Merge all visible. UNHIDE your white background.

Open your tube of choice. Right click/Copy. Return to your working canvas and paste as a new layer.

Duplicate. On this duplicate layer, go to Image/Resize: 85%. Please make sure ALL LAYERS is UNCHECKED. Go to Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

Drag this smaller duplicate tube to the bottom left of your rectangle (please refer to above for guidance).

Over on your layer palette, drop the ORIGINAL/LARGER tube layer below the rectangle layer. Select your mover tool and mover this towards the middle of your rectangle layer (or towards the right, whichever looks best for your tube).

Still on this original layer go to Effects/Plugins/Fantastic Machines/Paint Engine and apply the following settings:

Change your foreground colour back to the same colour as we used for the preset/rectangle shape. Select your Change to Target Brush tool ( ) and colour the original/larger tube the same colour (mine is dark brown).

Over on your layer palette, change your opacity to approximately 50%.

On BOTH your tube layers add the same large/blurry drop shadow you chose earlier.

Ok, open the scrap kit from KellyJ provided with this tutorial. There are so many awesome layers here, but we're only going to use raster layer 6, the leaves. Right click/Copy. Return to your working canvas and paste as a new layer (resize this if necessary).

Select your deform tool and rotate until the corner of the leaves sits on the corner of the rectangle (please refer to above for guidance).

Again, add the large/blurry drop shadow to the corner leaves.

Add your font. I used Impact, Created as Vector. I squeeze and stretch your vector font until you're happy with its sizing for the rectangle you created. Over on your layer palette, drop this font layer BELOW the corner leaves layer.

Add a drop shadow to your font of Vertical/Horizontal: 2, Opacity: 69, Blur: 5, Colour: Black.

Add your © copyright info along with your watermark.

We're done!

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© Sugar 26th September 2006