For this tutorial i used the lovely art of Rachael Tallamy
You can purchase his art from Up Your Art here
Ftu scrapkit is from `Karra's Kreative Korner`called`For the Love of Fall`
You can get that here
Mask is mask 248 from Weescotslass here
Open a new image 600 x600 and fill with white-you can resize later-
Add a paper of choice as a new layer,and apply your chosen mask.
Layers>new mask layer>from image>scroll to mask and hit ok.
Merge group.
Open the bricks element and paste as a new layer near the top
of your canvas.Duplicate and mirror a few times and arrange to your liking.
Open the cluster element,and place on top of the bricks.
Use your lasso tool to cut out any parts you don`t want.
Add a drop shadow,i use 2,2 50 5.
Open the bench,and resize to your liking.Add a drop shadow,and place
your tube sitting on the bench,or anywhere you like it.
Paste the hill element onto the canvas,place it underneath the bench.
Use your deform tool to make it longer or wider.
Open the dog element,resize by 45% and place at the bottom right of the bench.
Open the flowers,resize to your liking,and place to the left of the bench.
A dd a drop shadow.Repeat with the dried grass.
Resize the basket by 20% and place to the bottom left of the bench.
Now resize the apples,and place on top of the basket.
Use your eraser tool to remove the bottom parts of the apples,
so it looks like they are in the basket.
Resize mushrooms and place to the bottom right of the bench.
Repeat with the tree,i resized it so it looked like a bush.
Resize the love birds,and place sitting on the back of the bench.
Now add any small leaves or flowers,anything else you like
and then add your name.I used an alpha.
When you are happy with your tag,delete the white background
and merge all layers.
Resize to your liking and add your credits.
Save as a png and that`s it you are done!
I hope you enjoyed my tutorial :)