Supplies Needed:
Tube of choice, I am using Elias Chatzoudis now found at PTE
Scrap kit Fun in the Sun by Dreamland Designs
Mask of choice

Open a new image 700 x 700 with a white background.

Open Frame, copy and paste as a new layer. Using the Magic Wand click inside the frame, go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 2.

Copy and paste a paper of your choice as a new layer below the frame. Position to your liking. Go to Selections - Invert and hit delete on the keyboard. Apply a drop shadow.

Open Sand Castle, resize by 50 percent, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place in the lower left hand corner inside the frame. Erase any of the castle out paste the frame. Apply a drop shadow.

Open Seagull, resize by 50 percent, copy and paste as a new layer. Place at the top of the frame about in the center. Apply a drop shadow.

Open Palm Tree, duplicate, resize one by 70 percent and the other by 60 percent. Copy and paste the one resized by 70 percent as a new layer. Place on the left hand side of the frame. Apply a drop shadow. Copy and paste the smaller palm as a new layer, place below the palm tree on the left hand side. Apply a drop shadow. Duplicate, mirror and place at the bottom of the frame on the right hand side.

Open Surfboards, resize by 30 percent. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place in front of the palm tree on the right hand side. Apply a drop shadow.

Copy and paste the tube as a new layer, place on the left hand side in front of the palm trees. Resize if needed and apply a drop shadow.

Open paper 24, using the Selection tool select a portion of the sand. Copy and paste as a new layer below the frame layer. Apply a mask to this layer. Position to your liking and use the eraser to erase any of the sand you don’t like. Place at the bottom of the tag. See my tag if needed.

Open Crab, resize by 10 percent. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place in the sand we just added. Apply a drop shadow.

Open Seashells 1, resize to your liking, copy and paste as many as you like adding them to the sand.

Using two colors from the tube or tag make a gradient. Add a new layer above the white background layer. Flood fill this layer with the gradient. Apply the mask to this layer. Delete the mask layer and merge group. Resize if needed.

Add any copyrights and your name.

Crop, resize if desired. Save as a PNG (close background layer first).

Thank you for trying one of my tuts, I hope you have had fun and come back for more!! I would love to see what you have created!