01) change your FGC to: #c9c7c7
and your BGC to: #8197a5

02) change your FGC to Gradient:

03) File / New / 650 x 500 px / Colour: white

04) Layers / New Raster Layer

05) activate your brush tool, select the brush: MarieL_vector200

06) apply the brush five times on the right side of your picture:

07) Layers / New Raster Layer

08) activate your Selection tool (S) / Custom Selection:

09) with this settings:

10) change your FGC to: white
FGC to: Gradient:

11) flood fill the selection with the gradient

12) Deselect

13) set your FGC to: #316283 and the BGC to: white

14) change your FGC to gradient:

15) Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill this layer with your gradient

16) Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius: 49.28

17) Effects / Plugins / I.C.Net Software / Unlimited 2.0
Distortion Filters / Smelter 1:

18) Layers Palette: change the Blend Mode to: Multiply
change the Opacity to: 22

19) Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

20) Image / Rotate / Rotate Clockwise 90

21) Effects / Plugins / I.C.Net Software / Unlimited 2.0
Color Filters / Blue Sky:

22) Image / Rotate / Rotate Counterclockwise 90

23) activate the tube: MarieL_2006_11Novembre_PiGe01

24) Image / Resize: 85 %

25) Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

26) Edit / Copy
back to your picture
Edit / Paste / Paste as a New Layer

place it like me here:

27) Layers / New Raster Layer

28) Selections / Select all

29) activate the tube: MarieL_2006_10Octobre_Vector07

30) Image / Rotate / Rotate Clockwise 90

31) Edit / Copy
close the tube again, we don't need it anymore
back to your picture
Edit / Paste / Paste into Selection

32) Deselect!!!

33) change the Blend Mode to: Soft Light

34) turn off the FGC

35) activate the text tool (T) with this settings:

36) write your name or: Winter

37) Layers / Convert to Raster Layer

38) change the blend mode to: Screen

change the opacity to: 22

39) move the text like me here:

40) activate the next to the last (Raster 1):

41) Effects / Illumination Effects / Lights:
select the preset: MarieL_vector200

42) change your FGC to: #312E68 and your BGC to: white

43) change your FGC to gradient: Fading foreground:

44) Raster 1 is still active

Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill with your gradient

45) change the Blend Mode to: Multiply
and the Opacity to: 44

46) Image / Add Borders: 10 px / Colour: Red

47) select the red border with your magic wand tool,

change the tolerance to: 26

48) change the FGC to: #38577b

the BGC to: white

FGC to gradient:

49) flood fill the selection with your gradient

Deselect

50) Image / Add Borders / 10 px / Color: #f2f2f1

Don't forget your watermark and name!!!

51) Export your picture in JPG optimizer

Background:

52) File / New / 400 x 500 px / white

53) change your FGC to: #c9c7c7

and your BGC to: #8197a5

change your FGC to gradient:

54) apply now ten times your brush: Mariel_vector200
in the middle of your white picture

55) Effects / Image Effects / Seamless Tiling:

Export your BG in JPG optimizer

You are done!
I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial.