The One About Trying to Design my Own Blog Header...

... and failing miserably.  I was waiting for Shimelle's final email which is supposed to detail what to do.  Unfortunately it hasn't come through yet and I found myself at a loose end tonight, (M is away for a stag weekend) so I thought I would have a bash.  I did a search for some tutorials on the internet.  The first one advised to download a free scrapbook file, so I did that.  But it doesn't then tell you how to manipulate the things you've just downloaded.  All I want to do now is throw the laptop out the window!!!  (Given that it is M's laptop, he wouldn't be best pleased!)

The image that I want to use is this one:

BUT, I want to have the bow on the left, and extend the ribbon across my header.  (I've managed to open a new file in photoshop for the right size for my blog, I think its 1000 x 350 pixels)

Then I thought that I might add some photos to it, and change the font of my title so that it went over all the photos??? I just don't know what I'm doing, and my knowledge of photoshop is poor.

So is there anyone out there who could point me in the right direction?  Is there a really really easy step by step thing I could follow???  I would really appreciate it.  Thank you in advance :)