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Pandemic Autumn
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Pandemic Autumn

Caducous Artsy Transfers **new** coming soon
also
Caducous Artplay Palette https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Caducous.html
Autumn Word Art No 6 https://www.oscraps.com/shop/Autumn-WordART-Mix-No.-6.html
Multimedia Leaves No 9 https://www.oscraps.com/shop/MultiMedia-Leaves-No.-9.html

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This layout is about one of my daughters (at the very bottom of the image). She was photographed by her partner, my future SIL (July wedding cancelled because of Covid), on an outing after deciding to downsize their very successful business. It's for the photobook that I'm keeping for them about "the wedding that wasn't," about life in the time of the pandemic.

I built the page by blending the photo of my daughter into the general contours of Artsy Transfer #5, using inverted masking. I used regular layer masks to fine-tune the edges of the photo to the shapes in the Transferit's kind of like guided blending, and really helpful when the photo is not so great, like this one, which I screen-snapped from an Instagram post. I added a second Artsy Transfer (#4), to the top right, because I wanted to fill that area with something interesting. The background is Artsy Paper #1 duplicated on color burn mode at reduced opacity then covered with Artsy Paper #2 on overlay mode and then covered by Artsy Paper #3 on color burn mode. (I love how Artsy Papers stack into an interesting parfait.) I finished with the leaf multimedia elements, moving the Fotoglos here and there.
What an important capture! Those that can make the best of it will survive, wile others will waste time wishing for what can't be. The photo is gorgeous, the embellishments perfectly placed! My heart does go out to the young in these times
 
I, too, feel for the young who have had to cancel plans of a lifetime for a pandemic that did not need to consume us as it has if only...
Wonderful book you are making for them to enjoy as life moves forward.
 

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