Ahh, the Thistle weed. We’ve been battling them for years. We still have a few pop up every year. I guess the blooms are pretty, but each bud produces thousands of seeds. The bees and butterflies love them. But I just want to scream when I see sacks of thistle seeds for sale for the birds. Maybe they are a different strain.

I loaded the Artsy Layered Template from the palette, placed Artsy Paper 2 (which matched the ALT layers) below the layers, deleted the gray background then removed some of the ALT layers, recolored some or changed the blending mode. I placed my photo, duplicated 2X, with 2 copies clipped to the frame masks and one copy clipped to the Hipster Plume FotoBlendz 8-1 place below the frames, using brushes to enhance the coverage. I placed the beaded threadz, elements and made a custom word art with letters from the palette word art files, with Layer Style (fill with pink, stroke, color overlay, gradient overlay and drop shadow). Embellished with brushes from the palette, Creative Artistry class and splatters.