This is a photo of me from 1962 and blurry as all get out, but I wanted to work with it anyway.
This design has 8 layers, not including the photos. The background is Whizzo Artplay Palette #2 augmented by a transfer and an artstroke—I blended my photo, added the extraction, slipped in the playing card and the leaf, and added the Button Threadz from the Whizzo collection to anchor the leaf.