Inspiration – Challenges are a good source of inspiration and the current Anna-lift is a wonderful invitation to play.
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Photos- I placed a large picture of one of my great grandnieces on the page enlarging it to cover the whole background layer. Then used gradients to reduce the opacity of part of the pictures. Then Placed a pencil sketch I created in PS of the same picture with a linear blend mode to knock out the white.
Paper- Placed APP Amount Friends Solid Paper 1 with an Overlay Blend Mode, DayDream Nature's Palette Artistic Paper 17 with a color burn blend mode over the page. APP Embers Pieced Paper with Screen Blend Mode, APP Ikigai Punched Paper with Darken Blend Mode, ET Design Frosty Winter.
Elements - MAP Terraqueous Twisted ribbon which I duplicated both with a color burn blend mode; Oscraps Falling For You butterfly, APP Inclement Butterfly, and APP Melancholy blue ribbon were added to the side with the most hair.
Brush – APP Tangier Brush 2 added over the eye in a gold-brown with a Color Blend Mode.
Title - Holiday Wordart Mix 15 Be Happy wordart.
I added drop shadows where necessary.