ok... so oh my gosh... what i had to do to this picture to get it to work. it was a picture taken on the very first digital camera ever made available [not kidding] and then printed on cheap photo paper close to 10 years ago... plus, i only had that printed copy, so i had to scan it on top of it all. talk about bad quality... wow... it was AWFUL!! so i made it really small, changed it to b/w, put 2 or 3 different filters on it and then blended it as soft light into that charcoal paper, then adjusted the contrast a bit. it's still pretty bad, but sooooo far from where it started. ha! i didn't think i would *ever* get it right. but then... i popped it on this paper [which i am now officially addicted to] and all i could bare to do with it was add our names and a little heart. this was me and hubby back in the day... we had been dating less than a year in this picutre. sigh... now i'm feeling all romantic.

**ok, wow... now add having to save it at a low resolution to post it... lol... this poor picutre... it's been through so much. lol.

PRODUCTS USED:
Paper: THANKS+GIVING (sue cummings & taylormade designs)
DEBRA TOPE: Funky Pink Heart (color altered)
PAISLEE PRESS: Charcoal paper (BERRY+CHARCOAL kit)
(all from oscraps)

Optik Verve Labs: Photo Filters (AWESOME, awesome free program! optikvervelabs.com