I worked with Anns water color technique on this photo; you can find her tutorial here here. I also used the clone tool on the gingerbread man, based on Anns tutorial tutorials. I'd like to try again on another photo. Her work is so beautiful!

Anna Aspnes
Artsy Transfers Sugar Artsy Transfers Sugar
ArtPlay Palette Sugar ArtPlay Palette Sugar
Urban Threadz No. 7 Urban Threadz No. 7
MultiMedia Baked No. 1 MultiMedia Baked No. 1
Sugar WordArt No. 1 Sugar WordArt No.1
ArtPlay Palette Christmas Magic ArtPlay Palette Christmas Magic
ArtPlay Palette Sweet Christmas ArtPlay Palette Sweet Christmas

Font: Adobe Garamond Pro and Remington Noiseless Regular

Process: I started with solid paper 4, then placed the photo layers between the layers of transfers 4 and 5, blending them into the photo as needed. I also used the transform tool on one layer of transfer 5 in order to get it to show enough of the gingerbread man and hand holding it. I added element 2 from MultiMedia Baked, three copies of the red brad from Sweet Christmas, a copy of the red button tacked down with an urban thread and the word labels. Over the wording on one grandsons shirt I placed the word art and gave it a sticker effect for emphasis. For my journaling, I wrote just the dialogue of a conversation I had with my grandson yesterday. I used Garamond just to mimic the font on the little word labels. Finally I added two copies of the png sprinkle transfer1, rotating them for a little more compositional balance. My floor looks a lot like those scattered sprinkles when the boys are finished.

Thanks for looking!