We took the band to dinner before a show as part of an Early Easter celebration. (That's me falling out of the frame in the bottom right of the selfie.)
Products:
Original Fotoblendz No. 14: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/Original-FotoBlendz-No.-14.html
Background paper, metallic frame: Remember Artplay Palette: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Remember.html
Bricks, overlays, transfers: Home Artplay Palette: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Home.html
White frames: Warping Frames No. 1: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/WarpingFrames-No.-1.html
Grunge overlay: ScriptTeaseAdventureFramesNo.1: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ScriptTease-Adventure-Frames-No.-1.html
Dotted brush: Believe Artplay Palette: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Believe.html
Butterfly: Inclement Artplay Palette: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Inclement.html
Fotoglos: Warm Glos No. 8: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/WarmGlows-No.-8.html
Urban Threads No. 6: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/UrbanThreadz-No.-6.html
Urban Stitchez No. 6: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/UrbanStitchez-No.-6.html
Font: Manhattan (free from dafont.com)
Process:
I built this layout from the top down, mostly because of all the tight crops on the photos and posternot really any room for blending. I arranged the images roughly on the page and blocked out the big title, just to hold the space. And what I had was one VERY flat layout, but I liked the concept, so the challenge became how to add some interest to my design.
I started by adding a Fotoblendz with linear edges behind the big photo to give it shape. From there I framed the other photos and poster with warping frames. I blended several artsy papers to form the background, and added overlays and transfers for texture and to carry the blue across the page. I wound up going back to the big photo, duplicating it, enlarging it, and superimposing the part with my daughter over the original photo, extracting her image with a layer mask, just to have something to relate in scale to the title, which by now had grown very large....
To grunge up the design I used several Adventure Script Frames both as page borders and to highlight shapes within the layout. Then I added a little brushworkmostly a bunch of orange dots. I finished by simplifying the text and adding a thin stroke around the letters, then popped on the stitchez and threadz, butterflies, and a fotoglo, then placed the whole page on a black mat.
