Artsy Layered Template #243 **coming tomorrow**
Anaphora Artplay Palette **coming tomorrow**

also
Antiquity WordART http://www.oscraps.com/shop/Antiquity-WordART-Mix-No.-1.html

Notes for Photoshop Elements 14
Sometimes I use a template just for the premade background of stains, paint, artstrokes, and textures, employing the frames as a speedy aid to locating my photo(s)that's what I did here. I turned off the visibility on the four frames and masks, but left the drop shadows visible to help me position my image.

I'd been having trouble documenting this imageit's not a very exciting photo, just a sign on a building of our favorite local in Camden, England, which was torn down to make room for high-priced condosbut the stained and smoky feel of the template (and the Artplay Palette) was perfect, giving me the readymade ethereal look I needed to help me tell the story.

After I had positioned the photo, I added the background (Artsy paper #4 over #1 on color burn mode) and blended in the photo using inverted masking. I then added the wordart and wrote the journaling. To finish up, I added the flower, bird, and ribbon, then used pretty much all the transfers and overlays, plus a few brushes, to enrich the background and to highlight certain areas on the layout.

As last steps I typed in some large words then clipped Solid Paper #3 to them so they'd fade into the background. Then, for extra dimension, I dragged in Solid Paper #5 as an overlay at the top of the stack, using the linear burn blending mode at 35% opacity.