This LO was fun, but needed a lot of techniques. All the helper elves with the red hats are extracted from photos and applied as they looked best and with a little humor.
The background consists of one of the kit papers with four illustrations layered and blended over it. I used gradient masks on two of them to smooth the edges and blend them. Then I just played with the order and blending modes until it looked right. For the road I did something I'd never done before and it was fun! In PS Edit>Transform>Warp and just play!
The photo is not canted because the LO is already busy and it detracted from it.
