A store owner in town has these wonderful planters on both sides of his shop door and comes up with wonderful ideas once the flowers are pulled after the warm months are gone. For a time he had these miniature pumpkins decorating his planters. He told me its to prevent smokers from putting their cigarette butts in them. I was worried someone would steal the pumpkins.
ArtsyTransfers Flock
ArtsyTransfersFlock
ArtPlay Palette Flock
ArtPlayPaletteFlock
Gather WordART Mix No. 2
GatherWordARTMixNo.2
ArtsyEdge Frames No. 2
ArtsyEdgeFramesNo.2
Splatters No. 1
SplattersNo.1
MultiMedia Branches No. 1
MultiMediaBranchesNo.1
Layered FotoBlendz No. 1 (Retired)
SparkleDots No. 1
SparkleDotsNo.1
ButtonThreadz No. 2
ButtonThreadzNo.2
Photo: Mine
Font: Arial Black
Notes: Starting with solid paper 2 from Flock, I placed the layered fotoblendz and clipped solid paper 1 to it and blended the mask to Multiply. Over these layers I brought in the artsy edge frame and clipped my photo and recolored the artsy edge to white. I used the Cut Out filter on the photo. To the photo I clipped the word art overlay and blended to Linear Burn. I also added an art stroke from Flock to the photo at a much reduced size.
Underneath and to the right of the photo layers I added the artsy transfer, using all the layers. To the left, are the bits and pieces of branches 1 and grass from Flock along with the sparkle dots. Stains and splatter were also added.
Adding the title and using a style to give it a sticker look at the top, I also typed out the month at the bottom, giving it a bevel and emboss and drop shadow and turning down the fill opacity to 0%. To finish the page I placed the thread on the little pumpkin.
