Several years ago we visited Yellowstone National Park and was greeted by this jovial park ranger! We were so excited to get our "senior" park pass!

Anna Aspnes
Artplay Palette Mountain High Artplay Palette Mountain High
Mountain High 1 Mountain High
Mountain High WordArt 1 Mountain High WordArt 1
Wood Textures 1 Wood Textures 1
Watercolor FotoBlendz 1 Watercolor FotoBlendz 1
Artplay Palette Frozen Artplay Palette Frozen

The Process
I began with the solid white watercolor paper from AP Mountain High. Overlay 1 was layered on the page. Transfer 4 was layered under it, duplicated and the blending mode was changed to color burn with a reduced opacity. These two layers were duplicated and flipped horizontally and blended together to span the page. Several brushes from Wood Textures 1 were clipped to the layers to give them more texture. Brush 2 from Mountain High 1 was layered onto the page. Color was added by layering transfer 3 (resized larger) and clipping it to the trees. The transfer was duplicated and the blending mode was changed to hard light. The photo of the park ranger was clipped to a fotoblendz. A layer mask was added to the fotoblendz and portions of it were hidden to better shape the image. These layers were merged and an inverted mask was added. I began brushing back the image with a soft textured brush. The same technique was used for the card. Word art, brushes, more transfers and embellishments were added to complete the page.
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