This layout is about pet-sitting, something I do a lot of, being there are four grand-animals in my life. When last on pet duty, I did some early decorating, to make the human-grand's homecoming more special.
To make this layout I clipped the main photo to a Fotoblendz (which I duplicated and moved along with a duplicate of the photo in order to capture more of the image). I then added phone extractions of the house number photos, arranging everything roughly on the page. For background, I used three Artsy Papers combined on different blend modes to enhance texture, as well as some supplies from the Transfer/Overlay part of the Artplay Palette. Once I was finished, I realized there wasn't enough visual story on the page for me, so I blended in one of the dogs over all the other layers, old-school style—with blending modes, layer masks, and an aA blending brush.
