Missed this when you first posted it; so glad I found it now! It's gorgeous! Love the soft, filtered look you've achieved here and the colors are perfect!

What a great way to scrap a portrait! I must try this!

So very wonderful! I love photos like this and how cool that your friend has a similar one of you! :)

Awesome layering! Love, love, love your page composition!

This is fabulous! Awesome photo processing and wonderful blending into that perfect background paper!

Wow! This is stunning! What a wonderfully creative page!

Awww, such sweet photos and how cool that they celebrate their birthdays on the same day!

Love your take on the color challenge! Such pretty hues of blue and what a great photo!

So very cool! Love the sketch effect, love the colors!

I've been posting all of these artsy fartsy pages (and I say "artsy fartsy" with love, for I do so love creating those kinds of pages) for my Chicago book when it occurred to me that I've not yet posted any of what I think of as the "meat and potatoes pages"--the pages with...

Wow! This is gorgeous! Makes me want to pack my bags and join you! :)

Oh my! This is breathtaking!

Ooohhh! This is gorgeous! Love the bright, vibrant colors!

I am just lovin' these lifts! What a great old barn and what great colors!

What a beautiful photo and I love how you've scrapped it! Your commentary was very informative. I've not heard of this before and was delighted to read about this amazing fishing technique.

This is lovely! Love the grungy feel to this page!

Okay, so this is just totally awesome! Did you use an "Andy Warhol" tutorial to get the effects, or did you freelance? :) (When I first saw this week's AnnaLift, I immediately googled 'Andy Warhol photoshop' and got a ton of hits for tutorials...)

Chinatown is so vibrant and colorful and your page really captures that essence! Really great brushwork!

Stunning sketch treatment of your photo and great background papers!

Yet another page for the Book That Has No End--my Chicago vacation book. This page actually started out as my take on the latest AnnaLift , but after fooling around with blending modes and page composition, I decided I liked this page better with only the single extraction on it. So, since...