I scrapped my youngest granddaughter's birthday. I used Anna Aspnes Art Play Palette Birthday, Mediterranka Designs Stay N Joy Border and Vicki Robinson Still Changing Paint. Font is A Big Deal.
Our Daughter's Family Dog always looks like he has a smile on his face! Vicki Robinson Designs amazing Collection and her part of the wonderful Colour Play this month "Artful Expressions 6 " was perfect for this photo!
To blend the photo, I added a white layer mask to the photo and used a black to transparent gradient on the mask to blend the top and bottom of the photo. I then set the Blend Mode to Darker Color and used the Underlying Layer slider to further blend photo.
I created my background by blending several of the patterned papers from Vicki Stegall's Mixed Media Papers Let's Play. I added some textures from Anna Aspnes' Spackle Textures No. 4 and gesso pieces from Vicki Robinson's Artful Expressions #2 Gesso. All other elements are from Palvinka...