In any case, I have decided to create a layout with the most unlikely photograph!
Some of you may have seen on my facebook that my husband and I went to the Kennedy Space Centre for a long weekend and of course we had to see the Atlantis Exhibit. A plug here for this. It is the most spectacular exhibit I have ever seen. What you are looking at is the REAL Atlantis that flew several times to the International Space Center and back safely. You really do not get the whole idea of size with this single photo but I can truly state that it is HUGE!!!
Anyway I have also opened up a blank 12" x 12" document on a transparent background as I always do. Now to open up all the components of this wonderful Succulents kit and see what I can do with the colors and goodies in the kit.
Be right back.
I opened up all the stuff that came with the kit and chose the background which seemed to have a toning color to the photo in it and made a new layer beneath the photo and brought in the background.
As you can see it seems to be a lot wishy washy so I am going to darken it and give it some texture as well.
To do that, on the layer go to image>adjustments>hue and saturation> There you can play around with the sliders and adjust to where you would like it to be. You can see that I upped the hue and saturation and made it much darker.
Once you are happy hit enter or OK. I have also given the photo layer a fairly severe drop shadow and a black stroke.
Now on to the goodies.
One of the stamp sheets has the perfect phrase for this photo so I selected it and made it a brush using the edit>define brush set tool.
Also, I added a premade paper strip which I colored to match the background and have stamped with the wording in a toning color.
Now I wanted a small bow so chose one from another kit and recolored it to work.
As I said, this is the most unlikely photo to use with the succulents kit but I think it works.
I do hope you enjoy your visit to my blog today.
