beautiful

Materials used :
- Photoshop Elements 3.
- CS: blue blox texturized with canvass
- PP: Raspberry Road designs RR_MD 04, RR_MD 07, RR_MD 08, RR_MD 09
- Embellishments: Raspberry Road designs RR_Bookplate 02
- Font: Garamond

** Credit: Raspberry Road designs used are digi freebies from the works of talented Susan Darter

Techniques:
Using Photoshop Elements 3.0
1. paint background with blue then texturize with canvass (scaling:107%; relief:2; light:bottom left) and use as cs
2. drag and resize Raspberry Road designs pp RR_MD 09 and change opacity to 54% and use as background pp
3. drag and resize Raspberry Road designs pp RR_MD 07 and use for matting of picture
4. crop picture, drag, simple emboss and include drop shadow
5. select pattern of roses from Raspberry Road designs pp RR_MD 04 and drag onto layout, simple emboss and include soft edge shadow
6. resize Raspberry Road designs RR_Bookplate 02 and include text date
7. select Raspberry Road designs pp RR_MD 08, write text, crop and drag onto layout; simple emboss
8. write 'beautiful' text, use simple outer emboss and include soft edge shadow.
9. tweak and tweak until finally satisfied haha