Blackie

Blackie

I began by selecting the bracket photo mat and then I cut the photo out of the selection. For some reason the result was rather transparent so I ended up making three of them to make the photo look normal. Then I made another copy of the bracket mat and rotated it a bit. Then I made the one behind the photo just a little larger. I put one of the backgrounds over the embossed one and erased around and behind the photo. The transition between the embossing and the regular paper was a little too abrupt so I made another copy of the erased layer and lowered the opacity until I liked the effect. Other than that I flipped the vine element horizontally and put them together and arranged the elements into the cluster.