Tools needed: Stylize here
Tube, Brush, Texture and font Copper Alt Caps here
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© Christopher Vacher www.vacher.com

Open your mask tube and minimize.
Open your tube,
Window, Duplicate and close the original.
Make sure your background is the active layer.
Layers, New Raster Layer.
Select your brush tool and set your colour
to #AAB667.
Apply the brush @cb-plantlife12 size 450

just behind your image.
Now resize your brush tool to 200
apply a few times to thicken the foliage.
Add a new raster layer above your image
and apply a your brush a few times at the bottom.

Duplicate BOTH the brush layers.
(Right click on the layer on your palette and select duplicate)

On each of the Duplicated brush layers
Effects, Plugins, Stylize, Extrude

On the top duplicate brush layer reduce the opacity to 60

Click on your image and duplicate this layer.
Effects, Artist Media Effects, Coloured Chalk

Change the blend mode to Hard Light

Now grab your freehand tool
Set feather to 12

Draw a rough oval over her face
and left hand side

Delete.
Selections, Select None.
Hide your background layer
Merge Visible.
Image, Resize by 80.
Adjust, Sharpness, Unsharp mask

Un hide your background and add a New Raster layer.
Flood fill this with #C9E5C2
Effects, Stylize, Extrude - same settings.
Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image
find your flowermask and apply

Hide your background and image.
Layers, Merge Group.
Resize your flower by 80, apply the unsharp mask.
Duplicate this layer and move them apart a tad.

Layers Merge Visible,
Effects, Coloured Chalk again same settings.
Selections, Select All
Selections, Float,
Selections, Modify, Contract by 5

Layers, New Raster Layer.
Select your texture
Edit, Copy
Back to your image
Edit, Paste into Selection.
Selections, Select None.
Change blend mode to Multiply.
Layers, Merge Visible and resize again to 80.
Un hide your other layers
move your image a tad to hide bottom of the
background image.
Layers, Merge.
Layers, New Raster layer for your text.

3D Effects, Inner Bevel

Add a Drop Shadow to your liking.
Add © information and your watermark.
Merge all flatten.
Resize and crop to taste.

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