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Open a new 12x12 file with a white background.
Open the photo you wish to use and resize it to fit the 12x12 page. Using the Move Tool, slide the photo onto the new document.
Open the ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Calligraphy, Template 2, and using the Rectangle Marquee Tool, cut out a piece at the same size as your photo. Copy and paste that section on top of your photo.
Next, create a layer mask by clicking the "Adjustment Layers" button in the Layers Palette. (It is the black and white circle button.) Choose "Solid Color" (at the top of the pop-up menu that comes up when you click the Adjustment Layer button). Choose a color that coordinates with the look of your layout. I chose a peachy color to complement my son's skin tone. Move the Calligraphy Template layer above the adjustment level, and click Ctrl+G to create a clipping mask.
Click on the Color Fill Adjustment Layer to make it active. Then, choose the Gradient Tool and choose a circular gradient moving from black in the center out to white.
Click on the "Edit" button on the Gradient Tool Bar next to the Gradient box and move the sliders over to about 40%. This will make more of the center of the gradient black, which is what erases or hides the lettering over top of the focal point of the photo, in this case, my son's face.
Draw the gradient on the Layer Mask over top of where the face is in the picture. Then click on the Calligraphy Template layer to make it active and change the Blend Mode to "Overlay."
Merge all visible layers at this point in order to prevent the masks from being separated.
Create a new layer on top of your merged layers. Using one of the brushes from the Cracked Brush Set, stamp cracks on to your background using a dark brown color. Adjust the size of the brush to fit the area. Stamp above and below the photo, rotating the position of the brush to create a random look.
Choose a second brush from the same brush set and repeat the process with the same color.
I like one of the strong edges on one of the brushes in the Cracked Brush Set, so I used that to border the outside edge of the entire layout.
To remove the brush work on the photo, choose the Eraser Tool and an appropriate brush and erase the marks.
Create a new layer. Choose an edging brush from the Inked Edge Brush Set and ink the bottom edge of the photo. Rotate the brush 180 degrees and ink the top edge.
Open the Green Patterned Paper from the Bella Collection. Use the Rectangular Marquee Tool and cut a thin strip of the paper. Drag and drop it along the top edge of your photo. Cut a second, wider strip for the bottom edge of the photo. Drag and drop into place. Next, drag the layer for the top strip underneath the layer with the inked edges of the photo. Move the top strip slightly lower than the top inked edge of the photo.
Click on the layers for each of the green strips in turn, and change the Blend Mode to "Difference." Lower the Opacity of the bottom strip to about 70%.
Blend Mode "Difference" applied to bottom strip.
Then, Opacity lowered.
Using the Swash Brush from the Cracked Brush Set and the Eraser Tool, erase a bit of the bottom of the lower strip.
Now, add a new layer above the bottom strip and use the same Inked Edge Brush as above. With a purple color to match the strip, ink the bottom edge of the strip.
Then, add your title in a deeper shade of purple, and add the Bracket Brush from the Rugged Décor Brush Set.
Save your work, you're done!
Layout by Jan Hicks
Tutorial written by Jan Hicks
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