I joined in on the chat with Amanda of Taylor Made designs yesterday. It was fun and very new to me – but I think I will try it out again In the chat she had a challenge for us and I made this LO:

Link to my layout in the Catscrap gallery: here.

Amanda wanted us to focus on the use of blending modes and she linked us with this tutorial. It was so fun, I don’t do this very often – at least not on photos (I love to bled papers!!). Here is my original photo:

First I made this:

Using these blending modes:

o. original
1. screen
2. multiply 90%
3. soft light (black-white)
4. screen (sepia)
5. soft light (sepia)
6. overlay (sepia)

Then I made this – my favorite:

Using these blending modes:

1. filled the background with light-blue color
2. color dodge
3. screen
4. overlay
5. vivid light
6. saturation (black and white)
7. soft light

When I put together the layout I originally wanted to use the original photo, but I ended up changing it up a bit (using blending modes that I can’t remember) and making it black and white… It took me some time to get the layout together, but I’m so pleased with the result!! Thanks for the challenge Amanda – and for the freebies as well!!