Never too old to learn...

When visiting DST - Digital Scrap Talk - these days, the home page is like a blog with great articles which change daily. One I found a couple of days ago prompted this layout. It was a Portrait in Font/Text tutorial by Jennifer White (both written and in video format.
Basically, you make 3 brushes from words- one dark/heavy/bold, one light/faint/dainty and the third in between. These brushes are applied to an extracted, posterized, black and white portrait, each brush on a separate layer, which are then flattened into one layer. Add to a layout and adjust the opacity and it is done.




Here's mine using a lovely photo of Tracey in her teens, and the Welcome Kit from Plain Digital Wrapper. Newcomers to the PDW site can earn this huge colourful kit for free by posting a challenge layout, posting in the forum and commenting in the gallery. What a great joining bonus.

Go here for the information Welcome Kit