Vintage Frame and Layer

I found a new vintage frame set at The CoffeeShop blog this morning.  Rita has done all of the work for us.  I dropped in a new photo of our dog Gracie and tweaked things just a bit to get this photo.  Thanks Rita!  

Before

Already my mind is thinking ahead to how this frame set can be used in the future as it comes both vertical and horizontal.

After

Flowers

I have found that I love focusing on the middle subject in a photo.  I had three different bouquets, front to back in graduating heights.  The middle green flower dominated the grouping so I made it central to the photo.  In Photoshop Elements, I duplicated the image two times for a total of three.  The middle photo I changed to multiply and adjusted the opacity, and the top one I applied a Gaussian blur.  The next step was to link the top layer to the middle.  I then merged all of the layers and applied a creamy layer around the outside by adding a solid layer, selecting a border then feathering at 25px, backspacing that center, then adjusting the opacity of the border.