@brumbe@annamaker - I'm always happy to tell people what i did, but this one - it's hard to say - i spent forever on it and went through so many variations, i lost track. Used PS Elements for all of it. Did adjustment layer to separate the parts then made color gradient changes to the stem section and softening and applied an old paper texture to that part. This was one where I mostly did not know what I was doing, just kept changing it up 'til I got something. I'd looked at it so long I didn't know if was horrible or not - you know how that is?
