i ♥ faces - fix-it friday

I've always wanted to do the i ♥ faces fix-it friday challenge but never had time to do it. This time they wanted to focus on textures and I'm happy to oblige and make time because I need more practice on this stuff...

Here's the original:

 

Here's my first edit.  I adjusted recovery, fill, blacks, brightness, and constrast in LightRoom and applied the LR preset called PH Soft & Dreamy.  I also cropped it a bit - out of aspect ratio but a neat crop none the less.

 

I then took that first edit and dropped it into GIMP and added a texture.  I found the texture on Flickr, set it to 30% opacity and set the blend to multiply.  I also added a blue background to change the color of the texture.

 The third edit is simply another texture I found on Flickr ( really need to write down who the author of those are..).  Set the opacity to 30%, blend to multiply, and use the eraser on 50% opacity to remove some of the color from her face and the snowman.

  

 Last one is just a LR Preset called "brighten up drab and dreary"...funny name but it works well:)

 

So, what do you think? That was fun!!:)