Let me 'plain

I have a lot of pictures from Lizzie's fourth birthday. But, they are not "full size" images (they were taken by someone else and I have some smaller version files) and they are all really dark. I have come across them over and over and done nothing with them. Last night was the moment of truth. I found a great Doodleboog template with a bunch of photos (I added a few more to the template, in fact) and then starting working on the images I had from that night. Because the quality was not great, after fixing them up as best I could, I added some effects so that the full size printed version will actually look like the photos were intended to look the way they do.

The kit I used was my own that I used to sell at SOTB. I made the CD's at the bottom just for this layout from a stock photo at sxc.hu.