Kunie Kanbara Wallpaper: Flowers Explosion in your mind

On my god ._. This should be a "simple&fast" work...but I'm beginning to think that I'm little masochist -.-

Long description again…if you want to skip it, do it XD The credits are at the end! :)

"Once upon time there is a girl that wanted to do a "graphic" wallpaper, one of that "old" school wallpaper that now we don't see often..."
No seriously XD Sorry! Let start this description again ù.ù
This afternoon (and here now it’s 11.00 p.m.) I started to give a look in MiniTokyo Gallery Scan, but I can’t find nothing that suggest me a good idea.
At the same time I gave a look on the "Tutorial Gallery" on this group on DA.
I was searching for a simple "colorize" tutorial, but it seems that now this type of tutorial are all "psd coloration" ( <-- but...what is the sense of this? where is the "tutorial" if you just have all the layers "made"? o.o I lost something I think...could someone explain me? XD) ..and since I use Gimp, for me they are useless….and at the end I gave up -.-
In meanline I switched for a "vector" instead of a scan, just for have to sure a decent quality...and what is the first that catched my eyes? Obviously a Kunie Kanbara's vector! (I'm really addicted...)
The vector is made by MapleRose:
Rebirth (vector) by MapleRose
And so this is what I did step by step:
1st: I duplicated the original vector, I made smaller and reversed the duplicated one; then I changed the face of the smaller one using like refer this scan:
In my mind
2nd: apply some others flowers in order to blend better togheter both layers; I used this brushes Flower Vector Brushes but I have to re-vector all flowers that I used to have the right final effect.
The final result after these two steps is this
3rd duplicated this finale result, and reversed it again …and I like how it turn *_*
4th applicated a my coloritation ù.ù Since I can’t find any XD Just random curves setting and some unit tint layer in different modes :3
5th: Duplicated again, made it smaller, desaturated and put under all the other layers, how you can see in the final result :3
6th: Add this Grungy Paper Texture (it’s always the same XD I like it ù.ù) , a gradient in the background and a layer with a with-black gradient to give some light.
7th: Become crazy with typography and after a lot of various attempts I chose this one…anyway I upload the textless version, too!
Final step: Sign and properly credit to everyone :D

CREDITS:
Program: Gimp 2.6
Vector:
Rebirth (vector) by MapleRose
Scan:
In my mind

Texture: Grungy Paper Texture
Brushes: Flower Vector Brushes
ORIGINAL ART © Kunie Kanbara
Graphic Elaboration by Raffachan

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