This was all done in Photoshop Creative Suite.  I took a photo of my darling niece, Sarah, sitting in the exersaucer.  I extracted her head and arms from the photo.  The background photo with the vase was actually a royalty free stock photo from www.sxc.hu, submitted by username anniebee, but the original photo was a short glass pot.  I stretched it out to make it tall like a vase, then placed the photo of Sarah over the top.  I did a little bit of detail cleanup with the eraser tool.  Next, I drew the stem and leaves on a separate layer using the line tool and the custom shape tool, then duplicated the background (vase) layer and placed it over the top.  I adjusted the opacity of that layer so that the stem and leaves could be seen through the glass.  Then, I brought the layer containing Sarah’s face to the top. 

 

This photo manipulation was featured in a layout published in the February/March 2005 issue of Legacy Magazine.