At first, I was just playing around with Photoshop. But by the time it came to adding the textures, I just couldn't stop until the it was done!

I was constantly tweaking between 20 layers until I was perfectly satisfied with every little detail. My little brother (who's in my room playing his Gameboy Advance at the moment) also helped along the way by deciding multiple variations of the wallpaper when it was still incomplete.

The background, however, were various stock photos carefully laced together. Now the little two-line quote at the top is from the translation of Anata no Ireba. Anyone who's familiar with the Cardcaptor Sakura series would know that it's the character duet between Sakura and Tomoyo.

And with the simple pen tool... Voila! The finish product :)