SAS Designs : Geared Up and Layered Templates Vol 7

While playing around with this month's photography challenge @ MScraps, I discovered a technique (basically half of what is needed for the challenge) which gives a really nice result. Well, I like it. What do you think ?

Geared Up by SAS Designs @ Bits2Kits
Layered Templates Vol 7 by SAS Designs @ MScraps (Guest)