Special photo frame - part 1

To start with, you need three source photos.
1-a sky with a few clouds.
2-a portrait (or a cat or flowers, whatever you find pretty)
3-papyrus (or another paper with structure)
You will find all the sources on free stock sites, but for the portrait it would be great if you used a photo of someone you love, to give it that personal touch.
We start with the clouds.

Duplicate the background
layer>duplicate layer >> background copy
Change the brightness and contrast
layer>new adjustment layer>brightness/contrast
to make the layer darker.

Use a soft eraser to erase the middle of the background copy. I used the 200 pixel one.
Click on the arrow next to "brush" to open the brush preset picker.

Erase everything but the edges.

Copy the whole image.
edit>copy merged
Click on the top layer (brightness/contrast1)
edit>paste >> layer 1
Now we have to make layer 1 smaller.
edit>transform>scale
Press the shift key while you scale the layer down to keep the same proportions.
Make sure the new layer is in the middle of the image.