I love this look, I actually used it on my page with the Project Mouse: Frontier set too lol! I haven't used the dodge/burn method though so I love that there's another way to do it(I typically make a new layer and use the paint brush)! I made this page before I even saw this challenge but I'm sharing in case you want to see what the "paint way" looks like (I used it on the tags in the middle picture):
Thanks! That's such a compliment from the AJ master! Yeah paint brush, smudge and I do warp the shadows and tags a bit... I really follow most of what you showed except using the dodge/burn