Practicing Digital Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

The word on the tubes is that bokeh is quickly approaching as the next design craze like rounded corners, reflecting logos, and diagonal stripes. I found a nice tutorial from Abduzeedo on how to recreate the photography effect in Photoshop. I used some new colors released by the Pantone Color Institute for Fall 2009.

Here's what I came up with after struggling a little with the tutorial:

I originally thought I was going to use the effect in my self portrait assignment, but now I have a different idea involving playing cards. More on that development later :)