I do that almost exact thing to my stuff aswell except I use 'hardlight' instead of 'overlay' and I CTRL+U the layer and bring Saturation to 0 for a pale look, or -50 for the color of the original.
here i made this as an example and a thank you to u... u dont needa use it i jus wanted to show u what i culd do with it and then i figured id make u a gift