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KellyCreates
July 31, 2010

By the Beautiful Sea

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This is one of my fave photos from our Costa Rica winter vacation....all the kids just sitting on the beach (candid shot!) enjoying the beauty of the ocean (well, in my mind! lol!) This was such a fabulous, relaxing holiday for us and a wonderful break from the frigid temperatures back home. :) I had planned to design a different page with this photo, but when I saw this Little Yellow Bicycle collection at my lss, I knew I had to use it! I also tried a new technique with microbeads and really like the effect. Not easy to see in this photo, but if you enlarge, all the wave swirls are edged in MS clear microbeads (I just traced the swirls with Glossy Accents first). I was worried about those microbeads getting everywhere, but purchased a pkg of MS glitter trays (great deal...7 in a pkg!!) and that tray is Magic! The beads poured beautifully into the bottle after. Martha also helped me with that seashell border punch...LOVE IT! I cut the sand dollars from the pp that they're sitting on and added copper microbeads, but for the dimensional adhesive I used gold liquid pearls. That worked very well :) Then popped the sand dollars up with foam squares. Oh, and the outer edges of the sun's rays are outlined with yellow stickles, subtle but pretty IRL. I matted the photo with some glittery mesh ribbon. The orange floral swirl on left is cut from the orange pp and outlined with Pumpkin Smooch. After adding some "Oceana" chipboard (Creative Imaginations), I took a nap! ha ha! (BTW, this design was inspired by Jennifer Yates' layout in the June Scrapbook Trends mag.)Thanks for looking, everyone....I really enjoy reading your comments! :)


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