Another page for my Alaska travel album. I focused on text elements and texture with this lift.

Supplies:
Autumn Rust Artplay Palette: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Autumn-Rust.html
Compass: Arrive Artplay Palette: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Arrive.html
Button (recolored): Holly Artplay Palette: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Holly.html
Autumn Rust Artsy Transfers: http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtsyTransfers/

Process:
Iceworm Gulch had a really mystical feeling, and I wanted to show that, but I was working with two separate dismal photos. My first step was to blend them into a photomontage to portray the sign and the gulch as one image, but, since the photos did NOT play nicely together, I sought help from my paperie, going through all my papers to find backgrounds that I could use as bridges for blending the two photos. I finally chose two (artsy paper 3 and solid paper 5) from the Autumn Rust palette, blending them together on multiply mode and then using inverted masking to blend the images into the paper.

I added the title, quote, and journaling and then pulled in transfers and overlays from the artplay palette on various blending modes just to add some light (they really were dismal photos). I did the embellishments lastthe compass is on plain old normal blending mode, but since I dragged it under a bunch of layers on other blending modes, it sort of self-blended in a nice way. Then I recolored a button to match the sign. After I sat with the layout a bit, I tucked in an Artsy Transfer, just for a finishing touch.