The real happiness of life is to enjoy the present, without any anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
ArtPlay Palette Evanish
ArtPlayPaletteEvanish
WaterColor FotoBlendz No. 8
WaterColorFotoBlendzNo.8
SeaSprinklez No. 2
SeaSprinklezNo.2
Remember WordART Mix No. 2
RememberWordARTMixNo.2
WarmGlows No. 1
WarmGlowsNo.1
Notes: Solid paper 5 as the foundation, I brought in the psd watercolor fotoblendz and the photo. I clipped the photo to three of the mask layers and recolored the rest. I duplicated the photo of the main part of the mask and put it on Overlay blend mode and grouped them.
Bringing in a transfer underneath the group and placing it at the right side of the photo on the edge of the page I left it on Normal blend mode and added the art stroke underneath. Placing the sea sprinkles word transfers and foliage at the bottom of the page, I blended the sprinkles to Color Burn and words to Overlay.
Over these layers, I lined up a brush from the kit to the texture of the background paper on the left side of the page and another below the water line blending those to Linear Burn, making them pick up the background textures.
Making a circle with the Shape Tool, I pasted the quote to it with the text tool, fiddling around with it until it was spaced properly around the circle. I duplicated the circle, resizing and typed out the title, giving it a bevel and emboss and tiny drop shadow and turning down the fill opacity to 0.
At the top of the layers panel I placed artsy paper 4 and blended to Color Burn. I opened the group and played around with the blend modes on the various mask layers until I got something I really liked. Then underneath the group I put a warm glow and blended that also. That finished the page.
