It's a well known fact that Scottish summers are fickle to say the least so imagine our joy when we lucked out one August!

I started with an artsy paper then enlarged it as I only wanted the texture on the left hand side of the page. I masked the photograph and painted back the figure, behind this I positioned one of the transfers then played about with various transfers and overlays duplicating if I wanted more definition. The twig element I duplicated; first twig I added ribbon elements, the second I positioned the Beach word between the word and shadow layer - enlarged then erased part of the twig so it looked like the twig was intertwined through the letters. I used this same technique to 'thread' buttons on to the twig and intertwine the black thread from the beaded word art.

I added the sun but wasn't happy with the composition until the frame pulled it all together!