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Japanese Garden (Day 5 aA Ladder Challenge)
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Japanese Garden (Day 5 aA Ladder Challenge)

Anna Aspnes
ArtPlay Palette Et Voila ArtPlay Palette Et Voila
MultiMedia Branches 3 MultiMedia Branches No. 3
Right Now WordArt No. 1 Right Now WordArt No. 1
Artsy Layered Template 139 Artsy Layered Template 139
Watercolor FotoBlendz No. 5 Watercolor FotoBlendz No. 5
ArtPlay Palette Epic ArtPlay Palette Epic

Process: This may sound odd, I turn off everything but the frames, text boxes, titles and strokes on the templates before saving them to an external drive. It allows me to see the empty spaces with a more open mind, more like a blank canvas with a rough design sketched for me. Ive used just the frames and text box of a template for other layouts.

I chose this template and art palatte with some photos from the Huntington Library in mind. After dragging over all the pieces of the template to a blank page, I placed watercolor foto blendz mask next to the frames and clipping my photo to that layer. I clipped the other photos to the small frames. I added the white, solid paper 2. I next put paper 4 above it on multiply blend mode at about 20% so that the white I wanted to use would show up better. For the background, I then started turning on pieces of the template, recoloring a transfer, changing the blend modes, adding a color fill layer to the flourishes and clipping the large photo to several of the layers for effect. There were some layers that I masked and blended. I also used some of the overlays from the art palette, for example recoloring overlay 1 and 2 on the right side below the brad.

I placed the multimedia branch, shadow and black splatters above the framed photos, the other parts below the photos. I recolored the leaves and splatters. I duplicated the top leaf and moved it over to the right below my brad. I put the butterfly along with art stroke 3 from the palette on the top right and repeated part of it below the brad on the bottom right to create a visual triangle. My journaling came last on this layout. I duplicated my text so that it was more readable and added the date.

Thanks for looking:)
I've said this before, but I love layouts like this, with a large blended photo and added details. Love the texture and brush work around the edges, and nice anchor with the branch. Pretty colors!
 
beautiful, so inviting you want to step right in.I love the flow and the butterfly combined with the loop
 
Beautiful page! I too love the large blended photo, and the addition of the two smaller ones for more detail of this beautiful place.
 
those photos are stunning..I bet that is one beautiful site in person! Beautifully blended and love the little framed photos!
 
Love the arrangement of the photos! It makes a inviting lay out, I want to visit the garden!
 
Beautiful page. I love the soft greens and the butterfly is just a wonderful finish.
 
Fantastic! I love the way you've used the mask, great texture and colors, I love the tiny pics and the butterfly!
 

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