An awesome VintageCool looking photo from a photo shoot of a friend and her beautiful family and the perfect cool background to surround them. When I saw Annas new VintageCool AP Arrive I knew this was the shot I wanted to play with!

Kits by Anna Aspnes
ArtPlay Palette Arrive
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=10012742&cat=383&page=1
Arrive WordART
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=10012739&cat=383&page=1
Postage Edge Overlays
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=10012741&cat=383&page=1
Taped Textures
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=10012740&cat=383&page=1
UrbanStichez No. 1
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=32916&page=2
UrbanStichez No. 6
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=44066&page=2
Distressed Edge Overlay No. 9
https://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27993&page=1

Page Process
Photo was clipped to transfer from AP Arrive and both were resized and aligned accros the top of the paperie.
Photo was duplicated and the soft light blending mode was applied and the opacity was decreased to 50%.
Additional layers of transfers and brushes were added to surround the photo and create the nestled effect of the photo with in them.
Details of wordart and UrbanStitches and scribble lines were incorporated.
Postage Edge overlays were layered up (three of them were used here) and flipped as they were visually appealing and recolored in either the aqua or the taupe color taken from the photo and transfers to tie the full page together from side to side.
(I wanted the photo to stand out and be the focus so I stopped myself with my usual adding of even more cool AnnaStuff to my page!)simplifying is a new creative goal of mine. I want to create digital ART, but time is a factor in everyones life so finding the balance to get my AnnaART and Messy fix!!

thanks for looking.donna