For the Day 10 Chain Scraplift Challenge, we were asked to scraplift a layout from the gallery of the person who posted just before us. For me, that was Jean/@scrap-genie, and I fell down the most delightful, inspirational rabbit hole looking at all her lovely creations! I had AT LEAST 25 really great possibilities and it took me a while to narrow it down to just one: On a Journey! Thank you so much for all the fabulous inspiration, Jean!

When I look at Jean's layout, what I love about it is that it has one photo of a shorebird, an airy yet textural background, a scribble, and some text. That's what I tried to imitate in my own layout.

So, I started with a light, airy, textural background from Rachel Jefferies & Lynn Grieveson's Pocket Full of Pebbles Mixed Media Collection. Then, I found an incredible Blending Mask from Lynne Anzelc Designs where the edges remind me of sea foam. That's the mask that I used to blend my own photo of a shorebird - this time an Eastern Willet - into the background.

I got supremely lucky, in that the lines of my photo lined up with lines in the background texture, and it totally looks like I planned it or engineered it to look that way. That was entirely a Bob Ross Happy Accident!

Next, I used a scribble and a tall botanical from the Mixed Media part of the Pocket Full of Pebbles Collection, and slid them partially underneath my photo. From the kit elements, I picked the Postcard word art to be the text. Then I added the sea glass, sea weed, sea shells, and pebbles to finish the layout.