Products:
Swell Artsy Transfers **coming soon**
Swell Artplay Palette http://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Swell.html
Beach Word Art, Wood Word #4 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/Beach-WordART-Mix-No.-1.html
Multi-Media Frames No. 3 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/MultiMedia-Frames-No.-3.html
I began my layout with Swell solid paper #6 and then positioned Swell Artsy Transfer #4 above it. To darken the background but keep the texture, I slid in Swell Solid paper #5 in between and blended it with Exclusion blending mode
I added the big Wood Word in the corner and then randomly chose a spot in the middle of the Artsy Transfer and dropped in Multi-Media frame No. 3_ 2. I clipped in the photoI had hit something by mistake on my cell phone camera so the photo was snapped overexposed and that's how I used it.
There was a sand transfer layer on top of the photo so I had to move that under the photo/frame but otherwise the placement of the frame worked out fine, as random as it was. My only tweak was to duplicate a sky transfer layer (it was already on vivid blending mode) for a little more blue at the top.
For embellishments I used thread and a shell, both snagged from the Multi-media Frames No. 3 set.
Then I added the title, date, and one of my favorite dog quotes, by Rudyard Kipling. To soften the look of the quote I duplicated the text and blended those layers together with overlay mode.