:waving1 How lovely to see you Jeannette! :) Wow, love the results of your merged background papers, you certainly achieved some fantastic textures on your layout! Also love the pretty colours you have used throughout as well! Fabulous work!

Wonderful work with background papers, love the textured effects you achieved on this page! I also love all of the paint and splatters you added, the image of the little girl really stands out beautifully on your page, along with the shells! Fantastic layout!

Fabulous job with the background textures Jean, like Chris I love the blurry/blend on the gulls photo! Also love that photo of your hubby taking his photos! Such a fantastic and very creative layout!

Great job with your background papers Anja, love the textured effect you achieved! A perfect background for that stunning photo!

oooh!!! Fantastic page Helene and congrats on the GSO!! :beatingheart: Love how you created your grungy background, simply perfect for the photos you used and the topic! Love the touches of red around the page as well! Brilliant work!

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hmmm, nah, mine just appears? always has done and looks like this........ then I just click on the name and then email, which both autofill for me, type my text and click Submit. So yeah, there must be some hidden little setting somewhere that needs to be switched on. :thinking2:

Once iNSD slows down a bit perhaps Cindy @scribler could take a look. :)

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:cheer::claphands: yay!! congratulations Gloria!! :dancing6:

Oh it's not that I am the blog's pet Jeanne, it's because I have a big :whip3::whip4: In the immortal words of Devo "... whip it good!!!" :lol23::lol23::lol23:

That's fine Geraldine, you just needed to mention what two papers you used, thank you! x

Geraldine, your page is lovely, can you let me know which two papers you used, the name of the background and the name of the paper you used as the overlay (like I did above my layout in the first post), thanks. xx

This looks like a fantastic challenge Dorina, and just love your layout! ♥