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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Fun in the Sun - Chris Sexton


This photo of my mum and dad (taken about 1948) enjoying each other's company and the great Aussie lifestyle of sun, sand and surf felt quite iconic. I love their togetherness and their obvious happiness and love for each other. It fitted the call for February's ARTastic Challenge very well.



I had lots of beachy odds and ends in my stash, including shells, chipboard starfish, leaf skeletons, pearl beads, sequins and string which I tried to arrange artistically on the page.


The chipboard starfish were embossed with Opals then decorated with rhinestones. The little shells were Kindy Glitzed and the raffia flower was coloured with Distress Ink. The pink strip towards the bottom of the page below the photo was created by sticking some plasterers mesh to cardstock, embossing with Opals then inking the edges. It provides fabulous texture quickly and easily!



I hope you enjoy my take on the challenge.
Cheers, Chris.

9 comments:

  1. CHris your details and the interesting colour choice work really well with your nostalgic photo of your parents.
    Thank you for joining us at ARTastic this month.

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  2. Chris - this is simply stunning - I love, love, love everything about it ... WOW !!! All the little details are amazing. Thank you SO much for sharing this with us at ARTastic.

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  3. What a gorgeous layout! Love the use of fun yarn... giving me some ideas to bring out my skeins and try something too! Love all the embellies and cool title letters! :)

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  4. sweet Lo, with lots of very nice details in the decoration. Thanks for taking part at Artastic.

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  5. What a great photo to have and use for this challenge. I also love all the interesting textures and embies you have placed on your page. Thank you so much for joining us again at ARTastic.

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  6. This is the most wonderful page Chris! Truly fabulous photo, & your embellishment work is fantastic - certainly fun in the sun page here. Thank you for playing with us at ARTstic.

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  7. What a beautiful page, love all those little added embellies...perfect title! thanks for joining in at ARTastic this month :)

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  8. What a great photo to suit our challenge at ARTastic. I really like what you have done with all your embellies, they border the photo nicely. Thanks for joining in our challenge this month.

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  9. What a fantastic border filled with embellishments! Great Layout! Thanks for taking part at Artastic.

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