Stuck?!

The September 1st Inspiration from Stuck?! (http://stucksketches.blogspot.com/) is so lovely! I just recently enjoyed a family vacation to Galveston, so I have tons of pictures just begging for pages. :) Here is the sketch:

And here is the page I made:

The focus photo is a picture of me and my Dad on the last morning of our trip. We got up before sunrise to search for seashells. As you can see, I've attached a few to the page using glue dots. :) The other two pictures were taken that morning also. I had so many sunrise photos to choose from, but in the end this one was my favorite that I took that morning. The picture of the seashell was the only really big shell we found without holes in it, but *of course* it had a hermit crab in it! Since we couldn't take it with us, we had to commemorate it with a pic. :) Here are some close ups of the page:

These letters started out gold, but I wanted them to pick up the orange of the sunrise more, so I added some orange glitter paint.

My journaling is written on a cream piece of paper that I tore out for some added texture. I really want some of the amazing Tattered Angels sprays that I keep seeing on layouts, but until I get some, I'm stuck with good ol' fingernail polish. :) I painted the edges with a translucent gold-glitter polish that catches the light quite nicely. I don't think you can tell in this pic... But it's there! :)

In place of the flower embellishments in the sketch, I glued seashells on the page in a similar pattern. :)