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First I printed the Palm Tree sheet from the Happy All Over Set in the largest size (100%). A bit of the bottom of the palm trees was off the page, but that was OK. I trimmed the print & matted it on blue paper in a color close to the color of the waves.

I took a kitchen glass and drew a circle on the back of a scrap of yellow and cut it out adding the small 'rays' as I cut. They are not exact. I traced the cut out sun onto scrap paper to work out my title lettering spacing before I drew on the sun.

I matted the photo in hot pink because that was a color present in both girls swim suits. Then I took a an Exacto knife and cut around the top branches of the palm trees to slip the photo under. Lastly, I added a bit of journaling with a blue gel pen between the waves.

Total time= about 15 minutes.

This photo just seemed to have that 'Movie Star' look ! I used a sheet of the Happy All Over paper and cut around the corner of the camera to slide the photo under.

I matted the photo uncropped with a big border to help isolate the photo from the busy background. I choose a color from the swim suit. I cut the pink 'balloon' from a lighter pink scrap and traced it onto paper and worked out my wording before writing in it.

The pink 'balloon' seemed to need something to help it stand out (plus you could see thru it a bit), so I matted it with a scrap of the hot pink paper that also matches a color in the swim suit and the background paper I matted the whole composition onto.

Another *quickie*--about 15 minutes.

I printed the blue star paper from the Happy All Over set on my ink jet printer and cut the white edge off following the tips of the stars. I chose it because it has sort of a splashy water look. The print is glued to an aqua blue background sheet. I tried different angles and settled on a diagonal slant since it indicated more movement like splashes really have.

To make the sunglasses title, I folded a scrap in two and sketched a heart with a bit of a nose bridge, cut it out while still folded, then unfolded it & used it for a pattern to cut the darker blue paper.

I trimmed off some edge on one heart from the scrap pattern and used it as a pattern to cut the dark blue insides, which I glued on top.

Yellow seemed like a good choice to mat the photos, indicating sunshine.

Total time= about 20 minutes.

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