Ocean Beach - Summer 2016 - Shell in your pocket

This past week I went down to 'my' beaches - Ocean Beach to Umina Beach taking my Samsung Tablet with me as I wanted to take a panorama shot.  This is the view I have after I have walked just 100 steps from my front gate and up and over a small sand dune - I never tire of this view.

I have completed this layout for a challenge over at ARTastic Challenge Blog.  The challenge was to be inspired by the following artwork  -Bondi Scene by Isabelle May Tweddle. The criteria was Summer.

Some particulars - I have raised the main photo with foam tape - both the photo and the corrugated blue mount. In real life it gives the impression of raising above the sand image on the patterned paper. I have used paper, stickers and die cuts from Kaisercraft Sandy Toes collection and scattered hessian twine, pearls and sparkles randomly.

I love both the quotes - so I used both - I hope not too much.  At the bottom (for photographic purposes only) you can see in the middle an actual shell I picked up on the beach later in the week when I was walking the beach, kicking the water as I walked and then I spotted this shell (it was not a live shell people, if it was I would have put it back) and nearly fell over in the water trying to get it as the waves rolled in.

Thank you for looking, and enjoy any walks you may have on a beach in your future.  Margaret :)