Footprints at the Beach card

Here is a beautiful card I made today.  Using a picture of the beach and one lonely set of footprints, I found a sentiment online that I just fell in love with!

I cut out the sentiment and mounted it up on pop dots. The main photo is matted with both black and white and the sentiment block is matted in black.  I love the three buttons I added to the right hand side of the card. 

I printed the sentiment and the picture onto glossy photo paper, giving the card a wonderful shine (but making it pretty hard to photograph well).

This card measures 4" x 9" - it's a standard #10 business size.  That makes it super easy to find an envelope and it doesn't require any extra postage. The card base is craft colored card stock.

I printed a second picture onto white card stock, again, I reduced the opacity so I can write directly on the picture when I am ready to send this to someone. 

Here is the picture I started with... one I took during  our Oregon Coast Vacation in June...

... then I added the sentiment into a block.  Using Photoshop, I created this sentiment block shape and had to cut a piece of the background out so I could change the opacity behind the sentiment.  I wanted the beach to show, but not overwhelm the words.

 

I got this sentiment from Elegant WordArt2. Here you can see just the beach behind the sentiment.

Challenge: 

 Sentimental Sundays : Focus on the sentiment

CAS-ual Fridays : 4" x 9" card