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I hope there isn't a limit to how many LO's one can upload to this gallery! LOL! I have been avoiding scrapping photos of this trip because I have SO many, but I decided to start today with our anniversary dinner. I didn't intend to make it a magical LO, but maybe that was on my brain from uploding my other two LO's because it just started to take on this magical personality. Since it did I decided to upload it here instead of to my own gallery. I took inspiration from my Jupiter LO and blended this photo that I took that evening of the BC Legislature building into a background, made black with the paint bucket tool. As you can imagine, it really was a magical evening.

I wanted to put some sparkle in the sky, but I couldn't get it to look right. For the grunged edge I started with the paper template, turned white by selecting the black with the magic wand and using the replace colour option (in PSE 5), but the template had too much "action" in the middle of the page for the effect I wanted. I began to lower the opacity to the level I wanted, but then I wanted more white on the very edge of the page. so I made another layer of the same template, but erased most of it from the page other than the very edges and left this second layer with a higher opacity than the other layer had. With both layers of this template I was able to find just the effect I wanted.

Supplies:

paper template - TCS Beautiful Distress
frames - JHI Old Photos
raffia - BHA Spiced Cider
flowers & leaf - ABR His and Hers
tag - SG Refresh TCS tag orange
styles - CBA Chipboard; DEB Unique
brushes - KVE 1st/2nd Quarter
fonts - Century; Distemper; Dreamspeak

Journalling:

It was our 20th Anniversary and we were blessed with a band trip to beautiful Victoria, BC - the very city in which we spent the first few months of our marriage! With the cost of traveling covered by the band, all we had to pay for was the extra days we chose to stay to celebrate this momentous occasion.

Although it was a few days early, we celebrated our anniversary with a dinner at a restaurant where we had gone for our one month anniversary, 20 years before. It was called “The Captain’s Palace” in those days, but now, under new management, it went by the name of “The Gatsby Mansion.” Under either name, the food was just as delicious and the atmosphere just as magical. With a view of the Inner Harbour, we enjoyed remimiscing of days gone by, and just enjoying each other’s company, eternally grateful for our 20 years together.