Best Things In Life Aren't Things

I am back, again, with  more to share.  Today I thought I would share a layout I did as part of a challenge over at Scrapjazz.com a little while back.  This layout gave me a chance to play with a ton of new things I had gotten recently in addition to use up my scraps.  So, here is the layout:

I had so much fun making this layout.  I created the Hexagon shapes using scraps of paper and the Spellbinders Hexagon dies to create the background.  I loved the look of the background that I did not want to cover it resulting in my using a single photo.  To keep with the lacadasical feeling of the background, I used a photo I had not intended to and was sitting at the top of my recycling basket.  I felt that the white space on the photo resulted in trapped space, so I used a stamp that communicated the feeling of the photo and used the white space.  The journaling spot I created from scraps as well and then incorporated into the layout.  And because I have been working on creating embellishment clusters on my layouts, I created the cluster/title in the upper left side.  So much fun!  And here are some close ups: