End of summer pages: Beach pages

My son LOVED Sand Beach at Acadia National Park. I had a lovely picture of him there and used it to scrap his memory.

I don't like using themey papers, so I pulled all the beach colored papers and products from a Studio Calico kit (most were actually office themed--October Afternoon's 9 to 5).

I pulled blues and greens to mat the photo, then add strips along the left. I also used my good old Fiskars Boundary Waters punch to add some theme--just a bit! I added blue and yellow stickers to the top of the mat.

 

Next--more of those darling wood grain birds, walking in the sand with my son.

 

I added some stitching, then put journaling strips inked in blue to the right.
 
So tell me--am I the only one who doesn't use themed products the way I'm supposed to? :-)