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I really enjoy the added dimension of clear pages. I like them all - acrylic pages, overlays, and transparencies. I love how you can see the elements below through the pages and can plan your pages to take advantage of the "peek a boo" design.

My dilemma was how do you use a clear page with the mosaic ON it, not under it. I was literally awake one night trying to figure out how to do it. I decided that the easiest way was to lay the clear page on top of the grid paper and look through the page to the grid lines. When you are finished you have a mosaic floating on the page. COOL!

I want to try that sometime BUT that is not what I did... Stay with me here. What I realized is that if you have a printed design on the clear page, you have to work on the underside or you will cover the design. Hmm - not quite as easy as I thought.

So, I started with my 8 x8 transparency page with a design on the front.

This is from the Crush line - Teresa Collins.

And this sunset photo. I used a sheet of the Vellum Mosaic Grid Paper to preserve a transparent flavor.

I decided that I wanted my mosiac to take up 4 squares by 4 squares to best fit into this unprinted area down at the bottom. I definitely wanted some of those flourishes to extend over my photo.

I cut my photo into 1 inch squares discarding a large portion of the black midsection.

Nobody was even going to know that was part of the original photo as it looked better without it. Another wonderful advantage of mosaics - you can remove unwanted areas.

I trimmed the vellum grid paper down to 1/8" around the edges.

Now it was time to adhere it to the clear page without the adhesive showing. I took advantage of the black flourishes and added glue dots behind them on three of the corners and used some vellum glue dots on the lower right corner where there was no flourish.

Now I wanted to create the page that would go behind this in a mini album. I wanted a background that would enhance the photo and take advantage of the space behind the mosaic that would fit a journaling block.

I started with a sheet of Basic Grey paper and painted on some additional colors to match the colors in my photo in a scratchy, textured way. I added a journaling block from Bo Bunny.

I stamped and drew some additional flourishes so they would show from behind the grid paper to the front page. I stamped a diamond shaped embellishment that would be hidden by a circle embellishment on the clear page.

And this is how the two pages look together...