A scrapbook page for a contest

The magazine Scrapbook Answers is having a contest to submit travel pages and I decided to improve this page to make it (hopefully) contest-worthy. Before the only thing on the page was the photo with the red flame background--and none of the extra flames behind beefing it up. So I spent a lot of time putting the rest of it together and I think it came out pretty good--although it's hard to tell since I still haven't mastered the art of photographing these pages!

I spent the most time trying to make the flames look as real as possible. To get the final effect, I ended up combining various color of cardstock (yellow and red) with various colors and textures of handmade papers (orange, maroon with gold flecks). I layered them, staggered them and gave them different heights.

I really enjoyed making this page because of the letter tiles. I didn't measure exact squares but just randomly cut because I wanted an uneven effect.