This pretty layout has a long skinny photo of the beach across the center with a title created with die cut letters on tall strips of different pattern papers that form pretty stripes for the background. Visit the Pinkfresh Studio blog for more details.
It time to hit the road and do some traveling for Summer. If you’re heading to the beach this year I’m sure you’ll snap some wonderful pics of the sun, surf and sand. There’s so many ideas to scrapbook about the beach like swimming in the ocean, relaxing on the shore, playing sports in the sand, having a picnic, scouting for cool seashells, watching the sea life , catching the sunsets and so much more. I’ve collected a wonderful group of layouts to help inspire you to create some great pages after you’ve come home from the beach. Be on the lookout for a few free sketches too!
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This cool layout has a large circular background made of 4 different pattern paper section, making me think of things like sand and ocean waves. There’s a title on the middle and an offset cluster of photos and embellishments. I spotted this page on the Elle’s Studio Instagram page.
Kiwi Lane is offering a double page sketch idea with a beach theme using waves for a border, places for journaling and room for 4-5 photos. Visit their blog for page ideas and to get the free sketch.
This bold design has bright fussy cut flowers all around the edges with a background of ink blending and distressed honeycomb die cut shapes. The paper mats around the photos are also distressed and there’s a big colorful bee to go along with the puny title. Buzz on over to the Hip Kit Club blog for more info.
These traveler’s notebook pages have a stamped area for lots of list journaling on a tag and beach photos on the other page. Take a closer look at Kerri Bradford’s blog.
This colorful design captures all the fun of relaxing by the beach with a rainbow background, stenciled suns, large title with ombre die cut letters and fun little embellishments around the photos. Hop over to the Cocoa Vanilla blog for more info.
When you’re designing a beach layout you might not immediately think of using black and white but this page from Niki really works! The color photos really stand out but yet the words and sentiments really drawn the eye in and pop too, it’s a nice balance of contrast. Visit the Simple Stories blog for a closer look.
This layout has all the action in the center with the blue painted and pattern paper circle in the center on a solid white background. Over top are the photo and lots of Tropical dies likes palm trees, botanicals, an umbrella, sun and the title clustered around in the circle. Learn more at the My Creative Scrapbook blog.
This adorable beach layout has a stack of three different shaped die cut sunglasses, adding the round photos in the center pair. On the sides are layers of lacey punched borders along with a title in the middle in coordinating colors of pattern papers. Check out the Paige Taylor Evans blog for more details.
Here’s another beach page that follows a free sketch. This time there’s a wide chunky border across the center with layers of torn paper, a stamped year, two photos, tiny sentiment strips, a journaling tag tucked under and chipboard stars. There’s more torn papers at the top and bottom and more stamped elements to balance everything out. Learn how Patricia put this design together and get the sketch on the Citrus Twist Kits blog.
These photo have such a wonderfully rich blue in the sea and sky that have been reflected in the pattern papers and embellishments in this layout from Fiona. The little pops of orange work really well scattered around all the travel themed products that she used too. Take a closer look over on the All About Scrapbooks blog.
Puddles of blue watercolor and torn sandy pattern papers in the corners create the feeling of being at the beach on this wonderful layout. There’s more torn paper, seashells, puffy stickers and other ocean themed dies from Spoonful of Scraps too. I came across this layout on the snap.scrap.repeat Instagram page.
I hope you have some fun if you head out to the beach this summer, don’t forget your sun screen!
-Heather
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