Inspiration du Jour | Happy Day

Lacey’s beautiful floral layout is perfect for berry picking photos. She used vintage inspired paper for a wide vertical border and added lots of flowers, plants and butterflies for a big touch of Nature. The trellis die along the edge works perfectly as does the funny rustic weeds sign. I spotted her idea on the 49th and Market Instagram page. 

I love incorporating Nature in my scrapbook layouts, from flowers to feathers, from clouds to the cosmos and everything in between you can add natural inspired elements to your layout designs for a variety of themes,  even if your photos are not all about nature. Using the wild outdoors can convey a sense of abandonment, stars are perfect for birthdays and graduations, florals give a soft and feminine feel, fruits work well with recipe and baking pages, you can really think outside of the box when it comes to creating feelings and emotions with natural designs. Let’s find some inspiration today with some wonderful scrapbook layouts inspired by nature.

Jessica created two fin-tastic pages for her fishing Traveler’s Notebook with a cute story about her daughter thinking she’d caught a shark. One side focuses on the photos and story journaling, the other has wonderful waves cut from pattern paper with a fish on a pole, lots of sentiments and a bunch of sequins for bubbles. Learn more at The Cherry on Top blog.

Karyn created this wonderful wildlife layout with a zig-zag pattern using plastic templates from Creative Memories. She mixed a dark nature inspired paper with diamond yellow pattern paper and pale blue cardstock with a circle photo in the center to draw in the eye. There’s also a fox embellishment and calming sentiments. Watch her process video on the Karyn Crops blog.

This delicious cupcake layout is brimming with strawberries. There’s jams and jars, labels, sentiments, pattern paper and berries scattered around all in shades of pale pink and red with pops of green for a delightful Summery design. Take a closer look on the Echo Park Paper Instagram page.

Nathalie’s Traveler’s Notebook pages are inspired by a trip to the sea with soothing ocean images. There’s a striped pattern paper border along the bottom, the photo is centered (notice how she cut it to fit over the spine) matted with a wavy frame along with a clusters of beachy elements, typed journaling, tucked in tags and some stamping scattered around too. Learn more at the Cocoa Daisy blog.

This cool mostly green hiking layout has lots of elements of the great outdoors with woodgrain and leaf pattern papers, lots of pine trees and outdoor phrases. I love the custom framed square embellishment created with pattern paper, stickers and a journaling card. Find more details at the Creative Memories blog.

Keely’s wild flower layout has fun mixed media using alcohol inks for the background and on the die cut title, along with hand drawn hexagons. She covered most of the page with a beautiful array of flowers (popping some up for dimension) and included a peeking bunny and some fluttery butterflies as well. Visit the Pretty Little Studio blog for more info.

Rich reds and oranges with lots of fall leaves and faux die cut skeleton leaves work together beautifully on this Halloween digital layout from Barbara. She also used a cool drippy watercolor wash for the background, adding some sentiments, “metal” brads and twine for an Autumn delight. Find more details on the Katie Pertiet Designs blog.

Inspired by honeycomb Sarah filled her layout with lots of die cut hexagons cut from bright and colorful pattern papers. She also included lots of paint and splatters on the background behind them and added clusters of flowers, a beeskeep and bees over top, with the framed pic in the center. Find a link to her process video on the Shimmerz Paints Instagram page.

Sheena’s lovely layout has so much texture and dimension with lots of natural inspiration in a trendy and modern color combination. She created two “corner” with torn paper, used lots of thick chipboard flowers, leaves and butterflies, there’s puffy stickers for the title and a fabric button accent too. Take a closer peek on the Hey Little Magpie blog.

Melissa created a layout inspired by veggies at the Farmers Market using seed packet journaling cards to frame each photo and an alphabet stamp set and colored ink pads for the name of each veggie. She included several summer food sentiments, splatters and die cut stars too. Take a closer look at the Elle’s Studio Instagram page.

Evelyn’s lovely layout incorporates so much of the nature trends we’ve already seen with bright yellow flowers, lots of greenery, glittery honeycomb, die cut hexagons, little butterflies and a graphic modern background pattern. It totally sums up “inspired by Nature”! Take a closer peek at the Pretty Little Studio blog.

I hope you’ll reach for nature inspired products on your next scrapbook layout and tell your story through the imagery of nature.

-Heather

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