Beach Scrapbook Layouts: Step by Step Guide for a Stunning Scrapbook
Working with watercolor for scrapbook pages
A scrapbook tells a lot about you and the memories you made on a certain event or place you've been to. The best way of telling your story starts with a simple but tell-it-all page title. On most of the beach scrapbook layouts I've created, I always made sure I had either a single liner caption or a title to highlight the page's story.
In my beach scrapbook layout, I used fun foam stickers. I used a magenta-glittered scrapbook page because I wanted it to stand out in contrast against the blue beach themed hues around my page.
Wait! Now That You Have A Theme For Your Page, Then You'll Need To Know What Layout To Use....Let Me Show You...
Don't be scared to be playful with your ideas when you create your page layouts. Scrapbooking is all about capturing your memories but also allows you to create a new world around those memories. And your memorable vacation on a tropical island for the first time is a scrapbooking paradise.
There are abundant scrapbook layout pages out there and this guide below is a great way for you to explore your scrapbooking ideas.
Your Beautiful Beach Scrapbook Layout Materials
1. Prepare your pattern paper by trimming the unwanted portion with your scissors. Prepare a 12 x 6 inches watercolor paper.
2. See the placement of your photos and watercolor paper on your pattern paper.
3. Get your watercolor pan and work on your watercolor paper. Paint a seascape that serves as the background of your beach photos.
4. Draw a cloud with your pencil on plain paper. Cut out your drawn cloud from your paper. Take out your ink and sponge. Position your cut-out cloud on your seascape. Sponge blue ink around your cut-out cloud without adhering. Sponge or dab more ink around for a skyline.
5. Adhere your painted seascape and your beach photos.
6. Position your cut-out cloud on another part of your painted and created skyline. Adhere your cut-out clouds with dimensional double-sided foam tape.
7. Overlap parts of the cloud over the background for an added effect to your beach scrapbook layout.
9. Prepare charcoal pencils and coloring pencils. Color your sailboat using charcoal pencil and coloring pencil. Use the charcoal to add depth to your embellishments.
10. Start coloring the thought bubble with your gray coloring pencil. Lightly shade over parts of your cloud to create a 3D effect on your added decorations. Prepare your green coloring pencil.
11. Color the palm and coconut trees with your green coloring pencil for a dab of color on your beach drawing. Also, color the nipa hut. Prepare water and your brush. Brush with water the part that was colored by water-soluble coloring pencils.
12. Prepare your Blue Blooms and adhere to the page. Prepare 3D or Dimensional Sticker Embellishments. Stick your 3D or Dimensional Sticker Embellishment around your layout.
13. Prepare your glitter letter stickers. Form your layout page title – Palawan '08 with your letter stickers.
14. Get your smash journaling pen. Write subtitles.
15. Prepare a wooden stamp and ink. Stamp "Make a Wish". Doodle around your stamped "Make a Wish".
16. Adhere your butterfly wooden chipboard embellishment. Prepare 2 washi tapes. Add washi tapes on the bottom of your layout. Prepare a heart wooden stamp and red ink. As a finishing touch, stamp a heart on the sail of your sailboat.
You now have one Summer-themed Beach Scrapbook Page!
You can share the technique in creating scrapbook layouts with your children or loved ones. You can make your children paint something for you and encapsulate it in a scrapbook page, like what I did — a collaborative scrapbook page as an end result. But I did prefer to work my layout alone. But then, it would be such a good idea for a wonderful and fun-filled family collaboration page layout of art within a scrapbook layout.
Layout By Kathleen B. Hernandez