I am a native-born Virginia girl and we have great summers here! I live on the Hampton Roads Peninsula, so we have water on THREE sides! We have lots of flowering plants and trees that take your breath away (and sometimes the allergens that go along with the flowering plants and trees may take your breath away, too!)
Most of my friends enjoy boating, the beach, and the pool in the summer months to beat our sometimes overwhelming humidity! We have gorgeous parks, mountains, and national landmarks. A stone’s throw from where I live is beautiful Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, and the Blue Ridge Mountains! Summer is one of those seasons in our area where you can imagine the Lord with his paintbrush. Not close by? COME VISIT!
This layout was crazy fast because I cut ONE sheet of paper in half and split it between the two pages for this double-page spread. Using my trimmer with the wavy blade, I cut a few mats and used one pre-decorated one from the mat pack and just ONE ornate embellishment from the GORGEOUS collectionof embellishments to pull this page together in a snap.
Sweet Summer Scrapbook Collection
Sweet Summer by Creative Memories is a quite DELICIOUS palette of colors that is sure to meet your needs this summer for whatever YOU hold precious during the season. It includes double-sided papers, stickers, mats, embellishments, and even an album cover set and Fast2Fab™ pre-decorated pages (sold together or separately). I have a collection of pages I made with the line that I hope you will steal and make your own.
Remember, DOUBLE-SIDED paper means that if ONE side doesn’t appeal to you, FLIP IT OVER. For instance, my midwestern friends may not have this beach view that this piece of paper above offers but FLIP it over for a rich emerald green color that would be great for matting OR, if you live in more arid climates, the soft palm prints and intertubes will work around your pool! I just love this about our papers. I love folding them to see both sides at the same time but also love having so many choices for my pages to make them perfect. It’s like getting two pieces of paper for one low price. 😉
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Thanks for reading. Take time to count your blessings EVERY DAY. May YOUR summer be relaxing and filled with family, friends, and joy. 😉
This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. – Psalm 118:24
Blessings,
Beckie Belote Creative Memories Advisor Southeastern Virginia Shop with me by clicking here!
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Sweet Summer Scrapbook Page Layout Ideas
Here’s some inspiration for your summer vacation scrapbook album. Leave a comment below if you found this post valuable.
Cut 3 inches of matching water paper for the base, and add two of the laser borders, white side up from the embellishment pack. Also, cut one of the purple printed papers in half for the tops.
Use the green mat from the mat pack, the sun embellishment from the embellishments, the sandcastle sticker popped with foam pads, and a couple of paper squares from the piece of paper that has these on the back. I love how interesting the mats look just by cutting it out with the wave blade with the trimmer.
For the purple polka-dotted mat, simply cut about 1/2 inch on the inside of every side to hollow it out for your photo, and also use the “guts” for another mat on another page. This idea was inspired by one of my teammates. Bev is famous for using up scraps for her pages but since I never have the perfect scraps that bring my pages to life like I want, I used one piece of paper where I like both sides equally well and cut some 2×4 inch strips. Once you cut the strips, pick a punch or two and punch the tops. So here, since I used two punches, I thought through how many of each I wanted. With more intricate punches like both of the ones I used here, I would NOT PUNCH MORE THAN 2 at a time. For instance, with the Striped Umbrella punch, just punch one at a time. If I was using the duck punch or the lemon, you can do 3 or 4 if using our designer printed paper. But both of mine above are using punches that cut multiple layers and will not do as well with stacking to save time. I LOVED using these particular punches even if it took a bit more time because I couldn’t cut many at once! However, these choices allowed me to flip them over once I punched them out and put them back into the hole I just cut for a two-colored print on each strip (since both sides of the paper show) Plus, I had extra flowers that I didn’t need when I used the Mandevilla punchthat I could use for embellishments on the page. Before I pulled the border together by using two of the border sticker strips that came in the coordinating sticker pack, I cut down the strips to about 2.75 inches each. Notice the extra flower embellishments left over from the punches I made for my borderthe embellishments and mat pack from the line are just so gorgeous. Layer with your foam squares to give the POP This idea is SUPER fast and easy but requires a couple of newer tools that you will want. We have a new circle cutter that is perfect for cutting circles fast and with remarkable precision and another tool that can be used for oodles of things that was originally designed only to make bows and envelopes! Both tools are crazily affordable so you may want to add them to your collection 😉 See my Youtube video for EASY instructions on how to do this fast with these tools. The border at the top here is likely about 2 inches wide and was cut using the wave blade on our trimmer. I added one mat and popped a sticker across the top for a title for the page.more popped stickers. The purple one came from the Totally Tonal Purple ice sticker pack. Don’t forget that your totally tonals will mix nicely with this line in tangerine, island green and purple ice papers and stickers.I did a giant cantelope here with the same stragegy and showed how you can make seeds from the punch “guts” from the citrus slice border maker cartridge. Try this with kelly green paper and red to make wateremlon too. The seeds will look great on that. Cantelope don’t have black seeds so if doing this with cantelope, try a white or beige colored seed. I absolutely love this page 😉 See in more detail how it is done with a little bit of a variation that I like even better by taking a peak at this YouTube video. Take a look at how I cut a hole out of the mint green mat from the mat pack using the wave blade on the right and used the back side of that hole on the LEFT side of the page with the popsicle embellishment. I love how you can get so much bang for your buck out of our mat packs.Left border: cut a 3-inch by 10-inch strip and cut out the middle using our trimmer by cutting a half-inch border all the way around then FLIP the middle piece over and put it back in the hole. Bottom border, pick a piece of paper where you like both sides on top of each other. I used the sunshine arch border maker cartridge then scored it and folded it over, then trimmed away as much as I wanted to get this look.This delicious journal block was a mat from the mat pack that I made my own by adding the popsicle embellishments and more cut paper squares from a piece of the paper, all popped with foam squares for dimension.This page is so eye catching and adding groups of embellishments like this captured just the look I was hoping for. This fun page was done with one of our border maker cartridges called Sea Star. Simply use one piece of paper, and cut your border all the way around but DO NOT PUNCH the FIRST or the LAST punch on each side of each border so that the corners do not get punched. I used my new square punch for an accent color on the corners and the NOTCH tool from the bow and envelope maker to give the rounded corner. Our corner rounder would work too just not as prominent of the soft corner like this one. I popped a few starfish stickers on each corner to pull this all together. I used a RED paper here for the background paper to show you that if you want to mix it up and highlight the BRIGHT colors in this pack instead of the sorbet ones, you can easily do that to give a whole different look. Those yellow squares on the left? They aren’t supposed to be there 😉 LOL. Not sure how I photographed the page and didn’t notice this. This surf & sand was a mat that I used to embellish and title this page but was cut out of the white mat on the left hand side and flipped.This mat from the mat pack couples wtih an embellishment and stickers
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I always LOVE your ideas! You are so talented!
you are super sweet 😉 Thanks Rosemary!