| It's really easy to find scrapbook themes for Summer. | | | | add some accents, an Indiana Jones style hat or whip |
| Beach and sunshine themes are common, so why not | | | | would be ideal. You can often find that sort of thing |
| choose something a little different. | | | | amongst Wild West themed stickers. |
| 1. Butterflies. This is my favorite theme of all because I | | | | 4. Flying. For most of us an airplane is necessary when |
| love butterflies and have a huge number of butterfly | | | | traveling any distance. Why not have a 'flying' layout at |
| stamps in all shapes and sizes. It's easy to make really | | | | the start of your vacation scrapbook? It's easy to use |
| stunning butterfly embellishments by stamping onto | | | | a pale blue background and add white fluffy clouds cut |
| paper and cutting out the result, then coloring with | | | | from paper or card, but there are some wonderful |
| sukura embossing glaze pens and adding a little glitter. | | | | 'flight' themed papers around. If your pictures are old, |
| You can make a lovely background by stamping | | | | an antique style with bi-planes and airships would look |
| butterflies onto background card, but my favorite is a | | | | really good. If you are good at art, why not draw an |
| background paper with one or two large flowers. I can | | | | airplane and use tiny pictures from your vacation to fill |
| position my pictures on vellum mattes and then add | | | | in the windows, or use some of the large size die cuts |
| one or two butterflies perched on the flower petals. It's | | | | that are available. The easiest flying theme is to create |
| easy to make the butterflies tone with the colors in | | | | a hot air balloon shape by cutting it out from card and |
| your photographs, never forget that the pictures are | | | | then attaching it with drawn in ropes to your feature |
| the most important part of the layout. Don't be carried | | | | photograph. Add some tiny stamped birds and maybe |
| away with the enthusiasm or theme, if it doesn't make | | | | that die cut rainbow you bought but could never find |
| the pictures look good, forget it. | | | | anywhere to use and then some appropriate stamped |
| 2. Fruit. A fabulous theme which is full of color and | | | | words, or a quote from The Lord of the Rings. 'Fly you |
| great if you haven't really gone away for a summer | | | | Fools' might seem appropriate. |
| holiday. Choose from a simple black or white page | | | | 5. Flowers. An ideal theme for lovely oval portraits. Pick |
| decorated with photographs and accented with bright | | | | a flower, perhaps a violet or a daisy and use that as |
| fruit stickers, or a bright fruit themed background paper | | | | the central item in a theme. |
| with pictures mounted on rectangles of velum to | | | | For violets choose a pale lilac paper and make it more |
| provide some contrast. Huge fruit or vegetable die | | | | interesting with smudges of violet chalk or distress ink. |
| cuts are easy to find, oranges and apples make great | | | | Tear the lilac page about two thirds of the way along |
| mattes for photographs, or you can simply decorate | | | | and stick it down onto deep violet card so that only 1 |
| photo frames with small fruit themed stickers. Either | | | | vertical third of the page is deep violet. You can use |
| way you'll have a very colorful layout. | | | | the other 1/3rd of your lilac paper to create a vertical |
| 3. Indiana Jones. Give your pages a 20's or 30's look. | | | | border on the facing page. Add a deep green ribbon |
| Decorate with travel themed items or ancient artifacts | | | | running horizontally across the page approximately 1/3 |
| of mystical origin. This is a fabulous theme if you | | | | of the way up. Take your oval portraits and embellish |
| traveled to somewhere historic, or maybe you've | | | | them with tiny flowers, you can make these easily by |
| caught some pictures of the kids 'pretending' as they | | | | using a small stamp, cut them out, color them with |
| discover far off lands? If you can't find a themed | | | | something like sakura embossing glaze pens and add |
| background paper go looking for suitable rubber | | | | some crystal glitter, then dot them around to create a |
| stamps. Start out with some off white, cream or ivory | | | | lovely frame for your picture, or you might use a |
| card and some distress ink in dark red or brown, | | | | flower shaped punch or even die cuts to the same |
| though black will just about do. One of the most | | | | effect. If your flower choice is a daisy, the procedure is |
| effective stamps to use is one of a post mark or a | | | | the same, but use white paper (preferably with a |
| post card. Stamp all over the background just to give | | | | texture or white pattern) and add this to bright yellow |
| some interest. If you can find leather look paper, that | | | | card. Again a dark green ribbon will complete the color |
| makes a great border for this type of page. Buy one | | | | scheme. Of course you may be able to find themed |
| sheet and divide into thirds. One fills the bottom third of | | | | papers to do all this for you, but it's useful to know |
| your left page and one the bottom third of your right | | | | how to manage if not. You can finish the whole thing |
| page. The last third can be folded in half and used to | | | | with a white oval tag. Write your journaling on the tag |
| provide a matte of journaling tags. Add a map of your | | | | and then stick it to another slightly larger oval of your |
| journey. If your pictures are of the kids playing in your | | | | background color (yellow or deep purple) keeping the |
| garden, get them to make a map and add it to your | | | | left edge of the two ovals together. Again a green |
| page. This is a very masculine layout so make sure | | | | ribbon will complete a fresh and pretty summer layout. |
| your pictures are square or rectangular and if you can | | | | |