It is so hot that I wish I was up at the Lake. Which made me think of my layout about the Lake. We spent a wonderful day at the lake about a month ago and I had so many pictures I wanted to use but I didn’t really want to make two pages. I have three kids so a lot of my pages have six pictures on them – that’s all I can seem to get on a page without doing a collage or something of that sort.
Remember, scrapbooking is about preserving memories not about being fancy for impressing people with $15 worth of stuff on your page. You can make a perfectly nice page that looks like what it is – mommy remembering – for very little money and no special skills whatsoever.
This page started out as this sketch. I wanted to use the background to say as much about the lake as the pictures so I used the light blue wave that I bought in a kit for a little over $2.00 in Wal-Mart’s scrapbook department. and then I overlaid it on a piece of darker blue cardstock and traced it so it wasn’t quite lined up and outlined both with a sparkly gen pen. Then I drew some freehand mountain shapes and cut them out, and a green row of trees that I made like you would paper dolls. The letters were cut out of sad printed paper that I downloaded from Epson’s page for digital scrapbookers.
When I was finished there was no room for journaling – and I think that is the most important part (otherwise just get a photo album and save yourself the time, right?) So I cut out a large tree shape from the rest of the sheet of green cardstock (again freehand) and wrote the journaling there – it lives in the page protector behind the layout.
