Scrapbook Challenge

Good Vibes Only

Summer Reds

Hi scrappers! I wanted to squeeze in one more posting for the month of July. I used some photos taken in Catalina last year. It was a beautiful, sunny day and the photos definitely fit into a summer-themed page perfectly.

I feel like red is traditionally associated with fall leaves or the Christmas holiday, not necessarily summer. I really liked how this deep red paper from DCWVs All Chalked Up stack contrasted with the blue sky in my photos so I decided to use this bold color as a background.

I using a Creative Memories gel pen to doodle around the edges of the paper. I don’t usually doodle because I usually don’t love how it turns out. I sort of feel the same about this page. It adds some interest to the edges but I just don’t feel like I’m a good freehand doodler.

Remember how I said I wanted to use up some of my paper scraps? I found some papers to make a triple mat on each photo. Have them show on just one side like a shadow allowed me to use smaller pieces rather than scraps that had to fit the whole photo. I used a few more scraps with my Fiskars circular squeeze punch. I’m so glad I kept these tiny pieces!

I used some Thickers puffy stickers to create the title and embellished with the following:

This page was made for the Sketches in Thyme July challenge. I used two vertical photos instead of a horizontal and a vertical. I moved the title a little and kept a lot of the circular elements (although not doilies) like the original sketch had.

This page was also made for the Use Your Stuff July challenge which was this amazing mood board! There were so many great elements I wanted to incorporate, including the color red. I was inspired by swimsuits, flamingos, fruits, popsicles, palm trees and tons of bright colors.

That’s all for this time. I will see you in August with a new page!