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Fun in the Sand

I love scrapbooking beach pages.  In fact, they take up most of the bulk in my scrapbook albums.  We usually take an annual summer trip to the beach but the pandemic forced us to cancel our beach trip this year.  I am still able to enjoy the sand and surf as I look back to past years and either finish up beach layouts that were left incomplete or were never created because life got in the way.
This particular layout was the last picture I wanted to scrapbook of our trip to Orange Beach in 2016.  As I searched my stash for summer-themed paper, I came across the Echo Park Walking on Sunshine collection that I had never even opened, yet.

I started by cutting out diagonal rays on the orange paper and lined these up against a strip of the striped paper.  I used a circle cutter to cut a large circle to place behind the striped paper.


To embellish the page, I used a variety of Paper Studio tag and banner punches and layered them on top of each other.  I also used several stickers from the collection.  Most of the embellishments were popped up with foam tape. 

 The title and date were cut from a combination of Tim Holtz's alphanumeric die sets.

The papers from this collection were the perfect combination of colors to display the joy my son was having on the shoreline on that beautiful summer day.

Fun in the Sand
Supplies:
  • Echo Park Walking on Sunshine Collection Kit (2014)
  • EK Success Curvy Cutter Circle Template
  • Paper Studio Tag and Banner Punches
  • Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Paper Distresser
  • Tim Holtz Alphanumeric Shadow Upper Dies
  • Tim Holtz Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper Dies
  • Firefly Nested Tags Dies
  • Sew Easy Floss
  • Crafter's Square Baker's Twine
  • Foam Tape
  • Sketch Inspiration: http://citrustwistkits.blogspot.com/2015/07/sunday-sketch-with-lucia.html
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