5 Ways to set the mood for your beach (or lakeside) scrapbook pages.
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I’m featuring the Nantucket Collection Grid Papers this week and the subject matter is Beach Pages. Well, the Ocean is a very long way away and the nearest beach is about an hour and a half from us, so these are photos I’m borrowing from my son, David, who took his family down to the South Carolina Beaches for a vacation this spring. I’ve done some cropping and editing to get the photos I wanted to use for this project. This is a small portion of what were vibrant, colorful photos and I wouldn’t describe them as calming as they were, so here are a few things I considered to achieve that goal.
The Grid Choice. The Nantucket Grid papers have a vintage feel to me and so I play to the vintage feel in all the other choices I am making. I selected Ferry Ride for my layout.
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The Color. The photos as taken are vibrant colorful pictures. I want to neutralize the colors I will use by playing with the color before printing. I’ve used Black & White for my choice, but have shown some other options that you might be able to work with. I show a few that take out color, change the exposure for a vintage look and then one that changes the Opacity, and another adding Sepia tones. Anyone of them might be a good choice for other papers in the Nantucket Collection.
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The Focus. Keep your photos simply cropped. Make sure your subject is clear…the sand, the sea, the people. Try things off-center for a new point of view. Remember The Rule of Thirds. I explain it more in detail with examples HERE in a previous post.
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The Title. My Title is clean, crisp, subtle and blends into the photos. I’ve used the Tall Thin Alphabet from Scrapbook.com. They are one layer only. This time I wanted them to blend into the photos like a magazine title.
The Embellishments. I used photo corners from the Square Diamond 2×2 Die to pull in the 4 corners of the page for a collage effect (see the bottom left corner in image below). They are simple, vintage and classic additions.
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A small 1×4 black cardstock journal piece records the date, place and event with white gel pen and small dots in the corner adds a tag look without extra dimension.
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I hope that if you’ve got photos from a recent beach visit, you might try playing with the color in the photos to create a different mood, a different look, maybe even a calmer affect. Enjoy!
Andrea Fisher