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Create A Gorgeous Summertime Layout with Bea

Hey American Crafts friends! It’s Bea here with you today; I'm excited to be rounding off ‘It’s Summer!’ week on the blog! I always have a ton of summer photos to document every year! When I’m creating a summer layout I like to use bright colors, and the It’s All Good collection by Dear Lizzy has so many great colors and patterned papers for documenting summer memories!

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Grid design is definitely one of my go-to techniques, especially when I want to feature multiple photos on my layout! I added 12 photos to my page, which still left me plenty of room for my favorite patterned papers and embellishments.

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I started my layout by printing out my photos and arranged them into a grid design on my background paper. Next, I sized patterned paper pieces to the same dimensions as the photos and placed them on the empty spaces.

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I knew I wanted to create a symmetrical grid design for this layout, but wanted to do something a bit different with the layout title. I thought it would be fun to imitate the sun with a big yellow circle, and to add a circular title to the outline. I adhered the ‘sun’ to the center of my page and used foam tape to add more dimension. To create the title, I mixed and matched blue and gold puffy alphabet stickers from the collection. I decorated the center with a bike stickers and added two from the layered stickers over the bike to make it stand out.

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I finished the layout with a variety of embellishments including ephemera pieces, puffy stickers, and paper clips. I liked that each of the square spaces had its own type of embellishment.

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What fun ideas do you have for working with a grid? I hope you’ve been inspired today for documenting all of your summer memories this year!

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Supplies: Dear Lizzy | It’s All Good collection | Pink Lemonade (348186), Thumbs up (348192), Live Simply (348197), Be You (348190), Cardstock Stickers (348174), Paper Clips (348177), Ephemera (348175), Alphabet stickers (352008, 348173), Puffy stickers (348176)