Learning to make your own layouts

Of course the easiest way to build a scrapbook page is to follow a proven layout that someone else has designed - and I have done several of these!  However, I find when I look through my albums that there is something very "me" in the layouts I create myself.  They may not be the prettiest or most creative,  but they make me feel good every time I look at them as well as serving as a visual history of my increasing knowledge of all things scrapbooking.

I've finally finished our Honeymoon scrapbook! It only took me 7 years lol.. ok, I didn't work continuously on it - in fact as you know I really just picked it up again in these last 2 years.  I went from stickers and 5 pictures to a page to cuttlebugging and pop dotting!  What I was most proud of was my ability to improvise and use the different "mediums" I was learning about.  

 

This is a page I am very proud of because I didn't let the "open space" scare me as it has in the past.. and I didn't feel compelled to add 7 pictures!  I used a textured plain card stock and stamped hearts in red and blue distressed ink and used scraps of my mickey papers as photo frames.  I actually cut out a couple of cute frames with the cricut, but darned if I can remember which cartridge!  I added some stickers and a finely cut out picture I took of the Epcot "ball" and voila - a page that really makes me happy when I look at it.  Reminds me of looking at the 'lake' at Epcot on that cool May day hanging out with my new hubby :)