To scrapbook the old-fashioned fun I had with my darling grandson, Rigel, when we played on the beach during last August's visit, I turned once again to Graphic 45 Papers. In their "On the Boardwalk" line, there are lots of images that remind me of beach days in Asbury Park and Coney Island during my own childhood. I was especially drawn to a printed scrapbook paper that was colorfully illustrated with vintage postcards of various beaches.
I immediately knew what I would do. I printed out my favorite photos of Rigel playing in the waves the same size as the postcards on the scrapbook paper. I used matte photo paper to mimic the look & feel of the vintage postcards and I glued my photos over several of the beach scenes -leaving some intact. This is a close-up of the right-hand scrapbook layout:
I really love the way this layout turned out. The image of the three beach-goers on the lower right just tickled my fancy, so I raised them with foam adhesive to achieve a great 3-D effect. Love, love, love the tag of the bathing beauties and by placing it where I did, it served to break up the repetition of rectangular images and added a nice touch of interest.
It was my good fortune that I also had some reproductions of old postcards of Martha's Vineyard on hand, which I incorporated into the left side of my layout. I titled my scrapbook layout "An Old-Fashioned Beach Day", which I wrote on the back of an old postcard, along with my journaling.
Graphic 45 papers have no shortage of whimsical graphics that are perfect embellishments to any scrapbook layout. This ad for men's and boy's bathing suits was a great contrast to Rigel's modern beachwear. I also added some large beach-themed grommets that picked up the color of the stamps & beach sign graphic.
Now wasn't this fun? And it really made me long for summer and the beach and playtime with Rigel.
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