Many of your ideas for scrapbook page layouts will be based around outdoor themes as the memories you will want to cherish and put in a scrapbook album will be from your holidays and days out.

This scrapbook page is based on an outdoor theme

I selected two sheets of 12×12 scrapbook paper. One of which is black and the other is an image of grass.

These colours work really well because the photo is of a couple that are standing in a grassy area.

The first thing I did was to tear the grass sheet of scrapbook paper down the middle exposing a white torn edge.

To change the colour of the white torn edge that was showing I used a green distress inkpad which you can get from any scrapbook shop or online, to ink along the edge of the scrapbook paper.

Next I used a soft piece of sponge and dapped the ink onto the sponge, and then dabbed the sponge all over the white edge that is showing on the torn sheet scrapbook paper

This method makes the ink appear light and dappled giving you a more natural look, rather than totally covering the white paper.

I then placed the torn paper on top of the black 12×12 sheet of scrapbook paper and secured it using double sided tape.

I then chose the photo I wanted to use for this scrapbooking idea which would be the focal point of the scrapbook page. It is up to you how many photos you use on your own scrapbook page but I generally find any more than two, or three at the most, can start to look a bit too cluttered and detracts from any embellishments you have on your layout.

 I mounted this photo onto plain green card using double sided tape and cut it so that it left a small border.
 

Using the left over grass paper place the bordered photo onto it and cut the grass scrapbook paper to frame the photo.

The photo that has been mat and layered was then placed in the top corner of the scrapbook page layout using double sided tape.

I then printed out some words that are related to the event. The day was of a family playing cricket and kayaking by a local river.

I used a metal ruler and scalpel to cut these words out.

I mounted all the words onto the same grass scrapbook paper as previously used.

I then mounted the words onto two layers of card.

The words were randomly placed on the scrapbooking page and attached using double sided tape.
 

I then made a name plate using a sizzix machine from the grass scrapbook paper.

I then placed some journaling inside the nameplate.

I attached this to the scrapbook page using black brads.

Brads come is so many designs you will probably be able to find brads that will coordinate better with your layout. 

Once the lettering and journaling is attached this scrapbooking page idea is complete and ready to be added to your scrapbook album.