How to Make a Summer Scrapbook Layout

* Spiral Bound Kraft Scrapbook 12 x 12 Inches

* Uni-ball Posca PC-5M Marker Pens

* Dual Tip Brush Markers 12 Pack

* Masking Tape

* Pritt Stick 10g

* A Steel Ruler

* Scissors

Beginning in the middle of the sketchbook, secure a photograph from the day with a snippet of tape on either side of the image.

Top Tip: If you don't have any images perhaps use a ticket, receipt or leaflet, this could be cut up and used for your page.

Have a think about words that summed up your day, or maybe a song that was playing in the car on your way out, a phrase that someone said in the day that was funny or memorable. Using these words you can letter across the page, if you want some guidance just use a ruler and pop some pencil lines in.

With hand lettering you want a mix between the strokes and lengths to give the impression of brush strokes so apply more pressure on your downwards strokes and less on the upward stroke for a more brush-like look, or you could elongate your normal handwriting slightly as I've done to give a more whimsical look!

Add a border of folky flowers using the POSCA paint pens, begin drawing out the shapes of your first colour (layer), start with the blue leaf shapes drawing them and colouring in as you go.

Add floral shapes in another colour at the top of your foliage stems. Add more foliage with a different colour using strokes to make up fern shapes.

Once your paint is dry you can add dots up the leaves in a white pen to give it a folky look. Make seed head stems with the white paint pen by drawing curved lines from an original stem and adding circles at the top.

Finally you can create the ditsy yellow flowers with a circle and lines coming from the centre.

Voila! Your summer-inspired sketchbook page is complete.