Here's a collection of pages I've made that I really like, and some that I have found elsewhere that are good inspiration...
First let me warn that the pages I make usually have more pictures and less detail/ design work than some I see on other websites. I just have a lot of pictures that I want to display, so my layouts are focused on showing multiple pictures, rather than one picture with pretty words and details.
Here is a website that I found on Pinterest that has lots of great layout ideas. This particular post on Practical Scrappers focuses on how to use papers that aren't your favorite, but they have plenty of other ideas on the other posts/pages:
http://www.practicalscrappers.com/2011/07/challenge-me-tuesday-ugly-papers.html
This one is from my honeymoon in Jamaica. I like to lay the pictures across both pages and cut them to give continuity to the 2 page spread.
This is the last page of my honeymoon album. I took a sunset picture while there, and thought that was a good metaphor for leaving Jamaica. I used my cricut (Lyrical Letters) to cut the words in white. This is one of my favorites that I've ever made.
More from the honeymoon. I liked the leaf paper since we were laying in a hammock in the trees. I made the pictures and words look like leaves on a stem. I think it came out pretty cute.
The first page in the honeymoon album. I took the pictures from the airplane before landing. I read this technique somewhere, where you print out a picture in an 8x10 size and trim it to about 5x10, then cut it into 1 inch vertical strips and space them out a little. To add more dimension, I trimmed a little off the tops and bottoms off the one inch strips sporadically. Then I positioned them so the picture was lined up, not the strips.
While in Jamaica, my hubby and I had a professional photo shoot and the pictures came out so good, I had to put them in. I used borders that I happened to have in the shape of film strips to house the letters.
