A Remembrance To Those Who Have Fallen: Memorial Day Scrapbook Layout

Posted on by Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe

On the last Monday of May, many Americans commemorate Memorial Day — an observance that was first established (then called Decoration Day) years after the Civil War, in 1868, as a time to decorate the graves of fallen soldiers with flowers. Fast forward to today, and people hold family gatherings, visit cemeteries or memorials and participate in red-white-and-blue parades. We salute to the military personnel who sacrificed their lives for our freedom with this Memorial Day scrapbook layout.

“Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.” — Barack Obama

To create this layout you will need:

Step 1: Cut seersucker paper to 12″ x 3/8″ and adhere about 1/8″ from the top of the kraft tan paper.

Step 2: Cut White Solid Cardstock to 12″ x 1/2″ and adhere underneath the seersucker strip.

Step 3: Cut White Solid Cardstock to 12″ x 1-1/2″ and adhere to the bottom of the page.

Step 4: Use 12-inch Decorative Trimmer on the swell side to cut bold stars-and-stripes paper to 12″ x 5-1/4″.

Step 5: Use the Cross Punch to punch nine crosses from White Solid Cardstock. Rub the edges of the crosses with the round tip of the Navy Dual-Tip Pen. Adhere to the bottom of the flag piece. Trim bottoms of the crosses as needed with Micro-Tip Scissors.

Step 6: Adhere the flag/cross piece 3/4″ from the bottom of the page overlapping the white strip. 

Step 7: Cut a 4-7/8″ x 4-1/8″ mat from rich berry red diagonal stripes paper. Cut two 3-3/8″ x 4-1/8″ mats from blue polka dots paper. Crop photos to 4-3/4″ x 4″ and 3-1/4″ x 4″ and adhere to the mats. Adhere to the page as shown.

Step 8: Add stickers as shown with Foam Squares.

Step 9: Journal with Navy Dual-Tip Pen.

How do you commemorate Memorial Day? Will you be making this Memorial Day scrapbook layout?

7 thoughts on “A Remembrance To Those Who Have Fallen: Memorial Day Scrapbook Layout”

    1. Would like to see what sizes you have for this scrapbook, and what it looks like! Thanks, Sue Brady

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  2. Thank you for this layout and recognizing Memorial Day is about death and sacrifice. We remember Sam, Mike, and Kevin.

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  4. I think this is my favorite layout I have seen you make. I will be using it for photos of my dad’s military funeral that I I didn’t know how to honor properly

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  5. This will be good for photos of our community celebration. Thanks, great layout.

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