Trend Watch: Waves

Posted by Aaron aka Sir Scrapalot on May 22, 2010 | View Comments

Have you noticed lately the use of waves on layouts?  I absolutely LOVE how a wave looks across a page.  It gives the layout so much movement and life.  I also love how they can be used to divide a page, or define different sections of page. One of my favorite techniques with waves is to tuck elements on the layout behind them.  Let’s check out some layouts that use waves.

I love these layouts!! Check out how the waves are overlapping in some of them, or how they have elements tucked behind them.  One of the layouts even uses a shrunken down version of the wave, and I love that too.  I recently included a wave on one of my own layouts:

Some designers are even adding pre-made waves into  their kits.  The wave on the layout above was actually part of the kit by Lauren Grier.  There are tons of products out there to help you add a little wave to your layout.  Check these out:

Are you already using waves in your layouts?  I would love to see how you are incorporating them into your layouts!! Link me up in the comments!!  I’ll come back on Tuesday night and pick one person to win my Wave Templates for free!!