First of all... welcome to this wonderful (but addicting) hobby! You will probably love it!
Second... there are LOTS and LOTS of places to go to get ideas for layouts. There are a few scrapbooks here on this board.... both a digital one and a paper one where folks share their pages. Look at the sticky threads at the top of the Scrapbooking board.
There are many websites too... the one that comes to mind first and foremost is
www.twopeasinabucket.com Literally THOUSANDS of layouts on there to look at. And you can look by category or technique ... lots of different things.
There is also another website called
www.pagemaps.com They have great sketches to use for planning layouts.
And of course, there are always the magazines. I am fond of Creating Keepsakes. There is a gal there named Becky Higgins. SHe does a layout sketch every month (based on 12 x 12 but you could adjust it for 8 1/2 x 11). Plus she has two compilation books (more like magazines) out and a "Best of Sketches" book out there. I LIVE by her layouts!
HTH.............................P