Simple Double Page Layout

I just finished this Double Layout last night and I'm pretty happy with the results. My aim was to complete the LO quickly and get my photos into albums ASAP as I have such a huge pile waiting to be scrapped.

I used the Kaisercraft Shaken Not Stirred Papers and Alpha Stickers. I started with 2 sheets of "Daniel" of the reverse side of the paper. I worked from the bottom up adhering each piece as I went. I hand cut the pieces at the bottom of the page from "Sean" and the pieces above them from "George" reverse side. The "George" sheet was good value as it had lots of elements I could cut out and use including the black strips below the photo and the "ribbon" and circle elements at the top of the page, placed either side of the title to draw the eye there and give the top half of the page a bit of balance.

I tried not to over think this layout and tried to just work quickly. I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist and I'm trying to become a speedier scrapper so I can get more layouts finished before the photo backlog builds up too much more.

This LO was probably also one of my more economical layouts as apart from the Alpha Stickers I only used paper cut outs to embellish the pages. I also cut the Journaling Note out of the background piece of paper as it was covered by the red paper so no one will see its missing... shhhh, it's our secret.

Here's a photo of the back of the RHS. You can see where I cut the piece out for my journaling note.

BTW, I made the Journaling Note look like it had been ripped from a piece of notepaper. I punched small circles in the paper and then cut to each circle from the edge of the page. This was a tip I picked up from the Kaisercraft Blog in the last few months and it was the first time I'd tried it.

Till next time, happy scrapping.
TFL,
Ingrid

One Page Into Two - Meeting Santa

Last month I created a LO based on a one page sketch for an online sketch challenge on the Kaisercraft Blog. However, I still had a few more photos from our Santa "shoot" that I wanted to add so I decided to convert my page to a Double Page LO so I would have
room for the extra photos.

I used the Kaisercraft Belle Range of patterned papers and the Belle 6" paper pad. I cut the letters for the title out using my Xyron Wishblade from some of the patterned papers to match the rest of the layout. I also used the swing tag from the packaging for the Kaisercraft Dear Santa range as this suited the theme of my layout.


This is a photo of the Double Pages together. Sorry the colours don't match the colours of the photo of the original layout. I tried to mirror the left hand page to create the second page and continued the horizontal lined paper through the middle of the page on the RHS. I replaced the flower cut out with a journaling block in the top right corner and angled the flower in the bottom right corner to mirror the flower on the bottom of the left hand page. The strip of paper on the left hand side of the right page refers to the date that the photo was taken, but I think in retrospect the double LO might have looked better without this strip as it creates a barrier to the eye traveling across the LO from one side to the other.

If I was doing this LO again as a double layout from scratch I'd probably do things a little differently. I'd continue the strip of horizontal paper to the edge of each page so they met at the join rather than having a gap. I would also have drawn the faux stitch border around the outside of the double page rather than around the edge of each page.

Here are a couple of close ups of the flowers I cut out from the Belle 6" Paper Pad. These are just so gorgeous and have a flocked finish on the flowers themselves, so have a lovely matt texture and soft feel giving a lovely contrast to the smooth papers and glossy photos. I raised the flowers on some foam tape to give the pages some dimensional feel.





I'm happy I managed to create a second page to match my first and get all my photos onto the layout and overall I'm pretty happy with the result.

Have you ever gone back after completing a page and tried to turn one page into two?

TFL, Till next time here's to successful scrapping.

Ingrid