You asked, we listened! This one is for Ann, who commented on my last blog post here:
Your layout is really cute, but what I'd love to see from all scrapbook companies (OA included) is more layouts with more than one photo! And if those photos could be 4x6, that would be fantastic! Or I'd love to see how you incorporate this same layout with 3 photos and the same embellishments! There are so many of us that don't scrap just one photo on a page we'd love to see more! Thanks for reading!
Posted by: Ann | January 14, 2013 at 12:04 PM
As someone who doesn’t do too many two-page layouts, I decided to take Ann's comment as a challenge. I came up with a two-page, eight-photo layout that is a fun way to use the Here & Now Chapters that come with each line.
My layout features Midway Here and Now Chapter pages:
I started my layout with the four tabbed pages that come with each Here & Now Chapter set and used them as mats for my photos. Two more Here & Now Chapter pages add to the design: the one at left as a patterned paper element and the one in the middle as a journaling card. Two 4 x 6 photos are tucked into the background on two of the tabbed pages and six photos (printed three to a 4 x 6 photo page) are front and center on the remaining two tabbed pages. A large title, die cut from patterned paper and outlined in black, makes a bold statement at the top. A variety of embellishments - stickers, Tin Pins, and Sew Fun Banners - create flow, helping to move the viewer's eye through the double-page spread. A black border finishes the layout.
So...I encourage all of you fellow one-page scrappers to get out there and try a two-pager! I had so much fun creating this and using the Here & Now Chapter pages in a new way. If you use this layout as inspiration for a project, we'd love to see what you create in our October Afternoon Flickr gallery.
LOVE! And, I would love to see MORE 2 page/many photo layouts. Thanks!
Posted by: Kim @ Vintage Pretties | February 03, 2013 at 07:27 PM
LOVE your 2 pager!! Thanks for the inspiration. This was just the reminder I needed to create more double page layouts. I was so inspired that I set right to work to create one of my own with the Boarding Pass collection. I had so much fun, I just know I'll be doing these more often now. Thanks so much!!
Posted by: Jennifer | February 01, 2013 at 08:21 AM
I'm also with and thank Ann! Great layout and even better with the multiple 4x6 photos. More please!
Posted by: Sue Mac | January 30, 2013 at 04:38 PM
Great commenting by Ann! Loved to see the inspiration.
Posted by: Elin Larsson | January 30, 2013 at 02:29 PM
Thank You!! I love this!!
Posted by: Susan Skogseth | January 30, 2013 at 02:22 PM
Thanks for sharing this double layout. I love doing singles, but when you want to scrap an event (like the amusement park in your LO) you need more photos, and double pages are great for that. It's a great LO, clean and colourful.
Posted by: Jessica Toulmin | January 30, 2013 at 01:44 PM
Fantastic layout and so inspiring. And more realistic for what scrapbookers scrap - meaning more than one picture. Please keep doing this and maybe the other designers will follow.
Posted by: Marcia Scantlin | January 30, 2013 at 11:49 AM
I absolutely adore this layout! I do have a question though...what font/cut file was used for the title? I totally need it!
Posted by: Jen Rodriguez | January 30, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Love this layout, bright colourful & using lots of photos. Will definately scraplift this design.
Posted by: Michelle Overton | January 30, 2013 at 10:23 AM
Thank you! I'm with Ann- I rarely scrap a page with less than 5 photos and very honestly, I was looking at another company's blog post of DT pages and I actually started getting irritated because every one of them, and there were about 10, had one single picture and at most, one or two lines of journalling. Definitely not an event-capture and not the way I scrap. I've scrapped exactly one page with one photo and even that has a lot of text included. Thanks for helping fill a gap. I'd love to see you add this type of scrapping to your posts more often.
Posted by: jengd | January 30, 2013 at 09:02 AM
That is one of the best layouts I think I've ever seen on this blog!
Posted by: jessica g | January 30, 2013 at 08:14 AM
this is an amazing 2pger!
Love how you used the chapter pages and dividers :)
Posted by: Mary Jo | January 30, 2013 at 07:59 AM
LOVE the layout and the use of chapter pages... what a great idea.
Posted by: Linda Clare | January 30, 2013 at 07:41 AM
Awesome!!! I also do many 2-page layouts. Always have... and most of my layouts have more than 3 pictures, so this is great! Thank you so much for listening to those of us "2-pagers".
Posted by: Angela Spendal | January 30, 2013 at 07:40 AM