Get the best of both worlds by including more photos with a large photo block on one side of your layout while still having some fun by creating a more traditional scrapbooking design on the other.
Supplies used - Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned paper, die cuts, chipboard, enamel dots, stickers, and brads: Simple Stories; Embroidery floss: DMC; Computer font: Century Gothic
I think one of my favorite things about this style of scrapbooking is how much more I will embellish the layouts. Because I am creating, in some sense, two 12 x 12" layouts that coordinate, instead of one 24 x 12" layout. I embellish them both as two individual layouts.
So what in the world does that mean?
Typically, when I embellish my traditionally designed layouts like the left page, I am looking to form that visual triangle to help frame bring attention to my photos.
I've got my title and journaling grouped with a few embellishments.
On the left edge of the photos (not pictured) I have a few word stickers and some little arrows. Then on the top right corner of the photos I have another embellishment grouping with a file tab, some arrow pieces, and a sticker.
On the right page, the photo block side, I pretty much throw that visual triangle concept out the window and embellish each piece of the block. It's almost like I look at each piece as it's own little layout with a different (or sometimes similar) design on each one.
On the two 6 x 4" photos I added some stickers, chipboard arrows, and die cuts to the empty space of the photos.
On the 3 x 4" card I added some hand-stitching to border the white circle and embellished it with some brads and enamel dots.
For the 6 x 12" piece, I used a piece of patterned paper that had a camera, the arrows, and the phrase "life documented" on it. I added a few details like a chipboard arrow and a brad to the center of the camera lens.
Above that I added three more photos and several word/phrase stickers.
To me, creating layouts like this are fun and give me an opportunity to create in a different format that I usually do. I highly suggest you try it sometime!
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