It seems that the current scrapbooking trend is to create single page layouts featuring a single photo. I see many scrapbookers on Facebook, Blogs and YouTube creating absolutely gorgeous layouts using a single photograph per 12x12 page, or a couple photos shrunken down to smaller sizes so that they take up less room on the page. This creates a beautiful look that I love. It leaves plenty of breathing room for loads of white space, writing or embellishment. However, it isnt the most practical method to use when one has stacks of photos from a single event waiting to be scrapbooked. And for those scrapbookers who don't have a home printer or access to a photo developer that prints photos in a variety of sizes for an affordable price, it also can be really difficult to get a photo printed at your desired size.
I am one of those scrapbookers. I want to find a balance between the two. I have hundreds of vacation photos that I want to get into albums, and I have printed them all at 4x6 because it is a really easy size to print. My local photo developer prints 4x6 photos in bulk for 10 cent a piece, whereas printing either larger or smaller would be much more expensive. This means I have ended up with hundreds of photographs at that size, and creating a bit of a dilemma for myself-I have multiple large photos and am finding it hard to find sketches to assist me in getting these photos onto a page.
I went to a series called 4x6 Photo Love by Shimelle Laine to get some great inspiration to make some double-page layouts and get multiple photographs into my albums. I followed her sketches quite closely, and it made the layouts come together really quickly-simple and stress-free! I had a lot of fun making these layouts and I am so happy with the results. I also like how the photos remain at a nice large size where they are easy to view. I made the embellishment really simply by layering washi tapes and die-cuts from a Becky Higgins Project Life Kit, stickers and enamel dots-and voila!
In this first layout, I've used five 4x6 photos. This layout can be made with 4 landscape photos, and the 5th can be either orientation. See the layout tutorial here-the May edition of 4x6 Photo Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RyEqLrSBiI
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