Another week, another fabulous template! Here at DHD, we love the ease that a template gives you! We’re using Tiffany Tillman’s Lefty Righty Template Five as the base for all of our layouts this week:
This two page spread has six photo blocks, a bracket mask, and room for your title and journaling, with plenty of room to spare! Let’s take a look at what we did with it!
While I loved many of the design aspects, I don’t do two page layouts very often. Instead of just sticking with one page of the template (and only having half of the bracket), I opened the entire thing, and cropped out a 12×12 portion that I liked. I created my own bracket, using papers from Deena Rutter’s Scarborough Fair – Trinket line, and tilted my photos slightly for a more casual look. I also moved around the ribbon and paper strips to add room for my title, which is one of Carina Gardner’s Daisy Jane Paper Bits. Stitching and a rhinestone border from Audrey Neal’s Butterfly Fancy Elements finished off my page perfectly, about Reason No. 57 that I love my daughter.
Theresa Marie Goon kept it at two pages, which is just what she needed to document the recent birth of her sweet baby girl! She says: “I loved how many photos could be placed on this template without having to add any on my own, and I also liked how the photos were placed, as it made your eye start at the top left and gradually go down to the bottom right corner. I didn’t modify a whole lot, but I tilted the photos to give it more of a fun look rather than traditional. I also took the bottom strip off and put in the scalloped edge paper instead (using Kate Teague’s Softness kit), moved the title and journaling, and added little bits of journaling (Carina’s Design 365-Journaling) around the layout.”
Karen Funk says this: “I prefer to do 1-page layouts, so I resized the template to fit on single page. I used solid colors for the small squares to keep it from looking to busy, but layered a few background papers (from Jen Allyson’s Design 365 June kit) for just a little more interest. I used a brush along the edges of the squares to try to create a chipboard effect, and added a white stroke around the word Bloom (Deena’s A Kind Word vol 2) to create a sticker.” I love how Karen used some of the photo blocks for paper, instead, and how the layout is full of texture and color, with plenty of white space left over!
An 81/2 x 11 scrapper, Renee Fink didn’t let the 12×12 size of the template hold her up! She says: “I resized this layout to 8.5″ x 11″. I changed 2 of the photos to landscape orientation and then added a photo on the bottom right hand page. I shifted the bracket mat over to the left a bit so it wasn’t centered on the page. Because I resized this layout I felt like there was awkward blank space on the left edge so I went to work with the brushes from Jen Allyson’s Vanity Fair Aubergine kit and it gave me the direction for the theme and focus of this page.” It also left her plenty of room for her handwritten title, from Deena’s A Kind Word vol 3, which looks like it was made to fit there!
So, what do you think? Ready to create? Do you want a Lefty Righty Template Five to call your very own? Tell me one reason YOU love Design House Digital, and you’ll be entered into a random drawing. Can’t wait until next week? Tiffany’s our Featured Designer this weekend, so be sure and check back then for a freebie and great discounts on all of her fabulous templates!
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Tags: 1 Kit 4 Ways, Design House Decorators, Digital Scrapbooking, Gennifer Bursett, Inspiration, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Tiffany Tillman
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