Welcome to Design House Digital’s School of Design. Today, and every single day in September, we’ll have new blog posts; informative, detailed, and FREE classes that will take your digital scrapbooking to the next level. Each subject will have a new post weekly, and at the end of the month you won’t believe how much you’ve learned!
The end of September has arrived and with it we bring this series to its conclusion. I’m hopeful that you have learned and enjoyed these lessons as much as we have enjoyed bringing them to you. Don’t forget that these entries will remain available to you on the blog so you can always refer back to them if you need a little refresher course.
Now we’ll move on to our fourth and final posting on Maximizing Templates. So far we have learned about template basics, adapting templates to fit your scrapping needs and storage or our expanding template library. Today we are going to discuss adapting a single page template into a two page spread.
I will admit that I have a tremendous fondness for double page spreads. I love how they create such a flow from one page to the next. But finding a double page template that fits my needs isn’t always easy. Single page templates amount to the bulk of the templates available. So what’s a girl to do? Improvise!!
There are really three methods I use to adapt a single page template to a two page spread.
1. Use a full page photo opposite your template. This may seems obvious to those of you who do it frequently but sometimes the simplest methods are overlooked. I was looking through the gallery to find some examples of this and had one of those “duh” moments. Of course the full page photo layout isn’t in the gallery. It’s just a photo! I told you sometimes it is easy to miss the obvious.
2. Stretch a layout onto two pages. I find this method works best if you have a strong linear component across the layout.This template (Template .005 by Karla Dudley) has a row of circular photos that easily stretches into a two page layout.
By changing the canvas size to 24 x 12 you can create a new double page size layout. Removing (or hiding if you are indecisive like me) elements from one of the pages keeps the facing pages from looking like carbon copies of each other. Your single page layout has now become a two page spread.
3. One of my favorite ways to adapt a single page layout is to flip, rotate or mirror the template to create a complementary page.
This layout was created from Tiffany Tillman 52 Thursday Templates – 13.
The template is used in its original form on the right hand page of the layout.
The left page is rotated 180 degrees and a few modifications were made to the photos and the title and journaling were removed.
And, bingo, a great double page spread created from the flip of a template.
If only cleaning and doing laundry were that easy…
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