Companies like American Traditional Designs co-ordinate their patterned papers to take the guess work out of matching papers for you. Many even make coordinating embellishments to make it easier for you to mix and match to suit your needs. In this layout I show you how to take advantage of their hard work and experience to quickly put an effective layout together. 

This layout  was created using American Traditional Moments Paper Pack 12x12, alphabet stamps, brown ink and Sandylion Heritage Alphabet stickers.

Use the Gold Impression paper as your background. Cut a strip of Ecru Brocade paper approximately 14cm tall to go across the bottom of your page. Write or print your journaling on your strip, keeping in mind where your photos will end up. Once you are done, adhere your strip across the bottom of your page.

Cut out a border strip, blue frame and Ecru Brocade frame from your sheet of cut-outs (contained within your American Traditional Moments Paper Pack 12x12). 

Adhere your border strip across your page, on top of the join between the Gold Impression paper and the Ecru Brocade paper.

Select your feature photo and frame it first with your Ecru Brocade frame and then your blue frame. Adhere on the left of the page above your journaling (see above layout for correct positioning).

Adhere your second photo in place. It should be to the right of your first photo and lower to give your page a sense of balance.  

Finally, create your title. My title is considerably long so I have used a combination of alphabet stamps stamped with brown ink and Sandylion Heritage Alphabet stickers. This may not suit your title so you may wish to employ a different technique. Keep in mind this is a very clean-line page, so clean-line fonts and neutral colours would work well. 

If you would like to have any of your designs included in our resource centre, please email them to us at rc@stickersnfun.com (please make sure all files are .jpg or .gif).