Hello friends! Diva Jen here.
Have you ever made a layout with just one or two pictures of an event, only to realize later you left out a LOT of photos? [ I do this a lot with design team assignments. 
] In this entry I’ll show you an easy way to start with your beautifully designed original layout, switch it up a bit, and add more event photos for a matching second page.
This original layout uses Eva’s “Pay it Forward” kit, and is from a Build-A-Bear party we went to in the spring. Two of my friend’s three daughters had March birthdays, so they had a combined party. I figured for my scrapbook I should probably include close-ups of the birthday girls. [And their other sister, for good measure. ]
I always save a layered copy of my scrapbook layouts, because I never know when I might want to open one up as a jumping point for something new. So I started by opening the original layout and saving a new copy to my desktop – this is so I don’t accidentally save over the original. Then I deleted the text and photos, leaving the background papers and elements.
With my page base in place, I needed to decide on photo placement. I clicked the eye icon next to each element (the stars and buttons) so I could hide them while I worked with structural details. I decided to use the photo frames from the kit again, so I put a bunch on the new page and rearranged them until it made sense. I modified a three-picture frame to be a two-picture frame for a better fit. When I was happy with the frame placements, I clicked each element’s eye icon again to un-hide them.
I tried to make the element arrangement different than the first page, but still balanced. I ended up deleting some of the elements from the original page because they just didn’t fit. (The extra star you see was a hidden element from the first page that I ended up not using.) At this point my page looked like this:
It wasn’t until now that I started adding photos – that was actually the easiest part. I knew I wanted a close up of all three girls, and I let whatever worked structurally with the frames determine how many other pictures I would add. After inserting the photos, I slapped on a little text and I was done!
Here’s what the pages look like now as a two-page spread:
Happy scrapping!
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