A day on the French Riviera... + a quick tutorial

I am back as promised to share a double-pager created with the August kit The Story Begins from Scraptastic Club. I rarely make 2-page layouts, but I always love them when I look through my albums! So, since I wanted to use almost all the photos from this special day during our last vacation in France, I found a sketch by Becky Fleck and went to work:

I love the fact that Scraptastic Club includes two sheets of each cardstock colors in their kits, it is what prompted me to create a double pager in the first place!

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I also created this short tutorial to go with it for the Scraptastic Club blog:

How to create a mat for a double pager with just one sheet of patterned paper: Often times, even if I had two sheets of cardstock for my background, I got stuck because I wanted to mat my photos with patterned paper of which I only had one page but I figured out a trick. See on my layout above, it looks like I used two sheets of the green Echo Park paper and possibly two sheets of pink cardstock when I actually used a partial one of each.

And by the way, this tip can also help you save paper when creating single page layouts.

First, I cut 1 1/2" strips of the paper of my choice (6 strips) and 1/4" strips of pink cardstock:

then I adhered the pink cardstock at the border of the patterned paper:

then I set them up around my pages exactly where I wanted them:

now you can use a bit of temporary adhesive or being extra careful, move them off your background and place a ruler going from one corner to the next as shown here:

cut through the layers and replace on your page, lining everything nicely before adhering:

Please note that I do not recommend choosing a patterned paper that goes in a certain direction as it would be very hard or impossible to line it up seamlessly.

Thank you for stopping by! Feel free to ask questions if you have any!