Boring but functional

Today’s page is boring but functional. Sometimes that is the fate of an OP, not every page gets to really shine. It is also an example of getting two sets of photos on to the one page. Sometimes you only have a few shots for each event and stretching them onto a full album page is just too much ink and too much good photo paper. Better to let them share a page and cut a cost or two.

If your events are sharing a page, then you will still want to get the most out of the photos so don’t crimp the image for the sake of space for the story. Most images have some space that can take a bit of text. Look for very dark or very light sections, both very useful for overlaying text and titles without sacrificing the image and its essential message. Advertisers do it all the time and we think nothing of it and as for magazine covers…

Looking at the page below a true digi-scrapper might have an eyebrow lifting moment and mutter something like ‘that’s not a real layout!’ And they’d be right, it isn’t. It is a page for a family album and in the sequence of events in our family; poor Nhimu had her op around the same time as I was babysitting my DGD so the photos ended up following each other. Such is life.



This template is very simple and it also offers opportunities to swap bits around. It is a useful OP for wedding and holiday albums. If you want to, you can take out one of the smaller images and substitute titles, stories or other embellishments.

This is good. Thanks to the Blog I now I have two more lots of photos moved from the ‘to be processed’ dust pile to the ‘completed’ pile. I may as well make the most of it because as soon as DH has sorted through the photos for MiL’s book I’ll be back to 12x12 with a vengeance and the family album will fall behind again.


The download has the flat 300dpi jpg template ready to use as a base.

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