Another layout for Megan Anderson's Pocket Your Year 31 days of Challenges. This challenge is called Making It Fit and even though Megan focuses on making your pictures and embellishment cards fit on the backside of a page protector you used for a previous layout, so you're kind of stuck with it for the left page of the next layout, I focused on a different aspect of the idea of making it fit.
I'm finishing up the album I've made for our Walt Disney World trip in December 2014. All I have left is to make layouts with the journaling cards I wrote, talking about the items I liked of the trip (which I wrote 1 1/2 months ago) and talking my husband into finally writing his impressions and making his layout. My boys did this months ago for me so their layouts are done. I made this fit in two ways: I have ten cards to mount on 3 pages, with 12 openings in the pages and I want to do one 4x6 card per opening. So on this first page I didn't use a journaling card for the first opening, I used a title that I hadn't used elsewhere in the book (and since I don't know if we'll go to Disney World again, this page made it so the title didn't go to waste) and the last of the twelve openings has a Mickey Mouse that is part of the patterned paper instead of a journaling card. So I made the number of openings I had verses the number of journaling cards work for me, instead of trying to somehow put two journaling cards in two of the pockets.
The other way I made this work was for the background paper I used on this page. I thought it would look cool to have alternating squares of two patterned papers for this page. The problem? These were both 8 1/2 x 11 paper that I only had one of and the pockets are 6 x 6. I cut each paper into 5 1/2 x 6 pieces. The 5 1/2 side is the vertical measurement, which worked for my idea to make it fit. I cut each of the 5 1/2 x 6 pieces at a point that a 1/2 inch gap would either be covered by the line of washi tape I used to anchor the title or the 4 x 6 journaling card. I then cut a white piece of card stock into 6 x 6 squares to mount the patterned pieces on. For the title card, I used some of the leftover scraps of paper to cover the 1/2 inch gap since washi tape isn't completely opaque and I didn't want a white line showing behind the washi tape where it's not covered by the title. The seams in these scraps are covered by the title so it worked. On the other 3 cards I made sure the 1/2 inch gap of white was covered completely by the journaling card. I made sure the washi tape was in about the same place on the bottom of each segment so that it would go well together. I used washi with dots on it because it reminds me of other Disney patterned paper I've used in this album.
I think this layout shows off the idea of making what you have work with a little imagination really well!
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