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Six photos on a one-page layout? That’s not easy to do.

Birthday Party Layout Tip:

You can use Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to resize your photos and then layout them in a spread on a larger photo size.

The five smaller photos in my layout are 3×4.5. The larger focal point photo is a standard 4×6. I used Photoshop to crop my supporting photos to the smaller size, created a new canvas, and moved the photos onto that new canvas.

You can fit four photos of that size onto an 8×10 photo and have it printed at your regular photo developer.

Update: Today’s Contest:

The blog host was having technical issues so some of you may have come to post your layouts and found you couldn’t. With such a late start to our party, you have until tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon PST to upload your layouts and link them to any of today’s postings, or the original party announcement posting. I will draw a name tomorrow evening and announce the winner of the new Premium Episode of Paperclipping, which we will release next week.

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Garden Party
12×12 2-Page Layout

Journaling to daughter reads: You and your friends planted Gerber Daisies and you gave them out as party favors.

Products used: Cardstock (Bazzill, Creative Memories); Patterned paper (7 Gypsies, Basic Grey, Sassafrass Lass, Creative Memories); Letter stickers (Creative Memories); Pen (American Crafts) Ink (Stampin’ Up).

If you watched the last video episode of Paperclipping, you’ll recognize these as some of the projects I made while reviewing the new scrapbook kit club, Kits & Pieces.

The coolest feature of the club is that the kits are customizable. They priced the basic kit low…half the amount of all the other kits I’ve seen and tried. They did this so that you could add the products you really want.

You can add expansion packs to your basic kit. So if you like to have two sheets of each paper, you can add that for $3. Or if you love rub-on’s like me, you can add another sheet and they’ll make sure it’s different from the first. You can get the larger expansion pack which, at least this month, has a minibook.

The smaller expansion options mainly allow you to get more of what’s already in the kit and I would have preferred it if you could get something different, like coordinating ribbon or brads. Variety is nice. But if you’re used to spending $30 on your scrapbook kits, you could spend that same amount with Kits & Pieces and get two completely different sets. There’s some real variety for you.

The most important thing, of course, is the quality of the actual products. I loved the products. They’re very trendy. And, as you’ll see when I add more layouts tomorrow, I couldn’t stop myself from making more and more stuff with them.

If you like what you see, head over to their website because they’re running some specials right now.

Note: Someone pointed it out to me that I dated the Thanksgiving layout for 2007. Oops! Do you ever do that out of habit? I’ll be changing the date of my layout to 2006, but I just wanted to let any other observant people know…