Leaving Belgium

Today I tried something different - creating a grid of photos.  Here are those pages - and more.  

Above you see a dual page spread.  Below are closeups of each of those pages.

Page #1:

I'll admit that these pages didn't turn out quite as well as they did in my head before making them!  I wish I had matted the green with white before putting it in place.  That might have helped.  Anyway, as you can see, I added a large piece of green patterned card stock with a rounded edge on one side to serve as a backdrop for my focal photo and my photo grids (on this page and the next one).  As usual, I printed my photos & journaling using Microsoft Word, and arranged the smaller photos along the lower edge.  The title was made from alphabet die cuts from my stash - layered a bit as you can see.  The subtitle was stickers from my stash put on a white photo paper scrap - with edges rounded a bit like the green mat piece.

Page #2:

The second page is similar - the challenging part was the slit & pocket at the top of the page that allow the brochure to slide in and out.  It really wasn't that hard to make.  I've gotten to the place where I make most of my hidden pockets this way - simply cut a slit, cut an envelope to the right size and glue it in place behind the page and lined up with the slit.  Often, like I did here, I'll use a circle punch to create a half-circle pull area.  Because the brochure was pink and didn't really blend in with the page well, I chose to glue some of the green card stock to the top of it.  After cutting to fit, I added a full circle of the green to help ensure that even in the punched out place the pink wasn't seen.

Page #3:

For this page I made another photo grid - this time of saxophones!  I could have used something better for the title, but I was tired & found these die cuts in my stash and decided to go with them.  I liked the blue patterned paper behind the saxophones, but it had a border at the top that I didn't like - so I covered it with tan patterned paper from my stash - and added a narrow black border of card stock between them.

Page #4:

No grid of photos here.  I chose to bring in a bright aqua print mat to focus attention on the birds - my favorite part of that experience.  The background for the journaling is darker than I would prefer, but it's still readable.  As you can probably tell, I used the same set of die cut letters to get my title - this time pulling some of the letters that had aqua in them.  The other thing I should probably note is the shield/sign with the birds - that was a photo of a sign there at the falconry, and I just fussy cut around the sign as a great embellishment for this layout.