About the Layouts
Technique:8"x8" Fall Layouts
Designers: Shauna Berglund-Immel & Susan Cobb

Capture the colors of autumn in your mini album with Shauna and Susan's creative fall layouts!

Fall's Confetti
By Shauna Berglund-Immel

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Supplies:

• Paper Pizazz® 4 Seasons 8"x8" Papers: Orange leaves and fall striped paper plus artwork
• brick red cardstock
• Light Green Dotted Magic Mesh
• Cinnamon Magic Mesh
• teal mini brads
• orange mini brads
• lime green mini brads
• black pen
• black ink pad
• ruler
• glue stick

Instructions:

1. Ink the edges of the orange leaves paper to use as the background. Use a ruler and a black pen to draw a horizontal line 1/8" from the top edge and 1/8" from the bottom edge of the page, then accent it with evenly spaced dots.
2. Secure a strip of cinnamon Magic Mesh horizontally, 3" from the top of the page, trimming any excess even with the edges of the page. Ink the a strip of light green Dotted Magic Mesh. Layer the dotted mesh on top of the cinnamon mesh, trimming the excess even with the edges of the page. Ink the edges of the fall striped border and glue it centered on top of the dotted mesh.
3. Mat a vertical photo on brick red cardstock, trim the mat to 1/16" and ink the edges. Mat the top and bottom edges on fall striped paper (stripes running vertically), then trim the mats to 1/4" and ink the edges. Glue the matted photo 5/8" from the left side of the page. Add the "autumn" tab even with the top right edge of the photo.
4. Add 8 evenly spaced teal, orange and lime green mini brads across the yellow grosgrain portion of the fall striped border. Use a black pen to journal the date under the bottom left corner of the photo, the name to the right of the photo, above the Magic Mesh strips and the page title below the mesh strips.

Elise
By Susan Cobb

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Think mini album pages are only big enough for one photo? Susan fit three photos on this 8"x8" page by cropping just 3/4" off a standard photo and framing two smaller photos in covered slide mounts. To cover a slide mount with paper:

1. Apply glue to one side of the slide mount. Glue the slide mount to the back of your choice of paper and trim the paper even with the outside edges of the slide mount.	2. Place the slide mount face down on a cutting surface. Use a craft knife to cut an "x" in the center of the slide mount.	3. Fold over each of the four triangles and glue in place on the backside of the slide mount, then trim the excess paper even with the edges.

Supplies:

• Paper Pizazz® 4 Seasons 8"x8" Papers: Light brown with leaf border, deep orange textured and fall words papers plus artwork
• Slide Mount Mania™ Large Square Slide Mounts
• Cardmaker's™ Earth's Palette Ribbons: Moss green grosgrain
• dark brown mini brads
• moss green mini brads
• light brown mini brads
• black pen
• black ink pad
• craft knife, cutting mat
• foam tape
• Zots™
• glue stick

Instructions:

1. Ink the edges of the light brown with leaf paper, then place the paper with the border on the left to use as the background. Mat a 4"x5 1/4" photo on deep orange textured paper, trim the mat to 1/8" and ink the edges. Glue the photo at an angle in the top right corner of the page.
2. Cover two square slide mounts with the mustard textured portion of the fall words paper, then ink the edges. Glue a photo behind each slide mount, trimming any excess even with the edges of the slide mount. Glue the slide mounts at varying angles and overlapping in the bottom left corner of the larger photo. Use foam tape to add the "autumn" tab even with the right edge of the right slide mount. Tie a 9" length of moss grosgrain ribbon into a shoestring bow, then use a Zot™ to secure the bow under the slide mounts.
3. Add one dark brown, one moss green and one light brown mini brad vertically in the bottom right corner of the page, then repeat next to the top left corner of the large photo. Use a black pen to journal the year above the brads in the corner of the page and journal the name under the brads next to the photo.