About the Pages
Technique: Almost Done™ Page Kits
Designer: Susan Cobb

Almost Done™ Page Kits make gorgeous layouts so easy to create–in no time at all! Best of all, they come in 19 different themes from the popular to the hard-to-find, so you’ll always have just the right theme for your next layout. Susan used the Patriotic-themed kit and the Summer-themed kit to create both a single and a double page spread, and still had tons of papers and embellishments left over to create more pages!

“Almost Done™ Page Kits are great for beginners, or for people with little time on their hands,” Susan says. “You’ll love that they’re already coordinated for those times when you need to scrap in a hurry! You can use all of the papers and embellishments to create one double-page spread, or spread them all out to make 4 or even 6 pages from just one kit!”

Proud to be Americans

Supplies:

• Patriotic Almost Done™ Page Kit: “Proud to be Americans” paper, journaling areas paper, ribbon strip border, July 4 blue stars border and silver star accent
• glue stick
• black pen

Instructions:

1. Use the “Proud to be Americans” paper as the background. Cut the 5”x7 1/2” block out of the journaling areas paper and mat the photo on it. Place the ribbon strip border on the background paper, overlapping the seam between the red scuff and blue stars portions of the background paper. Add an additional silver star accent to the ribbon strip, 4 1/2” in from the right edge. Adhere the matted photo vertically over the ribbon strip border as shown.
2. Computer journal onto the blank space on the journaling areas paper and crop to 2 3/4”x2 1/4”. Cut the 3 1/4”x2 3/4” block out of the journaling areas paper and mat the journaling on it. Secure the journaling in the upper right corner of the blue stars portion of the background paper.
3. Add the USA tag vertically below the journaling, overlapping the ribbon strip border and the red scuff portion of the background paper. Attach the July 4 blue stars border horizontally across the bottom of the page, overlapping the seam between the ivory border and red scuff portions of the background paper. Using a black pen, journal onto the right side of the bottom ivory border of the background paper.

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Supplies:

• Summer Almost Done™ Page Kit: Printed papers, tan paper, pinwheel border, seashell embellishment, seashell slide mount and gold brads
• Paper Pizazz® Ivory Vellum
• glue stick
• black pen

Instructions:

For the Left Page:

1. Use the printed paper with the large seashell portion as the background, placing the seashell portion on the right side. Mat the photos on tan paper trimming the mats to 1/8”. Using a glue stick, adhere the matted photos to the background paper at an angle as shown, with one photo overlapping the other.
2. Place the pinwheel border vertically down the left side of the page, 3/8” in from the edge, on top of the striped portion of the background paper. Crop two photos to 2” squares and place them in the empty portions of the pinwheel border.
3. Computer journal onto ivory vellum. Using one gold brad in each top corner, attach the journaling in the upper right corner of the background paper, flush with the right edge and 1/2” down from the top. Computer journal the place name onto ivory vellum and crop, then attach it on the page as shown using one gold brad.
4. Add the seashell embellishments around the photos as shown. Using a black pen, journal the name onto the background paper above the top photo, and journal the date onto the pinwheel border.

For the Right Page:

1. Use the printed paper with the two striped portions as the background, placing the smaller striped portion at the top. Mat the photos on tan paper, trimming the mats to 1/8”. Using a glue stick, adhere the matted photos to the page as shown.
2. Computer journal onto ivory vellum. Using one gold brad in each top corner, attach the journaling block in the upper right corner of the background paper, 1/2” in from the right side and 1/2” down from the top. Attach a smaller strip of journaling in the bottom left corner of the page using one gold brad. Add the seashell slide mount embellishment to the page, overlapping the seam between the large striped portion and the blue waves portion of the background paper.