Begin at the Beginning

which for me is generally a template. I like both gridded or free flowing. For me, scrapbooking is about photos and storytelling.  Here is a clean and simple template that I began with.

Here are the steps I took:

• found a fun paper for the background that fits the theme of the page and serves as a  border;
• clipped pictures to the black boxes on the left side;
• eliminated the box borders around the green boxes;
• clipped paper to the green boxes that I selected to repeat the red in the background paper;
• replaced the frame on the black box on the right with a fun frame;
• inserted a color in the box also selected from the background paper;
• along with a number and some text;
• recolred all of the box borders red to add to repetition.

 Here is the page, done rather simply and quickly.

Easy-peasy!