Wondering if a page is as meaningful as possible?  Submit it to a quick test: simply hold the page up from a distance and ask another person, "Quick - what do you see first on this page?  What do you see next?"  If a person answers, "A picture of a child", "Lots of writing", or something similar, your focus is meaning orientated.  If the person answers, "A cute paper doll", "Kites all over the background", "Super fancy folding", or something similar, your focus is accent orientated.

Ask yourself, "Is my focus where I want it?"  If not, resize, rearrange, add or subtract elements until you find the right mix for the maximum meaning.

Two-page layout tips: remember, if your colours and accents don't coordinate, your two-page spread won't either, even if you use the following techniques.  Colour is VERY IMPORTANT!

It is more important to keep the main focus on the photos and help other people move easily though an album.  The idea is to make it easy for readers to see a set of pages as a whole.  Mismatched pages next to each other have little in common

Make two page layouts look like one by using coordinating patterns and colours for each page.  The pages don't necessarily have to match.  Mat your focal point picture with the same paper as the background on the opposite page, for instance.

When you and others look through your scrapbooks, you should feel a sense of flow, continuity and visual comfort.  You should want to keep turning the pages.  This will create a more visually "complete" scrapbook.

Don't forget spreads of more than two pages in your scrapbook.  It is just as easy to tie several pages together visually as it is with two. 

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