Scrapbooking with Divided Page Protectors

Several months ago I purchased a package of 12x12 divided page protectors to use when I wanted to create a quick layout with several 4x6 photos. Yesterday I was inspired by this blog post on Sue's Life & Memories blog about divided page protectors and decided it was time to break open the package.

I chose photos from our meal at Rose Hill Manor back in May when we were on our Texas Road Trip. We had a delicious four course dinner, and I took pictures of most of the food. I used nine photos, two postcards, a copy of the menu, one piece of patterned paper, one piece of tan cardstock, and some chalk ink for this layout.

For the left page, I used the Rose Hill Manor postcard and three photos. Then I copied (and reduced the size) of the menu onto a piece of cardstock. I also cut out the Rose Hill Manor's description from the back of a second postcard and added a small handwritten journaling block. I chalked around the menu, postcard and journal block and mounted them on 4x6 pieces of patterned paper and cardstock.

On the right page, I used five photos. Since one of the photos was portrait instead of landscape, I used two 4x6  pieces of  patterned paper in two slots, then cut the photo in half and mounted it to the paper. The patterned paper helps "tie" the two pages together.

Here's the final two-page layout. It only took about 30 minutes to put this entire layout together!

Since I chose to do this layout as a two-page spread, I have the front of one page protector empty and the back of the other one - I'll be browsing my storage binders this week to find photos to create layouts for those empty pages before adding these two pages to my Places We've Been scrapbook.