6 x 6 Toodle Loo

I have started working on Rylea's baby book and I thought Toodle Loo was the BEST choice for this project!! In my layouts, I'm using Toodle Loo cardstock, ribbon, hardware and cardstock collection.

I AM So excited about this NEW concept, I have got several 6 x 6 layouts done, with the intentions of adding them to Rylea's 12 x 12 album!!

I used the scheme 2 - Quick Quads and Scheme 5 - Four Corners together several times in making these first pages!! I'm working on going forward with other layouts! So, here is my first layout!



As you can see the one on the left (with Rylea's first photos) I used the Four Corners scheme and on the right I used the Quick Quads! I think these 2 go together VERY well!!

OH, under the photo of Jackie and Rylea, I put a tag so Jackie could add her thoughts at that moment. This was something I didn't want everyone to see. It will JUST be meant for Rylea to read someday!!



I did the EXACT same thing here but made the photo on the bottom left a little longer than the 3 x 3.

I will be adding more later!!

Mimi 8x8 page

I am having fun with the Quick Quads scheme - and adding it to an 8x8 size page - which is my FAV size to scrap. Not to big - not too small - and best yet I can use my 8 1/2 x 11 papers for the base of the page! I have used pieces from a Mimi Simply Savvy Schemes Page kit for this spread.
I made 2 6x6 Quick Quad pages and then added them to the 8x8 pages butting them up to the inside edge of the spread. Under the 6x6 I layered some different sized pieces if Coordinating Mimi Cardstock. I also used the Office Notes Stamp Set from The Angel Company which makes journaling in a pinch a BREEZE!

Another TIP: When creating a Quick Quad that will be totally cover with pictures (Like the left side page) Don't use your good paper and cardstock. We ALL have TONS of papers that we don't like any more, right? Use it up! No one will be able to see it anyway! You can also use it for the right side page - because it is totally covers also with 3 3x3 pictures and one 3x3 pattern paper square. Genius!

Scheme 5 - Four Corners

This Scheme is very similar to Quick Quads -with a slight variation.
You will still crop and cut everything down to 3x3 size. When you adhere them to your page however, you will space them apart so that there is an equal border between all 4. Once you have them all stuck onto your page you will trim off the excess - bringing you back to the 6x6 page. It is so much easir that way than trying to cut them all to the perfect size.Here are some layouts with this skeme. The first one features the Four Corners Sheme with Scheme 7 - Color Blocked.
The next two pair up Scheme 2 - Quick Quads and Scheme 5 - Four Corners

adding to a bigger page

Not everyone scraps 6x6 - I know. The beauty of the Simply Savvy Page kits is that they can be converted to alternate sizes! They will fit onto 6x6, 6x9, 8x8, 9x9, 8 1/2 x 11, and 12x12!
Here you see a page I made with the Quick Quad Scheme 2. Just 2 pieces of pattern paper in the corners of a Kraft 6x6 page.
Now you can take that page and add it to a 12x12 page.
SO what I do is create the 6x6 pages - these i put into albums for grandmas and grandpas. Then I take the same page and add it to a 12x12 to put into Laney's Album. Brilliant right? Actually I make 4 of the 6x6 page and then 1 12x12 all at the same time - and the 4 pages go to all the grandparents albums that I compile each year and give to them for Christmas. I work on it all thru the year - and actually do a lot of it in November of course!

Here is another 12x12 page that has a Quick Quad 6x6 added to it.
For this Quick Quad I wanted to keep one of the pictures 6 inches long - so i cut it to 3 inches wide and 6 inches long. Having it cut that way makes it take up 2 of the 3 inch squares on the page. Coolio!

Scheme 2 - Quick Quad

For our second Scheme - we are going to get to the nitty gritty of this system! We want to be able to get a lot of photos in to our spreads right? Even though I am only using a 6x6 page - I can still get 6 or 7 pictures on a 2 page spread! That ROCKS!

What I have done is started with 3x3 blocks again - this is the foundation of this system. I also cut my pictures down to 3x3 squares. If you are using digital pics you would just edit them to be that size and print from there. The pictures I have used for this page were actually printed 14 years ago! SO they are 3 1/2x5's. And since zoom technology was not anywhere near where it is today - I am able to crop them easily to 3x3! Yeah!

Here are a few of the spreads that I completed using 2 Quick Quad Schemes side by side. You can click on the images to view them larger.





That last spread - the page on the right is a slight alteration on the Scheme - which is Scheme 5 -Four Corners.