{"id":1070,"date":"2015-12-10T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2015-12-10T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:14:52","slug":"12-days-of-christmas-ideas-day-10-1-2-3-page-layout-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2015\/12\/10\/12-days-of-christmas-ideas-day-10-1-2-3-page-layout-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of Christmas Ideas: Day 10 \u2013 1-2-3 Page Layout Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re thrilled to share this technique with you &#8211; it&#8217;s a totally simple way to crank out beautiful 2-page spreads\u00a0in a snap using just one sheet of patterned paper and 2 sheets of solid cardstock. Love, love love!<!--more Click to read full post--><\/p>\n<p>In her blog post today, Advisor Noreen Smith shows us how to quickly and easily make just 3 cuts to turn this page sketch idea:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1078\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2015\/12\/10\/12-days-of-christmas-ideas-day-10-1-2-3-page-layout-technique\/pagesketch\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagesketch.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PageSketch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagesketch.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1078\" src=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagesketch.jpg\" alt=\"PageSketch\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p>into this lovely, completed page in minutes:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1079\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2015\/12\/10\/12-days-of-christmas-ideas-day-10-1-2-3-page-layout-technique\/pagefinished\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagefinished.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,331\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PageFinished\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagefinished.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1079\" src=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagefinished.jpg\" alt=\"PageFinished\" width=\"640\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagefinished.jpg 640w, https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagefinished-150x78.jpg 150w, https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagefinished-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fab, isn&#8217;t it? Think of the awesome layouts you could crank out in no time flat! Noreen&#8217;s post features the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativememories.com\/shop-all\/pages-protectors\/predesigned-pages\/christmas-joy-fast2fab-refill-pages.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Joy Fast2Fab Predesigned Pages<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativememories.com\/shop-all\/decorative\/stickers\/christmas-joy-stickers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Joy Stickers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativememories.com\/shop-all\/decorative\/slide-in-packs\/christmas-joy-slide-in-pack.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas Joy Slide-In Pack<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativememories.com\/shop-all\/tools\/border-and-punches\/2-way-corner-rounder.html\" target=\"_blank\">2-Way Corner Rounder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next we&#8217;ll send you on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organizedandcreativemom.com\/2015\/12\/christmas-joy-1-2-3-layout.html\" target=\"_blank\">Noreen&#8217;s blog post<\/a>\u00a0where she&#8217;ll share full instructions on using this method.\u00a0You&#8217;re going to want to bookmark it for sure. Happy scrapping! :)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re thrilled to share this technique with you &#8211; it&#8217;s a totally simple way to crank out beautiful 2-page spreads\u00a0in a snap using just one sheet of patterned paper and 2 sheets of solid cardstock. Love, love love!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95570245,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26012430,14113],"tags":[2285767,202728,479399,723500091,770878,16940],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-page-layout-ideas","category-project-ideas","tag-christmas-projects","tag-page-layout","tag-page-sketches","tag-project-ideas","tag-scrapbook-page","tag-scrapbooking"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pagefinished.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NsZA-hg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101543,"url":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2024\/10\/11\/october-2024-virtual-crop\/","url_meta":{"origin":1070,"position":0},"title":"October 2024 Virtual Crop","author":"Creative Memories","date":"October 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Sweater weather? 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