Single Template for two page layout

I wanted to share with you a fun technique I used to create a two page layout the other day.


I love how this turned out because they look coordinated but unique and they look nice together and separately. So how did I create it?

1. I found a template that I wanted to use:

I thought this would be a great layout for a two pager, because the background papers go off the edge of one side of the layout.

2. I opened the layout in PSE. You see how the original layout has the papers going off the left side? It was going to be the right side of my two page layout. So I saved it as the title I wanted for that page. Then I went to "Image - Rotate - Flip Horizontal." This flipped the whole template right to left. I saved this as the name for my left hand page.

3. Then I needed to open the right hand page so that I now had both templates open.

4. I added my pictures.

5. I added papers. As I did this, I made sure that I was adding the same background papers to each page. For the other papers I did some the same and changed some up also.

6. I did the same with the elements - some the same, some different. One awesome thing about elements this way is that I can add them to one layout. Resize them. And then drag them from one layout to the other so that they are the same size on both layouts.

Here are my final pages up close.





Credits: Merry and Bright by geniaBeana Scraps, template by Cindy Schneider, font is Elicia by Darcy Baldwin

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