Use Those Journal Cards to Stretch Your Stash

Happy Thursday!  I hope wherever you are that you are healthy, happy, and staying sane 😊  CTM Robin here back with another tip to stretch your stash.  I know YOU know Liz makes the cutest journal cards, but have you thought about making an entire layout using just these cards? 

Now, the great thing about this set of templates is that simply by choosing new cards or switching them around, you have a whole new template.  How cool is that?! Let me show you what I mean.  First create your blank page with your choice of size.  I’m using a 12x12 here.

Next just open the template in your scrapping program and copy all the layers by selecting first the bottom layer and while holding the SHIFT key, select the top layer.  Once you’ve grabbed all of them, simply drag them to your 12x12 layout.  Now here is a tip:  Go ahead and link the layers while they are all selected in the new document. This way if you have to move them around, you don’t accidently leave one of these pieces behind.  Also, don’t forget to go back to the original template and close it so you don’t accidently save over it. After placing the first set where you want it, just keep repeating this process.  See how I placed two 4x6 horizontal templates side by side?

Add as many as you like, and don’t worry if you line up the templates so that there isn’t any white spaces.  We will address this!  I ended up filling my entire page with four 4x6 templates and four 3x4 templates. You can stop here, but I like a little bit of white space between mine.  If you are going to add some spacing, you must first delete the text layers.  Then, simply select all the layers using the above mentioned method and once selected, drag the corner to make the entire group a tad smaller.  Here’s what I did:

Now you can move them around to give yourself some spacing.  Remember, each individual template has its own pieces linked together so you can grab just one part and move that individual template around.  Once you are happy, you will need to go and unlink the layers in case you start moving these smaller bits and pieces.  Here is what I ended up with:

I will save this template so that I have this for future use.  Remember, you can mix and match these journal card templates in a multitude of ways.  Think of how many templates you can make yourself – all with this one set of cards!!

This is my final layout using Liz’s Daily Life Journal Cards with Just Jaimee’s Go Outside & Storyteller 2018 August Collection:

I hope you can see how versatile these cards are and have fun making your layout.  Try it and see what you come up with.  That’s it for me until next month.  Stay safe!