A Boy and His Cone

Here is another layout that captures some of the cute and silly stuff my Zach Attack did when he was a toddler. He LOVED playing with this mini traffic cone. He kept picking it up and talking into it like it was a megaphone or looking through it like it was a telescope. He was adorable and this cone kept him busy for the longest time – which was unusual for Zach who struggles with ADHD.

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This page was relatively easy to put together. I used my Silhouette to cut out a traffic cone. I enlarged it to fill some of the empty space behind my photos.

A valuable design principle I learned when it came to using color on layouts was the gallon, quart, pint principle. The basic idea is use three main colors – you can definitely use more than three colors – but stick to three main colors for the various elements on your page. However, you should have three main colors but in decreasing proportion.

For example, a gallon is bigger than a quart which is bigger than a pint. To demonstrate this principle, in this layout Brown is the gallon color. That is the dominant color that your eye sees first. The quart color would be orange. It’s the color of the biggest element on the page, and I used a tiny orange letter stickers for part of the title. The pint color is a banana yellow. That’s the color I used to mat my photos and for the bigger part of the title.

Keeping gallons, quarts, and pints in mind when picking out your paper and element colors will help you create a balanced layout.

Supplies Used:

Brown and Orange Cardstock: Bazzill

Yellow Cardstock: The Stamps of Life

Pattern paper and letter stickers: Doodlebug Designs