When incorporating multiple colors in your scrapbook pages, add balance to your layouts by utilizing the gallon-quart-pint rule: add the colors proportionally to each other in terms of a gallon (a color that fills a majority of the layout), a quart (a color that fills a smaller amount of the layout), and a pint (a color that fills only a small part of the layout).

Water by Lisa Bearnson, as seen in Easier Than Ever Scrapbooking.

This layout by Lisa Bearnson provides a great example with her use of these colors:

* Gallon: white

* Quart: red

* Pint: yellow

Notice how this gallon-quart-pint rule applies to the color of both cardstock and non-cardstock items: the white color is created not only from the cardstock background, but also from the white background in six of the photos; the red color is created by the cardstock block as well as the binder clip.

Try the gallon-quart-pint rule on your next scrapbook page, and discover the balance it brings to your layout.

--Brittany Beattie, Club CK social director