This layout template is simply three bands of different widths, stacked narrowest on top, and widest on the bottom. Each band can be treated as a separate element. You can use patterned or solid papers, or a strip of collage work to create each block.

Here’s and ATC template with an example, made from a Bits & Pieces digital sheet from Ten Two Studios. Since two of the papers I wanted to use were striped, I simply used one horizontally and one vertically to give them different looks. That also helped me integrate the square image.

I’ve used another Bits & Pieces sheet to create this quarter-sheet sized card. The mixing of patterns is more subtle here.

Here are guides for a landscape card, and a six inch square: