Four Square Grid Template

About this freebie

The Four Square Grid Template helps you build a tidy layout quickly. This free download from Free Digital Scrapbooking includes 7 PNG layers stacked to create a 12 x 12 inch page. You get gray shapes marking spots for three 4.6 x 4.6 inch photos, a paper-block, a title, and journaling.

This everyday design works well for simple, clean pages. The ZIP file is about 0.6 MB and includes a flattened guide JPG along with a text file listing the layer order.

Ideas for using it

1. Document a morning routine with three photos of your coffee, breakfast, and reading material. Add the date and a short story in the journaling block.
2. Create a quick layout about a pet. Use the three 4.6 x 4.6 inch photo spots for sleeping pictures and write about their habits.
3. Make a simple birthday page. Fill the grid with pictures of the cake, the gifts, and the guest of honor, then add a festive title.
4. Show off a garden project by placing progress photos in the three square spots. Use the paper-block layer for a bright floral pattern.

How to use it

• Open all 7 PNG layers in your software and stack them in the order listed in the text file. The background layer goes at the very bottom.
• Use clipping masks to attach your pictures to the gray shapes. If you are new to this, read our guide on how to use page templates.
• You can resize the 4.6 x 4.6 inch photo spots if you need more room for your journaling block. Just scale the layers down together.
• Place every PNG layer at the top left corner of a 12 x 12 inch, 300 dpi page and they line up.
• Clip a paper or a photo to each gray shape, then delete or hide the gray.

What is inside the ZIP

One folder named four-square-grid-template with the files below (file names start with four-square-grid-template-), plus README.txt and LICENSE.txt.