Page Maps Two-Pagers

I've downloaded a lot of the archived Page Maps that are posted monthly on Becky's site. I pounced on the book when I saw it, knowing that the maps were different from the ones that were on the site. I've looked through them and I can't help but think that a lot of her two-page spreads are very, very similar. Stripe at the top, stripe at the bottom, photos in the middle.

I do a lot of two-page layouts and a lot of the time I create them by using similar paper in two one-page layouts. That works quite well and it gets me out of the 12 x 24 type of thinking. These photos are examples. The first two two-page spreads are taken from the Recollections class, 'Disney Scrapbook in a Day.' I had to make a few changes, because a lot of the paper isn't available any longer and I don't want to purchase all of the embellies. The last two-page spread is taken from a Page Map two-page layout. I think it was December of '07.