Completed this album based on the CK article last year -- Album in a Year by Amanda Probst. Visit her site for complete layout ideas. I totally copied her ideas, and I love the results. Complete up to September --- hopefully will finish the last 3 months soon! This was all done digitally -- all pages are 8x8, but showed sewn together here. Not every page has the month in the title, so there is a month and year "stamp" in the corner of each layout.
One problem have with many layouts that I see in magazines is that they are another size other than 12x12, which is what I make. This layout I found in a back issue of Simple Scrapbooks has an 11x8 1/2 layout that I loved (I believe it is by Rebecca Cooper). By adding a strip of paper to the bottom, I think I converted to a 12x12 pretty effectively -- will remember this trick for the future.