Here are a few pages I worked on this weekend. I have a suggestion- I have seen the bracket background quite a bit the last few months, and I was so against buying that specialty paper over and over. Well as I as in the local scrapbook storek, I noticed that they sold the template. Then, I thought, I could just buy the specialty paper once and then trace it onto cardstock. That was my genius-not-so-genius moment! So when you find a background you like, just trace it and use it as a template! (This one was actually a template, but there was not a template for another style I liked so I just bought the paper- Will show later!!)
