Hello, Diana here with this month’s
Mini Album Tutorial. The inspiration from today’s album is from the Book
Re-Bound by Jeannine Stein, I used part of the binding technique from her
Twelve Month Organizer to make my album.
The materials I used: 6 large kraft
envelopes and 2 small ones, cardstock to make the accordion, one piece of
cardboard for the back, glue, assorted pattern paper and assorted
embellishments.
To make the accordion measure the
Length of your biggest envelope, mine was 5”, so I cut two 5” pieces out of a
12X12 cardstock.
Using a Scoring board or Bone
folder, make 1” marks along the upper and lower edges of both pieces of
cardstock.
Notes from the Author: when creating an accordion binding, go slowly
and make sure the folds are even and neat, resulting in a sturdier book.
Since I have 8 envelopes, and I’ll
need a back and a cover that makes a total of 10 spaces, that is why I cut two
pieces of cardstock, I joined them to add the four extra spaces I needed.
For the Back Cover cut a piece of
cardboard to the same length you did your accordion cardstock, for the width measure
your envelope and cut it little longer.
To make the back part of the gate
fold cut a piece of 12X12 cardstock to your previous Length, you’ll be scoring
two folds that will make the flap of the album, one will be part of the closing and the other will
go over your pages. Since a 12X12 was not big enough I added an extra piece of
paper using a border punch to decorate the part where I glued them together.
Adhere your envelopes from back
to front, starting with your back cover; I rounded the corners of the
accordions two edge parts to give it a nicer look.
Decorate your envelopes before
you add them to the accordion, each accordion fold is 1”, to prevent me from decorating
that space I marked a line with the same paint I used around the edges of my
pattern paper.
Very Important, Score a 1” line
on all your envelopes, this is to make it easier to flip the pages, I forgot
that step and ended up with a stiff album.
If you have been following my
work you’ll know I like to use envelopes on a lot of my projects, this is
because where ever I go I save what I can use as memorabilia, in this case I
just tucked in each envelope what I kept from the day.
I used glue to adhere my pages to
the accordion; you can also use Binding Snaps.
Next glue your pages to the accordion,
it is very simple, just add glue to one fold, adhere the page, add glue to the
next fold and adhere it to the page, add glue to the back of the fold, repeat.
For the cover I used a thinner
piece of cardstock to give it more flexibility.
To make the closing of the fold
gate I used two brads and layered them on scalloped circles.
I adhere and extra piece of
cardstock to the flap to make it sturdier, the circle scallop you see on the
flap is hiding the metal pieces from the brad.
To decorate my pages I used a lot
of pattern paper scraps, fabric squares from Basic Grey, decorative tape,
punched out shapes and assorted embellishments.
Here is a view of the open album.
As always I hope my monthly
tutorial was inspiring and that you’ll soon be making one to keep your
memories.
Have an amazing day!
=Di
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