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Julie's Article
Julie Kramer
Julie Kramer
Mini Albums
The scrapbook industry keeps growing and growing and coming up with new and fresh ideas every day. I don’t know about you, but I have a hard time keeping up. One of the newest trends is mini scrapbooks. I love these little buggers. Once I started creating, I couldn’t stop. They can be used to stash in your purse to show off your lil’ darlings, the 4 legged kind as well as the 2 legged. You can use them as cards to give and the recipient can add their own pictures, or make one of journaling or jotting down notes. Image how trendy you’d be shopping with your list in one of these cool albums.

An accordion fold book is perfect to showcase your most precious memories. The neutral background is the perfect showcase for collages, journaling, photos, altered art and more.

A tag album would make a great place to collect autographs or journal a special occasion along with adding photos.

Recycling an electrical tape container and turning it into a circle accordion album would withstand the test of time as you whip it, in and out of your purse to show off your precious lil’ ones.

A matchbook album easily turns itself into a picture frame to display your treasured photo just by folding the cover back to use as the stand

Julie
Project 1: Accordian Fold Album
Supplies:
  • A Dog’s Life Creatable by Rani Child
  • Raggedy Valentines by Tammy Sherman
  • White cardstock
  • Assorted cardstock to match graphics and embellishments
  • Assorted embellishments
    • Eyelets by Making Memories
    • Poetry Dog Tag by Chronicle Books
    • Tiny Letter Tiles, source unknown
    • Cork Stickers by Creative Imagination
    • Jute
  • Lettering Delights alphabet, tags
  • Patterned paper, book cover and back
  • Mini Clothespins, Dollar Tree
Instructions:
  1. Cut 2, 7” squares of decorative paper and 2, 6” squares of white cardstock for the book’s front and back cover.
  2. To make the back cover, measure and mark a border ½” in from each edge of the back side of a sheet of decorative paper. Apply glue on the inside of the marks, then center a piece of the white cardstock on the back side of the paper.
  3. Turn the glued white cardstock, and smooth the paper starting at the center and working out to the edges, removing any wrinkles or air pockets.
  4. Turn the glued white cardstock board over again, and apply glue to the right and left flaps. Tightly fold the flaps over the white cardstock and smooth out.
  5. Pull the top flaps to 45 degree angle, and crease. Repeat this process on the bottom corners. Apply glue to the top and bottom flaps, and fold them onto the white cardstock. Allow the glue to completely dry. Repeat this on the other piece of white cardstock.
  6. Cut strips of white cardstock to 5 ¾” high and as long as your paper’s length allows. Glue several of these strips together, overlapping one strip on top of the other ¼” where the ends meet. The length of your strip will determine how many pages you have in your finished book.
  7. Adhere the strip onto the back of the front cover by lining up the left edge with the border of the patterned paper used to cover the front. Next make a fold along the right edge of the strip border along the edge of the decorative front cover paper. Continue folding paper in and alternating pattern until the end of the paper.
  8. Position the back cover next to the front board. Apply glue to the last page of the folded paper and adhere it to the back cover. Smooth the paper from the center and work to the edges. Align the front and back covers on top of each other.
  9. Decorate the front cover and inside pages using Creatables, patterned papers, colored cardstock and embellishments.
Project 1

Project 1

Project 1
Project 2: Tag Album
Supplies:
  • It’s A Girl Thing Creatable by Kate Honavar
  • Diva Teen Creatable by Jill Webster
  • 12x12 red cardstock
  • Cardstock, white, turquoise,
  • Assorted buttons
  • Turquoise ribbon by Offray
  • Red gingham ribbon by Stampin’ Up
  • Tomato red rope by Twistel
  • Red eyelets by Stampin’ Up
  • Swirl stamp by Stampin’ Up
  • White ink pad
Instructions:
  1. Cut a strip of 12” red cardstock to 3 ½” wide. Mark 3/4” in from each corner and trim corners to create tag.
  2. Randomly stamp all over the outside of the tag album.
  3. Lightly score 2 lines at the center of the tag, ¼” apart.
  4. Copy and paste the BGD Dots & Stripes to a workspace and print onto white cardstock. Trim a piece to cover about 2/3” of the front of the tag. Cut 2 pieces 1” wide to place over the scores on the inside and outside of the album. This will help reinforce the binding.
  5. Decorate the front with graphics from “It’s A Girl Thing” and embellish with buttons and ribbon.
  6. Place 2 red eyelets at the top of the front and back tag.
  7. Cut multiple sheets of white cardstock to 3” x 9” to create pages. Fold in half to find center.
  8. With a 1/16” punch or eyelet punch, create 2 holes through the center of the white pages. Place over binding and punch holes in tag album to match. Using the Twistel, thread from the inside out and tie.
  9. Fold closed and tie with red gingham ribbon through the eyelets.
Project 2

Project 2
Project 3: Circle Accordian Album
Supplies:
  • Raggedy Valentines by Tammy Sherman
  • Empty electrical tape container
  • Bazzil Cardstock, 3 shades of green, tan
  • Green gingham ribbon by Stampin’ Up
  • Chalk, black Hole punch Pin
  • Assorted embellishments
    • Cork Stickers by Creative Imagination
    • Ribbon Charm by Making Memories
    • Circle eyelet shape by Making Memories
    • Green buttons
    • Large square ringlet by Scrapworks
  • Circle cutter by Creative Memories
Instructions:
  1. Create a tan circle accordion by cutting out 6, 3 3/8” circles in a row, slightly overlapping each circle as you go. To create cardstock long enough, make a ¼” seam overlapping the cardstock.
  2. Adhere a length of ribbon across the center front and back of the circle to reinforce the seams. Fold the circles to create an accordion.
  3. Cut 10, slightly smaller circles using the green cardstocks. Adhere 6 to the front and the other 4 on the center 4 circles of the back. Chalk the edges in black.
  4. Embellish each circle treating it like a scrapbook page in miniature.
  5. Adhere to the insides of the container by placing double stick tape on the outside edges of the back circles not decorated. Press down hard to adhere.
  6. Decorate the front of the container by cutting a 3 3/8” tan circle. Cut a slightly smaller green circle and punch holes along the outside edge. Thread with ribbon and tie, adhere to tan circle. Size and print the Girl and Frog graphic onto tan cardstock and cut to a 2 1/8” circle. Chalk the edges with black and add pin holes along the outside edge. Adhere to center of green circle with ribbon. Color the outside edge of the bottom tan circle by adding squares to go all the way around. Adhere to front of container using double stick tape.
Project 3 A
Project 3 B
Project 3 B
Project 4: Matchbook Album
Supplies:
  • Girly Girls Creatable by Julie Torske
  • Daisy Bears Creatable by Lori Gardner
  • Patterned paper by Colorbok, Targets, Pizzazz, Little People
  • Cardstock, white, pink
  • Vellum
  • Small silver brads
  • Brad – Retro Fabric, source unknown
  • Adhesive Tags by Sticko
  • Xyron stickermaker (optional)
Instructions:
  1. Cut a piece of white cardstock 4” x 10”. Lightly score lines at 4”, 4 ½”, and 9”. Cut the Target and Pizzazz paper slightly larger and run through the Xyron. Adhere the Target paper to the outside and trim. Repeat with the Pizazz paper for the inside.
  2. Cut 2 piece from the Little People paper to measure 2” x 4”. Adhere these to the outside and inside, centered over the middle folds.
  3. Copy and paste the FR Curves from the Girly Girl Creatable and the Hearts from the Daisy Bear Creatable. Size the frame to 2” wide and add the title of “Perfect Match” using Curlz MT font. Size the Hearts 1”. Print onto vellum.
  4. Cut out the hearts and adhere to the silver rimmed tags.
  5. Trim the title frame leaving a border to adhere with the small silver brads.
  6. Cut a pink strip 1/2” x 4”. Center the title frame onto the strip and adhere using the small silver brads. Adhere this so the pink strip lines up with the edge of the paper used to reinforce the middle folds.
  7. Cut 3, ¼” x 4” stripes and adhere to the remaining 3 edges of the patterned paper used to reinforce the middle folds. (Inside and outside.)
  8. Add 2 heart tags to the front of the matchbook.
  9. Fold the bottom score to create the flap to stick the front into.
  10. Mat a 3” x 3 ½” photo onto pink cardstock and stick down into the bottom flap. Adhere the flap and photo using the retro fabric brads. Fold center scores and tuck the front into the flap.
  11. Add any other desired embellishments.
Project 4
Project 4
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