Making an album from scratch - Part 3

 

We are on the home stretch now!!

If you want to join in you can find all the details Here, then  Part 1 here, Part 2 here and today we are going to finish off with part 3!

 16.  To punch the holes i have used the Fiskars eyelet setter - the biggest hole. I always punch onto a thick piece of wood when i use these, cause they will go straight through your craft mat - thats how efficient they are, trust me i've done it!!

    

Your holes need to be positioned 1cm in from the left hand side of the page, and down 4cms from the top and up 4cms from the bottom. Do the first page and then use this as a guide to do the rest, you should be able to succesfully do 3 at a time.

17.  Use one of your pages again as a guide to punch out your front and back covers. Sit it on top flush up against the left hand side of your cover, make sure it is centred top and bottom and punch from the top of your cover through to the inside.  Because you are punching through chipboard you will have to empty your punch in between and you may have to dig out a few bits with your craft knife.

 

and it will look like this once you have punched everything and joined together with some rings.

18.  I wanted something different from foofy ribbon on my rings, so cause i have an over abundance of these flowers!! (got them at a sale ;0), i decided to pile them on top of one another and punch holes in them too, then you just thread them onto your rings.

 

 

19.  And now the last step is to fill in around your photo on the front.  I used some buttons i purchased from Spotlight - the colours were perfect.  I went round and put some glossy accents down then the buttons. When these were dry and firm, i then went and filled in all the little gaps with more glossy accents and sprinkled little tiny blue beads on to fill in the gaps. I also included some glossy accents on the top of each button to make them shiny.

 

 

okay you're all done!!

All ready to start your photo a day for the month of April.

Fellow ambassador Kim is going to be filling you in on this at some stage over the next couple of days. Check out her blog for some inspiration, she's been taking part in a 365 day challenge, so she knows well what this photo a day thing is all about !! :o)

We look forward to you joining us next week, and don't forget we'd love to see your finished albums.

thanks for joining in.

;0)  Annette

 

 

Comments

[Lyn Dwyer]

Love how you have added all the flowers on the rings Annette.....I have now finished my Album so will share in the next day or so....thank you for doing this...it has made me play around and have some fun.....using up supplies from my stash as I went....and I so love that.....after taking ages to find my glue when we first started LOL! it showed me that I needed to have a mighty BIG clean up.....and I loved gluing the pages and using heavy weights....I use double sided tape for most of my Mini Albums....so to do it this way was fabulous.....the pages become quite thick and strong...so thank you!

xoxo
Lyn

[Robyn W]

am slowly getting mine together....in the next day or two it should be finished....will let you know
thanks for this Annette

[claire]

i would love to do this, but can you tell me the size of rings, and where you can buy the flowers from as i live in spain and it would need to be on the internet.
thanks
claire