Hello!!
If you missed this yesterday you can have a little read about it right here!!
Well I do enjoy taking part in photo challenges but as the time goes on, no matter how good my intentions are, life takes over and i will often loose my way a bit.
So after completing some 24 pages for Julie Stone and the Southern Cross Kids Camp i thought that the way I made the pages here (scroll down a bit to see another option to what i am going to show you), would work out well for a mini album for the APRIL PHOTO A DAY PROMPTS.
So....
Decisions that guided me in making this album were:
* I wanted to use stuff i already had in my stash
* I wanted clean cut, fairly no fuss pages
* I wanted room for 1 photo per page plus a tad of journalling plus the date all PREMADE before April, then when April comes i can concentrate on taking my photos every day, rather than how i am going to display them all when the time comes.
* I have also decided to tailor my photo a day around our daughter Maddison for this particular month, in all honesty i really wanted to try and have 4 albums made up for each of our kids so they could have one each, but i just don't think i am going to get there!!
okey dokey here we go.
1. Your album is going to consist of a front cover, a back cover, 15 double sided pages to house your 30 days of photos for the month of April. Each photo will be positioned on a photo mat that will be already attached to your page as well.
2. For your pages you will need 15 pieces of patterned paper measuring 15cm x 30cm each, so out of one 12" x12" piece of patterned paper you will get 2 pieces.
Fold the pieces in half wrong sides together to form 15 x 15cm squares. As i was using paper i already had in my stash i have doubled up on some and some are just single - scraps that i could just manage to get the measurement out of. I have used many different ranges as well.
3. Now to set up a glue station, newspaper on your work surface and your glue in a container that allows you to apply it with a large paint brush. I worked at a bookbinders for a while and this was how they did everything, glue and heavy weight to stop the warping!!
**TIP**: glueing is a quick and easy way to make these pages in true production line style, it also makes them stronger, HOWEVER be sure once you have glued them together, to then pile them on top of each other as you go and put a heavy weight on them.
All folded and ready to glue.
then under weight, i used some heavy books.
Leave them there until they are dry, in fact they can stay there until the album is ready to assemble.
4. I chose white bazzill cardstock for my photo mats and i have made these 9.5cms x 14.5cms each. Just note here, although i will remind you later on, that when my photos are printed off i will be cropping them down to measure 8.5cms x 13.5cms to fit in the mat. Okay so out of 1 piece of bazzill you will get 6 photo mats, therefore you will need 5 sheets of bazzill for this part. Oh by the way, those little strips of scrap that are left - don't throw them out, we are going to use them.
5. Once you have cut all your photo mats (30 in total) you can then use a black fine tip marker to do a double freehand border around each like this
Now if you don't like borders like this by all means leave it off!! I will be going back and colouring in the little gaps in between - i do these a lot, its an inexpensive way to joojie up a page and if you are one who is a little hesitant to take to your work in your own hand, then this is a perfect way to ease into it, so you feel a little more comfortable with your own hand embellishing!!
**TIP**: When you do borders like this, just loosen up and let if flow!! The more rigid you are the more trouble you will have!! These are not meant to be perfect.
Okay a few last things before we finish up for today.
6. The little leftover scrap strips from step number 5 are going to be used to make our little date tabs. Now these are going to be glued back to back, with a page sandwhiched inbetween, so if we measure them carefully now, they will fit together with ease when it comes time to put them on our page. We need 30 of these as well, one for each day and each measures 1.5cms x 5cms and using the Fiskars corner rounder squeeze punch you can go through and round the top two corners of each, like this...
And the last thing to do for today also is (make sure they are dry first) go through and round the 2 corners of each page that are on the fold,(top and bottom) they are all going to be on your right as you are looking at them, just humour me here, and go back and check that your folds are all on the right, it will look much nicer when its all finished ;0).
okay thats it for today, what do you think so far?
I really hope someone is doing this with me, lol!! Don't hesitate to email me [email protected] if you have any questions.
See you tomorrow for part 2.
:0) Annette :0)
Oh Annette....this is wonderful....I so need to do one of these......ok....I'm in......what glue are you using?
Posted by: Lyn Dwyer | March 26, 2009 at 08:57 PM
woohoo good for you Lyn, just white craft glue (Let you in on a little secret, probably not something i should advertise but i buy Selleys white PVA glue, the type you use for sticking wood and stuff)I buy it in i think it is a 4 litre bottle and put it into an old sauce bottle to use)Its what we used to use at the bookbinders i worked at!! Works brilliantly ;0)
Posted by: annette | March 26, 2009 at 09:43 PM
ok.......I'll see what I can find here at home that will do the same thing.....sure I have something in my stash......LOL!
Posted by: Lyn Dwyer | March 26, 2009 at 11:18 PM
I'm in as well. Might have a go at making one of these today.
Posted by: Dawn Stan | March 27, 2009 at 07:30 AM
Great Dawn!! I also had a lovely email from a lady by the name of Debbie J, who will be joining us too. :0) I'm on school tuckshop today so might be a little late posting the next lot of instructions - they are just about finished, lol!! Have fun girls ;0)
Posted by: annette | March 27, 2009 at 07:44 AM
Don't hurry back Annette....I'm still looking for some glue in my stash..........LOL!
Think it's time to clean up a bit....ROTFL!
Posted by: Lyn Dwyer | March 27, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Well I have just finished gluing my papers. Off to cut out my mats.
Posted by: Dawn Stan | March 27, 2009 at 03:42 PM
ok so i have my papers ready...lol
Posted by: Robyn W | March 31, 2009 at 09:46 AM
Thats a start Robyn lol!! The instructions aren't going anywhere!! They will wait for you, come on give it a go, photos start tomorrow, make your album as you go along ;0)A
Posted by: annette | March 31, 2009 at 04:21 PM