Paper bag Album Tutorial

Kreative Kay _- Close to my heart consultant

 

 

This is my version of a paper bag album
As my first attempt I'm really impressed

 

I used mainly "baby cakes" paper pack , New arrival and urban alphabet stamp sets, from Close to my heart.

 

Material's

- 3 Brown paper bags

- white card to make album binding

- glue *I used pva

- photos

- Your choice of papers and embellishment.

 

 

 

We will start with the paper bags, you may need to adapt the measurements to your size paper bags. (Measure all the time anyways just to be safe) 

 

 

 

 

1. Fold your 3 bags in half, using a bone folder is good to get a perfect fold. (my bags are 243 x 202mm )

 

2. Grab your white piece of card stock you plan to use for the binding.
Using a ruler, measure the width of your bag, that's how wide you need it.

Mark along the paper 2.5cm 10 times, then you can cut of the excess card.

 

3. I personally used a scorer to score the lines to make it easier and more accurate, but at each 2.5 dot make a fold, ending up to be an according like pictured.

 

4. Take your folded paper bags and insert as pictured below. In the first fold, glue in the first bag, then leave a fold and insert the second into the 3rd crease. Continue along.....

 

( I used pva, some say use glossy accents, any glue is fine, tape is NOT.. it will not last as long using tape).

 

5. Spread out the outside binding and glue them all close like this, DO NOT glue the inside ONLY the outside spine like in the picture. 

6. Put the spine under a heavy book (or under your took caddy like I did) to dry.
7. Whilst you wait for your glue to dry, sort out your photos and papers you would like to use. It wont take long, It took only about 10 mins before I was getting into the fun part.

 

ENJOY MAKING, HERE IS THE ONE I MADE

 

 

 

This is my final product.

Feel free to share and try my tutorial, Please leave feedback good or bad. This is my first tutorial and first time making a paper bag album.

 

Thank you

 

Kay  

 

Ideas needed!

Scrapbooking camp is coming up FAST, I really must think of what I can do to organise myself better and not have to take so much STUFF with me!!!

RIght now I should be organising my scrap cave... I started cleaning but found myself on here!

Any ideas on how to organise your self for retreats?
Im sure there is some GREAT ideas out there?

Hint 6

Hint 6 -

If you find that something is just not right in a layout, or you want your photos to pop out, then back them in a different colour!
When you layer your photos having a few of the photos mounted on a different shade of paper (I like to make thin boarders, it makes it look so neat) Doing this makes those photos pop out and they no longer blend together.
You will notice the main photos that are mounted tend to draw attention to the eye first, then travel around the rest of the layout.

Hint 5

Hint 5 -

Add journaling to your layouts, even if it is just a date and time.

You really want to let people know when and what happened.

Scrapbooking is a story to tell your great great grandchildren!

How will they know who is in the picture, or when it was....

YOU wont remember forever!

♥ xoxo

Hint 4

♥ ♥ Hint 4 -
When wanting to do that tearing look on your page, try and use a ruler or a tearing tool to keep that "tear" under control! It stops the tear from getting askew or to big. Unless a big messy tear is what you are after :p
(ive seen how frustrated ppl can get trying to get a straight tear....) ♥ ♥