I have been posting on various places on the internet over the years and felt it was time for my own place. Some family stuff, scrapbook stuff, and all inbetween...
I decided to make some Project Life style cards with the ton of Disney leftover pieces I have accumulated... There are 3 4x6 size and 17 3x4 size cards, and are all double sided. I used mainly a combination of Simple Stories Say Cheese 1 & 2 and Echo Park Magical papers (plus stickers and embellishments from both lines), and a few other coordinating scraps and embellishments from my stash. The base cardstock is 4 different colors, black, white, kraft and red. These are not totally flat, as there are chipboard frames, jewels and other embellishments that are popped up on dimensionals to stand out a little bit, but they are not overly bulky. All of the frames are glued down with the tops left open so as to enable you to add a tag or photo inside. Some of them already have a tag inside, but not all.
This first set of 3 is the 3 4x6 sized ones.
All of the rest are 3x4 size.
Set #3 is stamped with lines for journaling on both sides.
This album is for sale in my Etsy Shop! This post is a bit pic heavy, butt here is so much inside that it can't be shown to the full extent without them!
The cover measures 9 1/2" x 7 1/4" with a 4" spine. The pages are 8 1/2" tall and 6 1/4" wide, so that I could cut in half a 12 x 12 piece for matting and only trim one side of the 8 1/2" x 11" base paper. I came up with the dimensions to both minimize the trimming of 8 1/2" x 11" paper and the 12 x 2 card stock. Most of the flaps, tabs, and interior layering pages, etc, are made of the scraps of trimming the pages as well. I assembled the pages with Scor Tape and Scotch's quick drying liquid adhesive to make sure they are extra strong and durable. The base black cardstock is a heavy 80 lb weight for added strength. The cover edges that bend have been reinforced with black ribbon to prevent cracking when the album is opened and closed. My next one I will be experimenting with fabric to see how that works as a cover.
The finished product is pretty bulky, and will no doubt be bulkier still when filled with photos, but I love how it turned out.
The cover features a pocket with two tags, which is on the front of a file folder flap that opens.
This flap is held closed with a magnet.
The inside cover has a super large envelope that is closed with Velcro to hold extra memorabilia or photos.
The first page has many elements. A flap to hold it closed with a magnet, a pocket with tags, and two extra pages.
The small yellow clip on the top right is not adhered down so can be moved. All of the similar clips in the entire album are removable.
Each page also has a pocket that opens along the outside edge with a large tag, and there are 6. These round clips have been securely adhered down.
The left page has 4 flaps, all secured with a magnet. The bottom one has a chipboard frame with a slide out tag, as well as the right page/
The right page has a corner pocket with multiple tags and a large envelope.
The left page here also has a chipboard frame and tag.
The right side has two pocket flaps with tags.
The right side here opens up to the left.
The left page here is a large pocket. I realized after taking the pictures that I didn't show the tags that go inside. There are two large ones.
The two flaps are held closed with magnets.
The pocket on the right has 3 tags.
It opens on both sided gate fold style, and has two pockets with more tags. It is hard to tell, but the brown paper with white polka dots is pretty cool. The dots had a flocked texture. There are some other papers this style as well, the ones with black polka dots, and with red ones too.
The clip is not adhered.
The page on the left is held closed with a magnet. The grey chevron flap opens to the right, and has a chipboard frame and removable tag.
The flaps with the multicolored stars open up to the top and bottom accordion style.
The chevron flap holds them closed, but they also have magnets to hold them down.
The flap with the camera holds this page to the right closed.
Lots of tags in the corner pocket along with a mini envelope.
This page has a bunch going on. The popcorn flap folds down to the bottom, ad holds everything closed with a magnet.
The pocket inside has a large booklet style tag.
It has two flaps and the entire thing closes with a magnet.
Once that is closed back up, the whole page lifts open to the top.
This base page has the flocked red dots.
The last page has a large pocket with lots of tags as well as a chipboard frame with a tag.
The inside back cover has a large accordion pocket. I added the flap on top to make sure nothing slides out when the album is closed, also with a magnet.
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