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Friday, July 4, 2014

Time Travelers Mini Album By Gwen Casteel

This is a quick and easy fun album that can be made in any size. It goes together quickly and can be embellished in so many ways

Time Travler Mini_1

The supplies you will need:  Chip Board (medium to heavy)
for cover and spine. Pattern paper is the Prima Time Traveler, glue, tape, scissors , etc..
Time Travler Mini_2
You will use 6 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of cardstock for each page. 
Score long way at 5 1/2 down center. and rotate and score @ 2 1/2.
Time Travler Mini_3
Fold in half on the 11” side and fold up from the bottom
at the 2 1/2 score line. Thus  you have made you pages.
Time Travler Mini_4
Cut  chip board for your cover and spine: 2 @ 6 x 6 1/2, Spine 1 @ 2 x 6 1/2
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Tape of glue your chip board to get ready to cover you
cover and spine with pattern paper.
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Adhere your paper and miter the corners leaving
at least an 1/8th of an inch to cover the corners as well
Using the Perfect Trim Tool works great for this
Time Travler Mini_8
Fold and secure…this is the your side of your cover, we will cover the inside later.
Time Travler Mini_10
Time Travler Mini_9
Take the paper you have ready to used for your spine (4" x7" x 7") this will give you the extra to rap to ends of the spine as well.  Tape the inside of the spine paper and adhere the covers as shown…LEAVING at least 1/8” between the spine and the covers so you can open and close the book.
 
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Cover the inside of you spine as shown. fold up the top and
bottom edges to rap the spine
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Cover both sides of your inside cover as shown.Interior view of the cover.
 
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Front view of the covered cover.
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Completed Cover…
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Completed inside of the cover.
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I used the hidden hinge Binding system That I learned from Kathy Orta design
attached to the spine.
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Covering the pages…cutting papers for both the top of the page and the pocket of the page…each page has a pocket on each side after folded in half.
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Covered page on both side (open).
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Use wet glue (I used the Aleen's Turbo Glue Pen)
 to secure the pocket to the upper part of the page,
so your tags or journaling cards won’t get stuck.
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Covered pages before folding in half.
Time Travler Mini_022
Add a page to each fin on the binding , I used tape, you can use wet glue if you like.
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Completed adding the pages.
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Embellish and add photo tags. 
There is an opening in he top where you can add a photo tag as well.
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This is a great and fun album, easy to make and hold a lot of memories…
Thank you for watching and ENJOY…
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15 comments:

  1. Another beautiful Mini, Gwen!

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  2. Superbe j adore merci pour le tuto ....

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  3. Lovely mini, Gwen and the instructions and photos are so nice. Thanks so much!

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  4. Love it's versatility and simplicity!

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  5. Thank you so much for sharing. This Prima collection has been my favorite since it came out. Appreciate you sharing your directions. So cute

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  6. This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

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  7. This is such a nice album. It looks like something I can actually do! Thanks for sharing!

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  8. Please do Annett, it is not hard and makes a great project...post when you finish...

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  9. This is a very nice album. Thank you for sharing with us.

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  10. Making this tonight!!

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  11. This is beauriful!! luv the cover...

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  12. Love this album and love Prima.

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  13. This album is wonderful. Your work is amazing.

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  14. c'est vraiment magnifique ce mini bravo j adore

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  15. Fab Fab Fab Fab Fab

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