How Do You Make up An Exciting And Attractive Picture Album!…
Handicrafts at the moment appear to be becoming more fashionable every day. Whether it is canvas art, candle making, scrap booking, or even decoupage, you name it, we seem to be partial to it, right through to art posters.
As a modern artist I am regularly intrigued by the many diverse aspects of art we can take up. I also feel that you can spend countless hours of pleasure and also obtain much fulfillment from producing your own particular, yet individual, crafts.
With this in mind I decided to experiment to make an album, which in essence, was not that hard to do. If you already do craft work you are more or less sure to own a craft knife, because they are very useful.
Consequently, what else do we necessitate to bring into play in the sense of materials? You will require some A4 size paper, black may probably be a common choice, though really you can utilize any colour. Say two sheets of A4 cardboard (not too thin), merely for the reason that this has to serve as your cover.
Right now you need to choose some paper with an attractive design on it. This will be used to conceal your cardboard with and can even encompass a theme. Alternatively you could use a fairly nondescript design.
For instance you will now realise, the A4 paper chosen can be a colour to tone, or in fact, be contrasting to your cover paper. As for your page leaves, here you will require a punch holer plus probably some double sided adhesive tape. Any additional items used are ones you almost certainly already have in your home, apart from the brass screws used to connect the album together.
I would say that you need to cut off approximately one and a quarter inches from both pieces of your cardboard paper on the left side. This actually is to make up the flipside of your photograph album. This is your initial stage! Now you are nearly ready to place them back as one again by way of some tape. A masking kind would do well now if you have a space between the back and the cover of about a quarter of an inch. Do this to both sheets.
This is all very well, but before you can progress you need to put your chosen paper to hide the cardboard with on! At this point you need to cut down the paper to cover it, adding an inch all round to go on top of all the edges. At this point you should now glue the wrong side of your paper to the cardboard, your actual covers, ensuring that you leave an inch overlap all the way round.
Take a clean cloth and press it across your cover, going across from one side to the other and make sure that as it sticks, it is nice and smooth. It is right now time to fold inside your overlapping edges systematically, separately, and secure them. The hardest piece will in all probability be trying to fold the corners flat.
In my judgment it is better to cover up the insides of your cover. Saying this, I would, in point of fact, make use of the same paper as I had selected for my pages. Then again you might just draw on a paper that tones in. All you want to do is stick the paper so that it covers the backs of your cover, nevertheless also conceals the whole of your edges.
Now for your inner leaves of paper. You ought to cut these down at this point to fix in your covers. At this time we need to produce some holes with your punch holer. Obviously these will have to be on the left side edge, on both the back and front. So position where you want your holes and punch! This also has to be finished so that your pages are holed also, and do line up! We are virtually there, put all together your paper sandwiched between your front and back and slot in your inter-joining screws and fasten them. If you fancy, you could put on some polyurethane finish protection.