Vintage Gate Fold Album

Hi friends, 

Lekha here, I would be sharing with you today a gorgeous gate fold album using the gorgeous pattern paper sent in my DT kit. 

Its a very vintage theme paper with prints in black, gold and whites apt for making scrapbooks or mini albums on wedding, anniversary theme.

 The finished Gate Fold album measures 6"x 6"x 1.5".

 For the album base I have taken chipboard pieces in following sizes: 

6"x 6 "(1 pc )

6"x 3" (2 pc for the divided album cover)

6"x 1.5" (2 pc for the spine)

 (Adhere all the chipboard pieces in the above sequence on cardstock , I have kept 0.5" margins on all sides of the pieces. Cut triangle notches on all folds, this would give more finished look to the inside of the album.)

(I have used the Kathy Orta King's hinge binding mechanism for the spine. Using a strong tacky tape adhere the hinge binding system to the spine of the album)

This is how it looks once the hinges are in place. I have created only 4 hinges on both sides of the spine for a total of 8 pages.

For the pages I have taken 8 white card stock pieces measuring 6"x 13" (score and fold at 6"and 12" and fold and stick the extra 1" on the other 6" end. )

The finished pages measure 6"x 6"

 

For closing the gate fold album covers I have used the metal lock system. 

Added rhinestones to embellish the print on the album cover.

  

For this tag I have added the little cupid metal charm.

 

Have added the blank die cut card stock tags from the A1craft store.

 The pattern paper pack also has three sheets of journaling tags, corners, alphabets etc perfect for embellishing the album pages. I have also created few belly bands to the pages to hold these tags.

Every page has photo mat insert.  

Below is collage of all the pages in the album

The gate fold album looks like this as all the pages fold in one after another. 

Hope you like the Gate fold album. Looking forward to your creations. 

Do leave some love in the comments below. I would love if you share the post. :)

Keep Crafting
Lekha

Supplies Used:

Pattern Paper Designs

 

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One Sheet Mini Album Tutorial

Hello folks,

Its me neha here today!!
So our Designers have done fabulous job with tutorials and inspiration posts last month..
If you have missed don't forget to check them even now.

So today I am sharing a quick one sheet mini album tutorial. This tutorial is very basic and it can be completed in just 30 minuted. It is also great fro upcoming summer workshops.

I have tried my best to give you step by step guide, however do excuse me for any mistakes as its my first time making a tutorial, and I promise to improvise in coming posts.

Lets get started.

Supplies used

You can click on link next to supplies to purchase supplies from our store.

1. 230 GSM iris cardstock: Cardstocks
2. 10*10 inch pattern paper pack: Pattern paper
3. fevicryl glue, red liner tape, foam tape/foam square: Adhesive
4. corner rounder, tim holtz scale, non stick scissors, penknife, bone folder: Tools
5. magnets and washers: Magnets

So gather your supplies and lets get started

STEP 1: Take one sheet of 12 by 18 inch size iris 230 GSM. And score it as shown in diagram

              You can use black or kraft cardstock. but I recommend not to use anything heavier than 220-230 GSM for this project. 

and if you don't have 12 by 18 inch sheet, than you can take 2 sheet of 12 by 12 inch.. stick one next to other and trim as per size needed.

STEP 2: Cut the lines in between each bigger fold from top and bottom row.
               You will cut only the part which I have marked with stripes in above picture and where I have put scissor icon. Yes this is the only part of cardstock we cut for this project, rest everything will be converted into an album. There is minimum wastage of cardstock in this project.

STEP 3:
Taking corner rounder, round of all corners of album. This is optional if you don't have corner rounder punch you can skip this. But I personally like rounded corners in such small albums.

STEP 4:
Attaching magnets and washers using red tacky tape. I do not recommend using any kind of wet glue while attaching magnets and washers as it gets messy and it reduces magnetic power of magnet.
Red tacky tape is quickest and cleanest way to attach magnets and washers

STEP 5 & 6:
I got bit carried away once my base was ready and started sticking pattern papers and forgot to take picture of papers I cut.
So for each panel you cut your pattern paper 1/8 inch smaller than  size of your base page. And stick them in co ordinating manner
For the front of album I used a layer of fabriano celeste cardstock below pattern paper just to give it a pop!

STEP 7:
The paper pack we used has 2 sheets of co ordinating die cut elements. so all I did was select some elements and stick them using glue or foam squares.

Check below pictures for final look of the album

And here is the small video walk through for you to see the album

And now the main part.
We are having a small 2 week challenge for all you crafters!
Make an album using tutorial given above and submit your entry on our facebook group  

Rules of challenge

1. challenge is running from 1st April to 15th April.
2. you can make one album or more albums. More projects meaning more entries and more chances to win.
3. Upload your project on Facebook group. While uploading project dont forget to mention #minialbumchallenge
4. Winner will be announced 2 days after closing of challenge.
5. Winner will get gift voucher worth Rs 1000 from our store.