 everyone. Welcome to Espresso Press Design. Mary here. Thank you for stopping by and thank you for joining me today. Number two in the series. I think you'll like it a lot. I don't have any new products to show this week. I had a busy week so thank you and thank you in appreciation to Henrietta, Natalie, Carolyn. Thank you so much for all of your kind comments and thank you so much to those who have recently favorited my shop and thank you for watching my channel. So today we're gonna make a little mini album. I think I'm gonna call it a mini album and it's three pages, 12 by 12 series number two. It's three pages, five pieces of ephemera and four to seven pockets and I'm just gonna give you a little flip through here. I'm one I made and decorated. So you have your one, two, three pockets. That's one piece of ephemera, two pieces of ephemera and then in the front you have another piece of ephemera. That's four, another little card and I turned the fifth piece of ephemera instead of a tag. I turned it into another little pocket and then that's five pieces of ephemera, four to seven pockets. So that's one, two, three, four, five, six little tuck spot which I call the pocket seven. So once you learn this there's so many ways that you can put it together. It is so much fun. You'll be doing these in various ways. So okay it's Tuesday, March 26th. I chose to keep it closed with a hidden paper clip and I did a little one on this one. I did a plain one and then I'm going to show you how you can use a single-sided paper and how you can hide most of the pages so they're not white and you only have to cover two. I'm also going to show you the ways you can do the different pockets and then I'm going to show you how you can use it in a journal and how you can use it for a Mother's Day gift. So okay let's get started. I decorated one. Remember that pretty much you're not going to decorate these because after I got started I went around looking for scrap paper, scrapbook paper I wanted to get rid of. I found a bunch of little ephemera and I just decided to keep it in there. So when it goes it goes. I decorated it and all that but generally we're not going to decorate these. We're just going to keep them in our stash and decorate them as we need them and this one is a lot of fun. So you'll need a 12 by 12. I need a scoreboard. For the most part we're going to cut with scissors but if I get worried about getting a straight line I'm going to bring out my mini guillotine. I have two sheets here double-sided and you're going to want to work out how things are going to go after you learn this because there's a lot of flipping involved. So for the most part it would probably be better to start with a non-directional until you learn. And I have two here but I realized I can use either one. I know which way it would go but probably for ease I'm going to use this one. That way I don't confuse you and this is very simple. Just trying to figure out here which side of the scoreboard or which side that you are going to see this course. So we have our 12, 12 by 12. We're just going to score it 4 and 8. Sorry about the scratch on my hand. My cat got me. So that's 4 and 8. Give it a quarter turn and then we're going to score at 4 and 8 again. So I'm going to hopefully, let me see here if you can, I know you can barely see those score marks. Maybe there is a little better. Let me score on this side and see if I can get you to see those a little bit. Whoops, don't do that. Score those a little better. Turn 4 and 8. If you can see those better or not, probably not. But you'll see it when we fold. So okay then we're going to fold. You'll see it when we fold and cut. Very easy. So maybe now you can see a little better. We have three, six, nine squares. So we are going to cut these two and these two up the score line to the middle score line. Okay turn it around. Cut this one up to the middle score line. I forgot to say which paper this was. Okay this one is Bo Bunny Brighton Royal. It doesn't say the weight but it's kind of a medium. So we're left with this three flappies on the top, three flappies on the bottom. The first one you're going to fold up is this one because that's going to be your center pocket. And then you're going to fold this one down or vice versa which I think I'm going to go vice versa because I want I'm going to go like that because I want that on my cover. That's our cover. This is our pocket. Okay then I usually cut the pocket. That way I don't forget. I'm going to make a little divot in here. Notch my pocket. You'll need a punch and some glue. Sorry I forgot about that. My pocket notched. That way I know that's my center. Now we're going to cut these two off and I will do my best to do this with the scissors to get a straight line although we can't trim it and these will be shortened. Go in the pockets. It looks pretty straight. There's two pieces of ephemera. Now these you're going to fold them up and then you're going to fold them back down. Meet the bottom. Give it a pinch in the middle. Burnish as much as you need to because you're going to cut that off. Same thing over here. Meet the bottom. Press in the middle. Burnish as much as you need but that's not straight which it looks pretty straight here because this pattern is helping me. Okay I'm going to burnish it on that side. Burnish it on that side. Then I'm going to use my scissors. Be brave even though I could get this in the guillotine pretty easily. There's another piece of ephemera. There's another piece of ephemera. So that's one, two, three, four, five. Okay then I'm going to show you. I'm just going to fold like this. Get your bottoms evened up like this. This paper is giving me a little resistance but we can fix that. I'm going to fix that in a second. Let me just get this nice and burnished. I did do this also with cardstock and I didn't have too many problems. So you can either cut your little V up here or you can do as I did and fold this over either way. So you have a little tuck or you just fold it in and then that will reduce your folding resistance. So I think I'm just going to fold mine in this time. Go almost up to the score line. Fold it in like so. That nice and parallel then you shouldn't have any issues. If you do you can cut out a little bit on each side of your score lines. Tiny bit, tiny bit on each side of your score line. So you have a little, let me just get something here for you. So you have a little tiny gap to make your life easier if you're having resistance. But so far I've done these so many times I haven't had any resistance. So now we have our little book. This folds in like this and once you start doing this, you know, okay I'm going to show you on the last piece but you'll be flipping these every which way and trying to figure out how many different books you can make. So here's our front. Here's our front with our little card in the front and I'm going to notch that and to make it easy on myself I just went near the top and did a notch. Okay so let's start getting these glued in. I start with my center because then I don't forget which way I'm going. Two sides, get that glued up there. I'm going to glue these down and you can just leave these un-glued and then when you get to your final, they get to their final project then you can decide. And if you want to make them tucks or if you want to make them a folder type like this and we're going to glue this edge. Click on there. We're going to glue this edge. Okay you really wouldn't have any resistance now. Okay it's probably dry. Now we're going to glue our pocket and we're going to go our front pocket. We're going to go around here. Two sides around here. Let's hope to you. Okay I'm just going to clip that a minute. Here's our front covering pocket. Okay now we can move on to these and I'm going to do the middle one first. See if anything needs straightened up a little and you just take it down as much as you need to fit it in the pocket. So four I know is too big. I'm going to try. Usually I had to go a little less than three and a quarter to actually get it to slide down in there and I'm probably going to have to go a little less. Probably see three and a half. Probably going to go down to three and a half. You can do these three by fours which is kind of standard if you want. Loosen that up a little bit. See what's going on. Too much glue squirted. Come on. I'm feeling resistance. Don't know where. I don't want to go down to three. It's like I'm going to have to take off a smidgen. Okay another smidgen. Just another eighth. There we go. There we go. That looks nice. Okay and same for this. I guess I might as well do that right now. Three and a quarter. This pocket is usually a little looser. There we go. Isn't that cute? So now this can be another pocket there which is what I did. It can be another pocket here. Here. Here. There can be two little tags. So I think I'm just going to do what I did on the others and make one a little pocket and one a little tag. I'm just going to shorten it a little bit so it sits in there nicely. Get a little notch as I can't see anymore. I'm not kidding. I have been putting little white marks on my white marks or pencil marks on my centers so I can see. Okay three sides and this is so fun. Happy mail. Mother's Day gift which I'm going to show you here in a minute. Now these are all over the place called mini albums but usually they're scored differently but I didn't find it necessary to put large gaps because I didn't have any problem closing it and I didn't want to add all that math. Okay so then there's a little tag. I think I'll just leave it as a little tag and I kind of liked it right there. I'll give my tag punch. Let me just even that up a little bit. Smidgen and you could just keep these. Keep them and store them in there and then when you get to your final project you'll know what you want to do with them. Okay there's a little tag. I like it there. There's our little book. Okay now I put this one I will do for you. You can save those pieces to make your tabs if you want. I'll do this one around the top corners for you. The other one I like to have a tab so that's all I have left is a little bit of waste. That's it from your 12 by 12. That's pretty good and it's very versatile. Now closing my recommendation was a paperclip because then you can have another gift and because it's going to be pretty hard to get a string around there but what you could do, let me just see if I can find a little strap here. What you could do is a little loose strap. Let me see if I have something that's too wide. Let me just use this so you can see. What you could do is a little loose strap for a closure. You could also do magnets or Velcro. Click click but once I did it I just kind of like the idea of a paperclip. Okay. There we go. I'll finish that off for the photo a little bit because I really want to store these. So like I said you can just store it plain. Keep your pockets loose until you decide how you want to actually do them. Then I will show you this part. If you have a single-sided paper, let me get this all unfolded. There we go. Single-sided. This one gets flipped down. You can flip this one down to cover the back and just glue it. You can flip this one down to cover the back and just glue it. Or you could cut it off. Use it to decorate this and then you have a white back. You can flip it down to glue it. You fold up your pockets. This paper is so thin. You can just glue these together. Get a pocket. Get a pocket. Get a pocket. You could also do this. Cut this one off and do this pocket on the outside and then covered. That's your front pocket. Covered. Covered. Covered. And then you would just have to cut this one off. Do your pocket on the outside. So see what I mean. Once you get this, you'll be doing pockets all over the place. Now I want to say something. If you decide to put a pocket over here or over here, you might have to shorten it because you won't be able to close your book. But you can do another pocket over here. Or no. Yeah, either way. If you want to slip it in there, you're gonna have to put a deep notch. Put your little item. And same for over here. You're gonna have to put a deep notch because you won't be able to close your book. So see what I mean. Once once you get started, you'll be making these flippy flop books. And actually on this thin paper, all six sides will fold in there. Okay, because it's so thin. But I just wanted to show you that in case you have just have a single side of paper and you want to put a little thin one in your journal, even though they do not take a lot of bulk. Okay, I hope that was once you cut them and start playing around with it, you'll be coming up with all kinds of things. Okay, let me show you this and then we'll get to how it's going to look in a journal space here. Clean up a little bit. Hope everyone had a nice week and is going to have a nice week for Easter. I had a busy week, but guess what? Sunday I had a little time to sit down at the piano. First time I've touched my piano in five plus years. I'm not kidding. Okay, let me practice by saying I was very much a beginner. But one day I just decided I really miss having some me time. So I did. And it's kind of like starting all over, but it is what it is. So this would make a really pretty Mother's Day gift and I did one little one and I just wanted to show you. This could be a photo mat. Put your little kid photos on there. This could be a photo mat on your front. It holds a little gift card in the center or in either side. You could tuck some little ephemera in there, some tags. You can make it as a gift set. Put some little tags in there, two little tags. Yeah, you can make it a little gift set. Have a note card and then you're pretty, you're pretty embellished and that would make beautiful Mother's Day gift or Happy Mail. So let's show you what you can do with it in a journal. Let me get my card here. I'm just going to use this one. You can glue it three sides and then you'll have a little interactive page. Tuck something else in the top. Or what I would do personally is clip it on a page. Since you already have your clip, I would just clip it on a page. Isn't that cute? That is so cute. I love this one. As you can see, I've been making them and now I have another one. This one I just wanted to try it out and see how well it would work with cardstock and I'll have to decorate that some way. Of course, you can do it with plain paper and matte. Cut out your design paper. Glue it on so it has a little border. That would be the scrapbooker way. Excuse me. Let me get a drink here. But I think this one is a lot of fun. And as I said, once you get it, you'll be making all kinds of these. I actually put another little card in there so it was easier. Once you get it, you got it. Easy peasy. 12 by 12. Score it four and eight. Give it a turn. Score it four and eight. Okay everyone, I don't know. We might take a break next week. Maybe not. I'm having a lot of fun doing these and remember you don't necessarily have to decorate them. They are just for just store it like this. And then when you get your journal or whatever you want to do, it's ready to go. So, see I made one, two, three, four, actually five. Five already. Okay everyone, have a great week. Happy Easter. I hope you have a very happy blessed Easter and I'll see you next time. Bye!