 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is a big tutorial, this is a two day long tutorial. Well it's compressed down for you guys but this has taken me and is still ongoing and this is a mini album. Now this is a gift for somebody later on this year but I am being super organized because I am waiting for the photos to arrive that I plan to put in this ready to give to that person. So there are some bits that aren't finished because I need the photos for it and I don't want to share those pictures to everybody which I hope you will understand. But the basics and how I put together my mini albums, yeah that's what I'm going to be showing you today. So I love doing mini albums, it's something again that I've done but I just I'm starting to share other paper crafts that I also enjoy doing on my channel because I've had a lot of people ask me about mini albums and how I do mine so this one I thought I'd share. Now I have been following lots of people on YouTube and I get inspiration from many people so some of the people which I will list these all in my blog and I think you should go check out as well but you've got your book of memories, Scrap Queen, Genevieve Designs, Corinne's Creations, Kathy Auter King and Papercraft with Friends Forever. Those channels all have so much good information and the inspiration is amazing. So this is my take and how I've put it together. My size of my mini album is five and a half by one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and a half. So five and a half by seven and a half album. What we're going to make today is a long tutorial. Hopefully you're not fed up with my voice already but if you enjoy my tutorials and you like what you mean then I'm sure you will enjoy this. It's something different and let's get into it. Okay so first of all you need your chipboard so this album is going to be using five by seven pages so I'm making it slightly bigger so I've got five and a half by seven and a half so you'll need yeah five and a half by seven and a half. You'll need two pieces of your chipboard five and a half by seven and a half. This is just from the backing from my paper packs so some of the stamping up paper packs. The backs of all my first edition paper packs, cereal boxes. If you use a cereal box I would recommend using two and stick them together first with the whatever the logo, the print you know of the box so you've got the raw cardboard facing out on both sides because you'll need they're quite thin. This one here, let's have a look is I think it's two yeah it's two millimeters. I think your cereal box is a one mil so yeah it's a really nice strong one so two pieces of five and a half by seven and a half and then this piece here is going to be my spine and this is three by seven and a half. Now I'm hoping well I know I'm going to get I want five pages so we'll be making the hinges later so get those two and those pieces ready and what I would also say is I have a blunt trimmer blade that I use when I cut my chipboard so I just take this out and I've just got a mark on it with black so it's basically there's my perfect one which I've just taken out when I cut these but you just by using that it will still cut through perfectly but it won't ruin your nice it won't blunt out your your newer blades so keep your old ones because they're perfect for cutting the real thick chipboard. Okay so I've got those ready and then I'm using obviously the freshly cut flowers so I always keep my collections that I'm currently working on together because sometimes if you take the die cuts out and they're all kind of floating around it's handy to keep them all together so this is the 48 pack A4 Ultimate die cut I'm going to be using a lot of this in this album because it's just I mean it's got ready-made envelopes bows, trims, the vellum I'm going to be using between my pages, the border is there so literally it's just going to make this so much easier but it also has A4 papers at the back stickers there for your letters so I've gone ahead and I've chosen what I want to have for my front and back and I have these gorgeous ones here so I'm going to have the yellow on my spine and then the front and the back is going to have this and it's just absolutely gorgeous once I add and all those lovely other bits to it and I'm going to be pulling out the orange so I think that's going to look really nice having orange bits on the spine there so yeah it should look gorgeous so what you want to do first of all is what I plan to do is I'm going to stick like so cut this down so I go in the middle and then this one here is going to go over the end there so first of all you pop double-sided tape so I'm going to be using red tape for this because it is super super strong and I'll be using a little bit of wet glue just over the top just to give it that extra extra something just so it's nice and secure so I'm just going to run my tape all the way around the edges okay so just go and do that on all of your three pieces there okay so just popped my red tape on these three pieces and I'm going to be adding glue on top as well so it gives you that wiggle room plus that just that extra strength as well then what I've done is I've cut down so this piece here is what's going to be going on my spine and this piece measures five and a half by seven and a half and sorry one two three four five six seven eight nine and a half also five and a half by nine and a half and then these two pieces here are six and a half by nine and a half these are the bits we're going to stick first okay so a bit different to some of the others out there because I want three different pieces on the back so I'm flipping these over and basically you want to stick if you've got if you've got one that's different so you've got one that's your front and one that's your back obviously they're mine are both the same so it doesn't matter so front and back what you're going to do is on the front one because we're going to stick this but we're going to hug the right hand side so we're going to stick it like so okay and you want to make sure that you've got one inch one inch and one inch on E on E on all three sides and then this one you're going to hug to the left hand side again making sure you got one inch one inch one inch don't matter if it's a little bit off you can eyeball this it doesn't have to be but it has need to be straight so I'm using my grid here so I'm lining up my actual paper there and then I can line that up because I know that each of these for me is half an inch so there's my one inch and then I've got my one inch there and again with this piece like so so I can see that they're nicely lined up so I'll do this one first of all with you so you just want to remove my pokey tool here just remove all the backing okay and then I'm also going to use my Tombow paper friendly very strong and I'm going to go over all of my double tape there and then I'm going to fill the gaps so basically just cover it all like so this is just giving more strength and you don't need to use your double sided tape over every surface that way as well so like so make sure whatever your paper is that you've got is facing the right way yeah nice and lined up again and like I said I'm just going to hug this to the right hand side and stick that one down and then just grab your bone folder again and just go over and really make sure it's all stuck down when you stick your red tape down or any strong double sided tape also go over it with your bone folder make sure you've got all the air pop air bubbles out and there's no white dots should get rid of all of them so just go around make sure it's all stuck down and then flip it over and again just carefully you don't want to damage your image just going to go over that with my fingers make sure that's all nicely stuck like so okay so do that again with this one okay so that's those two pieces stuck down now with your spine it's there just pop that to one side so this piece here you're going to stick right in the middle so again just going to line it up on my grid there and you want to pop it in the middle so basically you should have one inch from the top and the bottom so I'm just lining mine up there and then one and a quarter inch on the left and the right and that quarter of an inch is just going to give us that bend room so when we bend our album round because we've got this two mil chipboard it will give us that room and it won't it will reduce the risk of your paper cracking and pressure and tension on that that paper so this needs to stick as central as possible so again just stick that down okay so that's all stuck down and now what we're going to do is we're going to be sticking this over the top giving ourselves this quarter of an inch gap so there and then that one's going to stick over like so and basically the look that's giving is that we get that on the side of our album so I like that one inch kind of looks like a book so all you got to do here is make sure you've got the same gap here and here which is about a quarter of an inch and then make sure your paper is all lined up top and bottom so now it just becomes one big sheet okay so what you want to do is pop glue along here okay and then just to pop a bit more glue right into the section there just on that because that's where you're going to have tension a lot of people use tieback I don't have any that's just a non-rip fabric so it's perfect for spines but if you add a good glue it will still give it that elasticity and it will help stop it from cracking or just ripping over time because obviously you know you're going to have these hopefully for years so just make sure that gets really stuck down there just rub my finger through that bit this is all going to be covered again so this is kind of all of your groundwork okay so that's one piece in place and then this one here again I'm just going to swatch some glue right into that bit there and this is going to be heavily embellished and decorated so again a lot of my front cover and spine is going to disappear so again you want to make sure that your card is lined up don't worry if the paper is slightly out so I'm slightly slightly up a bit there don't worry about that the main most important bit is making sure your chipboard is all in place okay so next what we want to do is start folding all of our sides so first of all you want to do all of your corners now the best way to do this is I just add some glue in like a square so one inch kind of square like so okay and just fold that across so then you create another square as straight as you can get it like so okay then what you want to do is with your bone folders just go and work those corners okay and the glue from there is splodging into these little triangle bits either side now so it's sticking them down as well okay so go and do that on all four corners so again just glue go over a little bit there as well and just bring it in so it creates another nice square you want to get your up to the corner as much as possible keeping it all nice and straight and by doing this it's going to give us a really nice corner when we fold it all in and it will be nicely concealed okay so if I just bring that up there you can see what I've done so I've just pushed the paper around the edge there you want this to be a nice square as well like that one there and then when we fold in these sides you're not going to see any of the card underneath so just repeat that on the other two corners okay so that's my four corners done and then we want to fold all of the sides in so I'll start with this one first so again just using my wet glue and just cover and make sure you get right into the sides there as well and then just fold this one in I'll do the scent here as well I'm going to apply more pressure to it all in a minute I'm just going to tack it all down first okay and then just go back over them and just spread out all that glue okay and then do the same along your large side so again glue right the way down you'll need to run a little bit of glue just underneath here so obviously that's where we stuck it over and then lift up the middle and then just bring up all your sides okay so as your glue is drying just work in your kind of spine here the the edges just to make sure that really sits in there your paper has fallen into the the gaps and you can see now when it folds up it folds up perfectly there shouldn't be any tension on your card or your paper and you can see now how that's all coming together and then we'll get that all decorated obviously fill it all up this is all going to be covered so just go around I'm using my Teflon bone folder here just just go around there and just make sure everything is stuck down you should have really nice corners that are completely enclosed okay so next we need to cover the insides I've just gone around with my glue eraser just to get rid of any stickiness that may have been around here it's a bit tacky there in the middle but that doesn't matter it's all going to get covered here comes the Sun again always when I'm going to record right across my thing there okay so you need a piece of this is two and three quarters by one two three four five six seven you need one piece then you need two pieces of six by seven so we're going to do festivals we're going to stick this one in here and you should have a quarter of an inch top and bottom you want a color that's going to kind of obviously complement what it is that you're using and again I'm just going to grab my glue do I want to use my glue or double-sided tape I'm going to use my double-sided tape I'm going to use my my scotch tape here which is my other favorite one to use so I'm just going to run it all the way through the middle here and get that one stuck down okay I've just popped my tape on and again just along the edges I'm just applying some of my wet glue just kind of fill in any of the bits there and just to make sure it's all obviously stuck down and then like I said line it up in the middle start from the bottom about a quarter of an inch up nice and centered and again it will match up there and then you want to do the same with these and these are going to go over the top like so it will match up this join is going to be completely covered okay so you don't need to worry about that but again just make sure that they stick over the top bring this one down here over the top there and again line it up you want to make sure it lines up with this give yourself an even border like so okay so you can see what I get there okay so get them stuck down and then as it's sticking I'll come back at that point but you need to start working it into that crease there just so that obviously this all closes up nicely okay and again then just using my bone folder and really work in and form that crease there and just start to slide slowly slowly just bring it around and again just keep marking it until you get a nice but do it slowly it shouldn't crack at all because you've given that yourself that gap and again just using my bone folder here just to get all that glue really spread out the Teflon bone folders are a good investment pricey but a good investment you get this nice flat side as well which is handy it comes that son again okay so do the same on this side so again just going to stick this all down okay and then just make sure you've worked in those score lines there so that then you can bring it all around and it you'll get a nice fold and there is the case I guess the outside of the mini album so it's really straightforward just got to do it in stages and take your time with it so now we need to do the insides and all of the pages okay so now we're going to make the piece to stick in the middle of our album to attach all our pages so this piece is seven and a half by seven and you want it so that it's going to so this is the seven which is the same width of the yellow that I put down earlier so this is the piece that's going to cover this middle three inch section here now if you're worried if you may be slightly off here or you know you just want to be able to maybe hide a few things that we don't like as crafters we pick up our floors don't we and then maybe use the same color so use the yellow again for an example but I'm using the white just as a bit of a contrast you will only see the middle sections you won't see the outer parts so what you want to do is along the seven and a half inch size you want to score every half an inch okay so half an inch one inch one and a half to two and a half three three and a half four four and a half five five and a half six six and a half and seven then flip it and do the exact same score lines again over basically we just want to really squash all those fibers down because these are going to be the bits that kind of the hinges so they're going to be moving from side to side all the time so just by doing it on both sides it will just help eliminate any cracking so now what you want to do is the two end pieces are going to be on their own they're just going to be kind of flapping and will be singular all the rest we're going to be every other one so when we fold it together they're going to be stuck together so let me explain you're going to fold up your outer ones okay so fold it up then so basically now we just turn it over then the next one's going to go so hang on a minute I'm trying if I do it and then explain it a bit of it better so what you want to create is this okay so the first one is singular and on its own the second one is going to be flat and this is going to stick down onto our spine the next two are forming a triangle together and we're going to stick in there okay so we're creating that so this one on its own but these two are together then this one's going to be flat again okay so the next one we're going to fold up and create another triangle so again let me just do that and bring it in so you can see now so we've got the first one on its own here then this flat one then two that I stuck together then another flat one and then two that are going to stick together again so we're starting to create this effect here so again the next one is going to be flat so we miss it and then we go on to the next ones so fold up fold down so again so every other so the first ones on its own flat then a triangle flat then you want to make a triangle then flat then make another triangle then flat so every other is flat and basically at the end you should end up with one on its own again so and these would be our five pages so each one of these so I've got one page is going to attach here another page is going to attach when these two are stuck together another page here another page here another page here and then that last one needs to fold up for our last page so one two three four five six pages okay made an extra one which is fine so we've got six pages that are going to go into this now once that's all squashed down it will fit within this section here like it will come in just under three inches which is what we want okay the reason we've got the half inch flat piece is that allows for all the bulk all the pictures all the little pockets all those bits and pieces that we're going to add to it by having that gap between our pages makes a big difference so what you want to do now is I'm going to flip it over and I'm going to put a cross on every one that you need to add a glue to and I think this will help you with your folding so you can maybe do this bit first and then you'll know what bits and what which way to fold so this one is on its own so we'll just leave that one blank this is flat so flat flat so flat then miss two flat miss two flat miss two flat miss two flat okay so all the ones that I've got the f on you don't need to stick well we will stick eventually but at this point right now we don't need to stick all we need to add our tape to is the one inch to the two half inch pieces in between each of those flat pieces so flat and then I'm going to do cross cross cross cross cross cross cross again just bring that up so I've put nothing on my two outer single pieces then you will have a flat on each out a bit and then coming in you'll have your crosses two crosses and one flat two crosses and flat okay if I hold that there just to freeze frame it hopefully I've explained that and it makes sense now if I stick it hopefully again that will allow you to really understand what it is that we're doing and as always I always say watch the tutorial through full because it does really really help I get a lot of people saying oh I wish I'd watched it till the end I brushed ahead and I've got these oh these have gone really I shouldn't have used those scissors should be using my crappy ones okay yeah so do do watch it till the end so on one of the two X's you don't need to put it on both so just to the left the left hand one I'm gonna pop my adhesive on and this makes a concealed hinge so you will not see where our pages how our pages attach okay so once again just go and make sure you've got all your air bubbles out you red tape or double-sided tape or wet glue it's entirely up to you how you want to stick it down as long as it's something really strong you want this to last forever take off the adhesive I'm also gonna run a little bit more glue over the top for good measure and then basically you want to just sandwich them together okay and then again with my bone folder don't worry if you do get some cracking it's all gonna get covered because we have folded these all different ways again do not worry about that so now you will see I've got my first two hinges this one the singular one because it's the outer one and then the two together okay and you can't see all you can see now is the two F's together which is what you want so we're gonna make these X's disappear by sticking them together and then the F's will line up so again that's another good way to know that you're doing it right so I do recommend that you write on the backs of them as I did there because I think it will really help you so again splotch some glue just squeeze those together and just work your way along doing exactly that until you've just got all of the F letters facing facing you okay okay so now I have that facing me with these two singular ones and I have this and basically if I bring this in that is going to stick perfectly within there okay top to bottom all covered and then you want to have a quarter of an inch on both sides here so quarter of an inch here and a quarter of an inch here and that is going to get stuck down inside our album okay so next you want to add a tape all along the back across all the F do not stick it on your outer ones it's just on the flat pieces here where we've wrote those letters so again I'm just using my half inch it's not half inch actually this one is three eighths of an inch red tape so I'm just going to go along and I'm also going to put wet glue if you fold it down flat then it's easier to attach your adhesive okay peel off all of the backing and cover it with wet glue because it will give you that wiggle room because you don't want to get to this point and this gets stuck down slightly crooked or wonky and then you're really unhappy with it and you end up throwing it all away we don't want you doing that so I'm going to get my glue and just cover all of it okay I'm happy with that and make sure it doesn't really matter if it's up so down because this this really doesn't matter which way up but I am going to make sure I keep keep it in the right orientation okay keep your ends facing up okay and just focus I would say getting the top perfect getting that all nicely lined up you can always kind of hide the bottom hover it over carefully pop it down so you've got it as equal as you can left and right the main thing is to get it straight don't worry if it's slightly more to the left or slightly more to the right it's not the end of the world but do try and make sure you get a little quarter of an inch and then just kind of start to tack it down and then you can go for it and use your bone folder just to really work those score lines back in because we're going to be obviously folding this both ways and just go along each one both ways just to really kind of let it find its like new home how it's going to sit each time and it will start to fold into place just push all that glue out again really working it all in and by adding that glue it certainly helped because it does give you that little bit of time just to get it all in place okay so that is now what you should have so we can see we've got this really nice hinge inside don't worry if you've got a little bit showing a tiny bit I've got a little bit coming there because the pages are slightly taller so again it's going to cover a lot of this anyway they're not taller than they obviously the actual mini album itself but they are going to come up over the edges there so do not worry but just keep working that in until it's really dry this is your time now to make sure that you're really happy with it and you want them to move nice and freely each way okay okay so next we need to make all of our pockets so you are going to need six pieces of eight and a quarter by five six pieces of five by seven and a quarter and then this is optional the vellum I did use it in my scrapbook photo album which I done last year and it stops your photo sticking together so when your pages are together like so it will stop those sticking together so these are seven and a quarter by five and three quarters okay like I said the vellum everything I'm using is from that do crafts die thing what it what it what it was bring it in here from this do cross paper mania mania freshly cut flowers so that's the matching vellum but any vellum will work obviously okay so with the vellum you want to score along the five and three quarters of an inch side you want to score it half an inch okay just like so and then that piece we're keeping plain and then this piece here so your five by eight and a quarter along the eight and a quarter inch side you want to score it half an inch and at seven and three quarters okay so do that on all of those pieces like said you'll have six of everything and then we're going to burnish all of these score lines so just do those two and these are forming our pockets so that we've got our little mats that we're going to pull out from inside you've got plenty room for your photos and then we just want to fold the vellum over and burnish like so okay so start with the vellum first on the inner side so vellum if you've got patterns and coloured like mine it's brighter on one side and it's duller on the dull side you want to run your tape so just just take a little wedge off of each corner there and then with this piece that we folded the two sides in you're going to pop tape on these two tabs okay and then with the vellum take off your backing and with the tabs facing up here on this piece you're going to stick this and just line up your score line on your vellum with the bottom of that piece of card okay and then again run over with your bone folder make sure you get all the air bubbles okay and fold that piece around and we can burnish it again in a minute but you should have a little quarter of an inch overhang which is what we want and then with this piece here take off your two sides this is the outer part so this is this side here is what's going to be stuck against the hinges this is the outside part so what I would say is you just make sure that that piece is the neatest because if you're a bit crooked with sticking this down you can hide anything that's on this to the bottom part so this is my bottom part here so stick it down so it's all nice and flush and again I'm focusing on lining up my top don't you know don't look to the bottom if you use a poke tool to keep it flat and it's easier then make sure that's lined up if you're slightly out on the bottom like there it's not even a millimeter but it's such a tiniest amount you're not going to see that but least this is all nice and neat for the front so that is what you will have so this is the vellum covering protecting whatever pictures you have on this mat against the pictures that will be so for example this is our other page that will be on the other hinge so when that closes those pictures will not touch each other because they have that vellum in the middle okay so you should now have six I've already done all mine I've got all different vellums so I've done a pattern so I've got that one and then that one and then two of that one then that one and then finish with that one again so they all match and what is going to happen is these are like this at the minute but we're going to stick run tape on our tabs on the hinges there sorry and these are going to be sandwiched and stuck at the bottom so you've still got this pocket which is going to have a mat in it and you will then have that completely flush with the bottom there you see how neat that looks as a page but we want to do all of our decoration it's entirely up to you you can attach your pages before I prefer decorating and doing all my bits on my pages and then attaching it into the album itself okay so okay so I just went ahead chatting away hammering away and realized I didn't record any of me sticking my beautiful corner protectors on so they are pretty self-explanatory but I will share the links to where I buy these but they are beautiful really nice gold ones they have teeth on the inside basically you just pop them into the corner but then right up squeeze them into place they are flexible enough to be able to squeeze into place and then with a bit of tissue you can use pliers I prefer a hammer and literally just cover it in tissue and just hammer lift it up hammer and go around and check it's all in place and just do that on all four corners so they are very easy to pop in you can get smaller ones I want went for something quite big on this one but it just now is another way to not only make it look even more special and professional but also to protect this and make it last forever you are really going to have to rip this apart to ruin it you know and for it to fall apart it's not going anywhere so that's where we are now so let's get on and start decorating all of our pages you need to attach your mats onto these so these pieces here measure four and three quarters by seven and you'll need twelve pieces now I've got all different colors all from that same pack so everything matches so I've got green and a yellow there the green and a yellow but yellow and this blue color and that one there and then this one I've just got this floor one that I pulled out which matches the vellum so I'm just gonna go ahead and get those two stuck down if you want to round off your edges you can I'm doing it on the little pockets on the mats that are inside the pockets but I'm not doing it on these ones but just go over and get these stuck down okay so they're now stuck down so that is you should now have six of these okay so that's all your pockets with the mats on and then for the mats and well yeah the mats that are gonna be inside the pockets I've already done all of these ones here and basically you're gonna need six pieces of four and three quarters by seven which is the white outer piece there and then if you want to mat and layer again on top like I've done you will need twelve pieces because obviously these are going to be on both sides so twelve pieces of four and three quarters by six and three quarters and then twelve pieces of four by six and a quarter all right so there's lots there you may just want to do the pattern directly onto the white and in that case then you only need six pieces of the and sorry twelve pieces of the four and three quarters by six and three quarters okay so get all them ready and you will have six of them and they are already now to go inside each of our pockets once they are attached I'm not putting anything more on these and keeping them completely flat they're ready for you to put your photo on or to put a journaling card on and that's it and keep them quite thin because we're going to be adding more bulk onto these with little envelopes and pockets and tags and stuff like that so keep these nice and flat is my advice just so that you keep the overall bulk of the album to a minimum really because it is going to be quite thick okay okay so I've just been going through all like the Deku Paj stuff that I've got and I've started making a few things up so this is one of the Deku Paj pieces that you get amongst all of this A4 sheets some of its Deku Paj some of its tags some of its like I said banners it's all kinds of things so just put that one together and then what I've done is I've stuck some tape just to the left the right hand side in the corner and I'm going to stick this down in here bit right down into the corner there just giving a little bit of a border the same border that I've got with the white and the mat there I'm just doing like so and then I've just cut I've got these tag dyes in all different sizes so I've just cut some tags down and they are going to sit inside this pocket now that I've created like so so again perfect now to put some little photos in you could again do some journaling on it you can obviously map the backside or put more pictures on it I'm going to hole punch them put some ribbon in and then I'm going to add some little sequins and bits and pieces but just for the basis that's how I'm for example putting together one of my pages and like I said because we've now put all of that dimension in there because we've got that half inch gap on our hinges this will you know it's not going to you know cause too much of an issue as when we go to close it all it should all sit nicely so now I can do something on this side and yeah so I might recreate that on a couple of pages I'm going to do some simple pockets and yeah I'll keep showing you what I'm doing okay so I'm going to make a pocket for this next one and this will be four by five along the four inch side you want to score at half an inch and then along the five inch side you want to score at a quarter of an inch and then four and three quarters of an inch and then if I flip it over you can see there where it's crossed over you just want to cut across like so and then burnish all of those score lines we're going to attach some adhesive to the backs there and then this one is going to stick inside that page like so and that's gonna be another pocket to put another mat in for more photos so that's that side I've just finished these with a little eyelet on there and some ribbon okay so there one those are all done like I said all the little sequins and stuff I'll do at the very very end but now I'm just going to get this one stuck down okay my little mat that's going to go in there is five and a quarter by five and a quarter by four and a quarter it was just some scrap card I had lying around so I didn't want to kind of dip into anything else so yeah it just sits in there nicely but I think I'm going to do a bigger one behind it as well so I'm just talking you through just all these little kind of measurements and stuff just to help you along and obviously you can now layer that up with a pattern paper of your choice I'm going to decorate the front of this pocket I'm giving you all the basic measurements and the rest of it hopefully you can just develop and and add more to yourself okay so get the pockets stuck down because I've done that one kind of but I can I just want to get just show you really how to stick them in and this one I've already put down I haven't decorated yet but I can do that I'm happy to do that while it's stuck down but I think it is better to do them when they're not so get them all done for example like I've done here and then on all your hinges you want to go along and you want to pop some double-sided a good strong double-sided tape so I'm using my red tape here and you just want to it's a half inch tape that I've got run it along one side and then fold it over and run it along the other side okay so both sides of that one hinge you want to have red tape on okay now go ahead and do them all I guess you know why you're there won't hurt go over them with your bone folder as always make sure all the air bubbles are out and it's all nicely stuck down and then peel off both sides now I've already stuck down the first one so I'm going to use that as my gauge but this will be your first one you're sticking in you want to make sure because it's like the pocket is slightly bigger than the hinge itself so just make sure that you've got it hanging over evenly if you would rather you could butt it up to one end so for example the bottom when you put it over so if I put it over one that I've not put the tape on so open up your pocket okay make sure it's the end that the vellum's stuck down to is the end that you're sticking in stick it over the hinge and you'll see it can move up and down so either line it up so you've got an even amount overhanging or butt it right up in this case to the bottom okay and then stick it and then you'll know then that all of them how it will just skim on the very top of the book itself the mini album case so you can do that but you need to make sure it literally is right up so that otherwise just I do it so that I've got an even amount hanging over each side okay and this hinge here so I've stuck my tape on that one there open it up so and then pop it on hovering it kind of over you've got a bit of wiggle room before you if you as long as you keep it open like that now I'm just lining mine up with the one that I've put in before once you're happy make sure it's flush with the very very bottom and then just stick it down okay I can bring up my other one now and I can see that they are completely lined up with each other okay and my vellum stuck in there nicely so again any pictures that are on here or any sequins or embellishments Nouveau drops things like that I'm not going to stick to that other page and you can see how much room we've got there because we've got this half-inch piece okay so that's two of my pages in there so yeah really easy so just go ahead now and stick all them down and once they're in just kind of move the hinge side to side just making sure your page can obviously turn nice and easily hi everybody so it's now the next day and as you can see I've done a lot so this is a big labor of love and like I said at the beginning it is a meaty project but I hope you're enjoying it so far so I have gone ahead and decorated the front and I've also decided to distress this the more I looked at it the more the white it was just too white and it's just going to get dirty over years anyway so I figured I'd dirty it up and help it long so what I have done is I have distressed all of my edges now if you're going to distress I would advise that you do it before you stick it all down okay so it's best to do it for however it does still work this way but I've literally distressed everything I'm using the distress oxide Tim Holtz the vintage photo I've gone around all the edges and then on top of that I have then used my metallic rub-ons and I've used this bronzy color here I used a bit of the gold as well but I prefer the bronze then on top of that I have used gold flakes and I'm going to show you how I've done that later on but basically you just get some tombo you need a tacky glue don't get a glue that's going to dry completely dry needs to dry tacky and I just went with my finger and just randomly whacked it on the corners and on the edges and then just laid my gold leaf over and you can see that really cool distress look that it gives it then on the bind this is again all the bits all the cut parts that you get in that kit in that I say kit I guess it is that collection and I've used these again I've used all the rub-ons and I've used the bow there now I am going to add it another bit here but I can't do it because it will give away who it's for so the pictures will follow of more detail of this but it won't be for some time yeah I'm really planning ahead for this so I want to be organized and I want to make sure I get the right pictures to fill it on the front this is part of the one of the little cut ways and I've just kind of arched it over stuck it so it's kind of lifted there I've got an old key that I found from my stash there's one of those butterflies I love using a bow paper flowers leaves just clustered it all together and then I've put new very drops I'm also going to add sequins to this as well so that's the front so I mean yeah there are so many great albums out there and ways to decorate so you know look on Pinterest for inspiration there as well so I'm just going to show you it and it's just glued down it's easy to do then inside I have gone ahead and I've put that foiling all on the inside there which looks awesome but again the middle here is going to be a kind of a little bit of a story I'm going to write to this person and again it's quite personal and private so I don't want to share that and I don't want to put it in there yet obviously it will give it away but that's what I'm using this page for so it's going to be this belongs to and then a little bit about it and things like that that was one I put in but I'm going to put gold foil on it and it's going to end up looking like where is my other one that I had I've got stuff everywhere I think this is probably the messiest my craft room has ever been it's making me a little bit uncomfortable but I'm enjoying what I'm doing I have to find that in a minute I don't know where I've put it oh I think it's further in here actually I haven't stuck it yet but so this is going to have more in it so I haven't got to that but yet this pocket here I'm going to tell you now what you need for that one and again I'm still all the detail in the sequence I'll show you at the end of the tutorial but the basics here these are little lovely little cards that you get in the kit again I've distressed them all but on this I'm going to put pictures on the back and I'm going to write a little bit about pictures on the front and I'm going to add a few more in there probably going to do another mat in there as well but for the pocket you will need a piece of card that is seven and a half by two and a half and along the seven and a half inch side you want to score it half an inch and at seven and then along the long inch long side shorter side sorry you want to then score it half an inch so you just got a half an inch score line on all three sides fold them in like so I might as well quickly do this after all it is a tutorial and then I just trim off right through the cross there okay and again that one there and then fold it in half and with your distress ink that's when you want to go in and just dirty it all up because obviously I'm going to then stick that other piece over the top so the distressing is completely up to you if you want a nice clean looking album then you know go for it I do prefer a more worn looking album okay so that's just to stress that and then basically for example it will go in and stick in your page like so then the mat to go on top of that is six by two and again just go along and just dirty up the edges there with your distressed ink okay and then you'll stick that on top stick it all down and there is a pocket for you to then add little tags in now because I've got these huge mats here on every page that's where I'm going to be putting my big pictures so I know that's already okay all of these kind of little the sides of the pages will also have a few big pictures on but it's going to be for little ones and and you know just little quotes and things like so now that can stick on the okay like so and then that will all stick in there and it will give me that pocket which again I can put another mat in if I do I'll tell you later on in the tutorial otherwise it will have little bits and pieces in it that's another one there I'm going to put some gold foiling on which I'll show you when I get to it and that's going to go in there so that will be the same as that one and I'm going to do tags again so I do like that page I'm going to add some sequins here and I'm going to change the ribbon don't like it I thought I did but now I don't then where's that one with the gold on it here there we go so you can see where I've added the gold flakes so that is the same one here but look how much nicer it looks with the gold flakes on it so again just the tombo glue I will show you when I do that one you just go around just randomly I'm going to put a ribbon in there there's going to be ribbon in that one as well like all the detail I'll show you at the very end but I'm just getting all these kind of bits in place then what I've also got is all of these envelopes were in the set so again just go around and just dirty up all of the corners like so and then what I've done because they were actual envelopes I've cut them just the same to make little pockets but with these ones I'm going to have two so I'm going to have two and then another two like so okay those ones are different sizes so I'll get two that are the same because there was two different pockets I think it would be those two for example I'll probably put another map behind it but they're going to go in there and then again it's going to have another tag in there this might have a little I've got all these bits here that I've cut away from that kit so again I've got loads and loads of ideas for it but if you want to do those little pockets then you are going to need something that is four by four by four and then score it a quarter of an inch on three sides and then fold it in okay but again you can go bigger I'm just using these ones because they were in the kit but there's no reason why you can't go longer but like I said you know this is the the main part of this tutorial really is showing you how to put the album together when it comes to the pages there is so much great inspiration out there on YouTube and this one I'm keeping quite simple because I'm using the stuff from this kit however you know yeah these can take a long long time to make so be prepared this is not something that you're just going to do in a couple of hours not if you want to get something like this a real meaty project some of these can take weeks to make so I will back again when I've done more okay so I'm going to show you how I done that little bit of foiling but I'm also going to talk you through other bits I've done I'm going to finish the video with this now purely because for me to finish it I need to add the photos to a few bits and pieces and like I said I don't want to give that away this has taken me now almost two full days it's labor-intensive I have really gone to town with it and done so much to it and I still feel like I want to add more just to show you other things I'm going to be doing I've got these here basically I'm going to be putting a picture of the person in here and then you put this over the top and you can still see the image through it and this is going to hang along the side here with a with other little charms so that's going to hang down the side here along with something else which again in months to come you will eventually see that I'm going to be posting obviously the pictures of how it is now onto my blog and to the YouTube video but the personal bits I will share again with you later in the year so I talked you through that piece there I have done a map for this one and again I've used the foiling there so that's all ready for a picture to go in and I need to add the pictures because once I add the pictures you can then add more embellishments around that as well so yeah it's it I can only go so far with you in the tutorial for me personally once I then start adding the pictures and plus I don't really want to share all those pictures to the whole world so and that's the map there that I showed you so again more pictures I may well put foiling on this I think over the next coming months I'm going to add foil to everything so yeah completely over the top these I've got to have pictures on I need to do the backs still but I have put sweets along here and then I've got these two where I can write some little journaling on they've all been foiled you can see that they got a lovely shine to them and then they're all ready for pictures to go on the back and they sit in there then I have this one here which I've done the foiling on and I've put a little gemstone there as well you can see it all shimmering and again these are ready for photos but they need some foil this one here I have where's my mat it was drying I've got this mat here but again it needs foiling to go on it but that sits in like so there's another pocket here as well I ripped it so I need to redo that but it'll be another little photo mat there as well so again that just needs a little bit more done to I'm leaving out in case it's still drying then I have done this one here I love it needs some foil added but it's two pockets I've covered with leaves and butterflies and then again here so they're ready for photos or just some nice little I plan on writing some little stories of just memories as well in these again all these but every single page has a large mat in it so that's for my big photos then this one here I've got I'm not so keen on this mat I'm going to move it to a different page and recreate and do another one there but again that's just that pocket with smile again probably need some foil this one's really cool I've added two distressed doilies and again I need to make a picture mat to sit in this little tuck spot here that I've done with this and again it's got the foil you can just see it there again another big mat on the side and then this one is the same with those two little but I've got all these are all gonna have photos in them and they all have to have foiling put on them and then I've got these two pages at the back because again the idea I've got for these I need to put the photos in so but there are tons and tons of places online for this to get more inspiration but this bat piece I need to foil I'm going to show you how I do it here and then again I've got a piece that's going over this bit here for me to kind of conclude and do another nice little story that I'm going to write here as well so I'm just using tacky glue I'm using the Tombow and basically I want to go down the spine this is I have gone through so much glue so just really look there is no you do not want to be just randomly like that and then spread it out and this stuff if you use Tombow you will know it's pretty instant in terms of it going tacky so just really want it on my gold bit there but just let it kind of just set for a minute and it will go clear once it's clear then it's tacky and it is ready to pop the foil on okay I don't know can you see there where it's all gone clear so that's really tacky now so this is the messy bit honestly there is so much mess there is gold flakes everywhere so the Hoover that's another reason why I want to get this gold stuff done and then I can get rid of it now I don't usually dump this much out but I'm laying it here just so I can pick up the bigger sheets and then the rest I can pop back in again but try and get some big sheets if you can and just lay them down over the glue and they will obviously attach just get as much coverage as you can you just want to go around and do that on all the glue okay so I've just popped the excess back in just going to get rid of that there so that's what I've got all these flaky bits now just go around with your finger and just rub over and by rubbing it you will make sure it goes into all of the glue and if you feel you've missed some you can just put some back over but it will just break down into very very small pieces so I'm just literally going all and I can feel where the glue is and I can just bring in more if I need to but by rubbing it around like I said you do move it into the glued areas so the the aim is to cover all the glue to not have any sticky bits left and it does dry completely it does cover it all completely sorry so it leaves it completely smooth nothing sticky and if it's not got glue it would just come away from it so that's what gives this really cool effect and this really fun frame so that's that and then I've just got this this is my foot my when I do my gold foiling flakes whatever you want to call it this is what I use and just go over and again this will also kind of embed the flakes and just take off the top layer can you see what I mean all these bits have been going everywhere I need one of those little desk hoovers I can just have it like on now so it's literally sucking up everything so now that beautiful frame that I've got around my back page and then that is already now for me to match over the top it's a little bit reminds me of a fairy tale book you know once upon a time you can I can imagine this maybe that's what I should put at the beginning so that is there's literally just keep doing it until there's nothing coming off so I can see now I've got no bits that is completely smooth if I just bring that up you can see how cool does that look now look how fat my book is already now I don't plan to make a fastening for this if I do I will share that later on in the year but I would just say if you do want to do it and there are some beautiful ways to fasten your mini albums then just check out the links of the people that I watch because they all do do them alternatively you can hole punch which is what I might do is hole punch then use one of my eyelets on the front and the back and tie it with a nice big ribbon and so I've got a big bow there or I may well use a key charm and then clip it onto the front here there are so many different options but those kind of things I think I'm just going to see how much more fatter it gets it's got all the pictures to go in once all the pictures are in if it is then really starting to those ones I need to look at a different way of popping them in because they are sideways but I think once it's squashed in it be okay what was I saying about yeah if it does end up really kind of like being like this then I'm going to have to look at putting a fastening on it but I will update that and maybe add a little bit on to the video if I do decide to but so there you have it so if you've enjoyed today's tutorial please give me a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching