 Hi everyone! Mary and Espresso Press Design. Thank you for joining me on this sunny April Tuesday, April 16th, 2024. I think the date on my camera is wrong. But today we're going to make another 12 by 12 mini album or mini, I don't know what I'm gonna call it, pocket album maybe. But I got inspired by Pink Strawberries and we're gonna do that except I'm gonna modify it a little bit from this one so we can use up almost every scrap. But thanks, but the usual thanks to H Coats, Susie, Christine, Sherry, Kathy, and Jolene for your kind reviews. I truly appreciate the reviews lately and the favorites and the likes and the shares and whatever else you do to help me boost myself in the algorithm. It seems we're all under the curse slash authority of the algorithm. But one new product this week, Daisies, and that will be on Etsy and I only printed out one. Next week we'll get back to, we'll take a break from this, but this is what we are gonna be doing and it is a four pocket little folder. Well, I actually know it was a three pocket. I made it a four pocket and I'm probably gonna add another pocket. So these were leftover, partial leftover and partial just coordinating because I didn't have enough paper by the time I got through. So there is three pockets in this little folder. Two up here and one over here and I added this one and I made a little closure with the leftover from the paper. So what you'll be needing is a ten by ten and I have two here in case I make a mistake. You really do need double-sided. I hope to get to more where you don't need double-sided and I think I'm gonna go with this one because this paper is a little heavier. This is from the sheets at Joann's. So if you're familiar with that weight, that weight is pretty much perfect. So you're gonna need a ten by ten and I already cut mine down and then you'll have a two by twelve and a two by ten and we will use those at the end. So let me get my scoreboard here and you're gonna need some punches for your notches, some glue, some scissors, a scoring tool or a scoreboard. So I'm gonna pretend this is pretty much non-directional so that I don't have to worry about it. I generally find that's more helpful the first time around but you're gonna want to pay attention to your directional if you are using directional after you learn how to make this. So our first score, you know we're at the ten by ten, our first score will be at five inches and we're gonna make a quarter turn and we're gonna score it two, five and three quarters and nine and a half. I'm hoping you will see that but I don't know. So that's five, quarter turn, score at two inches, five and three quarters and nine and a half. I'll be bringing back that scoreboard in one second. So first I'm gonna fold in half at our five inch mark so we can get the lay of the land and then I'm gonna fold at the two inch and we'll be doing something on that two inch and then I'm gonna fold at the half inch. We'll be doing something with that and then I'm gonna fold at the five, seven, five. You're gonna go turn your paper so your fold is at the bottom because your pockets have to be at the top. So the first cut we're going to make is at the two inch mark up to the two inch score or at the five inch mark up to the two inch score like so. Okay then I'm gonna get my stuff a little better scored here so I'm going to cut out this half inch which I'm gonna call the top because my pockets are at the top so I'm just gonna turn it around for ease of cutting and then I'll flip it directionally correct so that you can see. So I have that. Okay so that's what's happening with this. Pockets in the top, one flap will be coming in and then one flap will be our cover. So I'm gonna go back to the scoreboard a minute and make another little eighth score here because that's at the two inch mark so that my book has a little bit of a spine. She did a quarter inch. I'm not gonna do it that wide so this this fold is at the two inch so I'm just gonna come over an eighth below the two inch and make another score. You do not have to do this. It will still fold but in the event you want to stuff this you might want to have another score there. Okay so let me unfold it again so I don't lose you. Okay I'm also gonna trim off a little angle here a little angle here because this is getting glued for our pocket. So we're gonna fold up, we're gonna glue that half inch and then we're gonna fold in and then we're gonna close our book and that's our cover. Okay so now I'm probably gonna do my divots or you know pockets and those are gonna be in these these two right here and I did them in the center last time so I'm just gonna do them in the center this time so there we go and then we're gonna have a pocket here which I wish I would have originally moved that notch over or put it on the other side. So in order to avoid that she cut that off and she didn't even glue that so I'm gonna come down here and I'm gonna make a triangle so that I can have a folded flap like so. Okay hopefully this is understandable. Here's your book, here's your cover flap. So let's get this glued down first and I don't even maybe she glued it at the bottom. I can't remember. I'm gonna glue it at the bottom then I have a little tuck that I'm gonna glue it here and here and if you want to glue it here that's up to you. Realize right before after the camera was already going maybe I should fill my glue up a little bit. Oh geez that came undone. I guess I'm just gonna put a little bit of glue here between those pockets. It's not necessary. There will be a fold but I'm gonna do it anyway. I'm gonna glue on my paper. Put a clip there a minute. Re-glue this or did I glue that? Maybe I didn't. Re-glue this. Now we are constructed. Our basic book is constructed. We have a tiny little spline. I'll finish everything again so it gets a nice fold. Okay so now I'm gonna take my 10 inch piece and I'm gonna make another pocket for over here and that is going to be I think it was three three seven five inches. Yeah the entire width is three point seven five but I'm gonna go a tiny shorter just so I don't have any problem closing that and I'm using my 10 inch leftover strip. Okay there's my little pocket. The first one oh boy I didn't want to use that but I guess I'm going to put a little notch in there which I can't see again. I swear it's hard to see down here. These lights, oh that's off a little bit. Also might need another trim. Let me go over a little bit. That's better. Let me take a little bit more off. It's a little tight like a 16th. Okay that's better. Okay so this is pocket four. Hope everyone's doing well. Maybe maybe we are finally officially spring. I see green and I see flowers and such beginning to appear. Flowering trees, you know they cut down all the flowering trees on our main street. Why I don't know but it was always beautiful at this time of year. So I realized that when I went went through another town that still had their flowering trees the doors would be blooming and doors are gone now. So I want to put another little pocket over here I think and I'm gonna make it this color. I'm just gonna mark it with a pencil and I'm still going off my 10-inch strip so my sugar is low. So I had a hard time choosing this week. I made one thing and then changed my mind. I'll save that for another time. Yeah I think that will be cute. I'm gonna do it. I'm just gonna put a smaller notch. You know what? Well no I better go in the middle. So I'm using a smaller notch for that. Then I have tuck pocket pocket pocket pocket. I had a very busy week. Guess what I forgot to do. I'm the worst mom in the world. Completely forgot about it. I forgot while we went up to my daughter's college for a meeting. In 30 days she will have wrapped up her senior career, her high school career and she had to sell these tickets and I got on the... I didn't understand what the prize was and how it worked and etc. So we got on the Facebook page to try to find out because of course her excuse is they never tell us anything and my husband forget about that. He's not familiar with American society and selling tickets and raffles and all that kind of stuff. So I got on there to try to figure out how it worked and I realized that I forgot to get her senior pictures last August. So there's everyone with their senior picture. All the seniors and she has to use her school photo because her mom forgot. So I felt really bad and then I told her I said okay well you finally have a legitimate litany of... legitimate complaint and your litany of complaints about how poor your parents are and she just said don't worry about it. I don't care. So I'm gonna fold this in half just to just to get rid of it and then make another tag so that I'll have three tags with our final strip. Now actually I wouldn't even cut these into a tag until I decided what I was going to do with them. I would just store them together because remember all these things are to keep in keeping our stash until we use them. So I have three tags on this one. I use that little strip to make a closure and this has two four six layers and the pocket goes underneath that middle or the flap goes underneath that middle flower. I don't have enough. I don't even really like them being that tall so I do think for right now I'm just gonna store all of these in here but I will show you the pockets with my other my other cards here I made with just some coordinating paper. That even goes well together and I'll leave all of that up to you. Closure and the what you want to do with those remaining strips. You could do a belly band probably around there cut them in half. You could do all kinds of things but I probably am just going to save them and then when I am ready to use this little thing I'll make something out of them. So that's pretty much it for this week and next week we'll take a break and we'll go back to the regularly scheduled program. Sorry I'm losing my voice. Okay everyone I think this is going to be called a one-cheat pocket album. Once you learn how to do this you can take it up to a 12 by 12 if you want but I thought her suggestion was cute as a 10 by 10 and then that gave me enough just a couple little strips to do something else with the same coordinating paper but it's not it's not really bulky at all even with all of that in it and I guess I could take a second here to show you what you might do with it in a journal see if I can find a pocket here. Personally I would just tuck it in a pocket or clip it in but you probably could go around here, here and here, make another pocket and have an interactive little piece on your page but I personally would have to say I would probably just tuck that in a pocket at the back or the front of my journal or just include it with all your little extra ephemera so that's what I would do probably. Okay thank you so much for watching I hope I did this tutorial well and I will put the link to hers so that you can see it again and see what she did and once you get it you can add the closure and maybe we're up actually you know what I was gonna do I was gonna put two pockets in there now I forgot I forgot my even my own I was gonna put another pocket in there another pocket down there tiny you could do and I forgot yeah because I had an intention to use up that entire ten inch strip so do as I say not as I do I should have made a note of that and I didn't I was just thinking of it last night before I fell asleep okay everyone thanks again I'll see you next time bye