 Hi everybody, it's Sam and Mesa Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is a DIY photo album or scrapbooking album. It's come about by complete accident. Basically I was printing off a load of these beautiful papers for this print and this print here and for some reason the printer just chucked out loads and I turned it off. I left it for like an hour, turned it back on. It was still stuck in the memory. I couldn't cancel it. I went into the settings. You name it, I tried. It chucked out page after page after page and I think in the end there was about 18 pages of this particular print, this one here. I love it but I was going to get sick of it so I thought I'm going to put it into some just one project because I just would never have used all those separate pages and like I said I would have got fed up with the print in the end and I didn't want that to be the case so this album is basically has these matted pages with this print on it. You may have prints, you know multiple prints the same so it would be great for that. You don't have to put print on the pages. You can keep them plain and then obviously whatever you're using to scrapbook with or the photos you can obviously add your color and print to those but that's why I've done this project for this reason. So yeah lots and lots of paper used for this one but if you've got lots of old papers lots of you know mix you can kind of really mash up the prints and the colors you can really do whatever you want with this. I've also used the laminator so the top page here is laminated along with the back one here so it's really protected keeps everything nice. Also I've used these wonderful printed vellum sheets in between each page to protect the pictures so if there's photographs on here they won't stick to this glossy side here and also on the pages inside here if you've got pictures on here and on this side if you didn't have the vellum they would stick together so the vellum sheet in between just stops that happening but I got them so it's this huge a bumper pack here literally there is tons. I'm guessing that you can see how thick it is and that's vellum the vellum is very thin I'm guessing there's at least a hundred sheets here and every five is a different print so I've got some lovely script writing there I've got poems I've got butterflies I've got other butterflies I've got dragonflies I've got flowers I've got swells I've got champagne popping music notes everything is in there but I don't know who it's by so if anybody has purchased this because this is the original packaging it comes in and you can see there's the hooked the hook that would you know would have hung from in the craft shop I paid 450 for all of this which I think is an absolute steal for the amount of elements in here usually you get 10 sheets of vellum for that price or sometimes more so I'd love to know if anybody has this or recognises the prints and those who's done it that would be great because I'd like to put the links in my blog and that's that that's just another sheet of this paper here I might make a card with this one but yeah so that is what we're going to be making like I said perfect for scrap booking you know or just using as a normal you know photo album so let's crack on and make it okay so you're going to need a lot of card so as I mentioned this is kind of an accidental project it wasn't something I was planning to do but I'm really pleased with what's coming together so I've already done you know a big bulk of it because again you don't need to watch me stick everything down so I'm going to talk you through these pieces here so you first of all you're going to need if I'm just following my list of my measurements what I wrote down so first of all the vellum so these vellum sheets here these measure seven and seven eighths of an inch by eight and three quarters and you need seven pieces of vellum now all of this will be listed in my blog as normal okay so don't worry if you don't want to write it all down now so that's your vellum sheets then the pattern paper so this crazy print and I've got tons of you're going to need 13 pieces of seven and three quarters by seven and three quarters so just squared in size there in shape even then the white card so the main you know base of the album including your lid and your back piece this is going to measure nine by eight okay so that's everything there so what I'm going to do I've got the scoreboard here let's walk through that back bit in a minute get your laminator on I've got mine just on the go here so if you hear a slight humming sound that's what it is um that's my lid which is already done so you will have uh how many pieces I just say eight pieces of this nine by eight card okay what you want to do is along the longest side you want to score at one inch okay just like so so go along and do that on all of them apart from the back piece because it's the back you want it to stay just completely flat so it just keeps that nice strong structure just so it keeps your album you know nice and flat so this is the back piece that I've already done and I've already laminated this so this is just your nine by eight laminated now also what I've put on the back here is a piece of patterned um card just so it looks nice and on the very back I've put nothing I mean if you want to stamp who it's made by you might want to put another nice quote on the back you can do so before you obviously um laminate that otherwise um I've put this pattern paper on the back just giving myself a nice frame I don't actually think I've done the measurement of that one so let me just roughly here oh it's eight and three quarters by um seven and seven eighths okay that's that back piece there run it through your laminating machine and then I'll tell you about the whole punching in a minute but that's the back piece there so you'll get everything prepped you've got all of these scored then what you want to do is with all of your pieces here of seven by three fours you want to start sticking them down obviously if they're directional make sure you've got it facing up the right way um basically get rid of this one you don't need it um mine will sit nicely within that because we've scored at one inch along that nine inch side this is now an eight by eight square so this here which is seven and three quarters squared will sit perfectly inside and just give you a nice little white edge again once you see how I'm putting this all together it's very easy to adapt change you can add you can take away there's just so many ways to do this um I'm this is just how I'm doing it because I've got all this paper um what you could also do which is another nice touch and this is kind of evolved from more of a an old style album that we've got in the house you could um have your paper say so it's that I don't know what would that be maybe six by um not six sorry whatever this length is imagine that bit here on my right hand side isn't there you could then have this to be somewhere where you want to write little quotes about the picture that you maybe stick here so um you could keep this plane if you wanted to and alternatively you can keep them all plain and then scrapbook them with obviously whatever you want to do so like I said lots and lots of ways to do this so I'm going to first of all just get this I'm just using a very very thin layer of my um glue here and I'm really not squeezing very much out I'm actually blocking the nib um so it's flush with the bottom of the um you know the paper here so it's just a really thin amount coming out and it's just enough to tack it down in place really um if you want to use obviously red tape you can do but then that will leave a little bit of a lump and stuff so it's entirely up to you just something that's going to obviously secure it strongly which this does this certainly won't budge once it's stuck down so I'm just going to stick this one on here again like so give you that nice border like so okay and then the next one so you'll flip this over and then it will go on this side so that's creating your page so that then when you turn that over that's what you will have because this is obviously what's attached with the ribbon like so so flip it over and I'm just going to stick this one down that's my page done there so burnish that and go along and burnish um all of the others and you want to do that on all of your remaining white pieces bear in mind that your other piece that you're not scoring will have this on or be completely plain it's entirely up to you so now we want to start putting it together which is really really easy so I've already done this bit here which has already got the vellum all in between each page um so this one is going to go on top and then it's going to have the vellum sandwiched in between here so just check what one I had there so that was the dragonfly so I'm going to change it up a bit so I'll put this flower one in next so the vellum um so that was seven and seven eighths of an inch by eight and three quarters basically I've done it so that it will overhang your patterned paper by literally a few millimeters um but it won't overhang the actual main white card I didn't want to do it the same measurement as the white card because everybody's trimmers are different you know if you're cutting by hand all kinds of things you may be out on one of the sides and by the time you know you've done them all you're just going to have bits sticking out so I thought this way it's all concealed and it's all hidden inside and that's kind of how they are anyway so I think it'll look really nice so um what you want to do actually before you stick all this down is you'll need to make your hole punched holes so these ones here I measured down two inches okay and then just come in so it's in the center I'm just using the normal standard size hole punch so coming in two two inches and two inches go into the middle and hole punch okay then grab your you know next piece sit that over the top and then hole punch again that way you know that you're getting your hole punches exactly you know in the same position because if you were to measure and do two inches down you could be just a slightly bit out each time before you know it all your circles are slightly out if you use just one bit of card and use that as your template for all of them then your holes will be in exactly the same place okay so all of your white pieces will have holes in them grab your piece of vellum and you're going to stick this in here I haven't burnished the vellum you don't need to because they're very loose pages but again you just want to pop your glue you can pop it all the way covering all this surface area go around your hole punched holes again if you want to use red tape you can it would just take a long time so just get a good glue I always use the Alina's tacky glue never have any problems with it my projects don't fall apart it's a good all-rounder you just don't want to go use too much of it because there is water in it okay then pop your vellum down again because you're using the wet glue you've got that wiggle room so it's nice you can spend some time getting it exactly where you want it okay now I'm putting this on top of obviously all of my pieces here so my um I've got a bit more to punch through but basically let that dry a little bit longer than I have but you can just run your um hole punch through here and again you can just punch and get this one on because it's getting thick like so it has come through there it's a little bit wet but I just want to show you quickly there for the video okay and just hole punch that again I'll just kind of pull out any bit you get your ribbons going to sit in here you can tidy up your circles a bit there just with a pokey tool you can just run that through there a bit okay so that is your vellum on top then you get your white piece and you're going to sit that on top the hole's already punched with this one so literally as you sit that over you can see there it perfectly all meets up and all of this is all lined up and the vellum isn't sticking out so again I'm then going to put some glue and again you don't you know you don't need a huge amount just a thin layer now this time I'm covering that whole one inch by eight so all the way down I want to get it right but the ribbon will always keep it together so it won't actually physically fall apart so but I just think this is tidy you don't if you don't want to do this bit you don't have to you could just literally have every everything held with your ribbon but I just think the vellum will probably move around a little bit so you can see now just sitting that one on top and just you want to obviously because I'm now up to my I've got my lid to go down but this is my top layer it's very very thick so you can see there but it's all still perfectly lined up and just bring it up there can you see so you've got to really spend time making sure every single one sits perfectly together like so then my top piece of vellum is going to go on like so and then I'm going to show you the bottom and then put in the bottom piece on because that's already been laminated and then we can laminate the top piece here so I'm going to attach this piece of vellum just the same way as I did so again I'm just going to put some glue and just lie that down over the top making sure that it covers all of that pattern paper then I'm going to flip the whole thing over and we're going to attach the last bit of vellum that you should have is going to go on the back here exactly the same way but obviously now this is on our right hand side so again just run your glue all the way down like so now if you're not laminating your top or your bottom you would now go and stick that bottom piece so this piece here that you would not still score but it won't be laminated you'd then stick put the glue down here and stick your back right on like so okay but because it's got mines protected now with this laminated plastic it's just going to I'm going to whole punch this piece of vellum and it's just going to sit on the back there and the ribbon's going to hold it in place like I said I wanted the front and the top and the bottom sorry laminated just so it does keep it protected and when I'm putting it in and out you know like the bookcase pulling it in and out it's just going to you know just protect it that little bit more so that's that one stuck down and that's the top one stuck down okay so um yeah so the bottom one will sit like so and then when you lift up your back page so we'll get to the last one like so it's got that vellum there and which is protecting your pictures on this back page because I don't want them sticking to that laminated plastic if they they won't stick to this vellum okay so you need to whole punch through both of these pieces this is my last bit and my punch just goes through all just with my poker tool there I'm just pushing those bits out because it's obviously quite thick and they're all cut nicely you can just go around and just clean the edges of my little circles there like so and then that's now already because the back again whole punch it before you laminate it two inches down exactly the same way and then that is going to sit on the back okay so that's nearly everything done now our lid so if you want to decorate it I've got this really nice sentiment as I showed before there so I'll pop that on top you don't want anything too bulky because obviously you are putting this through the laminator um and I'm just going to grab one of the pouches okay so make sure you've got these holes punched here I mean it doesn't matter but it just means because this is the laminated sheet hangs over ever so slightly it will probably create about a quarter of an inch extra so you'd have to come down more um but you would have done this whole punched it like I said with all the other pieces so you should have it whole punch really before you put it through so I'm just going to sit it in my pouch and I already want to create a nice border with the top piece here so I'm just moving it until I'm happy that it's got a nice overhang like the side piece has here you can see this bit that's already laminated obviously since it's the end I want that the same width along all of the top here and then we trim these pieces like so I'm just going to bring my laminator in which is now already and just feed that through obviously everybody's laminators are different just follow your instructions some you might have to have a feeder sheet that you um pop it in as well this one can just go straight in I always push down a little bit as well just that little bit of pressure just helps I think that's what I've always just run that through and I always run through run everything through twice so I just find that because now it's already melted the plastic the second kind of time that I put it through again it's personal preference it's just how I've always done it but I just feel it just gives it an even more secure seal okay so that's all done I'm just going to turn my machine off there and all we need to do is trim down that kind of excess so again you just want to trim it so you're giving it the same border that it has here so I'm just following I've got this metal um kind of wire that runs down along my fisker's trimmer um and I'm using that so my gauge obviously you don't want to cut too close because you will break the seal and then it would obviously come back open but you could always just run it through but I can see that I've got a really nice crisp edge again just get rid of that one there so that's now my lovely laminated front and then I just need to go over now these punched holes like so and then just manipulate that fold again now it's got that plastic over it just so it just helps because once the ribbons on obviously that but this now won't be stuck with glue because obviously it just wouldn't stick you could use red red tape if you want to do that we'll keep it in place but you know I don't need it to be like that so that is now going to go perfectly over the top and the bottom is going to go like so and again that just overhangs and protects just by a little bit but all those inside sheets so again like I said when I'm putting that in the bookcase the it's the laminated plastic that's going to sit on the bottom and not the paper inside here because they overhang just ever so slightly so it's just it does just protect it and gives it you know longer shelf life so with the bottom piece you want to grab your ribbon I've got this lovely fabric one here which is from the range comes on 12 a 12 meter roll so for a pound it's super good value for money bring it up just to make sure I've got a nice tidy flat piece on the back like so make sure I've got even sides I think that's about right yeah then grab the whole main piece pop the ribbon through all of that okay like so and then pop this one in so like I said if you stuck your base and your lid you'll just be putting it all through at the same time rather than separately there we go and then we just need to tie it off so just make sure they're nice and even if I'm once you tightened it you can kind of them put them into place a bit better they should all sit perfectly like it does there yeah being a nice tidy bow there and then I'm just going to trim I don't want them too long so I don't want it obviously getting all kind of messed up and then I'm just going to I haven't got it here but I'm just gonna just with a lighter just burn the ends there just to seal them but there you have it there is a really gorgeous album now also if you wanted to if you're making it even thicker because you can you can really you know really double this up triple it up anything you want but you could also have that all stuck on that side with no hole punch no ribbon just the plain white bind and then hole punch here and on the back and have your ribbon to close it so obviously it'd be very thick so there's other ways to play around with it there as well but now you open it up you've got the volume on the top there because obviously that's protecting your first scrapbooking page or photos whatever you're putting on here and then you just work your way through and you've got all these beautiful pages all ready to do whatever you want so great projects for giving as gifts obviously doing for yourself your own little scrapbooking books and also good for selling as well but the time and the paper that's used on this obviously you know could affect you the prices that you're selling it for and stuff they might you might not have success selling these because you know they are a bit labor intensive in terms of time they're very easy to do but they do take the time to cut everything to size but yeah there you have it I'm really pleased with it complete accident how this one's coming about business I don't usually tend to do projects that use so much card um but I guess my travel journal that did I'll add that one in here um what other ones have I used there's a few projects I've done with a lot of card but this is by far the the one with the most I think so yeah there you have it I'm really pleased with it I hope you like it please give me a thumbs up if you do and subscribe to my channel to see more thanks for watching bye