Mini album….. Tutorial

Hi everyone. sorry it's been a few days since I blogged, but I have been working on a little project, (it's a bit of a secret).I will say that it will be announced February 17 when I post my blog giveaway!

So today I have been working on some scrappy stuff. I made this...

and the first two pages on the inside.

Would you believe that this was made with a cereal box?? Yep. Good ole Cheerios!!

 

Here is what you need

 

1 empty cereal box (any will do)

4 12x12 pieces of coordinating papers

1 sheet of solid card stock

1- 12 inch paper trimmer

Ribbons (I used 3 different colors on this one)

Scissors

Your favorite adhesive

A pen (I used a zig-two way writer)

and ink!

 

(Anything you want to embellish this album with too)

 

The first thing you want to do is open the box like this..

 

Then tear  the box so the front and back are separate from the rest of the pieces of the box

 

Next you will want to find something to use as a template in the shape you want your album. I used a dvd cover and traced it 2 times on the grey side of the box on each side. (you will need 4 pieces all together)

next: you want to cut out the templates you just traced

Poke 3 holes (with a hole punch or a pen, either will work fine) along ONE of the long sides on each page

 

Now that you have your pages cut out, you need to trace of the templates on each patterned paper and cut. All together you will need 8 pieces of paper cut  to cover your pages from to back.   Mark the spots for the holes on the papers, cover each page front to back and then poke holes through the paper, big enough for ribbon to go through.

 

and now that you have your pages put together, and holes punched/poked you will want to cut out as much ribbon as you want to use. I cut  9 pieces.. 2 different colors for each hole.

and start running the ribbon through the holes. Make sure you don’t tie the ribbons too tight.. you want to make sure the album pages will turn with out a problem.

 

For the circle flower.. I just drew 3 different sized circles on left over cardboard from the cereal box and then inked them.. glued them together (biggest to smallest).. made a bow of sorts with 3 pieces of ribbon, glued that on, then glued it down on to the album

 

and for the rest of the album, I just decorated as I wanted it. For the tabs sticking out of the pages, I used torn cardboard from the cereal box, painted them white.. covered one end in paper and then journaled on the white side.

 

Inside the other pages are other pictures, and journaling spots filled with journaling of things that have happened, or are happening so far  in 2011 for my family

 

 

 

Well.. that’s enough for today.. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy my tutorial on how to make this cute little mini album out of a cereal box!