Easy album

 I was on the verge of falling down a  you tube rabbit hole the other day (as you do) and I came across Treasure Books video for the easiest album ever (I think that is the title) so I thought hmmm...I like a challenge. 

This is the end result of my first attempt.  I used a rainbow selection of 160lb paper to make the signatures. Its stuff I bought on sale in a craft store in the USA many years and I simply never used it...until now. I have an extended arm stapler and so opted to staple my signatures rather than sew them in as I normally would. The method of binding this book allowed me to staple on the other side to usual, so the folded tabs of the staple were facing into the spine binding and not on the page.  The signatures were then  stuck together with a little tape and a good dollop of glue, leaving approx. half an inch glue free at the spine end to allow the pages to move so they would open and lie flat wherever you open the book. The spine of the joined signatures was then covered with a  fabric strip. This was done before the covers were added, which is alien to me as someone who always brings the spine covering over the cover panels, but I was following instructions ( for once) and did as I was told. 

The covers were made from double layers of cereal box glued together and covered with a coordinating fabric.  I had to add extra glue to get the front cover to lay flat where it joins the spine fabric (the back panel was fine but the front did not want to play ball) and I think I may have over-compensated because when I removed the heavy object (placed on top while the glue dried) there had been some seepage of glue. On paper or card that would not have been an issue but with fabric it is a boo-boo so I added the trim to cover the boo-boo.

The panels added to the front are more cereal box off-cuts with the coordinating fabric off-cuts and some die-cut chipboard pieces to finish. 

From start to finish this took me 2 hours and 24 minutes and I am happy with that. The inside pages are plain at the moment. My husband asked "are you leaving it like that or are you going to add a tone of pretty papers and stuff like you normally do?  Simple answer is I haven't decided yet. 

Until next time
HeArtfully
Cx