Today I am going to share a couple of pictures of how I made this album. I failed to take pictures as I was making it. After I did it, the neighbors heard a loud "DUH!!!!!" Hopefully this will make sense on how I made it.
I found these gigantic envelopes at Craft Warehouse. They have since discontinued carrying them…I bought every one they had since I found this out. They measure 12 1/4" square…big enough to send layouts in. But I didn't want to do that…I wanted to make an envelope album with them. But, 12x12 albums are too big…I pared it down to about 8 x 12"(for the pages). Of course the cover is a little bigger.
The covers are made from the envelopes. I cut them to the size I wanted and placed chipboard in them to give them more stability. It worked like a charm. Then I just used pieces of the envelopes I cut from the covers to create the spine, again adding chipboard to it for stability.
I used a simple "Stack the Deck" binding by Laura Denison for attaching the pages.
Here's kind of a closeup of that. The base pages are a full envelope that I scored 4" from the bottom edge. The binding strip is attached to the back of the 8" side of the envelope.
The above picture shows the front of the page. I folded the envelope at 4" from the bottom, and cut off a sliver of the bottom to open it up.
This created a 4" front and back "first page" with a pocket to put things.
The 8" side of the envelope (which is the "top" of the envelope) is already open. I folded the envelope flap to the back of this page. So what you have after you see the 4" page is an 8" page, again with a large pocket. It is hard to see, but I created a file folder with kraft paper to put in each of these pockets created. I think it goes along with the office theme, don't you?
Now we have turned the 8" page. It is hard to see, but the flap of the envelope has been flipped to this side, the back side of the 8" side of the envelope. I took another piece of kraft card stock and attached it to the flap, thus making another page for this envelope assembly.
This shows the kraft card stock page opened, and attached to the flap of the envelope. You can see the page, the flap it attaches to, and the back of the envelope (the 8" piece). You can see the binding attaching the entire thing on the right.
That is the entire page assembly. For each of the 4 page assemblies I made you will get:
A 4" page, front and back, with a pocket
An 8" page, front and back, with a pocket, filled with a file folder
A 7" cardstock page, front and back, attached to the flap of the envelope
LOTS OF SPACE FOR STUFF!!!
I hope this made sense. I will get the video done soon, so you can see all of the decorations and the fun stuff I added to what's already here!
Stay crafty, my friends!
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