All the Leaves Are Brown Too - Tina's Mini Album with Tags.

Hello Crafty Friends!
If you love mini albums you will just adore Tina's mini album with tags... the autumn colours of our April Kit are just perfect  for this! (though maybe I'm biased lol)

Hello Crafty Friends.
Today I have made a mini album, using the wonderful April kit from AVSC, All The Leaves Are Brown Too 2018.

This little album has four pages, each page is a pocket page which holds four tags for journaling and photos.

 Pages.

To make the pages I used two sheets of black cardstock. Cut 4 pieces 6 ⁴/₈'' x 4 ⁶/₈ ''. 

On the 6 ⁴/₈'' side score down at 3 ²/₈ '' turn and score at   ⁴/₈''. 

For the purpose of this tutorial I used white paper to show it clearly.

Fold along score lines. On the ³/₈  score line, cut away one side as shown in the picture below.

This will be the bottom of the pocket page.

Fold the small flap up and add adhesive, then fold page together, sealing the bottom of the page. I used the cut-aparts from the kit and some of the Dots & Stripes papers on each page, making sure that the opening is at the top and the sealed part is at the bottom.

I am always trying different ways to bind my mini albums and I came up with this idea that I think worked really well for the size of my album.( but of course in the world of crafting someone else may have done this already).

You will have leftover strips from the black cardstock, cut four pieces 2'' x 4 ¹/₈ '', which is slightly smaller than the page. Score at 1'', fold along score line (do not glue them close).

Measure and add eyelets on the folded side, making sure to line them up precisely.

(Check to see how they fit and if needed trim them down , Do this before measuring and adding the eyelets).

Insert and glue the flaps in to the side opening of the pages, I used the edge of my eyelets to line them up.

Cover

To make the cover cut two pieces of chipboard  4 ⁵/₈'' x 4 ⁷/₈''.

Cut black cardstock 1'' larger on all four sides than the chipboard cover.

Glue the pieces of chipboard onto the cardstock leaving the 1'' border all around.

snip the corners and fold and glue onto the chipboard.

I used papers from the kit to decorate the covers and some papers from my own collection.

Use one of the pages to measure where the eyelets will be placed on the cover and attach them.          

I used twine to bind my album.

Now the fun part. I love this fox cut-apart from the kit. I mounted him on black cardstock and then on to chipboard to lift him off the page a little.

The leaves I cut out using the dies that came with the kit and the acorn button is also from the kit.

On the inside cover I made a pocket to hold the little tags.

On these pages I used the ephemera frame and the cute little squirrel rub on.

The tree is actually the branch from my Tim Holtz Holly Branch die. I also cut tiny little leaves from handmade paper in beautiful Autumn colours.

Here I used the Tim Holtz, Snow Globe die to make these tiny houses.

The pumpkin is from of the ephemera pack in the kit.

Again I made a pocket on the inside back cover to hold the tags.

Each page also holds larger tags, these are left plain for journaling and photos.

Thank you for joining me on another project.

This wonderful kit can be purchased HERE
Thank you and happy crafting.
Tina xxx

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