If you're a Club Scrap member, you received a handmade Accordion Hinge Album project kit in your October Homestead shipment. You'll be thrilled to discover how quick and easy it is to assemble!
Editor's Note: If you're interested in creating an album of your own with papers from your stash, check out our Accordion Hinge Book online class, now available. The downloadable PDF provides trimming measurements and assembly instructions, as well as a link to a video tutorial that takes you through the entire project, step by step.
Gather the following tools and supplies:
- Accordion Hinge Album Project Kit (included in the October 2014 CS Kit)
- Adhesive or Bookbinding Glue/Foam Brush
- Bone Folder
- Ruler and Craft Knife
- Cutting Mat
- Paper Piercing Tool and Cork Board (or Push Pin and Mouse Pad)
- Corner Rounder Punch or Corner Chomper (Optional)
- 12" Paper Trimmer
Before I get into the photographic steps, I figure we should just dive in with a video lesson! The video features one of the variations of the book, but it will seal the deal for you on how easy this is.
Album Instructions
1. Fold the ten Green pages in half, and burnish the creases with a bone folder.
2. Trim the 7x10" Dark Blue binding tab piece horizontally at 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1" to create ten 1x7" pieces. Optional: Round two corners of each binding tab with a punch or Corner Chomper.
3. Accordion fold each 5x9" Brown Spine piece. Start by folding in half.
4. Bring each "free edge" of the paper up to the folded edge to fold each section in half.
5. Once again, bring each free edge to the nearest folded edge to fold in half, burnishing creases with a bone folder.
6. Reverse the center fold, and fold the remaining sections in half by bringing the mountain fold to the nearest mountain fold.
7. Repeat steps 3-6 for the two remaining Brown spine pieces and use glue or adhesive to hitch them together to make one long accordion spine.
8. Center the spine over the crease of one Green page. (There should be 1" above and below the spine.) Use a paper piercing tool or push pin to pierce through the crease just above and below the spine piece.
9. Using the pierced page as a template, nest the page into three additional pages and transfer the location of the pierced holes to the pages below. Repeat until all pages have been pierced, keeping the original page as the template each time.
10. Place one Green opened page onto a cutting mat; cut a slit into the fold to connect the two pierced holes. Repeat for all remaining pages.
11. Locate the first pleat (mountain fold) of the Brown accordion spine. Insert the folded pleat into the slit of one folded page, from the outside to the inside of the folded page.
12. Repeat to attach all remaining pages to the spine.
13. Open one page to reveal the folded pleat of the spine. Slide a 1x7" Blue binding tab into the spine with the rounded corners facing away from the fold of the page. You may have to wiggle it in to get it through the spine piece. Repeat for all remaining pages. The tabs will secure the spine to the folded pages.
14. Glue the two 1" flaps of the Brown spine to the outside front and back covers of the book.
15. Place adhesive or glue onto one long edge of a Brick inner page. Open one page of the book to reveal the spine pleat. Adhere the Brick page to the spine/binding tab, centered within the book. Repeat for all remaining Brick pages, leaving one Brick page for the outside front cover.
16. Trim the Ivory printed cutapart into sections as indicated by the artwork. If desired, distress the edges of the largest cutapart, center onto the Brick matte and adhere to the outside front cover.
17. Decorate the book with additional cutaparts, embellishments, stamped images and photos.
Be sure to check out the beautiful variations we've designed for this project! They include Winery, Seashore and Flower Garden. You'll want to make a big batch of these for the holidays!
Have a good time with this one . . .
GATHER:
- (10) 7 x 10" Pages - "Green"
- (1) 7 x 10" Binding Tab - "Blue"
- (3) 5 x 9" Spine Pieces - "Brown"
- (11) 4.5 x 6.5" Inner Flag pages - "Brick"
Accordion Hinge Album Online Class
$11.05
THIS IS A DIGITAL PRODUCT SENT VIA EMAIL Build a beautiful, handmade book from any Club Scrap page kit plus one sheet of black mat board. The finished project measures approximately 5x7" and it features a unique accordion hinge spine… Read More
