How Do You Assemble An Appealing And Attractive Photograph Album!…

Handicrafts at the moment seem to be becoming more popular every day. Whether it is canvas painting, candle making, scrap booking, or even decoupage, you name it, we seem to love it, all through to art prints.

As a modern artist I am regularly intrigued by the many diverse aspects of art we can take up. I also believe that you can spend many hours of enjoyment and also achieve much satisfaction from producing your own particular, yet individual, crafts.

With this in mind I decided to experiment to produce an album, which in essence, was not that difficult to do. If you already do craft work you are more or less guaranteed to possess a craft knife, because they are very useful.

As a result, what else do we need to use in the means of materials? You will need some A4 size paper, black may possibly be a general choice, even though really you can make use of any colour. Say two sheets of A4 cardboard (not too thin), only for the reason that this has to serve as your cover.

Now you need to decide on some paper with an attractive design on it. This will be used to conceal your cardboard with and may well even have a theme. On the other hand you could use a somewhat ordinary design.

For example you will at this point realise, the A4 paper chosen can be a colour to tone, or in effect, be contrasting to your cover paper. As for your page leaves, at this point you will have need of a punch holer furthermore probably some double sided tape. Any additional items used are ones you almost certainly already have in your home, apart from the brass screws used to hold the album together.

I would say that you need to cut off about one and a quarter inches from both pieces of your cardboard paper on the left side. This really is to assemble the flipside of your album. This is your initial stage! Now you are nearly ready to put them back together again by way of some tape. A masking type would do well here if you have a space between the back as well as the cover of just about a quarter of an inch. Do this to both sheets.

This is all very well, but before you can move on you need to lay your chosen paper to hide the cardboard with on! Right now you need to cut out the paper to cover it, adding an inch all around to go over all the edges. At this stage you should now glue the wrong surface of your paper to the cardboard, your actual covers, ensuring that you allow an inch overlap all the way around.

Get a clean cloth and bear down on it across your cover, going crossways from one side to the other and make certain that once it sticks, it is nice and flat. It is right now time to fold within your overlapping edges methodically, one at a time, and secure them. The hardest part will most likely be trying to fold the corners flat.

In my judgment it is better to cover up the innards of your cover. Saying this, I would, to tell the truth, draw on the same paper as I had chosen for my pages. Still you could just draw on a paper that tones in. All you want to do is stick the paper so that it covers the backs of your cover, although also conceals all of your edges.

Now for your inner leaves of paper. You want to cut these down at this point to fit in your covers. Right now we need to create some holes by means of your punch holer. Obviously these will have to be going on the left side edge, on both the back and front. Accordingly place where you would like your holes and punch! This what’s more has to be done so that your pages are holed too, and do line up! We are practically there, put all together your paper among your front and back and introduce your inter-joining screws and fix them. If you wish, you could apply some polyurethane glaze protection.