Thank you for all your kind comments for my baby accordian album in the gallery! Apologies to anyone who thought it was a challenge from SCS. My LSS had a PMS scrapbooking day. PMS stands for Pizza/Massage and scrapbooking. We were given a few items and the challenge was to put together the album or scrapbook page (whichever we chose).
For anyone who doesn't know which album it is, here's a link:
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The printed paper is made to be turned into an accordian album. It is just over 3 3/4 inches wide and is scored every 3 3/4 inches. The 12 x 12 page becomes 3 strips once it is cut and the extra strip after scoring is used to attach the 3 strips together to make a long accordian. The pink paper is just to add some stability to it. It is 4 inches wide and scored the same as the printed paper.
Page 1 has a shaker box made out of round slide mounts. I put it throught my xyron and added the opalescent glitter, then covered it with diamond glaze. The image inside is from "Fairy Nice". It was stamped on shrink plastic and then shrunk and used as the back of the shakerbox. The laugh and Love tags are also stamped on shrink plastic, shrunk and glued on with diamond glaze.
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"BABY" on pg 2 is the letterpress alphabet stamped with versamark on green cardstock and then cut out. The bottlecap has a "Fairy Nice" fairy stamped on shrink plastic, shrunk, glued into the cap and then covered in Diamond Glaze. I also sprinkled on some opalescent glitter.
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The next page has another fairy. It also has a metal tag that was stamped with stazon, colored in pearlex and then covered in Diamond Glaze. Can you guess that I like Diamond Glaze?
The file folder on the next page is from CTMH.
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The Green squares on the back are 3 1/2 by 3 1/2. The are notched the the Basic Grey notching tool to add pictures. There are tags tucked behind them that are 2 3/4 by 4 inches. The pop tab that you can see was painted with Making Memories paint, covered in Diamond glaze and them sprinkled with Opalescent glitter. The Flower is a sizzix diecut out of clear and white shrink plastic that is shrunk, coloed with pearlex and then the clear one is laid over the white one and it is fused together in the oven.
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The outer cover is 4 1/2 inches wide. I used the full 12 inches of the paper plus another 1 3/4 by 4 1/2 inch piece for the front flap. On the first 4 1/2 by 12 inch piece. I scored at 3 3/4 , 5 3/4, 9 1/2 and 11 1/2. The flap is attached to the remaining 1/2 inch piece and then the corners are clipped off. The green piece is a 4 1/2 by 5 1/2 piece that is covering a mistake ( shhh...don't tell anyone
). It is scored at 1 3/4 and gives some extra stability to the front. The sewing was done before it was attached.
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Hope that helps anyone who wanted to know. Let me know if anything isn't clear
Have fun making it. It was definitely a labor of love and took many hours I joked with my pregnant girlfriend that someone had better have a girl b/c it was going to be a gift, but now I think I want to keep it!
PMS challenge / Accordian album instructions
