AN ALBUM OUT OF COFFEE FILTERS… not need to sweeten it !

how long have you been scrapping? 

I began scrapbooking in 2006

 What do you prefer to do with scrapbooking ?

To find new ideas of sketches, to make pages and the most original mini album, and to give pleasure around me by offering "deteriorated books", limp decorated, painted canvas… etc…

 Which are your preferred colors? 

blue !

 What brings scrap to you? 

The scrapbooking enables me to embellish all my photographs which are thus development. The albums are so much pleasant to look at, I like to show them to my family and my friends and to share all my creations and new products with the Net surfers via my www.passioncarine.com site

This creative leisure also makes it possible to excell myself and seek novel methods in order to be different.

It is a way also of escaping from my daily life and to go back to my memories and of making them live.

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 the material used for this album filters coffee

Material available:

- Coffee Filters (here I chose the size number 4).
- Scissors and cutter.
- Massicot if you have.
- Carpet of cutting
- Rule/Adhesive/Papers/ 
- various embellishments:  (ribbons, brads, flowers, passes ribbon, magix mesh etc…)

STAGE 1

Choose your photographs and their places in the album (those which will be stuck on the front of the filter and those which will be in guides inside the filter).

Position the front face up.

 
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CAUTION !
Prepare your album while thinking of putting ALL the coffee filters in the same direction!

EASY WAY : You can make a gauge with the paperboard coffee filter box you have. The model is drawn on the back of the box, you've just to cut it out !

Sometimes, the coffe filter drawn on the back of the boxes, represent the outside OR the interior of the filter (that depends on th ebrand). Be attentive !

In my explanation, my gauge was with EXTERNAL dimensions of the filter.

STAGE 2

Preparation of the outside of the filters :
Cut out as many papers as faces of your coffee filters using the gauge.

For the making of my album, I need 5 coffee filters.
I thus prepare 10 cuttings which I will stick in front of and behind each coffee filters. There are 5 cuts recto and 5 cuts back (attention this is important because the coffee filter has a round angle: thus pay attention in your cuttings! .

Caution: take a SELF-COLOURED paper for the first coffee filter since it will be the cover and coordinate the color of your papers according to your photographs.

 STAGE 3

Preparation of the interiors (guides) of the filters:

Cut out as many papers as of coffee filters using your gauge. Here, I cut out 5 of them with dimensions FACE ! so that the guides can return in each filter.

You can if you wish make them a little smaller than the gauge. Thus your guides will not exceed out of filters.

Once your cuttings are finished, lay out them with their place in order to see your album.

Easy way : Preserve your paper offcuts, they will be useful for matting your photographs, to embellish your pages etc….

  STAGE 4

We will begin the making of the album. We start initially with the first guide because the cover will be made at the end.

You can cut out your photograph according to your desire, or leave it whole. It's up to you to see….

Then it is time to stick your photograph on your guides and embellish them according to your taste and your material !

I propose in my album to put numbers on each guide in order to allow the user easily find itself his way...

If you want, here is my explanation:

Make in first your number because you will integrate it under the photograph or as an embellishment in order to hide the cardboard.

Cut out a very thick paper, coloured cardstock type or fine paperboard (but in this way it will have to be covered with paper), dimension: 2X5cm. Stick under the photograph or the guide or an embellishment.

 STAGE 5

To embellish my first guide, I choose some offcuts of paper, I cut out rounds which I stick on my guide in order to mat the photograph.

I use a self-adhesive alphabet tag for my title. I add some flowers and I fasten matched ribbons and a button.

Once finished, it will be time to place it in the first filter.

As you can see, it exceed of the filter !

 STAGE 6

Now, we will make the first page of the album.

I provide myself with my first cutting of Recto paper and my photograph. I cut out my photograph, I stick offcuts on my paper, and I stick her above. Then it is time to embellish as I did previously. Once finished, I've to stick this first page on the coffee filter.

CAUTION: according to the adhesive that you use, it is better to put a gauge out of paperboard inside the filter (if you cut out the gauge on the filters box at the beginning, take it, he will make the deal very well) to prevent that he does not stick on the other side of the filter.

 Once you finished embellishing all your pages and guides stick papers envisaged to the back of each coffee filter.

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According to the thickness of paper, I advise you to put the coffee filter once stuck in a thick book to flatten and let dry.

ATTENTION DO NOT STICK THE FRONT COVER OF THE FIRST FILTER AND THE BACK OF THE LAST FILTER.

 STAGE 7

Once finished your guides and stuck your pages EXCEPT the front of the cover and the back of the album, we will bind the pages.

Join together only the coffee filters as on the photograph (I want to say that the guides should not be put).

CAUTION: IT IS IMPORTANT THAT ALL THE COFFEE FILTERS ARE PERFECTLY SUPERIMPOSE

 STAGE 8

With the assistance of a needle, a thimble and a wire, I sew the BOTTOM of all the filters, and this in several points.

Caution: sew well right and not in zigzag, if not, the seams will be seen when you will look in your album.

 STAGE 9

Once the finished seam, you can stick the back of the cover.

And embellish it if it is wished!

You have now to make the cover of the album.

Embellish with your taste this page before to stick it.

Add all your guides and admire your work!
The mini ALBUM is FINISH ! Good Job !

Good scrap!

 The site of Carine

This data sheet is also available in French language on Carine's site (http://www.passioncarine.com)

 On her site you will be able to find other models of mini-album and a crowd of other scrapbooking achievements!

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