For playing an instrument in REUNION ISLAND … make a minialbum accordion !

Emma works and lives with the Réunion Island (Indian Ocean) ! The lucky one ! You can find her on his blog very coloured and filled of strange flowers!

Since how long do you scrap ?

I discovered this leisure by dividing into sheets a magazine during summer 2005. the idea challenged me and allured, but for lack of know-how I dont succeed. Then in January 2006… I traversed the 10.000km which separate me from France to follow an intensive training course ! just to learn the bases….and to launch me in the adventure….

What do you prefer to do out of Scrap?

I preferably did not mark… from paper cutting, to stamps and inks while passing by some points of seam… I like to diversify, continue to learn, to discover… with an extra for the realization of pages mosaic and of mini albums, allowing me to make a digest of these continuations of magic moments immortalized by our cameras.

Which are your preferred colors?

I like all the colors when it is scrap-time! eh yes because those depend for much the photograph… An attraction one will say for the blue ones and all these colors sands, ground, ocher, chestnut, Natural green…

What brings Scrap to you?

A true pleasure of offering page or minialbums to allow us to revive of the privileged moments of our life… pleasure of having created, carried out these short periods of life which one will keep in memory…

Scrap enables me also little by little to discover the other scrap-women ones via the Net… and to share. It is astonishing… I have the impression to be less further!!!

To discover the Emma and her blog :

Bibliography

The first months of the life of baby are filled of magic moments: immortalisez them by making a scrap mini-album, a tender and strange way to continue to make live the memories.

Forms ever seen for your albums. 20 projects and their alternatives: mini notebooks for stamp collections, notebook of envelopes, albums in triangles, albums sheets of lotus or clover sheets, accordions without end, serpentines with small pockets, notebooks of voyage, etc

This book present of the original ideas to make its mini albums of A to Z. You will learn techic and easy ways for scraper the small sizes, to carry out their structure, the design of the interior pages, the front page like binding.

Supplies requirement

(For a base of 10/12 pages…)

A large sheet of paper canson (format 65x50)
Cardboard
Printed paper falls
A ribbon

Manufacture

Cut out 3 bands of 14cm height in the large Canson sheet of paper.

Mark folds all the 14cm and fold up the band in accordion. You must thus obtain 4 squares of 14cmx14cm + 1 little rectangle of 14cm broad top X 9cm … the zone shaded on the photographs!!!

These paper 9cm will enable you to make the connections between each band by losing less paper!!!

To connect your bands… put adhesive on the shaded zone, either the right end of the last square (A4) and to so on affix the second cut out band (or the back of B1)……

For the 3rd band you can on the other hand cut out this rectangle….since one will stick this last page on the front page.

Our accordion is now ready to be decorated… For the cover cut out 2 squares of 15x15cm in cardboard.

On the interior… paint and will enclose the edges

On outside… recover of a printed paper form!!! Then decorate the cover

Made in the same way for the bottom cover.

Put in scene each one of your pages according to the photographs and the topic selected… This album I chose certain pages a cutting in plates to give an effect of lightness…

Put on stage each pages according to the photographs and the topic selected… For this album I chose for some pages a cutting in slices to give an effect of lightness…

For this technique of cutting in slices, nothing very complicated ….you does not take to reference mark… you cut out the photo !!! Attention not to cut out on a character, a monument… to keep all its value to him.

Your slices will vary between 0,3cm and 1,5cm… As we are making a mini album, vary cuttings… simply on the right of the photograph, or on the left,….simply in top or simply in bottom… all will depend of the size of the subject on the photograph….

The end result

Attention, before sticking your accordion on the front pages do not forget to pass a ribbon, a cord below….for closing!!!

Well flat lay out your cardboard, the interior face towards you, pose the ribbon…

Paste the back of all the 1st page of the accordion in top and in bottom of the page… leave a not stuck zone so that your ribbon can slide at the time of the opening/closing of the minis… Then repeat the same thing with the last page.

Here some photographs with a sight of back, face and top!!!

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On the same principle, come to discover a second mini-album accordion… HERE

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