A FOLD OUT MINI-ALBUM ACCORDION !

It is this mini-album “accordion” which I propose to you to carry out. Foldings are very simple and will not pose any problem… It's your turn to play music with this fold-out.

It is an good idea of gift which always gives pleasure to receive.

 The supplies for the mini accordion

For this mini accordion, you will use paper extremely printed on the two faces Style Bazzil or Canson of color.

For me, I was to seek on the site feifeistuff coordinated paper pack CIRCUS.

I chose paper with pea like that with stripes and I printed them on a paper photo chechmate KODAK 165g, one on the recto and the other on the back.

For the covers, I chose the dark orange paper coordinated with the precedents.

When one calculates the cost of the ink and the maintenance of the printer, it is not always an economy to print oneself its papers… but I was in a hurry to put to me at work and I thus chose the fastest way!

If you made like me, print 3 A4 sheets which you will recut so as to have 3 squares of 21cm on side. Otherwise cut these squares in the paper you have.

You will also need a little strong paperboard, neutral adhesive, an ordinary folder… only of good !!!

Start to sort photographs: here I chose 6 photographs that I cut out with 10x10…

One can put some more, you see by yourself, but in this case, some will have to be folded, which can seem completely unaesthetic!

In this data sheet, I give you simply the principle of the mini accordion: it will be with you to adapt it in fontion of what you wish to obtain and to decorate your mini-album with your taste.

Basic folding

Put the first square vis-a-vis you, visible stripes and fold according to one of the diagonals. Mark carefully this fold with the folder. Made by the same way for the second… As for the third, reverse the starting face.

You thus obtain 3 squares folded on their diagonal.

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Turn over the first square and fold into two in the two directions by marking the fold well each time.

When these the last two folds are made, the sheet is folded up almost all alone on it to even form two piled up squares separated by “bellows”, like an accordion

Repeat the preceding operation on the third sheet…

For the second, reverse the front faces to fold ! So as me you made the first fold on peas, made this time the first fold on the stripes! It is important if not, you could not fold up the accordion correctly.

Pose the 3 sheets by making them overlap…

that of the medium having folds reversed compared to the two others.

The assembly and joining

Overlapped the three sheets as on the photograph then stick them with a neutral adhesive.

Stick then your photographs with this same adhesive acid-free on the squares without fold… There is in all 8 squares without fold… two of them, on the same side, will be used with the cover and the bottom of your album accordion…

You can thus lay out 6 photographs! If that does not disturb you to fold the photographs… you can add 6 of them on the inner face and 4 on other side!

In strong paperboard, cut out two squares of 11cm on side. Equip these squares with a matched paper. Let overflow of 2cm in all directions, cut the angles, paste then fold up on the paperboard.

Fix the paperboard cover on before accordion. Stick a ribbon on the face postpones then stick the bottom on the back of the accordion

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It is finished… it is you who did it! Good scrap!

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