Flip album tutorial Part 1.

Flip album. Free tutorial part 1.
Base pages

"Gears"

This tutorial will give you the base album that you can use any colour way to suit. I have chosen these masculine colours and called this one 'Gears' 

In part 2 I will be adding pages and there will be pockets for notes and tags and extra photo mats.

In part 3 I will be embellishing, making tags and using dies to make the 'Gears' using distress technique.

Now off you go and make the base so you are ready for part 2.

I'm going to show you the first part of the 2 part tutorial on how to make this flip album, decorated especially for a male.

Supplies:

Scissors
Double sided tape - white
Double sided tape - red extra strong.
4 pieces of 12" x 12" card stock. 2 of 1 colour  (B) (I used brown), 1 of each co-ordinating colours. ( A + C) ( I used cream and green)
A cutting/scoring tool with bone scorer

Instructions:

Back cover:

Make 1. Cut green card stock (C) 6' x 12" . Score at 2 3/4" and 3". Then rotate and repeat on the other side. 

Fold along both score lines.

Pages:

Cut the brown (B) 12" x 12" in  to two  5 3/4" x 12" pieces. Score at 3 " on either end of each piece. Fold with score tool. 

Cut the remaining Green (C) 12" x 6" down to 5 3/4" x 12" and score at 3" each end then fold.

These make up the base pages.

Cover pieces:

Using the cream  (A) 12" x 12" card stock cut 4 pieces 5 1/2 " x 5 1/2"

Assembling the base album:

Using glue ( I used double sided tape around the edges and glue stick in the middle)

Adhere 3 folded pages in this order

B to C to B.

Adhere the 12" x 6" cover (C) to the back of the centre page, ensuring that the page sits squarely between the inner crease folds of the cover. I used the red double sided tape and glue stick for extra hold.

Build the front and back covers by sandwiching the 4 (A) pieces to the cover page (C) colour  2 each side, attach and glue these to the cover 

This is the basis of your album and should look like this.

In the next tutorial I will show you how to decorate and 'add' extra pages to make it into a photo album to keep.