Well this month we will be making Mini Albums!! Now you may be wondering what is so green about mini albums???? These mini albums are made from toilet paper rolls! Yes you heard that right TOILET PAPER ROLLS!
To start you will need about 5-7 toilet paper rolls to make your album. YOu can use as many as you want but 5-7 is usually a good number.
Flatten the rolls in half, lengthwise.
Each roll will need to be covered in your background paper. Cut the paper 5 1/2 by 6 inches (Thinner paper works well for this, the toilet paper roll will give the pages all the weight they need to stay rigid so heavy paper is not needed)Place the flatten roll on the back side of the paper. The 5 1/2 inch side is lengthwise. Glue down the top half of the roll to the paper, leaving the bottom half unglued for now.
Fold over the left side of the paper, over the roll to cover up the opening and glue down.
Glue the exposed roll and fold the roll up onto the paper. There will be some paper hanging over the edge. tuck that extra paper under the other side of the roll (Where you left the side partially unglued) Then glue down the paper.
Stand the roll on end and fold the remaining edges down the tube and glue in place. This creates a pocket.
Now the page base for your album is complete.
On the top left corner of your page (on the side of the page that is closed) attach a large eyelet. The bigger the eyelet the better as you will be attaching the pages to a ring.
Your page is now ready to decorate! The pocket side can hold journaling notes or extra pictures or even memorabilia like tickets or such. Create as many pages as needed for your album. I like to create all of my base pages at once and then go back and decorate as needed. Once done attach all the pages to a ring (or you could use ribbon or something else to keep the pages together.) For my album I used a ring and then tied ribbon around it to cover the ring a bit.
Here is my album finished. All that is needed is some pics from my birthday last night and I will be all done! 
So come on over to Challenge Masters to check out all the great submissions. There are also tons of other fabulous challenges going on right now.
Can't wait to see everyone's albums!
Glue the exposed roll and fold the roll up onto the paper. There will be some paper hanging over the edge. tuck that extra paper under the other side of the roll (Where you left the side partially unglued) Then glue down the paper.
Stand the roll on end and fold the remaining edges down the tube and glue in place. This creates a pocket.
Now the page base for your album is complete. 
On the top left corner of your page (on the side of the page that is closed) attach a large eyelet. The bigger the eyelet the better as you will be attaching the pages to a ring.
Your page is now ready to decorate! The pocket side can hold journaling notes or extra pictures or even memorabilia like tickets or such. Create as many pages as needed for your album. I like to create all of my base pages at once and then go back and decorate as needed. Once done attach all the pages to a ring (or you could use ribbon or something else to keep the pages together.) For my album I used a ring and then tied ribbon around it to cover the ring a bit.
Here is my album finished. All that is needed is some pics from my birthday last night and I will be all done!
So come on over to Challenge Masters to check out all the great submissions. There are also tons of other fabulous challenges going on right now.
Can't wait to see everyone's albums!
This is soo stinking cute! I LOVE it! Now to find some tp rolls!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute idea..
ReplyDeleteThis is adorable great job!
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