Scrapbook Album DIY #1Cover & 1. SeiteCover & First Page [eng sub]

For the cover I already cut out chipboard which is 2mm thick. The spaces between the individual parts have to be about 2mm wide. The album will have 5 pages measuring 15x18cm. And the back and front page of the cover measure 19x17cm, the book spine measures 3x17cm.

And the other spine has to be 1 cm wider: 4x17cm. And on the right side we have the piece that closes the album and it measures 5cm on the narrowest part and 7cm on the widest part. Now, we are going to cut the paper, which lays underneath the chipboard. We are going to glue the chipboard onto this paper and the paper has to be 3cm bigger at the edges.

We are going to need a strong adhesive and glue the chipboard onto the paper. But before that, we are going to cut the paper in a way that makes it easier to glue the paper onto the chipboard. Now, we are going to glue the paper onto the chipboard. Then we are going to bend the cover carefully.

Next, we are going to attach the binding onto the book cover. I already made a video on how to do this binding - you can click here. So now, Im going to apply glue onto the binding. Now, Im going to put something heavy on it until the glue is dry.

Now, the cover is finished. We proceed with the first page. I cut out a paper that measures 30x18cm on the right side and 30x18,8cm on the left side. This flap on the top right mesures 8mm.

Im going to cut off the edges. We are going to use this flap to glue the page together. So we fold the paper up. After folding the flap Im going to attach tape to it.

The paper is open on the left side, because this is the place, where the page is going to be attached onto the binding of the book. And it is open on the top, where we can insert a tag. The tape is attached and now we can glue the page together. The base of the first page is finished.

On the left side the page is going to be attached onto the binding. And on top we have a pocket. Now, we are going to add more flaps to our page. One measures 15x17cm and the other measures 15x15cm.

And we score both at 8mm. This ist the part, where the flap is going to be glued to our page. First, Im going to bend the paper. The flap with the measurements 15x17cm is going to be glued evenly on the left.

Now, we take the smaller flap and glue it onto the flap, that I just glued down. But we leave a distance of 1cm from the egde. Now, it looks like this. Im going to round the corners.

Then, I cut out 2 stripes of paper with the following measurements: 6x14cm and 6x9cm And I made a score line at 8mm. We are going to glue the shorter stripe evenly on the right side. And the longer stripe is going to be attached evenly on the left side of the smaller flap. I already marked the middle of the paper.

Now, Im going to glue it onto the page. Im going to round the edges again. Next, we are going to attach magnets onto the strips. I use instant ahesive.

The front of the first page is finished. For the back of the page we are going to need paper with the following measurements: 15x17cm, 11x13cm, 13x13cm, 15x13cm And we score the papers at 8mm. When the flap (15x17cm) is glued evenly at the right side of the page, we are going to take the paper with the measurements 15x13cm. I already marked the middle of both flaps.

And then we are going to glue it evenly at the bottom of the flap, that we just glued down. Then we take the paper with the measurements 13x13cm. We are going to glue the flap onto the 15x13cm flap, but we leave a distance of 1cm from the edge. We do the same with the 11x13cm flap: We glue it down, leaving a 1cm gap.

Now, it looks like this. Next, we are going to use a template and cut off the edges of the flaps. Im going to round the corners again. And then we are going to attach magnets.

Now, we are going to make a tag. It measures 16x16cm. I made a score line at 1cm. And I drew a half circle at the middle.

Now, Im going to cut that out. On this half circle you can pull out the tag. I already cut out design paper, colored the edges and put tape at the back of the paper. So now we can glue it on our page.

Now, the first page is finished..