As a modern artist I am continually intrigued by the many diverse aspects of art we can take up. I also consider that you can spend many hours of pleasure and also obtain much fulfillment from producing your own unusual, yet individual, crafts.

With this in mind I decided to experiment to make an album, which in essence, was not that hard to do. If you already do craft work you are more or less sure to possess a craft knife, since they are very useful.

Hence, what else do we necessitate to bring into play in the sense of materials? You will need some A4 size paper, black may possibly be a general choice, although really you can use any colour. Say two sheets of A4 cardboard (not too thin), only because this has to serve as your cover.

Now you need to select some paper with an interesting design on it. This will be used to conceal your cardboard with and might even have a theme. Alternatively you could use a somewhat plain design.

For example you will at this time realise, the A4 paper selected can be a colour to tone, or actually, be contrasting to your cover paper. As for your page leaves, at this point you will want a punch holer furthermore probably some double sided adhesive tape. Any additional items used are ones you almost certainly already have in your home, apart from the brass screws used to hold the album together.

I would say that you need to cut off about one and a quarter inches from both pieces of your cardboard paper on the left side. This really is to make the flipside of your photograph album. This is your initial stage! Now you are nearly ready to place them back together again with some tape. A masking type would work well here if you have a space between the back as well as the cover of just about a quarter of an inch. Fix this to both sheets.

This is all just fine, but before you can move on you need to position your selected paper to cover up the cardboard with on! Right now you need to cut down the paper to cover it, adding an inch all round to go on top of all the edges. At this time you should now stick the wrong surface of your paper to the cardboard, your real covers, ensuring that you allow an inch overlap all the way around.

Get a clean rag and bear down on it across your cover, going crosswise from one side to the other and make certain that as soon as it sticks, it is nice and smooth. It is right now time to fold inside your overlapping edges carefully, one at a time, and secure them. The hardest part will probably be trying to fold the corners flat.

In my opinion it is better to cover up the insides of your cover. Saying this, I would, as a matter of fact, draw on the same paper as I had selected for my pages. Still you might just utilize a paper that tones in. All you need to do is stick the paper so that it covers the backs of your cover, nevertheless also conceals the whole of your edges.

Now for your inside leaves of paper. You ought to cut these down at this point to fit in your covers. Now we need to make some holes with your punch holer. Obviously these will have to be on the left side edge, on both the back and front. Accordingly place where you would like your holes and punch! This what's more has to be done so that your pages are holed too, and do line up! We are virtually there, put all together your paper sandwiched between your front and back and slot in your inter-joining screws and fasten them. If you wish, you could apply some polyurethane glaze protection.

The author of this article is contemporary artist Anna Meenaghan. Anna creates all kinds of art ranging from realism to abstract art. She also operates an online interactive art community where artists and art enthusiasts alike have a place to meet and exchange their views as well as learn more about art.

Author: Anna Meenaghan

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