Wilna's "dress up and dance" frame album kit instructions

 

Wilna has created this awesome mini album using square frames she purchased at Ikea! Here are the step by step instructions to creating this fabulous book! I also wanted to let you know, if you don't have an Ikea store close at hand.. I was able to pick up a couple of 5"x5" square wood frames at the Dollar store the other day.. so i could try my hand at her project! They are wood and need to be painted, but they will work great! I am sure you can square frames at most craft stores.. or even a 5x7 frame would be cute too!

Thanks Wilna!

Christy


 

 


 

 

About the "dress-up and dance" Album.
 

This looks so complicated but in fact is very easy to make!
 

1. I used 2 little fames (7"x7") from IKEA as the front and back covers.
2. Then I used a piece of cardstock cut the same hight as the fames and fold it like an accordion so that I had 10 folds that was 1.5" wide. (please look at the detailed pictures to get a better understanding)
3. My pages is a 5th avenue paper fold in half and cut 7" high. I embellished the pages first and then I adhered them to the accordion. Because my frames was 7", and the inside pages is only 6", I compensated a little by not adhering the pages the whole width of the accordion, but only to about 0.5" of the accordion.
4. To adhere the pages and covers to the accordion, start with the front cover. I used a staple gun to adhere the cover to the accordion "backbone". Then I used a pretty paper to finish off the front and back covers so that it look neat. (I used the pretty blue with the sparkly dots)
5. So, as you can see in the pictures, the pages are actually pockets... so you can add pictures or tags there.
6. I added some clips I bought at Staples (they were just perfect black and white)