Manila Tag Mini Album Tutorial

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Here’s a quick mini album tutorial I created for Graphic 45. You can make it using some manila tags, Graphic 45 Bohemian Bazaar patterned papers, chipboards, tags and ribbon. I’ll be showing you how to bind the mini album using Japanese stab stitching, which is a simple yet pretty binding.

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Materials:

Graphic 45 Bohemian Bazaar Mystical Masterpiece

Graphic 45 Bohemian Bazaar Tags and Pockets

Graphic 45 Bohemian Bazaar Chipboards

Graphic 45 Bohemian Bazaar Stickers

Manila Tags – 2 for the cover, 6 for the inside pages

Ribbon

Sewing Needle

Eyelet

Flowers

Instructions:

1. Select two manila tags as your front and back covers and attach patterned papers to both sides of each. Create a hole template for your mini album spine.  To do this, cut a one inch strip and punch three holes down the centre.

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3. Using your template, punch holes through both covers and all the inside pages.

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4. Thread your ribbon through a sewing needle. To begin, take your needle down hole 2, leaving a 3” tail. Then bring your needle up through hole 1.

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5.  Take your needle around the spine of hole 1, then thread back up hole 1 again.

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6. Wind your ribbon round the top of the mini album then back up through hole 1 again. Next, bring your needle down hole 2 and up through hole 3. Now repeat at hole 3 what you did at hole 1. That is, wind the ribbon round the spine of the hole 3, up through hole 3, down the bottom of the mini album, then up through hole 3 again.

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7. Bring your ribbon up to hole 2, tie a knot and a pretty bow and you’re done binding your tag mini album. Now decorate to your heart’s delight.