Wednesday 30 November 2011

Christmas TP album

This album is approx 23/4 inches by 5inches and is made from flattened toilet paper rolls. A useful upcycle! It is made to hold small photographs on the pages and tags and I had planned to add these before photographing, however my scanner is inexplicably not working so here they are before - if I get the photos in I will re-post.

First then is the front cover - 'stickled' numbers and a poinsettia made from Paperartsy stamps with a bit of gold tinsel underneath ...


Pages 1 and 2  - a place for a photo on page on page 1 and a fold out 'booklet' on page 2 with spaces for smaller pictures and journaling ...


This next picture shows page 2 open ...


Here are pages 3 and 4 ...


and here the same pages with the tag out of the pocket and the file folder opened ...


Pages 5 and 6 - 5 has a 'bellyband' with a 2 layer tag in it and page 6 is a pocket with 3 smaller tags inside ...


and here are the tags (I like the way the acetate one turned out) ...


Now pages 7 and 8 - a double pocket on page 7 with 2 tags and a booklet held closed with a magnet on page 8 ...


and shown here with the tags out and the booklet open ...


All 5 'pages' hold a tag which fits inside the flattened toilet roll ...


If you've made it this far - thank you - and I apologise for the poor quality of the photographs (I think I need to try a lightbox). The main inspiration for this album came from Belinda Akers who has a great Utube channel. Other ideas included are my own or from various Utube tutorials that I found using 'tp mini album' as a search term. Thank you to all of the people who share their work in this way.




4 comments:

  1. You put so much work into this album,it is fab!

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  2. THAT is stunning! Hard to believe it's made from flattened toilet paper rolls ! I recycled some old cd's and made a little memory album for my mum's birthday!

    Thanks for sharing.

    Jackie

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  3. How fab! And a great way to recycle the tubes!

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