Inside info on tabbed mini book

Good morning Bloglanders

As promised, I'm back to share how I made my tabbed mini book. As I have a whole lot of little, crafty Bloglanders who read my posts and don't have all the tools that I assembled through the years, I'll also share my option B - for those without the tools!

This is what my finished book looked like:

And these are the examples I made to show how you make them:

On the left is the one made with my tools and on the right the one without.  Actually, I like the one without more!

This is the die that I've used to cut my pages:

As I wanted my pages to form a "pocket", I folded my paper and moved it a bit to the right for it to miss the cutting edge of the die on the left.

I used my good old Cuttlebug to cut the page and decided to add a flower window as these pages are going to become cards and I want the sentiment to peek out from behind.

I just added some vellum to the back of my peek-a-boo flower and glued 2 edges of the pocket.



Plan B was even easier.  I folded a piece of paper over, cut it into a 3 and a half inch square, punched the 3 holes in and added a homemade tab.  For the tab I just cut a square of paper, folded it in half and used my corner rounder to shape the top.  For this one, I just cut out the shape that I wanted and punched out the little heart. Easy peasy!

If I have time today, I'll be converting these two pages into cards for my Xmas pressie stash. "If you go the extra mile, you'll be miles ahead".

I'm off to do my household chores.  Have a great day and please come back to play.

Tabbed mini inside pages

Good evening Bloglanders

It's Sunday evening in (not so sunny) SA.  We had a lot of rain over the weekend and it's icy cold.  We spent most of our time indoors.  I'm making a tablecloth for my dining room table and want to try my hand at a fabric bag for the upcoming summer.  I'll keep you posted!

As promised, the inside pages of my mini tabbed book.  Do you still remember what it looks like? The front page again:

If you missed the post, please click here. And these are my inside pages:

Once again, I only used scraps and offcuts from my desk.  I've already started to fill up the mini folder with pictures and journaling from a recent trip.  Of course, I'll share once it's done!

I came up with a very good idea for making the envelope style pages.  If you check back tomorrow I'll share my idea with you.  That's it from me. I'm off to watch the late night movie on TV with my hubby.  Have a great week and please come back to play.

Tabbed mini folder

Good evening Bloglanders

I know - this is my second post for the day and I also know that I can schedule it to go live tomorrow morning BUT I don't work like that. If I've got something to share - I do it ASAP.  My hubby is out of town, both the boys and girlfriends otherwise occupies and dinner done.  So, I've got time to share this tabbed mini folder that I made last week - one for myself and 3 kits to give away. You might remember (only a few hours ago!) that I shared the code book that I covered from scraps on my desk.  Well, it was left over from this project:

And the back:

Funny how things work out. I love a "botanical look" and when I received this paper pack as a freebie I didn't know what to do with it as it's a bit much for a layout.  For a mini book nothing can ever be too much (hie hie hie) so out came the stack. I did the whole thing except the little red square on the front.  Then my husband brought me a little package from the post office and this was in it:

It's from here.  As it matched with my homemade artwork on the back cover, I immediately used the red hand.  I just love how everything fits together.

Today I checked the color combo of The Play Date Cafe and it is:

Great minds think alike don't you think.  Well, I'm submitting my little folder for the challenge! If you want to visit The Play Date Cafe, click here.

For those of you who want to see the inside  pages, please check back as I'll be sharing them right here.  I'll also show you my method for easy pocket pages.

I'll have my "luxury weekend away" pics printed tomorrow and they are all going into my tabbed mini.  The botanical theme would be perfect!

Enjoy the rest of your day and please come back to play.