Woohoo, welcome back to the Summer Love Mini Course! We’re on the home stretch baby! Today marks the final tips & tricks article of the course so I figured I’d build on Amy’s tips for printing your Summer Love Mini pages post from last week and share three non-photobook options for binding your printed Summer Love Mini Album pages.
6×6 Summer Love Mini Binding Options
AC Dear Lizzy / WRMK / AC Modern / Maya Road / Little Yellow Bicycle / Bo Bunny
1) Use a Pre-made Album with Page Protectors
One of the easiest solutions for binding your 6×6 Summer Love Mini pages is to buy a ready-made 6×6-inch scrapbooking album from a company like American Crafts (No. 1 & 3) or We Are Memory Keepers (No. 2).
Simply print your pages 6×6, slip them into the included page protectors and you’re good to go! No messy resizing or hole punching necessary.
2) Use a Chipboard Mini Album or Binder
Another option, if you’d like to get a little more crafty, is to use a 6×6-inch naked chipboard mini album like the ones from Maya Road (No. 4), Little Yellow Bicycle (No. 5), or Bo Bunny (No. 6).
The awesome thing about these naked chipboard albums is you aren’t tied into any specific color-scheme like you are with a pre-made scrapbooking album – you can customize your cover however you’d like using alphas, paint, fabric or even printed digital elements. Then simply print out your Summer Love Mini pages, glue them back to back and hole punch them using the chipboard cover as a guide.
If you’d like to see the Maya Road mini album binder in action, you can see how I customized one for my 30 Days of Lists mini album here.
3) Make Your Own Mini Album
The final mini album option, and my personal fave, is to create your own mini album cover using book board or art board from the craft store and then bind it using binder rings from the office supply store.
If you want to get really fancy, you can even add a fabric spine to your mini to really give it a polished look. I’ve done this for my last two Holiday Faves mini albums and I love the way it makes them look like real little books.
Well I hope this gets the wheels turning for how to bind your Summer Love Mini Album! If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out Amy’s article from last week for tips for printing your pages. We’re on the home stretch but if you’ve fallen behind, never fear! There’s still plenty of time to catch up on your Summer Minis before the class ends.
Coming up next…On Thursday, August 8th, Team Awesome and I will be sharing our Summer Loves No. 9 & 10 and our Summer InstaLoves. See you then!
[catalyst_hook_box name=”summerlovesignup”]
__________________________________________________________________
Previous Summer Love Mini Course posts:
View all Summer Love Mini Course posts here.
Can I take Levitra if I am taking other remedies at the same time
Love this mini course Lynette and I remember the fabric binding tutorial . . . definitely want to try it!
Thanks Maria!