I really wanted to share a wonderful tutorial that Amy posted on the Hawt Mama Blog. It is wonderfully written and the end result is sure to please.

 In 2004 we went to California for a wedding and I took a lot of beach pictures of my son jumping in the ocean for the first time. My son LOVED it so I decided to make him a little paper bag album that he can keep in his room and look at whenever he wanted.

Supplies Used:
He’ll Break Your Heart Kit
adhesive
paper trimmer
hole punch
3 or 4 paper bags (any colour)
white cardstock (or if you have some patterned cardstock that you won’t ever use that has a white back to it you can use that)
ink, brads, blossoms. ribbon, buttons, binder ring

First thing I did was create 12 mini quickpages, 2 cover pages and 10 inside pages. Traci has some great Quick Albums available for a lot of her kits so you can avoid this step if you wanted to use those.

I sized the pages down to 5×5 and a couple down to 4.5×4.5 and printed them out on my white cardstock and then cut them down to size.

I will be using 3 paper bags for this project. I folded each paper bag in half making sure there is a good crease on the fold. You may want to stagger your pages so one half isn’t thicker than the other.

The next step is to punch holes in your paper bags. Once you have finished that its time to glue on all your pages. After my pages were glued on I inked all the edges of the paper bag with dark brown ink. Next I added extra embellishments to the pages to make them pop with that 3 dimensional look. Then I lined up all the pages again, put the binder ring on and tied some ribbon around the ring.

Thats pretty much all there is to it! Hope you have fun making yours and thanks for hanging out on the blog with me today!

Thanks Amy for letting me post it here on our blog as well. I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did.

~Tara~

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