Hi! Caroline here with a flag book class for the cyber crop.I've been asked many times how to make a flag book so I'm hoping this class will take the mystery out of it for you.They are a great little book for holding lots of small pics and the pages can be used for journalling also.
I've been crafting of some sort most of my life ranging from painting to salt dough and many more to a very long love affair with needlecrafts and in more recent years papercrafting came to the fore culminating with my discovery of scrapbooking just over 2 years ago.
For myself I'm not bothered about "preserving" my pages for "future generations", I like it as an artistic expression for ME in the HERE and NOW.
Having "retired" from the daily grind of the "Rat Race" earlier this year I now find myself teaching scrapbooking locally and I hold a crop once a month in Cork.
I live with my DH in North Cork with our two furbabies, Buster and RobbiRay and all 3 feature regularly in my scrapping.
Have fun with the class! www.CarolineCreates.blogspot.com
Flag Book
MATERIALS REQD:
3 sheets 12 x 12 cardstock
1 sheet patterened paper
Chipboard for covers
2 ft ribbon
Paper trimmer
Stanley knife
Adhesive
Scissors
Bone folder or if none available use a heavy punch.
1. Cut 2 pieces of chipboard to 3 3/4" x 8" (Photo 1)
2. Trim sheet of cardstock to 8" x 12".
3. Fold in half and crease well with bone folder. (Photo 2)
4. Bring the outside edge in to meet the middle crease and fold again, continue pleating like this till you have 8 peaks and 7 valleys. (Photo 3)
5. Cut two pieces of patterened paper tp 9" x 5". Stick on chipboard, mitre edges and stick down on inside of chipboard cover. (Photo 4)
6. Take the pleated book spine and attach both outside flaps to the inside of chipboard covers, line up the creases with the edge of the chipboard to align properly. (Photo 5)
7. Cut 2 pieces of ribbon approx 12" in lenght, stick a piece down centreways on each chipboard cover (Photo 6)
8. Cut 2 pieces of cardstock to 3 1/2" x 7 1/2" and stick down on the inside of the covers.
9. Cut 18 pieces of cardstock to 3 1/2" x 2 1/2".
10. Take one of these and place a narrow line of glue on the shorter edge at the back of the cardstock, non textured side, and place glue side forward in the valley between the first two peaks sticking it to the peak furthest away from you. Continue until you have the top row complete from front to back. (Photo 7)
11. Repeat as above for the bottom row.
12. For the middle row take the remaining 6 pieces of cardstock and place the glue on the front side of the cardstock, textured side, centre this between the top and bottom rows.
13. Your flag book is now ready for photos,journalling, small mementoes etc. Decorate the covers of the flagbook as liked.
