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Mini Album and Brag Books

Wedding Album Brag Book that is Easy to Assemble:Page 2

Two envelopes flip open to left in Wedding Album Brag Book
Envelopes to hold tags on page 2 of Wedding Album Brag Book

While blogging about this easy to assemble wedding album brag book, I realized that the order of my pages got mixed up and these were page 1, not page 2!

Check out the original layout here in my Halloween brag book .

The template pages can go in any order, the only limitation is as we move on to my folios is they have so many flip, flaps, pockets, tags and inserts on the pages that it creates a lot of bulk.

You will see what I mean when we get to those template pages.

I have developed many different templates of interactive pages, such as waterfall, slots, accordion, double trifold pull out, folio style and more. The other templates are for pockets, tags, inserts etc.

Templates are a great resource in brag book building as you don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel and you can use the templates to get many different looks.

Before I go on blogging about the Wedding Album Brag Book, and templates, this is a good place to pause and ask you to subscribe.

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When you subscribe

  • Let me know which of the 12 digital template page you want from the brag books collection.
  • By pages I mean the entire layout for a page, for example, page 4 side 2 is a page that you request.
  • Once you request a template, I will send you the file for the page of your choice free of charge in SVG format.
  • depending on which templated page you choose, the file may consist of many inserts so emailing will not be possible and a download link from dropbox will be provided.
  • These are my template files that I created and if you would like to make the complete book, with the files for cover and spine and all the pages you can purchase from me.
  • The images and embellishments used are not included but any image can be merged with a pocket to create a new look each time. The Silhouette Design Store and Cricut access can be a good place to start looking. I also get lots of my files from Creative Fabrica (that is my affiliate link)

Wedding Album Brag Book Template Page 2 Side 1

Here is a quick look at Page 2 side 1. This template page will be held shut with a belly band, magnetic closures I hope! The first page that you see will have a pocket.

This page will open to the left that there is now a space for a large photo and a waterfall page to the right.

The layout is slightly different from the templated Halloween page and can still be changed to be exactly like that page but I may leave it as is!

Photo the Wedding Album Brag Book template page 2 side 1

  • All closed up with Belly band
  • Belly band open, page with pocket
  • Page flip left to reveal waterfall page on right
  • waterfall pages all flipped up.

This is the Halloween layout

Waterfall page with bellyband
waterfall pages filpped up

Cardstock for pages are from Michaels as well as the decorative paper fro the matting but places Like Amazon also carries cardstock and scrapbook paper.

Wedding Album Brag Book Template Page 2 continued

  • to envelopes that flip open to left
    envelopes to hold tags
  • sloted page to inset tage
    slots to hold tags

This side 2 also is a little mixed up from my Halloween layout.

That is the beauty of these templates …they are flexible and parts can be used or not used, and even swapped around from one page to another, there are so many combinations of what the book can look like.

In the Halloween Brag book, this slotted page had 3 tags with a haunted house roof theme. The page flipped the the left have been replaced by the 2 envelopes, but we will see how I feel when its time to decorate everything.

slotted inset page from Halloween brag book

How you enjoyed the post and keep following as I have 4 more pages, each with 2 side of pull out interactive pages to show you all.

Please subscribe below. Thanks Carolyn

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Creating files Mini Album and Brag Books Template

Making The first page of Brag book 101

After seeing all the beautiful projects on YouTube I really wanted to start building my pages, it is so exciting! Well, I needed to decide what my base page would look like. I decided to go with the “sleeve” page…this is made to two pieces of paper glued on the short ends and the long open ends are attached to the spine, or open for a tag to be inserted. This type of construction seemed sturdier to me; I could be wrong but that is the method I am going to choose.

Once I chose the type of page, the next consideration was the hinge method for the binding. Well did you know that the hidden hinge method is copyrighted/ patented?I DID NOT KNOW!

I did my version of a bookbinding hinges with different spacing and score lines. There is also stack the deck method that looks good. For an example of the hinge I use check out my Shadow card

Now, what will I include on each page?

With so many ideas running through my head, I feel paralyze and decide to sit back to watch people craft on Youtube. It really is entertaining, and I love it!

Eventually, though this blog post keeps calling and it won’t write itself so I decide “I can do this!”  and start my page.

These pages are going to be Halloween themed ( coming up really soon! and I am creating them in no particular order. I also decided to make a wedding album since the pages will be the same only the embellishments and paper will be different! I am going to illustrate only Halloween but I will post my wedding album that will use the same files so you will see how flexible the digital files are.

First the digital file

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Note that Light blue is just the digital color, I will use cardstock from Recollections Ravenshead Manor collection
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Gate on left, matting for behind gate on right. In the middle is what you see when the gate opens: a pocket with a tag.
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The Cut files

When I cut these files with the Silhouette Cameo, I noticed a few adjustments needed to be made.

On side one:

  1. the gate was too big
  2. the pocket under the gate was too large

One side two:

  1. the flap with the pocket would not close because the envelope with the zombie’s hands was too big!
  2. I redid the layout so that the zombie envelope is now on the outside, it also flips open. I added a flap to the inside and may add more see photos below

I have not stuck anything down as I am going to place magnets and cut the matting then glue it all together.

Each page really has two side that need pockets and flaps etc. so page one has a side A and a side B Side A will have the gate that opens to a pocket.

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This is the gate, I will have a mat at the back, the pink is just for visibility

Open the gate and see the pocket where I will have a tag in the shape of a tombstone. This pocket will be on a page that flips up and there will be place for 2 large photos.

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This is the pocket when the gate is open. I will have a tombstone tag for the insert.

Side B of page one:

This is the large envelope.

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The envelope flips over to the left. Space for photos.

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large envelope with Zombie hands

Again the page flips and there is a pocket to the right and a pocket to the left. The pocket with zombie hands is on a flap that opens for large photo mats…..see next photo.

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It took a bit of time to mat the pages and there are a few places that still need matting. When doing the matting I placed my magnets first but found they were very thick so went and got some thinner ones but alas, they are not holding very well…next page I will try a different brand.

I am not going to attach to my binding until all the pages are complete because I want to make sure that I am absolutely finished adding flips and flaps to my page.

So here is the first page:

Side A of page one with the gate, now with the matting. I did not get a chance to go looking for cute doorknobs so I used small brads. This was one place my magnets did not hold. EEKS!

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When the gate opens there is a pocket with zombie hands and a tag. the flat space behind the tag can hold a photo and the tag can be shorter.

This is to show the space for a photo mat that I have not yet completed but each page will have one in the side pocket.

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Side B of Page :

A hinged page pulls to right for photo mat space. On the other side of the zombie’s hands is an envelope

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this opens to reveal another envelope no matting yet and the page opposite has another large envelope with more zombie hands

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This zombie envelope is on a page that flips up

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That is the end of the first page…..

I use the tombstone and zombie hands from the Silhouette design store and the paper is Recollections  Halloween Ravenshead Manor collection.

For my template page subscribe and email me your request.

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Carolyn

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Cards Greeting Cards silhouette design store

Wiper Card and KOKESHI CARDS

From the Silhouette Store by Valerie Foster Design ID #7183

Egads! What is a wiper card and WHAT on earth is a Kokeshi card?

Well, you are in for a pleasant surprise. I was pinning stuff on Pinterest and came across wiper cards tutorial on Youtube.  

I was intrigued! I love any paper projects that has movement in it and this one did.

Basic explanation

When you pull on the sides of the card, there is a piece that pops up. Take a look at the video for a way better feel of how neat this project is.

I looked at the video, made notes and created a digital file so that I can share this with you all. I did find the measurement (slightly different from the video) written out and pinned it to my board, so go take a look if you want to make this but need to cut it all out by hand.

So that takes care of the wiper card part.

What is a Kokeshi card?

The Kokeshi card are cute Japanese doll cards I got on The Silhouette Design Store and I used parts of them in this project.

The project parts

Here is a look at the pieces you will need. This is a mock up on my computer so the actual cardstock I used was blue.

The solid pink is the body of the card. The polka dots are decorative pieces and the grey is the wiper arm.

I cut my card out of  plain blue cardstock. So the two large “pink” pieces are in reality blue below and folded along score lines.

  • card with Z shaped folds on opposite ends

Assemble card

  • Base is cut out
  • Using the measurement given, cut out the white matting for the front and decorative pieces for the side panel mat
  • You can use your own measurements and decorate the front with any measurement of patterned paper you like, there is no one correct way.
This is a modified version of the decorative pieces
This shows the decorative pieces that are in the file
  • Once the front was decorated, I glued the wiper arm piece of the project to the inside of the front of the card.
  • My downloadable file below has a small score line to help line this up.
  • Arm attached to inside of card
  • shows the arm from the front of card
  • Once the pop up arm is lined up and glued down, attach the back piece so that the “Z” shaped folds are on opposite ends. (see photo at the top of the post with the blue card pieces)
  • Decorate with your choice of images. I will use my card as a “hello” card with the Japanese translation on the back “Konnichiwa”

Pulling the sides allow for the two dolls to disappear inside and pop up again.

As I mentioned, I used the dolls from  KOKESHI CARDS by Valerie Foster Design ID #7183 . This design is for 3 cards so head on over to The Silhouetted Design Store and grab the adorable dolls or any one of thousands of other images that can be used.

Thank you for reading and I hope you get to make this card. Subscribe to my blog as I will keep posing files and ideas.

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The PDF file below is for the main body of the card. For decorative parts you can do whatever you like.

Wiper-cardDownload

This link is for the SVG file to cut using Silhouette or Cricut