Post-Bound Album

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Design by:
Tricia Morris
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An album from scratch!
Tricia has her bookmaking and gluing techniques at the ready to make a post bound
album. This album is elegant, professional-looking, and can be customized for any
subject or taste. With a lot of glue and a little patience, you can have a beautiful album
that you will proud to say you made yourself.
FEATURED PRODUCTS
supplies
Club Scrap
• Scratch
Paper
• 8" 8" Post Bound
Album Kit
tools
• Bookbinding Glue
• Foam Brush
• Cutting Mat
• 14" Grid Ruler
• Bone Folder
• Pencil
• Screw Punch or
1/4" Hole Punch
• Scissors
Start ing your Page
This project uses the Post Bound Album Kit from Club Scrap. To do this
project without the kit, you will need the following additional supplies:
(2) 10 1/2" 9" Bookboard Cover pieces, 1/8" thick
(2) 1" 9" Bookboard Spine pieces, 1/8" thick, pre-drilled with 2 holes
(2) Metal Screw Posts
(10) 8" 8" Page Protectors
(1) 9 1/4" 10 1/2" Teal Front Cover Cardstock
(1) 4 1/4" 10 1/2" Turquoise Front Binding Edge Cover Cardstock
(1) 3 1/4" 9" Teal Spine Cardstock, pre-punched with 2 holes,
and scored at 1 3/8" and at 2"
(1) 13 1/2" 10 1/2" Teal Back Cover Cardstock
(2) 11 3/8" 8 1/2" Turquoise Inside Cover Cardstock
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Lay out the pieces of the Post Bound Album Kit from Club Scrap to
identify all of the pieces. Here the front cover pieces are on the left and
the back cover pieces are on the right.
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Lay the teal back cover cardstock piece on the work surface, right side
down. Use the 14" Grid Ruler from Club Scrap and a pencil to draw a
3/4" border on all four sides of the cardstock. This border will be the
guideline for placing the bookboard.
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Apply glue to one piece of the cover bookboard. Squeeze beadlines of
Bookbinding Glue from Club Scrap onto one side of the cover
bookboard.
Use a foam brush to spread the glue from the middle of the
bookboard out to the edges. Make sure to get a smooth,
even coating of glue.
Lay the bookboard glue side down onto the cover cardstock, lining up the edges with 3 sides of the guideline
drawn in Step 2.
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Attach the spine bookboard piece. Squeeze a beadline of glue onto one
side of the spine piece. Use the foam brush to spread the glue out to the
edges of the spine piece. Lay the spine piece glue side down onto the
back cover cardstock, lining it up with the remaining guideline. This
creates a 1/2" gutter between the cover bookboard and the spine
bookboard.
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Lay the cover on top of a cutting mat, with the bookboard
facing up. Use a screw punch or hole punch and punch
through the pre-drilled holes in the spine and through
the cover cardstock underneath.
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Mitre the corners. Stand the 14" Grid Ruler from Club Scrap up on it’s
side and line it up across the corner of the cover cardstock and butted up
against the cover bookboard. Use a pencil to draw a line along the outside
of the ruler. Repeat this for all four corners.
Using scissors, cut off the four corners of the cardstock along
the pencil lines. Now there will be just enough cardstock to
cover the corners of bookboard.
Wrap the bookboard. Train the cardstock where you want it to go by
running a bone folder along all four edges of the cover and spine
bookboard. Fold the cardstock over the bookboard. Make sure that
there is no gap between the edge of the bookboard and the cardstock
that is wrapping around it. This will help ensure that there will be
no wrinkles formed during gluing.
Run a beadline of glue onto one long flap of the cover
cardstock along the edge of the bookboard. Use the
foam brush to spread the glue evenly across the surface
of the flap.
Use the bone folder to wrap the glue-coated flap around
the edge of the bookboard. Hold the flap in place for a few
seconds to give the glue a chance to take hold. Repeat gluing for
the remaining long flap.
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When applying glue to the flaps, start and stop the beadline of glue
about an inch from the corners. Then spread out the glue to the edges.
This will prevent too much glue from pooling in the corners.
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Fold the corners. At each corner, there is now a tiny flap of cardstock
extending past the edge of the bookboard. Using your finger or the tip of
the bone folder, tuck the tiny flap in against the edge of the bookboard,
similar to wrapping a package. Do this for each corner.
Apply glue to the two short flaps with the foam brush, and
wrap the flaps securely around the bookboard.
Run the bone folder along the edge of all four sides of the
covered bookboard to give a nice crisp edge to the cover.
Using a bone folder rather than a makeshift tool to smooth the
cardstock into place will prevent the cardstock from being scarred.
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Applying the cardstock to the spine and cover bookboard has covered
up the pre-drilled holes on the spine. Place the back cover on a cutting
mat with the right side facing up and use a screw punch or hole punch
to re-punch the holes.
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Attach the inside back cover piece. Place a piece of scratch paper on
the work surface and lay the inside cover cardstock right side down on
the paper. Apply beadlines of glue to the cardstock. Use the foam brush
to spread the glue out evenly all the way to the edges of the cardstock.
Always spread the glue from the center of the cardstock to the outer
edges.
Carefully pick up the glue-coated inside cover cardstock. Start from the
short edge of the album that does not have the holes and begin laying
the cardstock onto the inside of the back cover, centering the cardstock
on the cover from top to bottom and leaving a matching
margin along the short edge of the cover.
As the paper is being laid down, smooth it over the
surface of the bookboard, until reaching the gutter
between the cover piece and the spine piece. At the
gutter, use the pad of your fingers to work the paper
down into the gutter. Then continue smoothing the
cardstock onto to the spine piece. Use the bone folder to
smooth the inside cover and work out any air bubbles.
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Place the back cover on a cutting mat, right side up. Use a screw punch
or hole punch and re-punch the pre-drilled spine holes which have now
been covered by the inside cover cardstock. Now the back cover
is finished.
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Begin the front cover. The front cover uses two pieces of cardstock, a
turquoise piece and a teal piece. Lay the two pieces side by side and
right side down on the work surface so that they form one large rectangle.
Use the Grid Ruler and a pencil to make a guideline 3/4" in along
the 4 edges of the rectangle. This guideline will help with the
placement of the bookboard.
Set a boundary for glue on the bookboard. Lay the front
cover bookboard piece across the two pieces of cardstock.
The bookboard should be flush along the 3 sides of the
guideline on the larger (turquoise) piece of cardstock.
Lay a ruler on the bookboard, lining it up where the two pieces of the
cover cardstock meet, which is about 2" from the edge of the bookboard. With a
pencil, draw a line on the bookboard along the edge of ruler.
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Squeeze beadlines of Bookbinding Glue from Club Scrap onto the front
cover bookboard in the larger space denoted by the pencil line. Use the
tip of the foam brush to spread the glue neatly along the pencil line.
From there fan the rest of the glue out across the bookboard.
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Lay the bookboard, glue side down, onto the large (turquoise)
cover cardstock piece, lining it up on three sides along
the guidelines. Push the bookboard down into place.
By holding the bookboard when spreading the glue, you keep the
glue where you want it, on the bookboard, not the work surface.
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Turn the cover over so the right side is facing up. Now there is a pristine
area on which to glue the smaller (teal) cover cardstock piece. Use the
tip of the foam brush and spread glue onto the bookboard along the edge
of the cardstock that was just glued into place. Spread glue over
the entire area of exposed bookboard.
Lay the smaller cover cardstock onto the exposed
bookboard, butting it up against the large piece of
cardstock.
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Turn the cover over so the exposed bookboard is facing up. Glue and
attach the spine bookboard along the remaining guideline in the same
manner as in Step 4.
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Lay the front cover on a cutting mat and use a screw punch or
hole punch to punch down through the pre-drilled holes of
the spine bookboard and through the cover cardstock
underneath.
Fold and glue the flaps of the front cover in the same
manner as done in Steps 5 – 10 for the back cover. Make
sure to re-punch the spine holes after gluing the flaps.
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Assemble the album. Fold the spine cardstock piece along the pre-scored
lines.
Lay the two covers side by side on the work surface with the spine pieces
together. Separate each screw post into its components: the post
and the screw. Thread one post through the top hole of the
back cover spine. Thread the other post through the bottom
hole of the cover spine. Fold the spine piece back against
the cover.
Fit one set of holes of the spine cardstock over the posts.
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Thread 10 – 20 page protectors onto the posts.
Fold the spine cover piece over and slide the holes onto the posts.
Fit the front cover onto the posts and then screw the
other screw component of the posts on, securing the
covers and pages together. Add decorative touches to
the album as you like.
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Post-Bound Album
Different Shapes and Sizes
Post-bound albums can be made in any size, and since you’re making it,
you can use the cardstock of your choosing. This 8" 8" orange album
uses a delicately patterned paisley cardstock to create a warm, elegant
feel. The 6" 6" blue album uses a more whimsical print.
Inside and Out
This gorgeous post-bound album measures 12" 12". And of course, the cover coordinates
perfectly with the inside pages.
Congratulations
You’ve just completed your Post-bound Album, but the fun doesn’t stop there!
Be sure to stop back by The Scrapbook Lounge every week for more exciting new twists on scrapbooking!
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