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Love 'Leather Strap' Accordion Enhance your scrapbook pages with leather. From "Scrapbooking" episode SCB-522

In this second segment guest Teresa Collins joins host Sandi Genovese to show you how to use leather on your scrapbook pages by creating a strap for an accordion-fold album and by stamping words on leather tags.

Project by Teresa Collins.

Guest Teresa Collins shows ways to use leather in your scrapbook projects.

Materials

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Cover

1. To make accordion book, take all the decorated pages and connect with a 3" leather piece (two per page) with dimensional glue. Place the leather straps 1" from the top and 1" from bottom of the page (figure A).

2. You connect each page with the leather strips and you can create as many pages as you would like (figure B).

Figure A

Figure B

Page One: Love

1. Cut a piece of red paper 3.5" wide by 4.5" high. Cut a piece of black paper 2" wide by 4.5" high (figure C).

2. LOVE (in context)--5" wide x 1.5" high.

3. Staple along the edges of definition. This will allow a photo to slip under the definition if desired (figure D).

Note: Click on the PDF file, below right, to download the "love" page template.

Figure C

Figure D

PDF Download the "Love" page template.

Page Two: Treasure

1. Cut a piece of red paper 4.5" by 2" high.

2. Cut a piece of black paper 4.5" wide by 2.5" high.

3. TREASURE definition: 5" wide by .75" high.

4. Place definition along right edge of card stock leaning to the left sided slant.

5. Staple along the edges of definition. This will allow a photo to slip under the definition if desired.

Page Three: Cherish

1. Cut a piece of red paper 2" wide by 4.5" high.

2. Cut a piece of black paper 2.5" wide by 4.5" high.

3. CHERISH definition: 5" wide by .75" high.

4. Place CHERISH stamp along right upper edge of page. Punch hole and hang with string. Let definition dangle.

5. Staple along the edges of definition. This will allow a photo to slip under the definition if desired.

Page Four: Adore

1. Cut piece of red paper 4.5" wide by 2.5" high.

2. Cut piece of black paper 4.5" wide by 2" high.

3. ADORE definition: 5" wide by .75" high.

4. Place definition 1" from bottom of card stock leaning to a right sided slant.

5. Staple along the edges of definition. This will allow a photo to slip under the definition if desired.

Page Five: Attachment

1. Cut piece of red paper 2.5" wide by 4.5" high.

2. Cut a piece of black paper 2" wide by 4.5" high.

3. ATTACHMENT definition: 5" wide by .75" high.

4. Place definition 1" up from the bottom of the card stock with a slant upward toward the right side. Tie a string to the edge of the right side of the definition about 1" card stock leaning to the left sided slant.

5. Staple along the edges of the definition. This will allow a photo to slip under the definition if desired.

6. To assemble each page, place liquid adhesive on the four pieces of leather and adhere the each page to the strips. Place book on top of each page to secure it until the adhesive has dried.

	Figure E
	Figure F
	Figure G

Cover Page

1. LOVE 1.34" wide by 4.5" high.

2. (Definition) 4/5" wide x .75" high.

3. The tag has black paper on top of tag that is 2" wide by 3" high. Staple black pp on top of page. Place love definition (cut to 1.5" wide by 3" high). Staple along each end of the definition for added interest. Tie string along bottom edge. Staple as desired to tag.

4. Paperclip in along edge of book and secure to tag. Tie knots to the string from the tag. A fun thing to do is add a buckle to a strip of leather and then wrap it around the book. (figure E).

   Note: All edges of card stock for each page and the cover page are inked with distress ink.

5. A couple of other things ideas for using leather in your scrapbooking pages is to use an alphabet stamp and stamp directly on top of the leather to create words (figure F
6. You can also use an engraver to write words onto the leather (figure G).

GUESTS :

Teresa Collins
Rusty Pickle
Salt Lake City, UT
Phone: 801-746-1045
Company Contact: Cindy
Website: www.rustypickle.com