Making a 6X6 Accordion Album

To make an accordion album is very simple. Usually I use glue stick, it works just fine. But if you are making a bigger album, I would suggest to use liquid glue, any liquid glue that is, it holds much stronger.

Make sure glue is all over the mounting board, especially the edges too!

When cutting off corners, just make sure that the width between the mounting board and the paper is the same length as the height of the mounting board. Just so that corners will look much neater when there are ample space for folding in corners

After applying glue to flap just bring the mounting board forward like so, to minimise the air bubbles from getting in between paper and board

Use scorer to fold in the sides.

This is how my covers will look like when finish.

Now when adding ribbons to albums, adhere end of ribbon with double sided tape,

Bring back and over then glued down again with another piece of double sided tape, the more times you go over the tape, the stronger the ribbon will hold onto the board..

Its very simple. As I intend to decorate this album with light embellishments only, I have only gone over twice with the ribbon, that should be sufficient enough to hold album together.

I like to line pages up this way so i know where i need to have the double tape. This technique will really help when we are doing the star album next time.

Lining up the pages can be tricky. I used to line them up in standing position like this before i stick them together.

But.. I found that if you lay pages flat on the table and align the edges together, there is a better chance of a perfect stick. Practice makes perfect though..

Lastly, pages are then stuck to covers to finish.

Project done! with the most simpliest technique ever for an accordion album!

Hope you find some handy tips here. Please check back for more albums coming soon!