Bind Your Summer Memories!

Together with GlueArts adhesives and the Unibind Photobook Creator!

Today's GlueArts and Unibind projects are perfectly timed! It's that time of year for graduation and thoughts to turn to summer. Designer Kristen Swain made a special album for her daughter's to use for their summer reading...what a great idea!! And Designer Jan Hennings made a unique Graduation keepsake album that is personalized!! Both great grad gifts!!

Summer Reading List 

Designed by:  Kristen Swain

Supplies:

Glue Arts Mini Adhesive Squares, UcutIt foam and Perma Tac adhesive, Extreme Adhesive Squares
Unibind machine and 8x10 album
Printer paper

Paper/letter stickers- We R Memory Keepers
Gems- Lush Designs
Punches- scallop and large and small flower punches- Eksuccess
twine
letter stickers- American crafts


Instructions:
1. Insert printer paper into Unibind album, follow directions for Unibind machine and bind papers. Allow to cool.

2. Cut square of glitter paper to fit inside of front cover, use Perma Tac to adhere into place, then adhere larger piece to fit back of front cover for a finished look.

3. For front cover, adhere UCutIt foam onto some letters in word Summer, then adhere across just under opening in album, overlapping opening slightly.

4. Finish adding title with chipboard fabric letters.

5. Punch thin scalloped border and adhere to front cover with mini adhesive squares.

6. Punch flowers, and fold petals like shown, then adhere two large flower punches together with mini adhesive squares. Then adhere two small flower punched together with mini adhesive squares, and finish by adhering small flower to larger flower with mini adhesive squares.

7. Finish cover by adding flowers using Extreme Adhesive Squares. then add twine bows and gems to center of flowers with mini adhesive squares.
8. Fussy cut out several leaves from patterned paper and add them to flowers with mini adhesive squares.

Graduation Pop Out Album with Unibind and Glue Arts

Finished size: 8.50" x 11"

Designed by: Jan Hennings

Supplies:

GlueArts Accent-It All Black Out vinyl

GlueArts Glue Glider Pro and Perma Tac 

Unibind Photobook Creator Book and binding

Worldwin, Ek Success, Stamping Station cardstock

Stamping Station embellishments and stickers  

ProvoCraft Cricut and Storybook cartridge 

Instructions:
1.) Place two pieces of 8.5" x 11" patterned papers with the pattern side facing each other.
2.) Using Perma Tac, adhere them together on the left side only. (This will be the side that fits into the spine later.)

3.) Repeat step 1 and 2 for two more 8.5" x 11" pieces.
4.) Cut 3 of each of the following sizes:
(3) 8.50" x 9" (mine is the stripe/flower pattern), (3) 8.50" x 12" (black cardstock)
5.) Fold each of these pieces in half.
6.) Using Perma Tac, adhere both sides of the stripe paper to both sides of the black cardstock. 

7.) Adhere the piece you just completed to the white back of the patterned pieces you placed pattern side together.

8.) Add photo's and embellishments to your pages.

COVER
1.) Cut patterned paper to fit the album front.
2.) Cut out the window.
3.) Using Cricut (Storybook cartridge) and Accent-It All (black vinyl), cut tall borders. (I cut four to have extra's, but used 1 for the cover.)

4.) Place your photo in the window of the album to check for placement. Adhere to the front of the first set of your inner pages.
5.) Add your vinyl border and button to the front of your book.

More amazing albums and projects today...don't you agree?! Would you like to win your own Photobook Creator? Have visions of projects you could make! Unibind and GlueArts would like to give you a chance to create your own PhotoBooks. Unibind has generously given us a Unibind Photobook Creator to give away to one of our GlueArts fans!

We're also going to include a GlueArts Glue Glider Pro and our outstanding PermaTac Adhesive Squares.

Simply leave us a comment and we'll select one random winner next Monday!! It's just that simple!

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We'll see you back here tomorrow...more amazing Unibind and GlueArts projects!!