A PCB scrapbook
The Spring of 2013 I began working on my vacation album for our trip to PCB, Panama City Beach, the previous fall. I had recently discovered Kathy Orta and her amazing work as the Paper Phenomenon. Inspired, I decided to use her Filed Under M for Memories tutorial to create the album for this project. It actually went together fairly easily for me and I had almost all of it done by the end of our retreat in early November.
And then it sat. And sat. And gathered dust. And sat. I just didn’t have any desire to work much on it. *One little side note here: I had not discovered sookwang tape when I put this thing together.
You can imagine my disappointment when I finally did pick this thing up again to discover that much of it was coming apart. After a large sigh, I began putting bits back together as best I could. The hinge system had completely separated from the spine and I didn’t know how to tackle that so I left it alone for a long time. I went ahead and finished the album and matting my photos before I even thought about the spine. Eventually, I did come up with a solution. I used my bonefolder as a sort of guide (like a sewing needle) to thread strips of tape into the gap between the hinges and the spine. It worked wonderfully. I laid the album down flat and burnished, burnished, burnished. So far, so good. It’s still holding. Yay!
Here’s the (mostly) finished product. I still have some journaling and last little embellishments to add but for the most part, it is DONE. Hope you like it!
I’ve added a video tour here if you’d like to see how the pages flip through. It’s a very interactive album!
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENMfEmNAHjY]
*note- I get my instagrams printed at Kanvess. The quality is superb and shipping is fairly quick. Great service!
PCB album Supply list:
- Simple Stories Snap Studio I (Heart) Summer collection: Snap Pockets, Snap Pages, Snap Cuts, Snap Cards, decorative brads, chipboard stickers, Fundamentals cardstock stickers, Expressions cardstock stickers, 12×12 papers
- Fancy Pants Artist Edition Stencil Cards Vacation set
- K&Co Smash nautical tattoo rub-ons
- Studio Calico stickers – cork arrows & chevrons
- Jillibean soup – Happy Camper Stew paper (1 part camping gear)
- Simple Stories/Cocoa Daisy exclusive papers from the July 2013 kit – I used lots of elements from this kit.