Altered tin wedding book- Tutorial

I made a Wedding book with an empty accents and elements tin today.  Being sick, I have a good excuse to sit and create! And it looks like this is my altered projects week, since I have posted so many!

This is of my wedding.  We got married back in 2000 and I am still working on my actual album, but threw this together today.

I measured the tin and then made the pieces 1/4 inch smaller.  I should have done 1/2 inch smaller as I am finding that it doesn't want to accordian back up as nice as it should, but it still works.

Supplies: all Stampin' Up unless otherwise noted.

Stamps: Pretty Amazing

Paper: bashful blue textured, chocolate chip, whisper white, le jardin designer series paper

Ink: bashful blue, chocolate chip, close to cocoa

Accessories: cherished memories and eastern elegance rubons, pretties kit, satin chocolate chip ribbon, rich regals brads, dollarama letter rubons, subtles eyelets, bashful blue and chocolate chip taffeta ribbon, round tab punch

I am not going to delve into too much detail as alot went into the project and we could be here for hours!

I decided last minute to make this into a mini tutorial.  I hope this all makes sense!

You will have two pieces of cardstock to make the album in a tin.  The first piece should be 9" x 5 1/8".  The second piece will be 9 1/2" x 5 1/8".  This piece will end up having a leftover edge so you can glue it to the first piece to get your four pages side by side.  I hope that makes sense!  So, I drew up this little illustration to make it easier to see.  These are two separate pieces that were glued together. 

First, after you cut your said pieces of cardstock, you are going to score at every 4.5".  You will then glue the extra edge of the second piece to the first piece.  Now you can fold it accordian style to get the idea of what your album is going to look like.

You will need to round the corners of the "album".  In my example I used the round tab punch and rounded the corners with that.   

You are going to end up pasting a piece to the inside bottom of the tin.  Once you have folded your accordian, sit it in the tin and the one that is sitting at the bottom of the tin, write "bottom" on it.  Trust me, I know this from experience, that you might end up decorating that piece to find out it is supposed to be glued to the bottom!

I would decorate the outside of the tin now as it is easier to work with when it is empty.  That is also from experience!

Now, you will have 7 "pages" to work with to decorate in your theme.  Once, you are done scrapping on it, glue (I used two sided tape) the piece you designated as "bottom" down.  You are now done and have a lovely album in a tin to show off! 

Have a great evening and thanks for stopping by!

Comments

[carolina Buchting]

Andria, this beautiful! Love the little accents and the color combo is perfect for the theme. Thanks for sharing the template!

[denise bryant (imchatty)]

Wow...this is incredible. Thanks for sharing it and I saved it in my favs so I can attempt to make it.

[Jane]

Wow, Andria! This is absolutely gorgeous! Thank you for sharing the template! I have a couple of these tins to spare and will be trying this for my SIL's baby shower as a gift. Your pages are beautiful!

[Beate]

Andria,
this is fantastic! I love it! What a great memory tin!

[Carolyn King]

wow...what a great tin..love the little accordian album that goes inside.
Feel better!

[veronica]

wow this is so cool. I love it and thanks for the tutorial.

[Jamie]

Beautiful tin book, wow very impressive :)
SBS-Sister

[Diane Lapointe]

Wowzer,that is so gorgeous!!! What a beautiful keepsake!!!

[jenn]

This is super adorable!!! I am gonna have to try and make one of these. :D

[teresa K.]

Love it, Love it, Love it. Thank you, so much for showing me how - I gotta do this.

[Busby SEO Test]

very creative idea,thanks for the info