Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday How NOT to Make a Mini Book post. While sharing crafting wins is thrilling, it’s also important to share the fails as well. How else are we to learn if we don’t fail from time to time? And what better way to share the knowledge than to also share the fails. Let me show you one such learning experience in my mini album adventure.
How NOT to Make a Mini Book
I have been having fun attempting all sorts of mini book designs over the last month. This time I am trying to make a mini book using the Stack the Deck binding by Laura Denison from Follow the Paper Trail. The book turned out ok, only after purchasing sturdy envelopes from the local scrapbook store, Impressions by Bird. Last night, after putting my sick son to bed, I went back into the scrap room to put the finishing touches on the pages and put the cover on.
Turns out the process went just a little too smoothly as this morning I looked at the album and almost cried! The paper I used to cover my back spine was cracked in all four corners and the double sided tape was starting to pull up along the front (and eventually back) cover of the book.
Here are a few of the sad images:
This first one is lying on its side so you can see how much it popped up on me…
Again, that bulge there on the side is NOT supposed to be there!
Cracked Corners
And here’s an image of one of the four cracked corners.
I spent most of the morning trying to figure out what I did wrong with this. As it turns out the problem was with my adhesive. Not the type I was using, just the simple face I did not use ENOUGH of it. According to Laura, to prevent the spine cracking, you need a lot of adhesive to help ease all of the stress that is going on when you bend than page at the 90-degree angle. The front edges? I should have known better, and believe it not, I DO know better. More adhesive = a firm hold of the card.
Here’s a handy dandy little tip for all of you out there….
Do NOT work with paper and adhesives when you are tired. If you do, it’s not going to be a case of IF you mess up, but WHEN you mess up! Sheeesh!
Thank you for joining me for today’s Flashback Friday How NOT to make a Mini Book post. I definitely learned a lot from this experience, and it’s a mistake I only had to make once. Let me know down in the comments what some of your learning fails were along your crafty journey. If you would like. To check out my other mini projects, you can find a list of them here: Mini Albums. Until then, have a fantastic weekend and I’ll see you back in the craft room again soon!
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Not so fun finding your hard work crashed…been there too. But it´s always great to find out what to stay away from, thank you for sharing this! When I do albums etc. using double sided tape I alway put glue on it too with great adhered papers.
Hi Marie, I have always found it helpful to share both the good and the bad when crafting. If for no other reason than as a reminder to myself to put the supplies away when I’m tired. LOL I have started adding liquid glue to my double sided tape on most of my projects now, just to be sure! Thanks for hanging out with me in the craft room!