FILE FOLDER TUTORIAL FOR SUMMER
Have you decided how to document your summer yet? ... there are multiple possibilities... in a mini album, traveler notebook, summer diary, in folders and Project Life covers....
And in this post we bring you a tutorial of a new format!!!
It is a file folder with 4 compartments inside where you can store many things... from photos to tickets, tickets or memories that you want to take home.
We begin by making the structure, and for this we need 2 cardboard that we cut and fold as follows...
- First , a 15 x 30.5cm piece where we mark the fold at 10, 12, 22, and 24 cm.
- Second , 2 pieces of 10 x 11cm where we mark folds of 1cm.
- Finally , we cut 3 cardboard that will be the 8.5 x 14cm separators.
Before beginning to assemble the structure at the largest end of the first piece, it is necessary to cut as follows so that we have a kind of window and can see a bit of the content inside the filing cabinet.
To do this, we mark the measurements as they appear in the photograph and cut the remaining rectangle along the dotted line.
We fold well all the marks that we have made at the beginning. The 10 x 11cm pieces are folded like a fan, they will be the sides of the filing cabinet and thus they have more bellows and allow more things to fit.
We begin to assemble the structure!
- The first thing is to glue the separators, first on one end and then on the other. Make sure that both ends match, otherwise when gluing the separators it won't look good.
- Once we have those pieces together, we glue it to the big piece like this, first to the part that is complete...
...and then to the one with the window, leaving it like this... And we already have the structure done!!!
To decorate it we have used the Happy Place collection that has some divine papers and some that are great for pasting the photos or writing the journaling.
To paste on all sides, we cut decorated paper 0.5 cm. smaller, that is to say, 2 of 9.5 x 14.5cm (be careful!, that in one you also have to make the window by removing half a centimeter from the measurements that we leave you above), 2 of 1.5 x 14.5cm and 1 of 6 x 14.5cm.
For the closure we need a small circle (which we have die-cut with the 7.8" die-cutter ) , an eyelet , a bit of string or twine and the crop a dile .
- we cut the circle
- we place it where we want the closure to go and we pierce it together with the flap of the structure with the crop a dile
- we place the eyelet
- Around the circle we put the rope and make a couple of strong knots, we cut the excess rope so that it cannot be seen and with the other end we can turn the filing cabinet, thus closing it.
Finally, a small detail at the end of the rope, we have glued two sheets that we cut out of the paper to make it easier to grasp and it also looks very nice.
With the rest of the collection we finished decorating it...
We hope you liked it and until the next post!
Team Oh! naive
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