Paper Bag Album – Make a Very Cheap Mini Scrapbook
August 20, 2008 by Katelyn Thomas
Filed under Crafty Solutions
We’ve been having fun with paper bag albums this week. They are super fun for kids to make because of all the pockets and flaps and can be really gorgeous when a teen or adult works on one. All you need to make one is three paper lunch bags, some fancy paper scraps and embellishments, glue, a hole punch and some ribbon or yarn. If you’re giving someone an album as a gift, you’ll also need color copies of photos or duplicate photos. Never use originals!
Things that are nice, but not essential, are grommets to reinforce the holes and tags for the pockets. If you want to make an heirloom album that will last a long time, you probably will want to use some acid removing spray.
Simply stack the three bags together, with the one in the middle facing the other way. Fold them in half, punch some holes along the fold and use the yarn to bind them together. Glue on the paper scraps and embellishments to make the album pretty and then add photos to the pages. Make tags from some of the paper scraps and glue more photos to them or use them for journaling. Tuck the tags into the pockets.
(If you need a gift bag for your project, Mad Cropper has a post about a super cute embellished paper bag.)
By the way, for a much more complicated, but incredibly beautiful album, check out Marion’s amazing paper bag album:
