I got my latest hybrid project finished, just in time for Oma’s 45th Wedding Anniversary.  We are off this weekend for a mini-party to celebrate with Oma and Grandpa.  I had been contemplating trying one of Wendy’s templates for awhile and thought the grandkids book would be a great present! The book turned out gorgeous I think!  It is quite long when fully opened up, but not hard to handle since is by no means huge or anything.  I definitely had to scout around the house for long enough cardboard for the last three letters!  I used alot of Irene Aleexeva’s kits, bit and pieces from Manu’s kits as well.

My handy dandy bind-it-all finished off the book and it works great!  That was a good purchase, I love making the little books.

These books are fun to make but be prepared for a bit of work if it is your first time.  First I lay out all the letters on a a sheet that I size for printing.  I made all mine 12×18 for printing.  Remember that you need to mirror the back of each letter, for the back of the page.  For design I chose to make all the pages facing each other match with kit’s and photo’s.  I made all the letters right on the 12x 18 canvas and clipped the background right to the letter templates for ease and organization, then it was just a matter of adding photos and embellishments!

Next of course is hours of cutting  and then more cutting cardboard and more cutting if you are like me and cut a few out wrong.  So after all the cutting is glueing and smooshing down edges!  I used a spray adhesive this time since some of the pages were so long I would have used up a whole glue stick!  I tried Elmer’s Spray Adhesive that is photo safe and it worked like a charm.  The edges are very secure and I think it will last a long time.  I tested the glue a week before to see if anything would bleed through etc.  whatever glue you use, I recommend doing some testing first!  Last of all I used my bind-it-all machine and voila… DONE!!

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