| I don't know about you, but when I do my layouts, a lot | | | | following way. |
| of the time I used mini booklets or flaps in order to fit all | | | | Start by taking one of the plastic sleeves or an |
| my photo's from a particular occasion onto a page. | | | | existing page out of your album to use as a template. |
| The problem is that when you place the completed | | | | Trace your template, including the punched holes in the |
| layout into your album, you have to do one of two | | | | spine onto the paper that you will be using as a page |
| things. The first is to pull the layout out from the plastic | | | | divider. For a stronger spine, add an extra 2cm onto |
| sleeve each time you want to view its contents, and | | | | the width of the page, then using a bone folder, score |
| the other is to cut your plastic sleeve appropriately, but | | | | lines 2cm and 4cm from the inside short edge and fold |
| this in turn makes the album untidy and vulnerable to | | | | the paper to the front along both scored lines. |
| damage. A lot of my layouts fall out in this way or get | | | | Next open the folds out, and then refold the first line |
| broken. | | | | and burnish it with the side of the bone folder to |
| The other day I was reading a scrapbooking | | | | crease it firmly. |
| magazine, and was luckily enough to come across this | | | | Measure out your spacing holes, and then use a |
| scrapbooking idea and solution, and I am now going to | | | | leather punch to punch out your holes at the marked |
| get to work rectifying my albums this weekend. | | | | points. You could also just trace the holes from your |
| It makes sense to make special pages to bind | | | | template page. If you need some extra protection for |
| between the plastic sleeves to protect your layouts | | | | your page, cut a narrow strip of cardboard and punch |
| and in this way you can also add variety to your | | | | holes into it that correspond to the holes in your album. |
| album. Using vellum also works well here, as you can | | | | You can then place this cardboard strip between your |
| buy it in so many different themes. For instance if you | | | | layout and your cut out page to create extra space |
| did a country themed layout, just get vellum with a | | | | between your pages. |
| leafy design or grass design to lay over the page for | | | | If you want to include an interleaf, cut a 32.5 x 30.5cm |
| an attractive introduction to the layout. In this way you | | | | piece of vellum or tracing paper and slip it underneath |
| won't need to put your layout in a plastic sleeve, but | | | | the folded section of the page after punching |
| can attach it to the extra pages you can make in the | | | | corresponding holes into it. |