Hey guys! I'm back with another project share for you, although I think this might actually
be more of like a project... fail?
[laughs] This didn't turn out quite the way I had hoped!
If you saw my last project share video, you saw that I made a bunch of Christmas cards
with the "Falalalallama" - that's really hard to say [laughs] - 6x6 paper pad from
Michaels… there were some pages in that pad that I was having a hard time using for
cards, so I thought I would try to use them in a mini album.
And as you will see here, I still wasn't able to use up everything with this album,
so I eventually went back and made a few cards with what was left.
I decided to try making a paper bag mini album, because I'd seen a couple of tutorials,
and because I got this 10-pack of these red and white striped paper bags from Dollarama
in a thrift store grab bag a while back, and I wasn't sure how to use them.
So, since I'd seen these tutorials, I'm like, "Well, let me try making a mini album
out of paper bags!"
Except that all of those tutorials are for the bags that have, like, a flat bottom on them.
Like the big lunch bags?
I don't know if that's called a gusset?
Or if that's the sides?
But it, you know, it's like a 3D bag when you open it up.
So they had an actual bottom, whereas these do not.
They're just flat… they're, like, for very small items.
There's nothing really to the bag.
So I couldn't follow those tutorials, cuz those tutorials involve gluing the folded
up bottoms together, and this doesn't have that!
And I could not for the life of me find a tutorial for using bags like this, so I kinda
had to wing it.
So I took five of the bags, and I stapled them together where the bag is taped down…
you probably-- I don't know how well you can see it, but it's a little bit thicker,
because it's like folded over and glued down.
So I sort of taped those together to make a spine… or rather, I stapled them together
to make a spine, not taped them… and I trimmed off the top there where it's all uneven and spiky.
And I ended up with... this.
Which I have mixed feelings on! [laughs] Some of it I like, and some of it I really hate.
Like the front, I don't mind - I used some scraps to cover the spine, so you can't
see the stripes or the staples in it.
And I was able to get the majority of this mistletoe page on to the front; the album
measures a little bit over 5x5, so a full 6x6 page almost fits.
And then each page is a pocket, because they're paper bags, but I don't have anything to
put in there to show you that they're pockets… but they're all pockets!
So I don't love these first two pages… like I said in my previous video, I really
did love the card I ended up making with these, and I kinda regret using them for the album now.
But I don't really like how it turned out as a page in the mini album.
And the same with this one; it's just kinda plain and blocky and I didn't end up really
liking it much.
By these pages, I ended up having to dip into one of the Foil Frenzy [Fancy] 6x6 Christmas
paper pads to fill some space.
So I just used this white and silver one just so I could cut this 12x12-- err, not 12x12!
6x6 page in half and have it, you know, next to each other… and then I used the Foil
Fancy paper to fill space.
Then I also used some scraps to make a little pocket; I don't know how well you can see that.
And I put some leftover cut aparts, tags, that kind of thing, from the paper pad in the pocket.
Here again we have more foiled paper mixed with llama paper; there's a journalling
spot there, and a spot for photos, and then again I made a pocket out of some scraps,
and put some more cut apart tags in there as well.
This is another spread that I really don't love; in hindsight, it looks a little too
haphazard and blocky, like the other, the pink one that I pointed out.
Like I love… like these angel llamas make me laugh, I love them.
But the whole thing just… maybe if I'd had the whole pad, and had started with a
mini album it would have worked better, but trying to use scraps… and maybe it's the
backing, the red and white, I dunno, but…
I just don't like how that looks!
And then the back cover, I pretty much hate altogether. [laughs]
I ended up using part of the packaging from the cover of the paper pad, because I
didn't have anything else really large to cover the back, and I didn't want to use
more of the foiled paper when the theme of the album was supposed to be the llama paper.
But basically it ended up way too busy and I'm not happy with it at all.
I used some of the cut aparts and stuff, and one of the tags to put on the back, and I'm
just not happy with it at all in the back.
So like…
I guess maybe a third or so of this album, I'm happy with, and the rest I'm not happy with.
But there you go - you kinda have to-- you have to fail in order to find out what you
like and what you're good at doing, and… at least with this paper pad, and these particular
paper bags… there's… no, I'm not good at that at all! [laughs]
So that's it for this project share/fail!
I hope you, uh… enjoyed it?
I guess? [laughs]
If you did enjoy this video, or you're at least are going to learn from my mistakes
by watching it, please give me a big thumbs up.
Please subscribe if you haven't already, and I will see you guys in the next one.
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