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USE OUR HELP TO CREATE YOUR PHOTO ALBUM.

Materials required:

Hardboard, 2mm thick Bristol board Paper or other material for coating Vinyl glue or glue stick Small flat paintbrush Big cutter Scissors Ruler or square ruler Photo album Pencil Pleating machine

Preparation of the cover

To create your personalised cover, get the above-mentioned materials; using the dimensions of the Bill book as your starting point, you will use the following formula to calculate the required dimensions and borders:

• - For the 2 covers made out of hardboard:
  H = height dimension of the album + 10mm
  L = same dimension than the album’s base

• - For the back made out of light cardboard like bristol:
  H = same dimension as the hardboard cover already cut
  L = same thickness than the back of the photo album

• - For the decoration paper of the cover:
  H = same height as the covers of hardboard already cut + 30mm (15mm on top + 15mm under from the reinforced margin)
  L = same width than the 2 hardboard covers + width of the back + 44mm (15mm for right margin + hardboard over + 7mm of empty space + back + 7mm of empty space + hardboard cover + 15mm for left margin)

Making the cover

Lay the coating paper back to front on a flat surface, square it using the given formula, then mark with the pencil the reference marks where the hardboard panel will be glued and glue the whole surface of the paper.

Position the hardboard cover, then the backcover and finally the bristol cover (to enable a correct opening of the ended object, remember to consider the space between the backcover and the hardboard cover).

Cut the four corners of the paper, leaving 2 mm distance from the corner of the hardboard panel,

flap the paper borders towards the inside of every side of the cover, beginning with the long ones (upper and lower) and then flapping the short ones (right and left sides).

Verify that there are no air bubbles on the external side of the cover; if necessary, remove them by exercising a circular movement with a soft cloth.

Try to slide the photo album into the cover to check that your measures are right and see that there is enough folding space left for the 3 external sides that you can then leave for the casing phase.

Casing phase and pressing of the album in the already made cover

Scatter the glue on the last side of the album

And put it on the right side of the cover, positioning it at equidistance of all external sides (as during the trial)

Finally, put the stuck part only under a press (for example under a heavy book) leaving hanging out of a table the rest of the album. Then repeat the same operation for the second and last part of the album.

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