Star Album?

This is listed as a star card but looks fairly similar to me or could probably be adapted :o).

Marilyn

This is what I got from another yahoo group I'm on:

STAR BOOK

INSTRUCTIONS

You will need the following:

Color A: seven pieces of cardstock size 5 ½ inches x 11 inches, folded in half to form signatures measuring 5 ½ x 5½

Color B: seven pieces of cardstock 4 inches x 11 inches. Score lengthwise down the center, fold in half, then fold in half lengthwise to measure 2 inches x 5 ½ inches folded.

Color C: seven pieces of cardstock 5 ½ inches x 8 inches, folded in half to measure 5 ½ x 4 inches.

Color D: seven pieces of cardstock 5 ½ inches x 7 inches, folded in half to measure 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches.

Form for front and back cover: 2 pieces of mat board measuring 5 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches. These will be covered with your exotic or decorative paper for front and back cover.

Front and back cover paper: 2 pieces 7 x 7 inches

One roll of Wonder tape, Terribly Tacky Tape or equivalent. Needs to be double sided heavy duty sticky as it will be holding pages together.

4 yds of linen thread or other heavy duty thread, preferably in a coordinating or like color to A as this will show on the edge of your book.

Tapestry needle.

Ribbon to tie book opening together.

Construction:

Color A will be your page foundation and colors will work out to Color D, which is the page you will embellish either with stamping or scrapbook type embellishing.

Taking one page of A, insert B inside the fold of A. Open flat and in the crease of B, measure ½" in from the edge of paper on both ends, then 1" from that dot toward the center. These are your sewing guides. Do this on all 7 pieces.

Now with A and B together, punch a hole at each dot you have made. Use something relatively small, sewing awl, long quilling tool, but a punch will make too big a hole. Do this to all seven pages.

Thread your needle. Make sure that the tops and bottoms of the pages match (I put the folded edge of B at the top).Taking the first set, push needle from the mountain side of the fold to the valley in the first hole. Leave a tail of about two inches on the outside. You will tie this off later. Continue to sew, ending on the mountain side of the pages of the first set. Now line up the second set of pages on top of the first, insert needle and pull thru snugging page 2 up to page 1. Now, when your needle is back on the mountain side, run the needle and thread under the long thread of page 1 and continue to sew to the top of the page. Tie off the tail to the working thread. Don't cut anything. Put the third page on top of second and begin sewing together, remembering to go under the long thread of the previous page. Now when you get to the bottom of page 3, run your needle under the bottom stitch that joins page 1 to 2. Begin sewing page 4 to page 3, remembering to go under the long thread of the previous page and under the last stitch. When all the pages are sewn together, tie off and run the thread to the inside crease, trim and tape down. Do the same for the beginning tail.

Whew, the hardest part is done!!

Now place wonder tape between page 2 and 3 of color A. You are taping these pages together. Leave the first and last page as you will attach the covers to these.

Attach the outside edge of Color C to the outside edge of Color A---outside edge of A 1 to C 1 and C right edge to A2-clear as mud?)

Now all you have left for pages are the seven pieces of D to decorate and attach as in C to A.

COVER

Cut the decorative paper about ½" larger than the mat board. Apply glue stick to mat board, apply paper, then turn over and glue down the "hem". I suggest cutting off the corners of the deco paper so that the corner is mitred when glued.

Attach ribbons to front and back and adhere strongly, you don't want them to pull out. Be sure your ribbon is coming out of the front of the book and not the spine.

Apply wonder tape to 4 edges of front page and adhere cover, do the same for the back.

Hints: Try to make your thread closely match the base color of the book, this way it won't show. I have natural linen and just took a Sharpie and dyed it.

Hope it helps. I've been wanting to make one so I had the directions to try. Sandy

A Big TY to Marilyn and Sandy!! I think I will attempt this next week!! God Bless, Dorothy in NY

I like the star album also. Never saw one before. Very nice I have to TRY to make one here in time. Thanks for all of the helpful information.

Chrissy

Pages for 2005: 8 Cards for 2005: to many to count

Once you make your first one you'll find anyothers you make a piece of cake.....I made one for my DMIL last year for Mother's day. She loved it, I think you will love yours

Sweet, I'll have to try that. It looks like a squash book only different.

ENABLER!!

I was happy with cards, LOs, and tags and now you have to introduce me to these. Not nice. LOL -- cough cough cough.

Kate

There are also directions for one on the HGTV web site in the Carol Duvall pages. Hers is a little different. There are holes cut in some of the outer layer pages so you can see through to pictures or stamps in the next layer.

LOL!!! What is a Squash Book!! Smirkish Grin!! ~:o) God Bless, Dorothy in NY

Thanks for the idea and instructions ladies.

Teresa in MD

Here is a link that explains how to make them. They are really very effective and could be used instead of cards or as mini albums, etc.

HTH Marilyn