Hi y'all! Yes it's me! I know that it took me a while to come back to you with a cute little project but well, life's been crazy over here.

However, today I'd like to tell you how to create a fast little Bracket Album for yourself.

- first off I have been creating a nifty little bracket template for myself and printed it out black on lettersized office paper my homeprinter. I have been playing with size to meet my needs.
You can decide yourself which size you'd like your album to be.

- some fun cardstock, thin cardboard you still have lying around in your stash or any other paper you'd like to add to your album

- craft knife or scissors

- glue, just in case you want to cover your bracketpages (I didn't use it though)

- hole punch

- cardboard, some transparent book cover or whatever you'd like to see as your album cover

- keyring or ribbon or whatever else you'd like to use.

Try to think out of the box and use stuff you have lying on your desk and drawers.

For most of the white pages I have been using cardboard that I found inside Shirtpackages...I keep it whenever I can get it. It is not too thick, white and pretty nice and clean. But you could also be using cardboard of your favorite cookie's cardboard boxes. As cover I used a sheet of a thin transparency that gets used for easy selfmade albums and such..it has been lying around here, don't even know where it came from as I never made this kind of album myself. Here in Germany we do have plastic file folders in thrift stores that have a transparent cover..you could also use these.

How to

1. When you do have collected all the paper and stuffs for your album, you can start cutting out the pages of your bracket album using your template

2. Add all the pages to your liking, cover your cardboard with patterned paper or leave it blank,you can also paint or stamp on it, just do whatever you want

3. When you are done, choose cover and back, punch one or two holes through your pages and use or keyrings or whatever else you chose to close it.

4. You are done! This whole thing will take you about 30 min. You can embellish it now to your liking, put photos inside, just do as you please. It is soooo easy.

Here is my take on it:



You shouldn't look too closely at mine, I have been to dumb to punch my holes as I wanted to..so I stopped when I screwed up placing hole 1 correctly LOL
I used scraps of my own brand new "Sing Spring" paper collection, some architect paper that I "stole" from hubby, book pages from an old german children's book that I found in a thrift store and other papers as well as my "Shirtpack" - cardboard