Piano Hinge Book

Design by:Tricia Morris

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Piano Hinge Book

We’ll start by creating the pages for the book. If you are using the Piano Hinge Book kit from Club Scrap please note there are 3 pre-scored lines on each page. Fold each page in half first. Open up the page and fold each of the 2 remaining fold lines. It is important to use a bone folder for every fold to create a smooth fold. The kit comes with enough paper to create 10 folded pages. You’ll end up with 40 pages in your album, including the front and back covers. Tricia says this is a lot of scrapbooking real estate to fill with photos. What fun!

Tricia takes the mystery out of book making as she breaks down each step of the process with this unique photo album. There are not a lot of complicated tools needed to create a stunning Piano Hinge Book. It could be a gift album to celebrate a new baby or a travel album full of memories of Jamaica—with Tricia’s guidance it’s easy to make albums for any occasion.

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Piano Hinge BookHarmony is the key!

TOOLSCraft Knife and Cutting MatScissorsRuler

FEATURED PRODUCTMosaic Twist Piano

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Hinge Book Kit from Club Scrap, which includes:

Ten Sheets pre-cut, pre-scored, pre-die-cut pagesFive Bamboo SkewersThree yards decorative fiber

Bookbinding Glue from Club ScrapOne yard Waxed Linen Thread from Club Scrap

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SUPPLIESBone FolderGlue (if you’re not using Club Scrap bookbinding glue)One yard Waxed Linen Thread (if you’re not using Club Scrap product)

If you are not using the Piano Hinge Book kit from Club Scrap you will need the following items

Ten sheets of cardstock cut 8” x 16” (can be

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one or several different colors)Three yards Decorative FibersFive Bamboo Skewers

PHOTOSTricia’s Piano Hinge Book has 40 pages filled with photos - most of them are 4” x 6”

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2Once all 3 scored lines have been folded for all 10 pages, create the tabs for the Piano Hinge spine. To do that, pick up one page at a time. The last two folds you made should still be folded (Refer to photo in step 1). Hold the page with the folds at the top, open at the bottom. Place your thumb on the outside of the page nearest you, your index

finger in between the folded pages, and the rest of your fingers on the outside of the page furthest from you. There are die-

cut slits on the pages in the Club Scrap kit. To create the tabs in the spine, simply push every other tab (these are about 3/4” long) inward to create a valley fold. This leaves the shorter (approximately 1/4” long) tabs to be mountain folded (opposite of the valley fold) along the spine of the page. When all the tabs on each page are folded, stack all of the pages together.

3 Whether you are using the kit from Club Scrap or making your own pages the rest of the steps are all the same. Start with the 10 stacked pages with tabs that are alternating valley folds and mountain folds.

Holding the stack in your hand, turn every other page around so that the valley fold tabs from one page line up with the

mountain fold tabs from the next page. When finished put the entire stack of pages on your work surface.

If you are using your own paper to make this Piano Hinge Book:1. Cut 10 sheets of cardstock 8” x 16”.

2. Fold each sheet in half so that you have 10 pages that measure 8” x 8”. 3. Open each sheet and measure 1/4” out on each side of the fold line.

4. Score with a bone folder and fold each of these lines. Be sure to use a bone folder for a smooth fold. 5. Fold each page in half again.

6. Measure and mark every 1/2” on the fold line of each page of the book. 7. At these measurements, cut from the fold line in 1/4” to the

score lines. 8. Holding one page at a time, push every other ‘tab’ inward - you are creating alternating mountain and valley folds. 9. Repeat for all 10 pages.10.When all tabs are made, stack all 10 pages together.

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Squeeze a small amount of bookbinding glue on the top and the bottom of the woven waxed linen. This will insure that the bamboo skewers don’t move around, which means your book (or album) will last for many years to come.

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Pick up the first two pages from the top of the stack of 10 pages and one bamboo skewer. Thread the skewer through the first mountain fold tab of the first page and then through the first mountain fold

tab of the second page. Continue in this manner until the skewer has been threaded through all the mountain folds on both

pages. Put those two pages aside and pick up the next two pages and another bamboo skewer. Continue to thread a bamboo skewer through 2 pages at a time until you have 5 sets of ‘skewered pages’.

To hold your five ‘signatures’ (or sets of ‘skewered pages’) together, weave approximately one-half yard of waxed linen over and under the five bamboo skewers at both ends of the skewers. Weave about four rows on each end of the skewers. To bind off each end, tie the beginning and end of the waxed linen together and clip the ends.

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Once the glue is dry it’s time to decorate the cover and add your photos. Tricia used a piece of handmade paper as a design ele-ment on her cover. To tear a piece of handmade paper, deter-mine which side will be the front and place that side face down on your work surface. Put a 12” ruler on the paper with about 1” - 2” on the right-hand side of the ruler. Place one hand firmly on the ruler; and, with your other hand pull the right-hand side of the paper up...towards yourself. This will feather the handmade paper nicely without having to wet the paper first. You can tear the piece to any size you want. Tricia then layered the feathered handmade paper on top of a piece of green handmade paper, and added a photo of a palm tree.

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Tricia suggests you leave the waxed linen threads longer if you want to add beads for an extra decorative element. She wove

decorative fibers on both ends of the bamboo skewers for her album. Be sure to use bookbinding glue on the fibers too!

8Tricia created the title for her album using Club Scrap stickers. An easy way to keep the stickers straight while placing them on your page or album cover is to use a clear ruler with a grid. Line up the top of each sticker on the bottom grid of the ruler, leaving the bottom portion of the sticker free from the ruler. Position the word or phrase where you want it to be and press the bottom portion of the stickers onto the page (or album cover). Gently pull the ruler away from the top portion of the stickers and press down to adhere.

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Piano Hinge Book

You’ve just completed your Piano Hinge Book layout, but the fun doesn’t stop there! Be sure to stop by The Scrapbook Lounge every week for more exciting twists on scrapbooking!

Congratulations

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Once you’ve learned the basics of making a Piano Hinge Book you can make them in any size and any number of pages. With the Piano Hinge spine at the top instead of the side of the book you can impress the musician in your life. How about a smaller version of the book as an ‘a-b-c’ book of ideas. Club Scrap has provided just a sampling of ideas for you. Enjoy!

As mentioned in Step 1 above, with this format your album will have 40 pages of ‘scrapbooking real estate’. Tricia used mostly 4” x 6” photos simply matted on

coordinating colors of cardstock throughout her book. Journaling was hand written with a few rubber stamped titles. This type of album can be put together

in just a few hours if you follow Tricia’s tips from previous Webisodes like Acronym for S.C.R.A.P. and Assembly Line Scrapping - gathering your photos

and supplies ahead of time and setting aside a specific time to scrapbook.