We all grab brochures and wristbands and any other little scrap from a vacation, so we can come home and make a scrapbook of our experience with free embellishments. But, if you have protective plastic sheets over your layouts, you don't want to have to pull the page out of your album just so you can see a sterile brochure.
I like interactive scrapbook pages, as you've seen with my picture flip pages and picture pockets. So, I dare to cut the plastic protective sheet. I know it is very SCARY...but, it is the only way to allow people looking at your album to actually discover and play with your 3-D embellishments. Brochures are a particular challenge because they fold open and shut. First, you need to affix the bottom page to your layout. My brochure here folds open both ways...so the bottom page is not necessarily the last page of the brochure. If you're not sure what I mean, lay your brochure flat, all folded up. The page that lays flat against the layout is the page you want to affix to your background paper. Place the layout inside the protective plastic sheet of your album as you would with any other layout.
With an exacto-knife, carefully trace the right and left side of your brochure, along the folds. Be careful to cut very close to the edge of your brochure without actually cutting your paper. Make a slit all teh way down, the length of the brochure. Slide the page that opens to the right through the right slit. Do the same with the left side. Now, when you flip through your scrapbook. The brochure will fold closed on the outside of the protective sheet and admirers can open and read it.
Place the layout inside the protective plastic sheet of your album. With an exacto-knife, carefully trace the right and left side of your brochure. Be careful to cut very close to the edge of your brochure without actually cutting your paper. Slide the page that opens to the right through the right slit. Do the same with the left side. Now, when you flip through your scrapbook. The brochure will fold on the outside of the protective sheet and admirers can open and read it.
I like to add a tiny personal picture or two inside as a sweet little surprise. It looks like your family is part of the brochure!! Use the same method to open the picture flip pages and picture pockets that I showed you. See the next blog for those details. You'll never scrapbook the same way again. You will find yourself opening and flipping through your album over and over again....cuz you know that's what we all do!!
I like interactive scrapbook pages, as you've seen with my picture flip pages and picture pockets. So, I dare to cut the plastic protective sheet. I know it is very SCARY...but, it is the only way to allow people looking at your album to actually discover and play with your 3-D embellishments. Brochures are a particular challenge because they fold open and shut. First, you need to affix the bottom page to your layout. My brochure here folds open both ways...so the bottom page is not necessarily the last page of the brochure. If you're not sure what I mean, lay your brochure flat, all folded up. The page that lays flat against the layout is the page you want to affix to your background paper. Place the layout inside the protective plastic sheet of your album as you would with any other layout. 
With an exacto-knife, carefully trace the right and left side of your brochure, along the folds. Be careful to cut very close to the edge of your brochure without actually cutting your paper. Make a slit all teh way down, the length of the brochure. Slide the page that opens to the right through the right slit. Do the same with the left side. Now, when you flip through your scrapbook. The brochure will fold closed on the outside of the protective sheet and admirers can open and read it. 
Place the layout inside the protective plastic sheet of your album. With an exacto-knife, carefully trace the right and left side of your brochure. Be careful to cut very close to the edge of your brochure without actually cutting your paper. Slide the page that opens to the right through the right slit. Do the same with the left side. Now, when you flip through your scrapbook. The brochure will fold on the outside of the protective sheet and admirers can open and read it. 
I like to add a tiny personal picture or two inside as a sweet little surprise. It looks like your family is part of the brochure!! Use the same method to open the picture flip pages and picture pockets that I showed you. See the next blog for those details. You'll never scrapbook the same way again. You will find yourself opening and flipping through your album over and over again....cuz you know that's what we all do!!
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