Ball Journal Scrapbook Page
By Lisa Price, HGTV.com
Sports fans are sure to love this technique. This expandable journal can be made with enough pages to hold an entire season's worth of memories. We made a baseball journal and mounted it on a "diamond" cut from "grass" paper then adhered it to the scrapbook page. Try the same idea for your soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis and golf enthusiasts just by drawing different images on the front cover.
Steps:
- Use a jar, mug, protractor or compass to draw a four-inch circle pattern. Trace the pattern onto white card stock and cut it out. Cut a second one.
Accordion-fold a sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" paper with two folds, as though you were making paper dolls. Draw a 3-1/2-inch circle pattern onto scrap paper then position it onto the folded paper so the edges of the ball slightly overlap the edge of the paper at the folds.
Trace the ball pattern onto the folded paper and cut it out. This should render a ball-shaped strip of paper with accordion folds. Make at least one more of these.
Adhere the cut paper ball shapes together to make one long accordion-folded strip.
Sandwich the folded strip between the white card stock circles, adhering the first page of each end of the strip to the card stock circles to fashion a journal.
Use a pen to embellish the front of the journal. Mount the back side of the journal to a scrapbook page. Cut and place photographs inside the journal pages.Note: This technique can work with any desired shape. Just remember to cut the paper pages of the journal slightly smaller than the card stock covers.
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