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DIY Photo Album

Create a unique handmade picture album using recycled boxes and decoupage medium! Perfect for storing memories, goals, and more.
Prep Time15 minutes
Active Time1 hour 45 minutes
Dry Time1 hour 40 minutes
Total Time3 hours 40 minutes
Yield: 1 album
Cost: $1

Equipment

Materials

Instructions

  • Gather the boxes and unfold them completely flat on your work surface. You will need multiple boxes with 6 inches by 8 inches panels to create the pages.
    unfolded cereal box with a pair of scissors
  • Cut your boxes and scrapbook paper. For this project, six 6 inches by 8 inches panels were used for an album with ten pages inside (plus a front and back cover).
    cereal box cut into a 6x8 inch piece
  • From the scrapbook paper, cut out 12 pieces that measure 6 inches by 8 inches each. These will go on the front and back of your box panels.
  • Apply a thin to medium layer of Mod Podge to one of the panels.
    applying Mod Podge to the cereal box
  • Smooth the paper down on top. Optionally, you can use a brayer to smooth and really get the air bubbles out.
    Smoothing down the scrapbook paper onto the Mod Podge
  • Repeat the previous step with the front and back of all of the panels. You should end up with 12 complete panels measuring 6 inches by 8 inches that are covered on the front and back with scrapbook paper.
  • Tear off a piece of duct tape to edge the album pages. Typically, a piece of duct tape is 2 inches wide. Place on your work surface and cut the piece in half. Use these 1-inch pieces to fold over both short edges and one long edge of all pages.
    Edging the album in brown duck tape
  • Pick a contrasting color of duct tape to bind the pages together. Tear off a piece, place on your work surface, and cut in half (1-inch pieces). Place two pages next to each other and attach with duct tape to secure. Repeat with all the pages.
  • Add a piece around the outside to act as your final binding.