travel – Lori Whitlock

Hi friends! Traci here and today, I’m sharing a cute travel mini album that I made using Lori’s NEW cutting file titled Hidden Binding Mini Album Suitcase. (Silhouette) The fun shape is so versatile and can be made with any paper collection for your vacation needs. Since summer is ahead, I created it with a sunny beach theme.🌞

Suitcase Shaped Travel Mini Scrapook Album for vacation photos

Lori has designed a bunch of these hidden binding shaped albums and I love them! I’ve made the rectangle, apple, house, flower, telephone, and tag shape. Today’s mini is about travel, so the suitcase shape is perfect!

Suitcase Shaped Travel Scrapbook Mini Album with a summer beach theme

For this “fun in the sun” project, I used the Doodlebug Design Seaside Summer Collection. But it would also be great for winter skiing, a visit to the lake, a cabin in the mountains, a road trip, a cruise, or any vacation.

Let’s take a quick look inside, then I’ll explain how I made it.

Suitcase Shaped Travel Scrapbook Mini Album Pages with cute summer and beach images

I decorated each page with 6×6 inch papers, fun die cuts, cute stickers, and a few enamel dots.

Isn’t this cute? Such a colorful little scrapbook. For larger photos and details of each page, visit my blog here.

Now, for the tutorial …

Suitcase Shaped Summer Travel Scrapbook Mini Album Tutorial

1. First, I cut out the pieces. Since all of the suitcase shape pages are sandwiched using 2 pieces, I needed 10 total … 2 for the front cover, 2 for the back cover, and 6 for the 3 scrapbook pages inside.

2. Note that the center piece is scored for the binding. The score
lines are a bit hard to see on the brown image 😊. I folded along each
of the score lines to create “mountains” and “valleys”.

3. Then, I added adhesive inside the “valleys” and stuck the sides together.

4. Once the binding piece is adhered, it should look like this ^.

5. And the back side (the spine) will look like this ^.

6. Next, the cutting file comes
with pieces for the pattern paper that goes on top of the white spine, front and back covers, and suitcase shaped pages. I chose the blue waves print and adhered it to one side only of the exterior pieces.

Suitcase Shaped Travel Scrapbook Mini Album Tutorial

7. Once that was done, I adhered the front cover to the front of the first
spine fold. Then, the back cover to the back of the last spine fold. When it’s opened up flat, the
album covers and spine should look like this ^ on the outside.

… and like this ^ on the inside.

8. Next, I adhered pattern paper to ONE SIDE ONLY of the 8 remaining
suitcase shapes. Since these will be stuck back to back to another suitcase page, only one
side will show.

9. Now it’s time to assemble the album. I adhered one suitcase page to the inside of the front and back covers. Then, I added one to the front and back of each spine fold … sandwiching them on the
“mountain” and creating 3 double-sided pages (6 individual pages). Including the inside covers, this gives you 8 scrapbook pages in total.

Suitcase Shaped Summer Travel Scrapbook Mini Album displayed on a clear acrylic stand by Artsy Albums

I hope you’ll try this fun project made with Lori’s Hidden Binding Mini Album Suitcase (Silhouette) cutting file. It’s perfect for your vacation photos, or … it makes a wonderful gift idea. Have a great day! 😊

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Anita here with a fun summer box card that I assembled. It is Lori’s Box Card Tropical Suitcase 2 (SVG, Silhouette). I used some of Lori’s Echo Park Paper collections including All About a Girl, Day in the Life No. 2 and Our Little Princess.

Here are the steps that I went through to put together this card:

1. Cut out all the pieces.

2. Fold all the score lines on the card base and glue the suitcase together.

3. Glue the backing piece on the suitcase lid. I thought this would be a great place to write a sentiment.

4. Take your piece that is labeled as 1 and fold along the score lines at the edge. Glue the leaves down first and then layer your flowers ending it up with the stamen and set aside.

5. Move on to piece number 2 which is the flamingo. Fold the score lines at the edge and glue the black layer, with the whole flamingo body onto piece number 2. Then add the darker pink layer which shows up on the bird’s back and on its face. Finish off your flamingo with the light pink top layer of the bird and the white piece near the beak and set aside.

6. You are now onto the palm tree, piece number 3. Fold the edge score lines and glue down the trunk first and then the palm leaves. I used enamel dots for the coconuts but you can use the coconuts that come with the file.

7. Decorate the outside of your suitcase with the handle and the suitcase edges. Glue down the edge pieces and finish with the dots included in the file or use enamel dots like I did.

6. I like to put the pieces into my card and view them with the card both open and closed to make sure that I am happy with the placement. This top-view photo shows where I chose to glue my tabs into the suitcase. I always favor a wet glue when putting these box cards together so that the pieces stay where I want them to. You can also glue it in and then close the card and press it on a table to make sure that it adheres well.