Another YouTube Challenge – Flipbooks
It’s been since September that I last entered a YouTube crafting challenge. With the holidays and my vintage and craft shows I was just too busy to enter any others. Well now that the dust has settled, I’m ready to enter some more challenges. This one comes from craftyirina on YouTube and it requires participants to make a three page flip book. I had never even heard of a flipbook until Irina explained them. The complete video about her challenge, the prizes and how to make flip books can be found here:
I decided to dig into my hoard vault and use the Prima Marketing “Princess” papers and embellishments I had won from another challenge.
Whole kit of Prima Marketing’s “Princess” papers and embellishments
I love these papers so much but this is where my dilemma began.
Three double-sided pieces of 6″ x 6″ papers
Flip books work well if the three pages are joined using washi tape because it is flexible enough for the pages to fold up. Unfortunately, none of my washi tapes came close the matching the papers. So I had to make my own with masking tape and a script stamp.
Pieces of masking tape on wax paper ready for stamping.
Stamped masking tape ready for using
I’m not going to bore you with step by step photographs of the making of this flipbook, but here are pictures of the finished project.
Front cover of flipbook. I actually tied stained seam binding around the book to keep it closed but forgot to take a picture
The first page on the inside has a pocket with tags inside
This is the second page you see when opening the book
This page has the information tag Irina required which flips open to the left
This is the last page that has a little bag filled with tags and various types of paper clips
At some point Irina will probably do a video showing my flip book. I will write a quick post and include the URL to the video when she does. In the meantime, go to craftyirina’s YouTube challenge video and see if this is something you are interested in entering.
I have never made a flipbook before, but this was such a fun project I will definitely be making more. This week I will mail my book to Irina. Wish me luck!
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