tutorial | adding pages to your spiral bound journals + mini books

Part of the fun of a mini book, for me at least, is being able to add in bits and pieces that help to tell the story I'm documenting. You know, the receipt where the total amount just happened to have the total of the year you were born or maybe the fortune that was so perfect from your last Date Night out.

On the flip side, have you ever left a page out of your mini album?  Or  journaled so much that you needed more room to tell the whole story? Then decided that you had just one more story to tell, but no more pages to share it on?

Me, too.

I'm tickled to share with you today a quick tutorial on adding ephemera and photos to your spiral bound journals + mini books. Somehow I always end up wanting to add something extra to my journal, so I came up with a way to do just that without taking the journal apart.

THE TUTORIAL

Let me show you the method I've come up with and have used many times. And don't worry if you don't have a Bind-It-All machine, I'm going to show you how to use the same design principle using a hand held hole punch. 

Let's get started.

• Hole punch your page, either with your Bind-It-All or Cinch machines or by hand, then snip a horizontal slit into the center of each hole.
• Position your page in your mini album and slip it onto your o-wire rings.
• Using your finger, gently nudge the punched page onto the o-wires by placing the punched page next to the o-wire and pushing it down until it fits snugly between the spirals.
• Finish documenting your story.

THE LIST

And here's the list that helped me showcase the tutorial. In case you can't read my list, which I chose from the March 2011 30 Days of Lists class topics, you can find it below. 

If you're interested in joining the next #30lists challenge class, find more info here.

In My Bag

my wallet

my life in a planer...the ochre malden {Filofax}

catch-all bag that has:

tissues, pen case, makeup bag, foldable shopping bag, business cards

coins I was too lazy to put in my wallet

THE JOURNAL

If you love listing challenges and junk journals as much as I do, check out more journals in my Etsy shop.
Are you a list nerd, too? See more of my List Mini Book posts and tutorials here.