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Using the We R Makers Book Binding Tool to Make a Fall-Themed Mini Album

It’s Easy to Make Your Own Mini Albums for Scrapbooking, Art Journaling, Planning, Note Taking or Whatever Other Purpose You Might Need Them for. Read on for Free Mini Album Instructions and Ideas.

Front Cover of the Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album

Front Cover of the Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album


Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice: That’s What This Cute Mini Album Is Made Of!

Specifically, it is made of papers and embellishments from the “Harvest Market” and “Good Stuff” Collections by Simple Stories.


We R Memory Keepers Book Binding Tool + the First Project I've Made With It So Far: A Fall-Themed Mini Album With Saddle Stitch Binding

We R Makers (Formerly We R Memory Keepers) Book Binding Tool + the First Project I’ve Made With It So Far: A Fall-Themed Mini Album With Saddle Stitch Binding

Pages from the Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album Before They've Been Embellished

Pages from the Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album Before They’ve Been Embellished

A Cute Chipmunk Is the Star of This Scrapbooking Layout Titled Nuts About You From the Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album Featuring Craft Supplies by Simple Stories. The pages pictured here were made using papers and stickers from the Harvest Market and Good Stuff Collections, plus Happy Planner washi tape by Me & My Big Ideas.

A Cute Chipmunk Is the Star of This Scrapbooking Layout Titled “Nuts About You” From the Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album Featuring Craft Supplies by Simple Stories. The pages pictured here were made using papers and stickers from the Harvest Market and Good Stuff Collections, plus Happy Planner washi tape by Me & My Big Ideas.

Nuts About You Layout From Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album Featuring Craft Supplies by Simple Stories. The pages pictured here were made using papers and stickers from the Harvest Market and Good Stuff Collections, plus Happy Planner washi tape by Me & My Big Ideas.

Nuts About You Layout From Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album Featuring Craft Supplies by Simple Stories. The pages pictured here were made using papers and stickers from the Harvest Market and Good Stuff Collections, plus Happy Planner washi tape by Me & My Big Ideas.

Here you can see a close-up picture of the chipmunk in the Nuts About You Layout From the Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album

Here you can see a close-up picture of the chipmunk in the “Nuts About You” layout from the Pumpkin Spice Fall Themed Mini Album.

Crafting Skill Level: Easy

Craft Supplies You’ll Need for Making a Mini Album With a Saddle-Stitched Spine

  • We R Makers (Formerly We R Memory Keepers) Book Binding Set — This set comes with a book binding tool, an awl, some waxed thread, 2 needles, a felt pouch to use for organizing everything, and an instruction sheet.

    The book binding tool is useful for helping you make straight, evenly spaced holes in your paper to stitch through. It is not a strict necessity. I highly recommend it, but if you don’t have it, you can use a ruler to mark your papers with evenly-spaced guides for placing holes in your papers. In place of the waxed thread, you can use pretty much any sewing thread, fine crochet thread, fine yarn or embroidery floss. It’s ideal to use a tapestry needle or darning needle for doing your sewing, although there are other possible needles that could work, too.


  • Scoring Board or Other Scoring Tool — I’m using a Scor-Pal tool to do the scoring for my mini albums. There are other scoring boards and scoring tools that will also work for this purpose.


  • 12″x12″ Papers — You’ll need at least 2 sheets of 12″x12″ patterned paper to use for making the pages of your mini album. I used 2 12″x12″ sheets of patterned paper from the “Good Stuff” collection by Simple Stories. This collection features one paper for each month of the year. I decided to make my project a fall-themed mini album featuring photos I took in the months of September and October — so I chose to use the September and October papers from this collection. You can use these, too, if you want your mini album to look like mine. If you want to scrap a different season, you could choose papers from some of the other months in the year as an alternative to these. Or you could choose any other papers you love.


  • Paper Cutter or Trimmer


  • Extra Papers and Embellishments — There are zillions of possible ways you can embellish your mini album. You could use stickers, die cuts, frames, washi tapes, ribbon or whatever other embellishments you like. I used stickers from the Harvest Market cardstock sticker sheet to embellish my mini album pages. I also used pocket cards from the Harvest Market 6″x8″ paper pad and handmade frames I made using papers from the same pad. I used the We R Makers Frame Punch Board to make the frames. I used Happy Planner washi tape on both the book cover and the interior pages.


  • Photos up to 4″x6″ in Size — If you want your mini album to be a scrapbook, you’ll need some photos to scrap with. This small-sized album works best with small photos; photos measuring 3″ x 4″ are ideal, but you can also use 2″x2″ photos, 2″x3″ photos, 4″x4″ photos or photos that measure 4″x6″ or any size smaller than that. A 4″x6″ photo will take up one entire page in this mini album.


  • Adhesive — You’ll need a flat, paper-friendly adhesive such as Cherry Tape, Scor Tape or Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive. It’s optional to also use a three-dimensional adhesive. I like using Scrapbook.com’s Adhesive Foam Strips to make photo frames appear to pop up from the page. I also use them to attach random embellishments to the pages to make them look more interesting. However, please do not overdo it with the foam adhesive so you can be sure of getting your book to close properly.


How to Make the Mini Album: Free Step-by-Step Instructions and Tutorial

  • Cut each of your 2 sheets of 12″x12″ paper into thirds measuring 4″ tall by 12″ wide.


  • Score each of these pieces of paper down the middle using a scoring tool.


  • Put your papers in the order you want them to appear in your mini album and stack them neatly on top of each other with the center fold lines all aligned.


  • Thread your needle with the waxed thread or whichever thread, floss, yarn or fiber you plan to use.


  • Use the book binding tool and your awl or paper piercing tool to punch evenly-spaced holes down the center fold line on your stack of papers.


  • Stitch through the holes using your threaded needle. Saddle stitch simply goes up through one hole, down through the next hole, etc. Then after you’ve stitched the entire spine of the book, you can backtrack and go back through the holes again in the other direction if you want to make the sturdiest possible binding. If you have the We R Makers Book Binding Tool, you can consult the instruction guide to see how to do this type of binding plus some other fancier bindings, too.


  • Knot your thread at the end to keep the binding from unraveling.


  • Embellish your book as desired.


So there you have it: That’s how to make a mini album using the We R Makers Book Binding Tool Set. I hope you’ll enjoy making and decorating your own mini albums! Happy crafting!

Over to You:

Have you tried making a mini album with a saddle stitched binding? If so, how did it turn out? How did you embellish it? Did you keep it for yourself or give it as a gift to a loved one? Do you have any questions about making mini albums?


The floor is open for comments — so if you have questions or feedback about this project idea, please feel free to leave a comment and we will do our best to help you if we know the answers to your questions.

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September Crafts: Fall-Friendly Craft Ideas to Work on This Month

Happy September, creative friends!

September Craft Ideas: Monthly Habit Tracker Planner Page Pictured With Sakura Gelly Roll Pens, a Marvy Uchida Highlighter and Wool of the Andes Worsted Weight Yarn by Knit Picks in the Pink Posy Heather Color

September Craft Ideas: Monthly Habit Tracker Planner Page Pictured With Sakura Gelly Roll Pens, a Marvy Uchida Highlighter and Wool of the Andes Worsted Weight Yarn by Knit Picks in the Pink Posy Heather Color

Autumn is upon us! The autumnal equinox determines when the first day of autumn falls; this year, it happens on the morning of September 22, 2024. I hope your fall season is getting off to a fantastic start.

Pink Yarn and Pink Craft Ideas: Fingerless Gloves and a Planner Layout With a Monthly Habit tracker and Pink, Red, Green and White Stickers

Pink Yarn and Pink Craft Ideas: Fingerless Gloves and a Planner Layout With a Monthly Habit tracker and Pink, Red, Green and White Stickers


What types of craft projects are you interested in working on this fall?


Whether you’re brand new to crafts or you have your established favorite technique(s), either way, this craft website is a fantastic place to find fall-friendly craft project ideas you might be interested in working on this month. You’re invited to browse through our pages on the topics of needlecrafts, paper crafts, and other crafts to find patterns, tutorials, and project ideas that interest you.

If you aren’t sure what, exactly, you want to work on making right now, please keep reading; below, I’ve rounded up a bunch of project ideas and suggestions for September craft ideas you can use this month. If you have other suggestions to add to this list, I invite you to post a comment at the end letting me and the other readers here know about them.

Fall Craft Ideas

September Knitting

September Planner Dashboard Plus Fall Craft Supplies and Project Ideas

September Planner Dashboard Plus Fall Craft Supplies and Project Ideas — Pictured here: Fall-friendly yarn includes Andean Treasure, High Desert and Bare Hare by Knit Picks; My September Planner Dashboard is by Maggie Holmes / Crate Paper; I’m writing in my planner with Sakura Gelly Roll Metallic Pens; I’m reading Nordic Knits by Birger Berge, published by Trafalgar Square Books; and I’m going to use my Clover Takumi bamboo knitting needles to knit a cabled scarf using one of the patterns in this book.

September Craft Ideas: Try Entrelac Knitting! Entrelac knitting is a technique you can use for creating intriguing textured projects that appear to be woven. Pictured here is a book that is focused on giving you projects using this technique.

September Craft Ideas: Try Entrelac Knitting! Entrelac knitting is a technique you can use for creating intriguing textured projects that appear to be woven. Pictured here is a book by authors Heidi Eikeland and Mette Hovden that is focused on giving you projects using this technique. Trafalgar Square Books is the publisher.

Maja's Swedish Socks -- A Sock Knitting Pattern Book by Maja Karlsson, Published by Trafalgar Square Books

Maja’s Swedish Socks — This is another fantastic book filled with fall-friendly knitting projects. It’s a sock knitting pattern book by Maja Karlsson, -published by Trafalgar Square Books.

September Planner Crafts

September Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul

September Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Like Happy Planner, Arc or Tul


If you maintain a physical planner, junk journal, scrapbook, or art journal, you might want to decorate your September calendar pages, journal pages or scrapbooking layouts with seasonal stamped images or embellishments. I invite you to check out the following pages for ideas:

September Scrapbooking and Journaling Ideas

Fall Themed Mini Album Titled Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice Featuring Supplies by Simple Stories

Fall Themed Mini Album Titled Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice Featuring Supplies by Simple Stories


You’ll miss out on seeing some of the world’s most inspiring scenery if you sit at home on your couch during the month of September. This is the time of year when the trees are showing off their most splendid color schemes. If you have a park or a hiking trail nearby, you can feast your eyes as you go for a stroll. You’ll want to grab a friend and your phone or camera and take photos of the all the beauty that you encounter along the way.

Then you’ll want to document your memories in a scrapbooking layout or mini album.

Fall Themed 6x8 Pocket Page Scrapbooking Layout With Photo of Utah's Dixie National Forest

Fall Themed 6×8 Pocket Page Scrapbooking Layout With Photo of Utah’s Dixie National Forest


If any of these fall scrapbooking projects look interesting to you, you can click the photos to find more information about each one. If those ideas aren’t quite what you had in mind, you can check out this page of scrapbooking ideas to find a wider variety of projects.

September Holiday Crafts

Snowflakes Crochet Pattern From the Classic Christmas Crochet Book by Heidi B Johannesen and Pia H. H. Johannesen, With Photography by David Bering / Montgomery

Snowflakes Crochet Pattern From the Classic Christmas Crochet Book by Heidi B Johannesen and Pia H. H. Johannesen, With Photography by David Bering / Montgomery


Christmas will be here before you know it. If you celebrate this holiday, and you plan to give handmade gifts to your inner circle, you’ll want to consider devoting some time this month to making Christmas crafts. I’ve posted bunches of free Christmas craft patterns here at this website, and I’ve also reviewed bunches of amazing Christmas craft books you might like to know about.

September Art Projects

Reinterpreting Autumn -- An Original Collage Painting by Amy Solovay

Reinterpreting Autumn — An Original Collage Painting by Amy Solovay


If mixed media art is your jam, why not make an abstract collage featuring fall colors? Pictured here is one possible idea you could use for inspiration, but there are zillions of possibilities beyond this one.

September Crochet Projects

Pictured above, you can see work-in-progress shots of the fingerless gloves I’ve been crocheting this month.


I am enthralled by this design and am planning to release a pattern for it soon. However, I’ve had a major setback with that, because my computer died earlier this month. Beyond that, my own personal projects are somewhat on hold while I help my husband with copywriting for his tech startup.


So this pattern release has come to a temporary standstill while I navigate those real-life issues.


The fingerless glove pattern is stuck in testing phase; I’m working my way through testing the design myself and fixing minor oddities in the pattern before sharing it with a broader group of pattern testers. If you’re interested in helping me test this pattern, please drop me a comment or contact me, and I will get you the details of the test as soon as they are available. In the meanwhile, please be patient with me. Thank you for your understanding.

Find More September Crafts and Other Fall Craft Ideas to Carry You Through Autumn

The projects posted above are just a small sampling of the ideas posted on this website. I’ve put together a list of fall crafts that are seasonally appropriate for September, October and November crafting in many regions of the Western hemisphere.


Of course, if you are in Australia, you’re likelier to need spring project ideas right now, so I offer you this list of spring ideas instead.


For even more ideas, you’re invited to check out our main index of craft project ideas. Happy crafting!!


By Amy Solovay