Flip Flap™ Fun!

Have you ever found yourself with a ton of pictures that you'd like to be able to put on one layout, but there's no way you have the room? That happens to me all the time! Well, believe it or not, there is a way to get more photos into your layouts - with Flip Flaps™! Close To My Heart has several different sizes of these wonder-products, but my favorite is the 12" Assortment. What are Flip Flaps, anyway? Well, they are Memory Protectors® (page protectors) that are smaller than your page and have a strip of adhesive on one edge in order for you to attach it to your layout. The 12" assortment from CTMH looks like this:

There are three different widths in the assortment - 4", 6", and 8". The adhesive strip is along the 12" side. These are great because you can add whole other sections to your layout - not just extra pictures. Let me show you how I used them on a layout about one of our camping trips.

This first shot shows what the layout looks like before you "open it up":

Let's start with the left-hand page and lift the 4" Flip Flap that is attached to the right side:

Now we have revealed two journalling blocks that were hidden. Now let's lift the 8" Flip Flap attached to the left side:

Wow - there's another large photograph and the rest of the layout's title.The best part is, we didn't even have to remove the page from its original sleeve to see these added sections. Now let's close this up and move to the right-hand page. This page was done using two 6" Flip Flaps. We'll lift the top one first:

With that one lift of the flap, we revealed seven more photos! Now let's lift the bottom flap:

Wow! That's seven more photos! And all of it fit on one 12" x 12" spread. So, where we originally had eight photos on our two-page spread, with the addition of the 4 Flip Flaps, we now have twenty-four! This is definitely a fantastic product! I would love to see what you do with Flip Flaps! Until next time - have fun Flapping!