MLM CZ4 writes, does anyone know how to connect together page protectors to make them fold out like panoramic 2-page to 4-page? I'm looking for ways to use page protectors in new ways with postbound and 3-ring albums. Clear to go. Can you help MLM CZ4 solve the page protector problem? Of course I can. This week let's look at two different projects, one with fold out pages and one with pockets and then I also have a little trick for you on page protectors storage. Let's start with fold out pages. So one option to add more by customizing page protectors is to just find a layout that is already in your album or you've just made a page and you really have more photos that you want to add to that story and you have enough of the supplies or the colors that you've used to make something else go along with it and then you just take another page protector and it could be any size or any divided type or anything and then see what will work with the photos you have and the space that you have free on the layout. So I have a large photo here and all the embellishment and journaling is in one area and I have six more photos. They're all 4x6 and they're all landscape that I'd like to include. So what I'm going to do is start with a divided page protector from American crafts which would normally hold six landscape photos on each side or 4x6 journaling cards and bellishment cards, whatever you want to add in those spaces. And if you cut this in half you then have a six by 12 with three slots because it still has the ring the ring binder piece on the side but then you end up with this piece that seems like waste. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut this part away for now and I'm just going to use the piece that would normally be waste. So you can cut a page protector with either your trimmer or scissors and I'm just cutting right down the middle and then this is a page protector I can use for six photos for a little interlude between two double page spreads and if this is too loose and the photos are just the buff then I would just close that with tape but because this side has the rings that's not really anything I have to customize so I'm going to set that one aside and that is too easy for you. You can do that no problem. You don't need my help. But let's look at what we would do with this one because this then might be something you would throw away. Not really there's a lot of potential here because you can fold this up and make this into a little mini album that would sit on the page but unfortunately that doesn't really fit with the design here but it's just an idea for you to take away. But what I do want to do is include this on my layout as something that will open and close. So what I'm going to do is add all of my photos to the page protector slots. Now you don't have to use all photos but I am today you could and you could put in title journaling cards, memorabilia, anything you want but just the point is just to fill the spots and of course you could go back and embellish the photos individually if you like totally up to you because I'm just looking at how the page protector works so the design style is completely your choice. I want to carry this embellishment and color theme through. What I've used for this is the social club paper pack from Cosmo Cricket and this is a collection it's not brand new but it's not very old either. It's got this lovely rich blue, a mustardy yellow a nice spring green and then a hint of red. I've used quite a bit of it already but I just wanted to show you this line. It has this really versatile notebook paper, a lot of letters that you can either use as a sheet or cut out. Yeah really nice set and definitely a good deal at this door at the moment so there you go and I used some of these here and I've cut out a few more to add to the photographs. So I'm going to find a few spots to add these in and just adding them flush to the edge of the photo. And this one is a little large, I'm going to use this on the other side but I know that it's going to be pretty big so what I'm going to do is take this photo out, place it up here and just trim off the extra. So at this stage I've added my journaling, my embellishment and I could add more and more to these photos but I actually quite like the photos just to be able to be seen mostly for themselves. So what I want to do is for this to be able to attach here instead of being something in the center of the album where it would fit on the rings. I wanted to fit toward the outside of the album and flip toward the outside as you read the book. So what I need to do is attach it to the edge. This is also the open side of the page protector so it helps if I attach it here so that the photos won't fall out and my secret to that is or sheet tape. So I'm going to line up the two page protectors, run the tape so there's a little bit off the edge and then try and center the edge of this page protector so it's halfway through the piece of tape. Of course it's going to slip a little bit. There we go. So here's the sticky side of the tape just pressing this all down. Then line up the page protector here, try and get them as even as possible. And fold the tape over. Make sure these ends go tape to tape so it's very strong. Cut off the extra. I do leave a little bit just so it keeps it stuck together. And then the page will open and close. You can put another layer here if it seems like it needs a bit more strength. And then when I put this in the album I just press this together and because it's washi tape and not a normal sticky tape it will unstick open and closed without any trouble and it won't just rip here or make it impossible to open because washi tape sticks but it's not overly overly sticky. It's also worth knowing that some washi tapes stick stronger than others. So test it to make sure it's going to hold the weight of the page protector. But this one is from the bit to you here at two piece in a bucket and it sticks really well. I've used it on lots of page protector projects and this comes in lots of different colors and patterns. So there definitely some things there that you can use.