Memorabilia Pocket

This month we were given a picture to use as our inspiration, the picture was drawn by Amber's daughter.  She is such a cutie and when I saw the picture the red color stood out to me the most.  I remembered my daughter's school picture and picked the paper from there.

It also reminded me that I have a ton of art work from my daughter and I thought making a memorabilia pocket to go with her school picture would be a great way to store it.  Here is the project, I made a title on the pocket with her grade, school and the year but I just didn't feel comfortable putting that on my blog.  Here is the pile of stuff I had.

I decided to use a version of the pockets I use to store birthday and Christmas cards for my daughters important school work, I put her class picture and report card in here as well.

Here are the tutorial on how to make it:

1. Cut a piece of cardstock to 12 x 6"

2. Score the cardstock at the 1/2" mark on the two short sides and one long side



Directions:

3. Draw a line on the 45 degree angle on the bottom corners, cut these off. By cutting thes

miters the bottom corners will lay flat

 4. Take a bone folder and crease the score marks

 5. Decorate the pocket on the outside

6. Add strong adhesive to the flaps and adhere to the bottom of the page

7. Finish decorating page and fill with memorabilia

Supplies used:
FP Winterwonderland paper
Snake Tape
MS Swirling Lace punch

Crop Chocolate Challenge # 8

Crop Chocolate is running an online crop and you have till May 13th to enter. This is for the Honeymoon challenge, you have to create a mini album for a trip you have taken or one you plan to take.  I made this for our Disney World trip, and its called an envelope mini album.

Supplies used:
MME Lush paper
MME Lush ribbon
Spellbinders Scallop Circles
EK Success Micky punch

Happy Mother's Day

I made two of these Mother's day cards as part of the focus group challenge.  We were challenged to make a project with fabric.  I had been wanting to try felt flowers for a while, (I had been collecting it for a few months), and this gave me the perfect excuse to try it.  Both my mother and mother in law loved the cards, and I really like how the flowers came out so I will try this again (I have enough felt for a lot of flowers).

Crop Chocolate Challenge # 7

Crop Chocolate is running an online crop and you have till May 13th to enter.  This entry is for the strike up a band challenge, we had to make a project with an accordion base.  I created a card purse and the accordion part is on the sides.

Purse

Purse open 

Closeup of front closure

Supplies used:

MME Stella and Rose Gertie

Spellbinders Floral Doiley Motifs

MME Lush Brads

Magnet

Lace

Crop Chocolate Challenge # 6

Crop Chocolate is running an online crop and you have till May 13th to enter. This was for the something wedding colors challenge.  We had to take our wedding colors and create and altered project, my colors were navy blue, silver and cream.  I didn't have much CC supplies that were navy blue but I did just get this TC Noel and Notes, the back is thus beautiful cream damask.  I created a calender in Microsoft Word and used a 5 x 7 picture frame to create a post it note holder with a calender.  This is hard to get a good picture of because the frame reflected like a mirror so it looks a bit washed out but the picture is framed in navy blue and I used silver MM brads for my silver element.  These make great gifts, last year everyone loved them and I plan on making one for my daughter's teacher as an end of school present.

Supplies used:


TC Noel and Notes Cardstock
MM Brads
5x7 picture frame

Crop Chocolate Challenge # 5

Crop Chocolate is running an online crop and you have till May 13th to enter. This was for the with this ring challenge.  We had to use buttons or some other embellishment to create a shape.  I decided to make Mickey shapes with the buttons and use them to make bookmarks for my kids.  We went to Disney World a year ago and when we were getting autographs we were always having to flip thought the books to find the right spots.  When I saw this idea for book marks I thought it would be a great idea for the autograph books and I know my kids will love them.

Supplies Used:
MME Paper
Adhesive magnet sheets
Spellbinders Circles
Spellbinders Floral Doiley Motifs
Spellbinders Labels 3

Crop Chocolate Challenge # 4

Crop Chocolate is running an online crop and you have till May 13th to enter. This was for the something blue challenge.  We had to create a project with 5 shades of blue and I decided to make a gift card holder.  I find myself giving a lot of gift cards for the nephews and for other occasions.  I created this gift card holder a last year for a blog hop and its popular with family and friends.  I didn't put a sentiment on this and tried to leave it gender neutral (no flowers or bling) so that I could put it in my stash and pull it out when needed.  I find myself doing this more often lately with cards, and it comes in handy.  Here is my gift card holder.

Front

Inside

 Open with Velcro closure

Supplies used:
MME Portebello Road Paper
Distress Ink
MM Poolside Buttons
Ribbon
Spellbinders Floral Doiley Motifs

Crop Chocolate Challenge # 3

Crop Chocolate is running an online crop and you have till May 13th to enter. This was for the something borrowed challenge.  I "borrowed" this card from Wild Flower ~ Jasmine , here is my take on her card.  You still have time to enter and this was a fun contest.  I made the pearl flourish using a Silhouette Rhinestone template and liquid pearls.  I have a video on how to do this here.

Supplies Used
MME Madison Ave
Liquid Pearls
Spellbinders Big Scallop Circles Lg

Crop Chocolate Challenge # 2

Crop Chocolate is running an online crop and you have till May 13th to enter. This was for the something new challenge. The challenge was to create a project using CC supplies and one of your new scrapbook supplies.  This is one challenge I really struggled with, it seemed that everything I tried did not work.  Orginally I tried to stamp a Bo Bunny stamp in a glue pad and use glitter but it didn't stick (work on the test paper just not the cardstock I wanted to use).  Next I tried the stamp with a flower and again the test runs looked okay but on a large scale it failed.  Finally out of frustration I chose my Teresa Collins Noel and Notes Cardstock which I just got and turned it over for this nice damask pattern and made a flower to go with it.  Not what I planned but after 2 failed attempts I am happy.  I picked up some stamp and stick powder afterwards and I will give it a try with the glitter when it comes in.

Crop Chocolate Challenge #1

Crop Chocolate is running an online crop and you have till May 13th to enter.  This was for the something old challenge. The challenge was to create a project using CC supplies and one of your oldest scrapbook supplies. I made this baby onsie card and I used the baby snaps on the bottom.  They were one of the first things I bought when I started, I remember the cropodile was new and everyone was raving about eyelets.