School Blog Hop: Storing Your Memorabilia

Welcome to the School Blog Hop! This blog hop is being hosted by Jamie at My Amusing Life and you can see the list of stops at the bottom of this post. There will be a grand prize for hoppers who comment on all the blogs on both days! The grand prize is a a $20.00 gift certificate from Cloud 9 Designs and a $5.00 gift certificate from Jen's Digi Stamps (that's five digi stamps!). Please be sure to leave your contact info in a safe manner, for example suesmith at msn dot com will help to prevent spam!

For my project, I wanted to make storage pages for my middleschooler's school memorabilia. I confess, I save things: report cards, school ids, ISAT tests, award certificates and more! In the past, I have always had the report cards stored in paper backpacks, but felt this would be too cute for my first year middleschooler's taste. So, I pulled out The Robin's Nest Boy Dot/Stripe and got to work.

Now, you might think The Robin's Nest style is elegant and glamorous, but they have some great masculine papers! I knew this would be perfect for my page with a bit of scrap lifting from Creating Keepsakes Summer 2011 issue. The original page, was used to hold Disney memorabilia.

To make the Boy Dot Stripe paper pop, I pulled out some old neutral paper in my stash. It is oooh so old, that I can't tell you who made it. I am sure it was in a stack I purchase at JoAnn's. I cut rectangles for pocket and then cut circles out to help. I also used Creative Imaginations corrugated paper. I am always wanting to try cutting new things with my Cricut! I did not find that this cut well, but found I liked the distressed look of it! I used Graphically Speaking cart to cut the 6 die along the far left and inked the edges. To hold my pockets, I sewed them in place with my machine using a zig zag. If you don't have a sewing machine, consider foam tape to allow room for your memorabilia. Just use it along the side and the bottom!

I also cut my middleschool title using The Robin's Nest Glittered Chipboard in brown. I used a bit of Tim Holtz Ruler Ribbon, and License Plate Alphabet Stickers by The Paper Loft. The Awards, ISAT and Card are all The Robin's Nest Glittered Alphabet.

Your next stop on the hops is April's Blog: Curls and Grins. If you get lost, please see the full list below.

Blog Hop Stops

Jamie's Blog: My Amusing Life

Bernice's Blog: Karber Sweet Escapes

Ashley's Blog: The Glamorous Side of Scrapping

Jessica's Blog: Scrappy Luvs

Christina's Blog: Cema 1 Cema

Amber's Blog: Pixel Perfect Creations

Dena's Blog: Miss D Jones

Deborah's Blog: Scrapping Mamma

Shelly's Blog: Shelly's Land

Clare's Blog: Cricut Crafty Clare (You are here)

April's Blog: Curls and Grins

Jearise's Blog: Lorby's World

Kristy's Blog: Scraptaskically Creations

Brynn's Blog: Flair and Frills Creativity

Janet's Blog: Create Dream Scrapbooks

Amy's Blog: Love To Crop

Staci's Blog: Precious Mem
Lisa's Blog: Handmade with Love-Lisa

Cheryl's Blog: Cards by CG
Gina's Blog: California Scrapping G Cinderella 21

Paula's Blog: Scrap Your World

Crafty Homemade Blog

Julie K's Blog: JK Little Bit of Bling

Maria's Blog: MD Craft Corner