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Saturday, September 24, 2011

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





Julie K's Blog: JK Little Bit of Bling


Maria's Blog: MD Craft Corner

21 comments:

  1. Wow, that`s a great idea, I never think on did that, TFS.

    Indira

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  2. I may have to steal this idea! I was just thinking about something like this last night ~ AWESOME job I LOVE it!
    tfs

    Staci
    staci412{@}optonline{.}net

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  3. What a nice way to collect memorabilia! I could totally see this working for a number of collections too. Great job!

    Hugs, Cheryl @ CardsbyCG.blogspot.com
    cardsbycg at hotmail dot com

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  4. What a wonderful idea!! I wish I would have done something like this (in advance) for my kids and their 'stuff'... How great to have that ready to fill up!! Great job!! :)

    Amy :) at www.lovetocrop.com
    scrapbookingwithamy (at) gmail (dot) com

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  5. That is a great project and I've never thought about using foam tape to keep a pocket on, thanks so much for sharing.


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  6. So nice project! Thanks for sharing :)

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  7. love your project, such a neat idea!!
    familyofsrapprs2004@yahoo.com

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  8. Your memorbilla folder is great! What a nice way to save school items. Thanks for sharing. Edwina Brown

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  9. I luv this idea. I'm really n2 pockets & envelopes right now! thanx~prhmangel at gmail dot comI luv this idea. I'm really n2 pockets & envelopes right now! thanx~prhmangel at gmail dot com

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  10. Love this idea. I hung on to everything from school. Nice being in the hop with you.
    Ashley
    glamoroussideofscrapping at gmail dot com
    theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com

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  11. Love the Memory folder. I am a new follower. TFS

    mjblahnik56@hotmail.com

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  12. What a wonderful keepsake. I know your daughter will treasure that for ages to come. Thanks for sharing. Jearise in Lorby's World.

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  13. What a great idea! this turned out great!!

    ~ Carrie

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  14. very cute TFS!!!!


    cathie
    scraphappycat@gmail.com

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  15. Fabulous idea, Love the papers. TFS joy4umetoo at hotmail dot com

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  16. I love your project! I save everything like this too and this is such a wonderful idea. TFS.

    Kris
    dietzrobles at yahoo dot com

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  17. Such a great idea! Love it!

    Be sure to stop by my blog to enter my 500 followers giveaway!

    XO ~ Amy Jo
    amyjrockstar at gmail dot com
    http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com

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  18. Terrific! what a great way to store items that you just can't scrap onto the page!!!

    TFS

    Have a scrap-happy day
    Lisa G
    http://lisa-scrappingspot.blogspot.com/

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  19. What a cool project, love the colors that you picked. Great job!
    Hugs,
    Kathy
    http://the3esblog.blogspot.com/

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  20. Great ideas and beautiful but like you said masculine.

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