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Speaking of School Album

I love school photos. They seem to make my kid look smart and what Mom doesn’t love that! I created this mini album because it was so versatile and matched so many of my school photos.

I also thought it would be fun to create one for his teachers, for either Christmas or end of the year gifts.Letters from this cartridge could be used to spell the teacher’s name or to designate a study area in my son’s room (with vinyl on the wall!). I had a lot of fun using the cartridge, creating this fun little album.

To make the album:
Cut 2 strips of paper, measuring 4×12. Fold each piece of paper in thirds. Adhere them together by cutting a strip of 4×2 white cardstock, fold it in half and adhere each side one of the paper strips. 
To make the pockets, cut (6) 4×4 pieces of white paper and place behind each “page”.  Sew around 3 edges, leaving the top side open. If you do not want to sew, you can adhere 3 edges down, leaving the top side open as well. This will create a pocket page. You should not have a 6 page pocketed album.

Cut the following letters at 4″:
S from blue patterned
C from red patternd
H from yellow
O from red patternd
O from red patterned
L from yellow

and then cut the shadow at 4″:
S from red patterned
C from blue paterned
O from blue patterned
O from blue patterned

Adhere the letter with it’s corresponding shadow and adhere the letters to a page of the mini album, so you spell the word “school”.

Cut 6 tags at 6.5″:
3 yellow tags: pencil, apple and plain
3 red patterned tags: child, pencil and scissors

Adhere small photos to the tags. Tie a ribbon through the hole in the top of the tag and slip one tag in each pocket.

Cut a 1″x3″ piece of yellow cardstock. Adhere to the upper left of album. Place the blue sticker letters “happy” from the basic grey paper kit.
Cut a 1″x2″ strip of blue patterned paper and adhere to the middle right page. Place the blue sticker letters “days” from the basic grey paper kit.
Cut a 1″x1″ piece of blue patterned paper and adhere to the lower right page. Place the blue sticker letters “09″ from the basic grey paper kit.
Use the yellow apple and yellow star from the inside of the tags as embelishment. Place the yellow apple on the letter “c” and place the yellow star on the second “o”. Adhere as shown.

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