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Locker Talk Altered School Album

When I saw this month’s assignment, my first thought was “Awesome, I have been needing to scrap school photos”. Like many of you, I have a ton of school photos that I have needed to scrap, but I simply have not. I took this opportunity to make a school photo album. I am not going to lie, it was quite a bit of work, but if you do it in steps it is not too bad. Here is what I came up with. Hope you enjoy it.

First I cut (12) 9×9 squares of cardstock, and (4) squares of 9 ½” by 9 ½” squares for the inside and out sides of the front and back covers. Save the scraps.

Next I matched coordinating patterned papers and cut (5) 9×9” squares and (2) 9 ½”x 9 ½” squares. Then I cut each square in 5” and 4” blocks. You will need to trim down the patterned paper from the 9 ½” squares to fit the first and last pages. (The inside of the cover and the back are larger than the coordinating first and last pages).

With the leftover patterned paper from the initial 9×9” square cuts, flip the papers over and cut 1 ½” X 9” strips. Again, the strips on the cover and back (including the insides) need to be 9 ½” in length.

I then inked all the edges with black ink and then adhered the cardstock and patterned papers down onto the chipboard pages.

Next I cut (14) 6” <tagpkt2> from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge and then glued together and placed one on each page. This is for any papers or report cards or special notes that you might want to save.

Now, I matted wallet size photos of the school pictures for each grade with black cardstock and adhered to each corresponding page.

Now I used the Locker Talk cartridge to cut the corresponding “grades”, “preschool” – “high school”. I used the coordinating patterned papers and cardstock colors to match the pages.

Next I cut (14) 3 ½” <imag44-s) on the Graphically Speaking cartridge. I used a patterned paper that looked like notebook paper. I glued this to the front of each tag pocket and used this space to write year, teacher’s name and grade on it.

Now I assembled all pieces on the pages and decorated with buttons.

For the cover, I cut the sentiment “School Days” with layers on the <2ndgrade> key on the “phrase/layers” feature. I decorated with buttons and Doodlebug Flocked brads.

I used a coordinating piece of patterned paper to place about one inch from the bottom of the cover and then glued a coordinating ribbon and Imaginisce “Teacher’s Pet” felt pieces on the cover.

And lastly I inked all edges with the Red Adironack Dye ink pad and the cloth part of the cover and back with the “Soot” distress ink.

I also added page protectors to protect my precious project.

Well I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Like I said this was a lot of work, however if you break it down into steps it really is not too bad.

Try doing all your cuts first and then sit down and assembled.

Hope you enjoyed it.

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