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Put It In A Pocket!
By Helen Naylor
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A Salem Pocket
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Everyone’s doing well, getting all their photos in their albums.
Trying to keep caught up is quite an accomplishment. But then you can
run into another problem, one that is traditional even for the “old”
scrappers. What do you do with all those pesky little souvenirs? You
know, ticket stubs, notes from friends, postcards and brochures. Well,
you can use a pocket page!
There are some pocket pages available on the market. NRN Designs has one
that you can decorate or leave plain. There is another done with a
vellum paper. Generations By Hazel has Memorabilia Pockets, which come
in clear or colors. These work really good for heavy souvenirs. But
pocket pages are something that you can easily make and customize it to
your layouts and style.
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My daughter went on her 8th
grade Washington, D.C. trip. I had warned her to buy lots of postcards as
well as taking lots of photos. Sometimes your pictures don’t look as
good as the professionals, and in case you loose a roll, or the film gets
ruined, they’re great back up. I also encouraged her to gather brochures
from all the places she visited. For once, she listened! She returned with
9 rolls of film and over 100 postcards and brochures! We had just over a
week to do her scrapbook, which was part of her grade. We immediately
discovered the need to have some way to display all the items she had
gathered. Pocket pages!
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Valentine’s Day
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Elizabeth went to New
York and saw The Phantom of the Opera. She brought home the program and
the ticket stub. It was just would have been too hard to mount the
theatre program on a page, so we made a pocket page. It seemed that the
city skyline was the perfect choice. (See view #1) Because it was at
night, we made the die cut (Ellison) out of black and put yellow behind the cut
out part for the night lights. I mounted it on a half sheet (5 ˝” X 8
˝”) of navy blue cardstock and drew a few stars. (See view #2) The
half sheet was attached by running mounting tape on sides,
and across the bottom. (See view #3)
View "City Skyline" Larger
Heavier items can also be
placed in a pocket page, I suggest altering the project slightly. Cut a
sheet of paper, 7” X 10”, allowing an over hang on sides and bottom.
Place on the base sheet of cardstock. Assemble by folding the
bottom and sides of the page up and in, using adhesive on the back side. This will make it so that nothing inside the pocket will weigh
down and get it attached to the adhesive. You can
also attach a sheet behind if you don’t like the way the backside
looks. Go ahead and decorate!
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Boston
Pocket
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If you are concerned
about making the items archival, I suggest that you spray them with
Archival Mist. If they are really important to you and you want them to
survive, you’ll have to spray them. You will also need to treat them
if you are going to mix items on a page, like photos and postcards. If
you are just concerned that your non-photo items will damage your
photos, put the pocket pages back to back or leave them alone in their
own sheet protector.
The possibilities with
pocket pages are endless and great fun besides!
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