How to Adhere Two Creative Memories Scrapbook Pages to Make a Pocket Page
Scrapbooking is usually done using flat pieces of paper, embellishments or stickers. Sometimes, however, scrappers want to include keepsake items that are not flat or easily fixed to a page. When this happens, they can make a pocket page to place in their scrapbook that will hold these loose keepsake items. They can be made to coordinate with the overall pattern of the page.
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Things You'll Need
- Two pieces of Creative Memories paper
- Glue, tape or sticky tabs
- Scissors
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- Two scrapbook pages
- Mounting tape
Instructions
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Making the pocket
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Cut one piece of scrapbook page to the size you want for the back of the pocket. This will be bigger than the front, and so will show a little bit.
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Cut a second piece of a page to be the front of the pocket. This should be about half the height of the first piece.
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Glue or use photo tape to place the back piece of page onto your full Creative Memories scrapbooking page.
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Use your glue or photo tape and put a strip of stickiness around the two sides and bottom of the back piece of the pocket.
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Place the front piece of the pocket on top of the back piece and press down firmly to make sure it sticks.
Making a pocket out of two pages
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Take two album pages that are the same sizes.
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Place sticky mounting tape along two sides and the bottom of one page.
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Place the other page and place it on top of the first, on top of the tape.
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Press down where the tape is to make sure it sticks.
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Decorate the pages as desired.
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Tips & Warnings
Take stickers, brads, stamps or lettering and decorate the front of the pocket to coordinate with your page layout. At this point, your imagination is your only limitation.
Sticking two pages together allows for a very large, sturdy pocket in which to place keepsakes.
If you don't have the extra paper for a back, or simply don't want one, that is OK. Simply attach the front of the pocket directly to the scrapbook page.
Your pocket does not have to be a simple square. If your page has a lot of circles or triangles, make a pocket in those shapes. Just take care to glue down the sides and bottom, but not the top.
Experiment with different sizes for your pocket. It can be a long narrow pocket to hold movie ticket stubs or a tall thin pocket to hold a playbill.
Experiment with different pocket materials as well. Instead of just card stock or paper, think about using vellum paper. The see-through quality can be nice if you want to be able to look at your keepsake item without taking it out of the pocket.
Creative Memories has many different bundles of paper that coordinate with each other that you can pick from to create a pocket, or you can go with some of their solid colors.
Be sure not to glue the top of the pocket down, or you will no longer have a pocket.
