Click to check out our current challenge Wacky Words

Be sure to visit our August/Sept sponsor Tres Chic Unique

Thursday, February 24, 2011

2/23 Maya's cute lil mini tutorial

Our grandparents and all our extended family lives thousands of miles away. We see them every year or two - definitely not enough. To help my 2 years old to learn the faces of his grandparents, uncles and aunts I made a small mini album for him. I started with a package of small clear pockets. Mine were from a scrapbook store but clear badge holders from an office supply store will work great. I found the pictures I want to include and printed them.


I cut several pieces of cardstock to fit into the pockets and cropped the pictures to be 0.25" smaller than the cardstock. I adhered the pictures from both sides of the cardstock and added the names using small letter stickers. I decided to use minimal embellishments to keep the focus on the faces and names.






I slipped the cards into the pockets and tied them with a piece of ribbon.


Eli loved looking through the album and pointing at the faces. I hope that he will be ready to meet his grandparents in few months when they will come to visit us.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

That's super cute! I may have to do this for my husbands family, this way our son will know who they are since we don't get to see them very often! Thanks!

Melanie H said...

This is such a wonderful idea, I made something similar for my daughter with a chipboard album.

Sarabeth aka Sarita said...

super cute idea-i love it!

sarabeth

4theloveofmyfamily said...

this is a fabulous idea!!

Julie said...

fabulous mini!