More True Fit Folios

Well I decided to post 6 today as that is the last of the ones I made for my daughter. I absolutely love her grade 11 one. I was able to match the paper to her hair, and her grade 12 graduation picture is absolutely gorgeous. (That's my girl!!) Again most papers are Close To My Heart papers. I used the True Fit Folios and covered them with design papers on the outside and cardstock on the inside, clipped the corner so you can see it's a pocket for placing special memorabilia or report cards in, and added 11 brads, 7 on the left and 4 on the right to hold it together. You don't really need to add the brads if you are putting in in an album because the sleeve will hold everything in, I just wanted to make sure papers don't fall out the sides when the kids take the folders out.

I am missing 2 years of Sarah, grade 10 and 12. I took a picture of her student card for the grade 12 picture, it's a little blurry as I'm blowing a wallet size up to a 5 x 7" picture. I'm going to make a few calls to some friends I have that are really handy with computer programs and see if there's some way I can fix it. I didn't purchase that year apparently. Not sure what I'm going to do with her grade 10 picture as she can't find her student card and the school neglected to put her picture in the year book.

I'll post some of my son's on Monday.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

True Fit Folios Continued

Well here's another 5 done for my 19 year old daughters graduation present on June 28th. I buy the True Fit Folios from Close To My Heart. I trim the right hand corner of the front page to curve it. I then pick paper that matches my kids outfits. Most of the papers I used are Close To My Heart as I've been buying up tons of paper packs over the years and not using them. I cut out 2 circles with my circle nestibilities. The big one and one of the middle circles are the 2 I used. I stamped them with Close To My Heart stamp sets. I lined the inside with a co-ordinating card stock and matched that to the front for the strip and grade #'s which were cut out with my Cricut Expressions. I added 11 brads on the sides to close them. Inside I will fill them with report cards, awards, etc. The co-ordinating pages will include special moments, highlights, friends lists, etc.
Hope it's not raining where you are, because the weather is really crappy here in Ontario, Canada.
Hugs xx
Carolyn

True Fit Folios

I am sorry that I've been MIA for the past while. I have mentioned that I have 3 of my 4 kids graduating this month. My 2 oldest are graduating from grade 12, Sarah a year late, but none the less there, Chase grade 12 with honors, Austin from grade 8.I have volunteered to decorate Austin's graduation and we're doing totally new things for the kids. Their theme is Hollywood. I have made the following bags x 54 kids, each with their names on them. They will have inside a disposable camera to take photos with, a graduation frame to put a picture in, and a customized autograph book with their school name and class of 2010 on it. Here's the bags I have made with the help of my friend Christine from Dol Creations:I have also cut 54 large stars out of bristol board and alternated the kids names in gold and silver glitter paper. I had the school laminate them and they will go from the front door to the gym like the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
I also had my son's Prom, and here's a picture of us:
A proud Mommy moment.

Finally I have desperately been working on my graduation gifts for the 3 midgets. I am making memory books for them out of these True Fit Folios from Close To My Heart. They are pockets that you can put memorabilia in. I was inspired by Vicki from Wizard's Hangout. Thanks Vicki for your inspiration. I did all the folders the same layout to speed things up as I had to do one for every year for all 3 graduates. I will do little Shelby's later when there's more time. I'm still missing a couple of photos, which I'm working on finding, and the composite pages are being worked on as we speak. I am going to show 5 per day as I've got so many done. I would like to get these albums done soon as not only are they time consuming, they are costing me a small fortune in prints, paper, albums, etc. However, the memories for the kids are worth every minute and dime. Here's 5 from my daughter Sarah's book.
Back to cards soon, I promise.
Hugs xx
Carolyn