Library Card Pockets for Scrapbook Pages

Simple Pockets Make Easy Page Embellishments Article by Becky Poland

Scrapbookers frequently draw design inspiration from the world around them. Office supplies and household items are becoming more and more popular as embellishments on scrapbook pages. File folders, matchbook covers, and library card pockets are three shapes that have crossed over into the realm of paper crafting. Each of these designs are easy to make and fun to add to any theme layout. The library card pocket shown here is a quick project that can add just the right touch to your next scrapbook page.

Materials Used for Layout:

Computer font: Pinafore
Rubber Stamps: Nostalgiques-The Attic Collection
12x12 Paper: The Cardstock Stack DCWV
Ribbon: Offray
Magic Mesh
Poemstones: Sonnetts
Brad: Making Memories
Heart and square: Sizzix
XX's and O's: Sizzlits script font
Tags: Sizzix
Gold Stamp pad
Embossing Power
Embossing Tool: Marvy
Online Library Card Pocket Template from Mirkwood Designs

Click here for an additional Free Library Pocket Template designed especially for About.com Scrapbooking

Making the Embellished Library Card Pocket:

1. Print out template on cardstock and cut out. The template can be resized as needed to fit your layout on your computer before you print it.
2. Trace template onto cardstock and cut out. Mark scoring lines with a pencil. Score and fold to the back of the card and adhere using your favorite tape runner or photo tape.
3. For the Tic Tac Toe grid, I free cut cardstock into four strips. Don't worry about cutting straight or making the strips even in size. Variations will make the card unique to you. Adhere the strips to the front of the card pocket in the shape of the game board.
4. Tear a small square from cardstock. Apply Magic Mesh to the square. Layer a heart on top of the Magic Mesh, attaching it with a mini-brad. Put square onto the gameboard.
5. Die-cut Sizzlit letters X and O to further decorate the gameboard, attaching as many as you desire.
6. Die-cut tags.
7. Optional textured embellishment on the tags: I pressed my finger onto an inkpad and freehanded a heart on one tag and XX0 on the other one. I sprinkled the tags with embossing powder and set with a heat embossing tool. You could also use the tags for journaling about the photos, or listing the things you love about the person shown in the layout.
8. Attach contrasting ribbon.
9. Apply finished pocket to your layout.

Library card holders can be customized to go with any layout theme. Have fun coming up with your own ideas.
- Becky Poland

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