Organize greeting cards with binder rings

I love scrapbooks. I love looking at them years later. I just don’t love spending lots of money and tons of time making them.  I’ve made 2 altered scrapbooks, check those out here, and an accordion mini scrapbook, and guess what… they were all free to make! I use lots of scraps and mini pictures. This is the easiest scrapbook to date. If you’re new here, welcome! We got married, in our own special way, on 2-22-2012. Here is the whole wedding saga if you’re interested: the wedding announcement and plan is here, and then Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 of the living room ceremony. You can find more on the wedding after math here: DIY thank you cards and how to change your last name.

Here’s what you need:

• foam board (for the cover and back
• maps, wrapping paper
• Mod podge or Elmer’s glue to DIY your own podge
• a paintbrush to apply the paste
• 2 binder rings
• 4  eyelets
• an eyelet tool
• hole punch
• lots of greeting cards
• pretty tape
• glue dots
• XACTO to cut out the holes in the foam board for the eyelets

I was not paid, but Elmer’s did send me a few goodies to get my creativity brewing. I choose to make this scrapbook, these shoes, and mini Polaroid fridge magnets with the craft supplies.  I’ll probably make lots more things too. those were just the urgent projects!

I started wrapping the cover like a present and using my paint brush to brush on the glue paste (AKA home made Mod Podge).

Here’s the wedding scrapbook closeup shot. I used a TX map since that is where we met…

After the foam board is covered, use your eyelet tool to finish up your holes.

Now it’s time for the inside. I fancied up my inside covers with a clothes pin and a few other goodies… I punched holes in a piece of plain card stock to write and doodle on. I taped receipts and business cards to the piece of paper. Pretty simple…

I made a pocket out of a piece of card stock to hold the “Happy Day” sign from our actual wedding day. I attached a few other goodies with fancy tape.

You can even leave the cards in the envelopes if you want…

I started hole punching all of our wedding cards and slipping them through the rings.

And a side view just because…