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Documenting Special Teen Activities From "Scrapbooking" episode SCB-356

Photo boards provide excellent ways to display photos and other keepsakes.

Special moments in your teen's life will be remembered for years to come. Guest Paulette Jarvey explains how to create simple pages that will capture and commemorate good times.

Photo Board

Materials:

Grid paper
Ribbon
Glue
Brads

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	Figure A
	Figure B
	Don't let memories of your graduating class fall apart; hold them together with a simple string of fiber.
	Figure C
	Road trips provide many memorable moments. Preserving your trip on paper is as easy as pulling out your road map.
	Figure D
	Figure E

1. Draw a grid on plaid paper for placement of satin ribbon.

2. Adhere ribbon to the grid with glue dots (figure A).

3. Attach brads to the page where the ribbon crosses each other (figure B).

4. Embellish page with cutouts, stickers and cropped photos.
   

Laced Cardstock

Materials:

Two-toned cardstock
Eyelets
Fiber
Adhesive
Vellum embellishments

1. Tear off the left side of the two-toned cardstock.

2. Set eyelets down each side of the torn page.

3. Lace the page together through each eyelet using fiber (figure C). Leave a small gap.

4. Add a strip of coordinating cardstock behind the laced gap.

5. Mat photos on torn cardstock.

6. Punch a hole in each mat and thread with fiber.

7. Embellish page with vellum envelopes, cutouts and pockets.
   

Road Trip

Materials:
Road map
Vellum
Cardstock
Road sign cutouts
Journaling pen

1. Trim a section of a road map, and then adhere to page (figure D).

2. Cover map with a trimmed sheet of vellum.

3. Place mated photos onto page.

4. Cut out and adhere road sign cutouts on page using foam tape.

5. Write about each town that you visited during the trip (figure E).
   

GUESTS :

Paulette Jarvey
President, Hot Off The Press
Website: www.craftpizazz.com