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Are you looking for pocket card project ideas that don't involve pocket page scrapbooking? Use the inspiration from today's post to create a mini album!

Traci Reed: Pocket Card Mini Album

Because I don’t find myself pocket scraping as much as I used to, I often find myself with an overabundance of cards that didn’t get incorporated into my regular pages or story journal at the end of the month, so I love a good project that helps me use them up in a FUN way!

This month, I decided to use the journal cards from the Take Flight Modern Memory Keeping Kit to create an adorable double-sided accordion album.

This was super simple to do by using an 8.5x11 piece of card stock and trimming it into (2) 4x11” strips that are scored every 3 inches. This will give you 3 3x4” rectangles and one 2x4” rectangle on each strip. Accordion fold along the score lines and then glue the two short ends overlapping so that you create a 3x4” base where there were (2) 2x4” flaps. You now have an accordion folded album base with 7 3x4” rectangles to build upon. I ended up cutting off the 7th and only using 6.

Now you can start applying your cards to the base in fun ways! I alternated between single 3x4 cards directly applied, folded 4x6 cards:

And pockets with tags created by trimming down 3x4 cards.

This makes the album more fun and interesting by being interactive.

I then went through and added photo placeholder spots with the dimensions written on the placeholder for ease of assembly down the line when I’m ready to finish the album.

Finally, I adhered the string included in the Take Flight Modern Memory Keeping Kit to the back of the album with liquid glue and then used a sentiment I cut out of one of the journaling cards as a half circle over the top to hold it down. The string ties in the front of the album to close it.

What I love about this album is that you can flip it open like a book:

Or you can fully open it up and look at it as one big page front and back!

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