Scrapbooking Pockets
I hate to leave out any of my great photos but sometimes I have no choice. I look for ways to include them in the layout without crowding. I love to make photo pockets. They can be made from any kind of material – paper or fabric. These can also be used for keeping sentimental items that are related to your layout, or souvenirs – just about anything that will fit.
Here’s one great idea I had. 
When you’re going through your closets to clean up your old jeans, pants or anything else…cut off the pockets and fasten them to your scrapbooking paper. They come in all shapes and sizes. Use the pockets to place all your extra stuff in – the small items that add to your story. The more detail on the pockets, the better. If the pockets are plain you can embellish them with metallics, ribbon, buttons or just about anything. Match everything to your layout theme.
Just glue the outside edges of your pocket onto your paper and keep the top open for your photos and souvenirs to slip in. Cheap and effective. Have fun with this one!
Happy Scrapbooking!
Val at Paperhills
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What a wonderful request and you are right, an absolute honor to be tasked with such a delicate project. Good Luck! We would love to see a sample of some of your work when you have it completed.
Val at Paperhills
I have taken on an extremely sentimental project for a friend of my Daughters. Her oldest two children lost their Dad suddenly 6 years ago and she wants to do an ablum for them but just can’t right now. The kids don’t want them but she wants to have them ready for them when they do. She has asked me if I would do it for her( an Honour for sure) the journaling, the hardest part of scrapbooking as far as I’m concerned, she will do—I just have to decorate.. She has saved all the Sympathy cards and I suggested that putting them in a pocket which she thought was a great idea so this new pocket idea is going to work for a lot of pages in these two albums—It has given me a whole new outlook on pockets. Thanks—Absolutely love this idea.