How many of you prefer jeans without pockets? I bet hardly anyone would prefer jeans without pockets to jeans with pockets. Pockets are such a luxury to have around although we may not realize its value all the time. The story is not too different when it comes to scrapbooks either.

Dealing with interruptions while Scrapbooking

There may be days when you start off embellishing your scrapbook but end up interrupted halfway through. So rather than putting away all your pieces of paper and equipment everywhere, isn’t it a great idea to come up with a huge pocket to put away your emergency stuff aside? You may think that it may ruin the look and feel of your scrapbook if a huge pocket is placed somewhere just to carry your emergency stuff. But as a matter of fact, you can create the pocket to have a funky outlook in such way that no one would even notice that the pocket carries all your cutouts and little embellishments.

In order to come up with a funky look, you can always add in a nature oriented look by adding dried leaves or flowers on the pocket that you create using board that’s pasted on three sides. If you want to come up with a rugged look for your pocket to show that it carries random things, you can always use rug material and maybe use a glitter stick to add in a little design to embellish it. If your scrapbook album runs on a mechanical theme, maybe you can create your pocket to have an outlook of a garage or work station. Simply, what you need to do is let your imagination take over to create the perfect pocket that suits the theme of your scrapbook album.

Using Pockets in your Album for Temporary Things

Many of you might not be fascinated about the idea of a pocket to carry random stuff because you may already have another solution (such as a cardboard box) to put away things. But don’t be disheartened, the pocket fun does not end here. In fact the most important usage of pockets comes when you use it as an ordinary jean pocket; that is to put in temporary things.

Our relationships with other evolve all the time. So there may be certain people who have made a significant impact on your life and certain others whose company you enjoy but does not have a strong bond with. In these situations you may be confused as to whether a certain person should be included in your treasured scrapbook album or not. Pockets come in handy to hold all those temporary people around in the form of photos and other memorabilia. In other situations, you may not know where to add in the photograph of a certain person, so once again, you could still include photographs of this person inside a pocket until you figure out which layout he/she fits in.

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Using Layout Pockets for Protection of Your Precious Embellishments

Certain things we come across in life are too precious to display and some other little gadgets are too fragile to keep lying around. So this is another instance where pockets will come in handy. If you want to use a pocket for protection, make sure to add in a thin line of sponge or polyfil to give your pocket a cushion effect so that your precious object will be safe guarded.

Yet again, the look and feel and the properties of the pocket is a personal decision you will have to make depending on the purpose for which you use the pocket. A scrapbook pocket should always make the viewer curious to reach out for it and dig deep. So be creative in every possible way and don’t forget to add in some extra glitter to make your pocket look very special!

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