I have so many sports pictures from all of the kiddos and they were getting lost and ruined. The paper frames they come with don't last or protect the pictures for too long and to put all of them in frames on the wall would get a bit costly . I didn't want to spend a lot of money on fancy albums so I decided to keep it simple and use three ring binders and page protectors.
I am going to put a basketball on the bottom, left corner of the book and the kids' names with stickers in the middle. These books will contain both soccer and basketball yearly photos.
These are two of the pages I did for one of the boys. I cut the stars and the arrows and journal cards out of scrapbook, using a corner rounder finishes the edges and gives them a nicer look. I got the idea of the journal cards from Becky's Blog, she created an awesome scrapbook system called Project Life. I would like to get this product for my next journal.
I had two sheets of stickers which I used between the two boys books and a small star rubber stamp which helped to coordinate the pages.
The journal cards tell the names of the coaches and some comments about the kiddos.
Hannah actually helped with these two pages. She did all the corner rounding , glueing, and cutting out the butterflies.I helped her with the page layout but that was it. This is a great project to let the kids get in on.
The binders are also a great place to keep any awards or certificates from a particular year. I mounted them onto stiff cardstock and placed them in a page protector. Now they won't get torn or crumpled. From now on when they get their annual sports photos, in the binders they will go.
