emolicious1

Craft for scrap paper mementos?

10:32 pm - 04/13/2012
Hey crafters! I'm hoping you can help me come up with an idea!

So I'm a senior resident assistant at my college, & we have a tradition called a "kudos box" where we write nice notes for each other & read them at our weekly staff meetings. We're all going our separate ways next month, & I've been collecting these "kudos" to give to everyone so they can remember all the nice things that have been said about them. =] I'm looking for some sort of crafty thing to do involving them.

I'm kind of at a loss on what to do... We just use pieces of scrap paper, so there's no uniformity, which makes it challenging. I was thinking about just giving each person a binder ring with their "kudos" attached, but I'd like to do something a BIT more fancy... any suggestions?
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atouchofyou 14th-Apr-2012 03:40 am (UTC)
Photo albums work well--paste them on scraps of pretty paper (cardstock, scrapbook paper, even construction paper) cut to fit in the slots for photos. You can get lovely cheap photo albums just about anywhere, of any size.
lbfmusic 14th-Apr-2012 05:30 am (UTC)
This is what I was going to suggest! Many stores sell 5*7 albums, and some are pretty cheap.

I hope that you (OP) are able to find something, it's a really touching idea!
perkyrusalka 15th-Apr-2012 06:01 pm (UTC)
I've seen little photobooks in the dollar section of Target, even.

My dorm did something similar one year, and I think we got ours binder-clipped together. The presentation wasn't as nice, but it was the words that counted. You could always do a pretty envelope, if you just wanted something a little nicer for presentation.
emolicious1 17th-Apr-2012 04:03 am (UTC)
thanks, everyone! I'm sort of combining your photo album idea with a below poster. I'm making a collage of some of the more notable/funny kudos, then I'm going to also give them a photo album of the others, so they'll have them all =] Thanks for your suggestions! =]
turian 14th-Apr-2012 04:03 am (UTC)
I love mini books, which can be done tons of ways. Here are some I have bookmarked:

http://jennibowlinstudioinspiration.blogspot.com/2011/03/tutorial-mini-envelope-album.html
http://www.instructables.com/id/Envelope-Book/step21/Enjoying-your-envelope-book/
http://www.creativityprompt.com/video-tutorial-how-to-make-a-mini-book-out-of-soap-wrap/
http://octoberafternoon.typepad.com/october_afternoon/2011/09/tuesday-tutorial-pocket-page-mini-album.html
http://www.marthastewart.com/275474/summer-scrapbooking-projects-for-kids/@center/276964/60-days-summer ( There are a few ideas going through here. )

Some of these might be a little too time consuming, but I wanted to share the ideas anyways.

Oh and I just want to say, embellishments go a LONG way to spruce up even scrap paper. The dollar section at Target usually has some cute little embellishments if you're on a budget.

Edited at 2012-04-14 04:04 am (UTC)
emolicious1 17th-Apr-2012 04:00 am (UTC)
ooh, I don't think these'll work for this specific project, but those are definitely going on my future crafting list! =] thanks!
turian 17th-Apr-2012 10:11 am (UTC)
Sorry it wasn't what you were after! :)
__diamondgirl__ 14th-Apr-2012 04:21 am (UTC)
Maybe fancy them up a bit with scrapbooking scissors and put them on a French bulletin board?
alchemist511 14th-Apr-2012 05:29 pm (UTC)
Get an unfinished wood tray (they have them at Michaels) and mod podge the kudos into the tray as a collage. Maybe some pretty paper as a backing/to fill holes. Finish the wood with either stain, paint or just seal it if the color works. I've done this with the glass-filled ones and photos, it ends up looking really nice, and they can either hang it on the wall or use it.
emolicious1 17th-Apr-2012 04:01 am (UTC)
Thanks for your suggestion! I'm going to go this route, but I couldn't find cheap wood trays so I'm using large tiles from Home Depot =] thanks again!
alchemist511 17th-Apr-2012 03:41 pm (UTC)
Glad you liked it! I've never tried it with tiles, you'll have to post finished pics :)
claddaghemerald 15th-Apr-2012 05:26 am (UTC)
Can you get a group picture?

Take that and put it in the centre of a piece of scrapbook paper and put the notes around it. :) And then they can put it on their walls, frame it or add it to their own scrap books.
cynthia_french 19th-Apr-2012 10:55 pm (UTC)
Get some clip boards - you can sometimes find them at the dollar bin at Target or pretty cheap at office supply stores.

Get some modge podge.

Get some pretty paper.

Modge Podge the clipboards with the pretty paper and put the kudos notes on top, and modge podge over.

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