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About the Projects
Technique: Using sarabinders™ to Create One-Of-A-Kind
Household Organizers
Designers: LeNae Gerig
and Susan Cobb
sarabinders™ are so versatile! Use them to create scrapbooks, journals,
address books, calendars, to-do lists, CD holders, photo albums–the possibilities
are endless! Keep reading to see how LeNae and Susan used sarabinders™
to create useful household organizers like recipe books and kid’s emergency
books.
Recipes
By LeNae Gerig
 “Recipe books are a great place to log all of your tastiest recipes,
and the ones that your family loved!” LeNae raves. “By filling a
sarabinder™ with dividers, you can separate your recipe book into sections
to make your recipes easy to find. You can also use the pockets and envelopes
to store all of those recipe clippings from newspapers and magazines you’ve
been meaning to try! Some of my favorite ideas: Make a recipe book and fill
it with traditional family recipes to pass down to your children, or make a
book full of “Mom’s Recipes” to share with your siblings!”
This stylish sarabinder™ is a great place to store tons of recipes! LeNae
used products from the Cardmaker’s™ line like the Classic Creative
Pack, Classic Ribbons, slide mounts, brads and printed twill to create this
elegant and functional place to store tons of favorites.
Supplies:
Instructions:
- Using the foam brush, paint the back and spine of the binder with black; let dry.
- Glue the ivory stripe paper to the front of the binder. Place the binder face down on a cutting mat, then trace along the edges of the binder with an X-acto® knife, cutting off the excess paper. Ink the edges of the front of the binder with black.
- Cut a 5”x4” piece of black diamonds paper. Mat on red glimmer paper and trim the mat to 1/16”. Center on the front of the binder and secure using a glue stick. Computer journal or stamp the word “recipes” onto ivory cardstock and crop to a 4”x2” rectangle, then ink the edges with black. Center on the black diamond paper and secure to the binder using photo corners.
- Cover a jumbo slide mount with red splotches paper and ink the edges with black. Add one pewter brad in each corner of the covered slide mount. Cut a 2” length each of black and white and red and white gingham ribbon. Tie the two ribbon strips close together around one edge of the slide mount. Adhere the slide mount to the front of the binder, framing the word “recipes”, with the ribbon ties on the bottom right edge of the slide mount.
- Cut a strip of “favorite things” twill and adhere it to the front of the binder, just to the right of the spine. Cut two 2” lengths of black and white gingham ribbon, two 2” lengths of black grosgrain ribbon, and one 2” length of red and white gingham ribbon. Tie a knot in the center of each ribbon length, then adhere down the “favorite things” twill using Zots™.
- Fill with lined papers, manila envelopes, manila dividers or manila pockets to write down and store all of your recipes in one easy place!
Kid’s Emergency Book
By Susan Cobb
 Going out for the night or leaving for a weekend getaway? Be prepared with
this adorable and useful kid’s emergency book! Store instructions and
emergency names and phone numbers so your children will have all the information
they need right at their fingertips. It’s also small enough so your children
can take it with them to school or on field trips. In this “Kid’s
Emergency Book”, Susan used papers and cut-outs from 8”x8”
Kids Papers to decorate the front, then topped it off with some colorful brads.
“There are so many great ways to decorate the front of a blank sarabinder™,”
Susan says. “You can use any color of paint or ink to color the binder,
and because of the size, you can use all kinds of papers to add color and style
to the front of the binder. Pre-coordinated papers and accents from Cardmaker’s
Creative Packs, 8”x8” mini album papers and cardstock and 12”x12”
paper collections are all perfectly sized for personalizing your own binder!”
Supplies:
Instructions:
- Using the foam brush, paint the back and spine of the binder with orange; let dry. Ink the edges of the binder with black. Do not glue in place yet.
- Cut a 3 1/2”x5 5/8” piece of blue stripe paper and ink the edges with black. Cut out the road sign artwork and ink the edges with black, then glue to the paper as shown.
- Cut a 1/2”x5 5/8” strip of yellow scuff paper and ink the edges with black, then glue it vertically down the paper, 1/16” in from the left side. Cut a 1/2”x4” strip of yellow scuff paper and ink the edges with black, then glue it horizontally across the paper about 1” up from the bottom. Cut out the alphabet tiles to spell “info” and ink the edges with black, then glue them across the horizontal paper strip. Journal the word “emergency” on the vertical paper strip, starting where the horizontal strip overlaps the vertical strip.
- Add one orange brad to the top of the vertical yellow scuff paper strip and one where the vertical and horizontal paper strips meet. Add one green brad to the top of the “detour” sign. Glue the paper centered on the front of the binder.
- Fill the binder with address book papers, lined papers and dividers to log all of the important emergency information.
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