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Project: 8 1/2"x11" travel portfolio

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1. Place the unfolded portfolio with the small flap on the right. Cover the small flap with blue floral paper and ink the edges brown. Tear an 8 1/2"x11" piece of pink textured paper, leaving one edge untorn, then ink all the edges brown. Glue the untorn edge even with the left edge of the large flap.
2. Ink the edges of a 6"x9" piece of green floral paper brown and glue to the left side of the pink paper. Stamp stars around the edges in black. Stamp dotted lines across a 5 3/4"x7 1/4" piece of tan textured paper and glue it to the right side of the pink paper.
3. Mat three photos on blue textured paper, ink the edges brown and glue down the left side of the large flap. Cover a bracket punch-out with blue glimmer paper and attach it to the left of the photos with a pink monogram. Add a pink brad to a blue silk flower and Zot™ it between the bracket and monogram.
4. Stamp solid journaling lines on tan textured paper with a solid bracket to the right. Stamp “remember” above the journaling lines, then journal a travel list on the lines. Crop the journaling to a tag shape and tear the bottom edge, then ink the edges brown. Mat on blue glimmer, tear the bottom edge and glue to the top of the small flap. Zot™ a bow of blue ribbon to the tag's tab.
5. For the closure strip: Cut two 1"x12" strips of ivory textured paper and stamp the barcode pattern on one. Mat the strips on blue glimmer paper. Wrap the strips around the portfolio so they overlap, then glue or add brads to the overlapping ends. Stamp polka dots on a pink silk flower. Punch a circle of green floral paper, ink the edges brown and glue to a white Great Big Brad™. Attach the flower to the right end of the connected strips (going through just one strip) using the brad.

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