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Album to store anniversary cards

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TeenDivided · 21/07/2022 18:47

It's my DP's diamond wedding anniversary soon, they'll be getting a card from the Queen and also obviously from family members.

I'd like to get them a nice but not £££ album to store them in. Like a slip in photo album (not self stick so they can take them in and out) but big enough to take cards, e.g. to take 8inchesx10inches.

I thought you lovely people on this board might know of something that could be fit for purpose?

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ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 01/08/2022 20:53

A couple of suggestions, @TeenDivided , if it's not too late (and congratulations to your DPs!)

Option 1 - buy an A4/lever arch ring binder and some poly pockets. You could keep the envelopes and any letters that are included, and add additional notes on a piece of paper, such as 'Joan and Tony live at No 43', 'Margaret worked with Mum for 10 years at Smith & Brown Accountants', and so on.

Option 2 - are you familiar with scrapbooking? It's normally done with photographs but can be adapted for cards. Generally, scrapbook albums are 12"x12" and the pages are stored in 12x12 binders. Expensive albums are D-ring, like a ring binder or lever arch. Cheaper albums use a system called 'snaplock' . Either way, you can change the page order. (The Range and Hobbycraft have snaplock ones for about £15).

The idea is that you 'mount' what you are scrapping onto a backing sheet of 12"x12" cardstock (The Range & Hobbycraft sell packs of the card) which you slide into a 'page protector'. An album normally comes with 10 of these, which allows you to make 20 pages (2 back-to-back in each protector). The protectors are essentially poly pockets but in 12"x12" size and are thicker than most poly pockets. You can buy albums which are 8"x8", but they are less common and therefore barely any cheaper, if at all.

TeenDivided · 02/08/2022 06:41

Thank you @ICouldHaveCheckedFirst . Unfortunately I bought something, otherwise the scrapbooking would have worked well. Actually I'll still have a look. (And I should have thought about scrapbooks as I used one for a non-scrapbook reason 15 years ago. Doh!)

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