Decorate your school binder to reflect your personality. You can update the personalized binder each year, each month, each week, or even each day if you don't have too much homework to keep you busy. Consider having a different binder for each subject.
Instructions
1. Purchase a binder with a clear plastic cover on front that allows you to slide items inside to create a cover. You can quickly change the design of your binder as often as you want.
2. Cut your favorite pictures from teen magazines, such as "Seventeen" and "Teen Vogue," to create a collage. First, cut a piece of paper to fit your binder front, then glue the pictures on the paper to make it easily slide into the plastic cover. Add sayings or words from article titles in the magazines. Match the words and pictures to your feelings each week to make it even more personalized.
3. Cover the entire binder with one style of fabric. You can use glue or sew a book cover. Use fabric paint to write your name on the front and add small decorative swirls and flowers. Appliques can also be attached with a hot-glue gun.
4. Cut up a favorite old shirt or skirt you've outgrown and use the fabric to decorate your binder. Add buttons, zippers, and ribbon to make the fabric scrap into a personal statement. On top of the fabric, glue mementos of your life when you wore that outfit: ticket stubs from a favorite movie, a note passed in class to your best friend, or the ribbon from winning the science fair.
5. Print out cartoon-like pictures from the Internet or use coloring book pages to update your binder in a hurry. Consider holiday themes, such as a leprechaun for St. Patrick's Day.
6. Take pictures of all your friends and frame them on your binder. Make little frames from construction paper or buy paper from a scrapbooking store. Add captions to describe each friend or put their names underneath the pictures to make it more personalized.
7. Head to the scrapbook store and buy all kinds of decorative paper and theme sets. You can also purchase scrapbooking software and print your personalized pages out on your color printer.
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