As usual, one of the rules of the challenge is to not disclose the techniques described in Compoendium of Curiosities 3, but, since this challenge more more about using a product than actually altering it, and since I am not a scrap-book/album maker, I winged it. Had a brainstorm last night --- I knew that there were at least three years of old Christmas cards in our basement storage room and it seemed to me that they would make a nice little "coffee table booklet" if I could discern a theme from among over 200 cards. Well, after pouring through all three years (and locating the address of a long-lost friend in the bargain), I determined that I would do a holiday greeting featuring cats! All kinds of cats: real cats, painted cats, cartoon cats...
I set about creating a cover using heavy card stock, a Christmas card too large to fit in the pockets, and a greeting cut from yet another card. I cut the cardstock to slightly larger than the pocket pages, punched holes to match up with the holes in the pocket pages (I used Tim's tiny hole punch), and scored the card so it would open easily. Snowflake-shaped brads acted as binders:
There are already a few cat cards in this year's card basket so it might be that this gets added to, year after year. On the other hand, this might foretell my future as the crazy cat lady of our community!
No, I don't "know" any of these cats. Many were from cards received from various humane societies and shelters I support. Others were from people who know we own three cats of our own.