Little Yellow Bicycle Cycling Team - Makin' the Grade

Now I get to share what I made with the very generous supply of the Makin' The Grade line that I received from Little Yellow Bicycle as part of the Cycling Team.

Warning: This is an very photo-heavy post. 
I had so much fun working with this line. The colors and multitude of elements were so versatile. When you are working with a line and getting ideas for a dozen other projects you want to make - that's a good line! My first project is a mini album for all the 'first day' photos - pre-school through 5th grade. I used a translucent mini album and started layering on the great variety of elements I had to work with. Here's my cover:

I love die cuts and Makin' The Grade has a few different kinds - my favorites are the acetate and chipboard:

On my album spine I added a scalloped fabric sticker and some black twill:

The album has 7 translucent dividers that are decorated for each grade, starting with pre-school and ending with 5th grade. Here's the inside front cover and first divider page:

Here you can see one of the photo pages, made from kraft cardstock cut to 5 x 5 1/2 with holes punched to fit the binder. I followed this simple format throughout the album for continuity:

Here I replaced the letter 'b' with an acetate die cut bee:

Here's the first grade divider page with a layout page to the left.

Those cork shapes are awesome!!

Here's the 2nd Grade divider with a layout page from the 1st grade section to the left. I cut Christopher's initials from a patterned paper.

Here a cut apart sticker and fabric dimensional sticker embellish the 2nd grade page. I fit a 'back to school' sticker behind the '2' on the journaling card:

The third grade divider - love that owl:

For the grade numbers, I used the journaling cards from a larger sticker/envelope embellishment. I backed the '3' with a chipboard banner:

I used a banner behind the '4' here, too - this time an acetate one:

And here is grade 5:

The translucent album I used to make this book is from Maya Road. The black twill came from my stash - all I know is that it is very old :)

And I also made this teacher card. I always have trouble making these but I really like the simplicity and dimension of this one. I used the Making the Grade Papercrafting Kit to make the ribbon embellishment.

I hope you will stop by the Little Yellow Bicycle blog for more Makin' the Grade inspiration. It's a great line and the LYB Design Team and Cycling Team made some amazing projects with it!
Thanks Little Yellow Bicycle for letting me play!