Paul and I have several certificates, both ours and his late parents’. Mine were framed but the rest weren’t. We were going to get them all put into matching frames at one stage, but we have so much art, photographs, vintage/retro stuff competing for space on our walls that the certificates really can’t compete. So I came up with the idea of a portfolio to hold them, that could be kept with photo albums, and it became one of my Projects for 2011. This week I finished it:

Most of the materials I used for it were from my stores. The black japanese paper is nearly 20 years old. Only the black card on the inside was new. I wanted to make sure it was acid free, since that part would be in contact with the certificates.

When I finished this one, I thought I’d crossed one of my Projects for 2011 off the list, but I was wrong. Turns out one of the certificates to go in it, which was tightly rolled up, is actually larger than this portfolio. So I’m going to have to make another one.

Looking at the rest of the Projects for 2011, I’m wondering how I’ll ever get the time to do them all. But it’s only August, right?