As the kids get older, their parties have evolved. These days, there are no streamers and balloons, but there is a pack of tousle-haired tweens holed up wrestling and trading jokes over cards games.

Last year, we did an outdoor movie party for the big boys, and I made fleece blankets for each of them. Since we had a similar crowd this year, I wanted to change up our special party favor, so I made these binders for the boys to organize their Yugioh and Magic cards.

I printed out their names on colored paper and pieced together done fun patterned paper to make each cover unique.

I then wrapped each insert in clear contact paper. This isn’t necessary, but the printer ink will often transfer to the binder cover, if you don’t.

The inserts slipped into be front of binders, and I included some Ultra Pro 9-Pocket Trading Card Pages in each.

The boys were very excited to get their binders, and I think it might even be making a dent in the piles of loose cards around our house!

“Jewels”