Page Remake: Celebrate!

Another remake of a page from my US scrapbook.  The original unfinished page had these five pictures cut in small circle shapes and arranged in a larger circle.  I had a celebration theme in mind since we were at a party celebrating Cesar successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation, Arlene's birthday (Oct. 27) and my own birthday (Nov. 17).  I kept the original theme and put each picture on individual tags which are actually recycled.  They're real tags from purchased items... mostly clothes, and I still do have a lot of tags to recycle.  I covered them with patterned paper scraps and embellished them ribbons, twine, eyelets, and tags.  Hand cut letters for the title and used an assortment of stamps to fill in the space between the tags and the title.  Inked all the edges with the same white ink I stamped with.

PS.  After I took this picture of what I thought was the finished page at the time, I decided to write journaling around each picture in black ink (Stabilo).

Supplies:  Kraft (So Fun), ink (Craft Smart & Fancy Ink Box), eyelets and charms (All About Scrapbooking), rubber stamps (All Night Media, Hampton Art, Scrappy Cat), clear stamps (All About Scrapbooking, American Crafts, Creative Imaginations, Hampton Art, Imaginisce, Inkadinkado, Making Memories, Megilo, Pink Paislee, Studio G).  Others - recycled tags, patterned paper scraps, ribbons, twine.

Happy Birthday Mini Album for Jillian

 A little over a month ago, my niece, Jillian, celebrated her 6th birthday.  I made her this mini-album as a gift.  It took a while to do, and I was only able to give it to her a week later.  I had planned on making an envelope mini-album and it was nearly done when I showed it to my sister (Jillian's mom) and she suggested that it might get damaged from the kids handling it.  That actually made sense, because I'm the eldest of five, and all four younger siblings are married with a total of 8 kids among them (I have 3 nephews and 5 nieces).  So there are a lot of little and grownup hands that will leaf through the pages.  So I took the pages and tags apart and reconstructed everything to fit into 6"x6" page protectors and bound them all in a sturdy (I hope!) album.  So on that particular Sunday lunch with the whole family, including my parents and grandmother (we are one big family), the album was passed around and we did a bit of reminiscing and a lot of laughing.  It took a lot of work, but it was certainly worth it.