Birthday Tag Card

Today I'd like to share a project with you that takes the idea of an ordinary birthday card and makes it more meaningful and interactive by adding pages, pockets and tags.

I put this interactive birthday card together for my daughter to fill out and give to a friend for her birthday. Here's a look at how it was put together.

1. Cut 3 sheets of patterned paper cut to 8" by 8.5".

2. With the 8" side facing you, fold the bottom of the paper up 2" to form a place for the pocket. Then for the paper in half. Repeat for each of the three pages.

3. Use a sewing machine to sew up the sides of the pockets on the three pages. You could use staples if you don't want to sew.

4. Stack the three pages in the order you want them to be in the album. Sew the pages together down the center of the pages on the crease. Instead of sewing, you could punch holes and tie the pages together with ribbon.

5. Now the pages are assembled and ready to embellish.

6. Create six tags to fit in each of the pockets. I used a combination of cardstock, transparencies and paper layers. The tags are each approximately 5" X 4".

7. Embellish each of the pages with stickers, crepe paper, patterned paper and paper layers.

8. Now the album is embellished and ready for my daughter to write notes to her friend on each of the tags.

This is an easy interactive card that would work well for lots of occasions like graduations, Mother's Day, Father's Day and birthdays. You could even replace one of the tags with a gift card.

Hope you enjoyed this interactive card idea and you will try making one on your own!

Lisa

Project Supplies
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" Patterned Paper: Bokeh, Polka, Stripe
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" Glitzers
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" Puffy Words
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend"Peek a Boos
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" Paper Layers
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" Title Stickers
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" Whatnots
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" Puffy Stickers
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" 6 X 6 Paper Pad
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" Giant Rhinestones
Glitz Designs "Hello Friend" Crepe Trim

30 Things We Love About You Album

When I turned 30 a few years ago, my siblings started a tradition of creating an album for the birthday person filled with photos and things they love about them for a gift. Pretty cool, right? We've continuted the tradition as my sisters Michelle and Melanie turned 30. (I wasn't blogging when Michelle turned 30, so no photos of her album. 

This weekend our youngest sister turned 30 and it was her turn for a birthday album. I started the process about a month ago by emailing my brother and sisters and asked them to email me their favorite memories about Kristen. They also sent some of their favorite photos.

For the album, I cut 16 chipboard pieces for the pages of the album. I kept the design pretty similar for each page so that it would be faster to put together.

Once the pages were finished, I punched two holes in the top of each page and tied it together with twine. Originally I thought I'd bind it with large circle binding clips, but the album ended up being over 2 inches think and twine was a better option.

My brother and one of my sisters live nearby, so they came and wrote their memories in the book. I liked having everyone write memories in their own handwriting to add more of a personal touch.

Kristen said that she laughed and cried while looking at her album, so I think it was a success!

Album supplies: Precocious Paper Embellishment, Scrapbook Circle The Good Life Kit, Scrapbook Circle Anniversary Kit, an assortment of tags from Scrapbook Circle Printables, Amy Tangerine Bits.