BIA Circle book

Today was a very busy day. I had to finish shopping for camp food. It sure takes a lot to feed hungry teenage girls for a week. I also spent the day finishing up organizing charts for organization and chores. But I am finally almost finished. I got home from all the errands and took a nap at 7 pm. I had too much to do and I was tired. I still need to make sure my girls have everything they need to go, but I have tomorrow for that.

One of the last things I had to do was decorate the circle books I made for camp. I had decided a few weeks ago that they were fine with decorative paper, and if I didnt have time to finish them that would be okay. After I finished up what I needed to do tonight. I dug them out and finished decorating them. Arent they cute? They are being used for everyone to write nice things about each other in.

I purchased the decorative paper at Michaels and talked about it in this earlier post. It talks about how I cut all the paper for the books with my cricut. The covers are circle Coasters I purchased from Starlit Studio. I bought the prima petites from All That Scraps. I used the heather colored ones. I used my computer to print the sentiment. I have found that if you set the paper to have 4 columns you can type sentiments that fit with in the small tag punch. You have to watch the height. I type five sentiments per column, and make sure I have a bout an inch between them. then I allignthem Horizontally so i can cut the apart and use the punch on them. I used my SU tag punches to cut the cardstock and sentiments out. I used my Cuttlebug and the Tiny Tags Dies to cut the tags out for the names. I've used these dies for a lot of little tags on cards. The rhinestones I purchased in a $ section at either Archivers or Target. I bought them awhile ago to use for camp,because I need to keep within the camp budget. They were a sentiment saying Cutie Pie. I cut the word to separate the rhinestones and use a pointer to lift them off and put them where needed.

The thin tan stitched ribbon I got at Michaels. the Gold ribbon is an after christmas clearance purchase and the other stitched ribbon is SU True Thyme and Cranberry Crisp from the 07 In Colors which are now retired. Here is a picture of my mess from making 18 of these, I even get one. I just wanted to show you the crystals stickers. Ignore the rest of the mess, I am, until the end of August. (wink, wink)

Just one more quick story, I had planned to tie both tags on the ribbon together, but I didnt like the look. I covered the holes I punched with my 1/8" circle punch with the primas. I noticed my punch was not working the best and was kind of sticking. Then I realized I hadn't emptied it out in ages. It literally rained tons of little colorful confetti into the garbage. I am relieved it wasn't a problem with the punch.

I am going to try an make some cards Saturday and Sunday for my DD to post while I am gone. I am just so busy I dont know if I'll get around to it. I will also be posting after mid-night Sunday, some Blog Candy. I'm not sure what, but I'll figure it out and post it Monday bright and early before I leave. This one will run from the 6th until the 27th, you will be able to comment more than once, but only once a day. I will use the Random Number picker online to choose a winner. Please come back Monday to see what it is.