on this card I made flags by using toothpicks sand ribbon folded across it and bound with glue dots- yay for glue dots! The celebrate is a chipboard piece.
I plan on giving it to my 5th grader after her first day of school today. Hopefully she will survive :)
Now go and enter your circle card!! Have a great day!
My 5th grader did not want anything 'not cool' so she chose shiny lips from the dcwv rock star pack. Then, since she is a ballerina, she put some fun ballet stickers on.
My preschooler is such a girly girl- I did not let her help since she would have chosen the entire scrapbook collection- I did let her pick her favorite princess stickers.
Kindergarten boy is a huge star wars fan and he picked his stuff out himself. I used the packaging of the creative imaginations star wars kit.
I used a tag and folded it in half. My ATG gun is awesome and holds the paper on like it was born there. But I will still laminate them for durability from weather and other kids. I left the back folded over and blank. I am going to write in their name and information and then velcro it closed. That way if the pack does get lost- it is all right there.
So, the back fold had to be decorated too :) 
Here is the back side - I just folded the sturdy My Minds Eye paper over. I used Bakers thread in yellow to bind it together.
Here is the front inside. I used Distress ink to get rid of all the white. The inside paper was a Provo Craft 8x8 slab of coordinating paper. It is not sturdy paper, but is as thick as printer paper. Folding it over after trimming it down to 4x4 and gluing just the edges made it sturdier and a pocket.
I have 18 pages so that she can journal, decorate, put pictures on or whatever- front and back- so that is 36 pages, not counting the inside binding. I also have a little kit for her to decorate with. Flowers, brads, etc. Mostly my rejects that match.
Here it is from the side view. I think she will have fun with it. The only catch I gave her was it all has to be happy and god things. She tends to look for the bad- so this will also help with that. :)
The pockets are in each page. I figure she can fill them with tags, ticket stubs, drawings or whatever she wants to. I punched with my circle punch a little more than halfway on each page so that it would be easy to see and pull out whatever is inside.
Here is the binding. I just bent it over, but not too hard. There really isn't a hard crease. I took a hole punch and punched each page with two holes. One on top and on bottom and then did the same to the front and back of the binding. It is holding really well.
This week on Celebrate the Occasion was the theme retirement. I used a Create a Critter Cricut cart. and cut out the cute giraffe. I put it on a Toilet paper roll flattened, and covered in cute paper. I put the eyelets at the bottom of the toilet paper roll so that it would keep its shape. It is now the perfect place to insert a tag cut on the cricut using Tags, Bags, Boxes and more. This little tag holder is a perfect fit for a GIFT CARD!! Who doesn't love a gift card?? I just printed out the saying, "It has been a LONG time coming.' Because giraffes have LONG necks, and retirement seems to take forever, hee hee.
The circle card was store bought that chape and I embossed it using my cute sizzix purse boutique embossing machine. The paper with the spots is SEI. The inside of the card says, Happy Retirement. The congrats ribbon is ffrom Martha Stewart. This would also make a cute congrats card.
There you have it. Now go to Celebrate the Occasion and see what yummies the design team have in store for you :) 
Here we are with my flower girl. Isn't she adorable?? She is my oldest child, and here she is 3 years old. They became instant pals the second they met and she still adores him.
A new happy family.
And here we are this year, this month. 7 years and 4 kids. My oldest is 10, my son is 6, my second to youngest daughter is 4 and my baby is 2. LOVE THEM!! (yes, we had 3 kids in 3 years- 2 of them surprises- the best kind)
And here is a picture of dear hubby and I the other day. We went to a farm, so of course we had to wear cowboy hats :) 
For my Celebrate the Occasion challenge this week, I thought it was supposed to be a tag :) But alas, it is supposed to have a punch on it. Luckily, I used one. The only shaped one I have aside from border punches is the Martha Stewart Circle punch. Martha has failed me in many other products she uses, but her punches have so far been great. 
Instead, I used a horse and the the pun 'Neigh' bors, becuase a horse says neigh. Get it? *giggle*
There are still neighbors I have never met and this card would have solved that problem. I am a bit of a recluse :) You never know, if you live in Utah I might be your neighbor!
THe Howdy was cut from Create a Critter too, and the tag was cut with Once Upon A Princess Cart (beautiful tags o there) And then embossed with my sizzix texture boutique purse and the damask card.
I hand wrote the tag that I cut from Once upon a Princess cart. to match and trimmed it to fit, but I wish I would have found a small stamp to stamp it instead . So, unless you have better handwriting than I do- and chances are you do, but if not, stamp it :) 
(PS I want you to note that I only have ONE photo up here instead of a thousand like I normally do. I am having withdrawals- this may not last. )
I used Bobunny's new paper and Once upon a Princess cartridge to cut the tags out. I used the skull scroll embossing folder to emboss the back tag. I used a script stamp to stamp the bazzil. 
A dragonfly stamp was put on the front tag using vintage photo distress ink and then stickled with stickles. Tea dye crackle paint was placed around the card and then Pine Needles distress ink was rubbed over it when it crackled. 
This has been entered in My Pink Stampers Blog Hop and Pals Paper Arts and Crafty Ann's challenge blog
Rayna
Rayna
