handmade tags

If you're anything like me, you save everything. Especially that "free chipboard" that comes with your clothes. And the nicer brands have sturdy, heavy weight tags on their items.

To make your own HANDMADE BY... tags out of recycled clothing tags you will need:
Tags from clothes
A glue stick or tape runner
Twine or ribbon
Journal spots
Paper piercer tool
X-Acto knife
Emery board or sandpaper


Adhere the paper to both sides of the tag with your adhesive. Trim the edges with an X-Acto knife then file/sand down with the emery board or sandpaper for a smooth edge.

Pierce the paper where the original tag's hole was. Run ribbon or twine through the hole. Tie a bow or knot.


Place the journal spot and write your message, in this case, it is "HANDMADE BY...."

You can personalize it by adding more embellishments. I used ribbon, a dress form stamp from Stampin Up and some pearls from Prima.


When I saw the dress form sheet from Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl line, I knew I was going to use this paper slowly so that I could get the most out of it. I couldn't possibly have used it in smaller pieces. :)

Make some tags with the scraps you have left from the February kit before that March kit hits your doorstep! Show us what you make!! Upload your creations to the Scrapbook Circle Gallery!

Thanks for stopping by today!
-Diana F.

journaling spots in the spotlight

Some of you may have seen this page already on my blog or on the Scrapbook Circle community gallery page. I got a little crazy layering up all of the very spring-like pages in the February kit.

I wanted to focus on the journal spots for today. I know sometimes we have a lot more to say than the small journal spot will allow us room for. I went ahead and clumped them all together and made my bullet points on each one.


Sometimes (and this is a tough one for me) it is OK to be messy with your journaling. I'm the one who will rip a page up and start over if at the very end I mess up the handwriting.

But on this page, it was OK. I was purposely misspelling words and showing how imperfect I can be, so the messiness went with the topic.

So let's see those journal spots!

bending the rules

Sometimes you need to bend the rules. Well, the RULERS, that is!! I just can't seem to keep these amazing ruler strips from the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl line straight. Just can't do it!


Once you get a hold of these hot little strips of paper, fight the urge to let the whole strip be seem. Crinkle it up, fold it, make it messy! It's pretty easy to do, and if you have a tape runner, it is even easier.


Go ahead and fold the piece accordion style over and over until you have gone the length of the strip. Flip it over, run the tape runner along the whole piece, including some places gluing the overlaps together to keep it extra secure. Flip back over and place on the page.

Vióla!! An extra cool 3-D dimension without much fuss that will add depth and motion to any page.

Thanks for stopping by!! Don't forget to upload your February kit creations to the Gallery so we can see what you've been working on!

—Diana F.

find your girly side

The February kit from Scrapbook Circle is delicious! And if you are a girly girl like I am, you will find plenty to work with in this kit.

I am really happy fussy cutting a great patterned paper. With the Material Girl line from Cosmo Cricket in the February kit, it does not disappoint the fussy cutter!

I cut out the scissors, thread and needles images from the paper. For added dimension, I wrapped some baker's twine around the pieces. Makes it look all the more life-like, don't ya think?!


I hope you get over to Scrapbook Circle's order page in time... I'm sure these February kits are going to sell like hot cakes!

Layout Using the February Kit

I've been having so much fun with the February Kit from Scrapbook Circle! There are so many awesome embellishments in this month's kit...some of my favorite being the little decorative paperclips from Making Memories and the small transparencies from Fancy Pants. On this layout I actually stitched three of the transparencies onto my layout over patterned papers...I really love the look! The hearts I actually cut out from one of the beautiful (double-sided) patterned papers from the kit and adhered them to my page using 3 dimensional adhesive.

Can't wait to see what you all come up with using this sweet kit!