Circle Albums 101

I haven't worked a whole lot with chipboard elements but the few times I have its been totally rewarding.  I start off by gluing my chipboard element to the paper that I want to decorate it with and then slowly cut around the circle with an exact-o knife.  If you view the product list below you can see what products from Close To My Heart that I used. 

Creating a circle journal can me very fun but can also be a challenge as well.  You want to be sure you have a repeating element.  Thinking this through before you start will help with your process.  I keep a creative journal with all of my ideas.  I actually repeated one of the very common elements in this journal, which was circles.  I used the cover page and cut all of my pictures from the inner circle.  I was using scraps, since this week is scrap-a-thon so it was a little challenging doing what I wanted becuase a lot of my paper was so little. 

You will hear many things that I like about acrylic stamps, but one thing is that I like how flexibe they are.  You can use them to create curvy text.  It just so happens that the text on here was already curvy, but if it wasnt, it would be not be hard to do so!

Using ribbon around the ring adds that extra touch.  I like to use more than one color of my color scheme but I didn't have any black ribbon, so I used a vanilla color.  However, I do reccomend staying away from just one color for ribbon.  It could harm your piece as well by maybe looking lazy?  Actually, I am just criticizing myself there!

Well I do want to thank you for taking a peak at my circle album.  The products I used are listed below.

My Creations Circle Album Z1017

Cutting Knife Z533

Silhouette Paper (I believe its still in the current catalog)

And of course you can order these by stopping by http://tahorton.myctmh.com

Yesterday I posted a circle album and a little bit more information on how I created it and things to consider when you are making one.  Here is the beginning of another one that I made.  I wanted to show it to you before I put the embellishments on so you can see how cute they are even before embellishing.  They can be a great cost effective gift to give to somebody that you love!  Some other ideas for circle albums include:

*children

*weddings

*birthdays

*anniversarys

*I Believe Quotes

*Graduations

*Christmas

It would be lovely to see what you came up with! I will post a picture and link to your blog if you email me your circle albums to tahorton@myctmh.com