Day 208: Tag Album: Part 3

Today I selected the photos I wanted to use, uploaded my photos to a photo website, and had them printed in sepia tones so they would not compete with my papers.  I added the photos and embellished the tag pages.

Materials:  Papers: Generations by Simple Stories; Mod Podge by Plaid; pearls: Jolee's; metal bird, key, key hole: Tim Holtz; ribbons and lace with pearls, door handle, heart:  from my stash; crochet ribbon on page 6: Stampin' Up!; flowers on page 1 and wooden clock on page 2: Prima; tags:  Gallery J Creative Crafts

Since I always cover up the faces in my photos, I have shown you the tag book before I added the photos in the pictures below:

Completed Tag Album

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Page 5

Page 6

Day 207: Tag Album: Part 2

Today I added the hinges to the big tags.  The idea is that the tags stand up in an accordion-fold style so that it is not just 6 tags all lined up next to each other.  In order for this to happen, there have to be hinges on the back side of tags 1 and 2 , then on the front side of tags 2 and 3, then on the back side of tags 3 and 4, then on the front side of tags 4 and 5, then on the back side of tags 5 and 6. I did two sets of hinges on the back sides of the tags, one upper and one lower.  On the front sides of the tags, I only did a set of hinges on the upper part of the tags.  Reason 1:  since I had combined two kits that were supposed to make a tag book of only 3 pages, I didn't have quite enough hinges.  Reason 2:  I would have covered up important design elements if I would have used hinges on the lower fronts of the tags.  Surprisingly, it took me a couple of hours to get these hinges on!

Day 206: Tag Album: Part 1

Today I started working on a tag album.  A couple of years ago, I had purchased a couple of kits by Gallery J Creative Crafts that had these big press board tags inside.  I didn't want to make the kits; I just wanted the big tags.  I have always loved the saying "...all because two people fell in love..." and I wanted to put some pictures of my family on the big tags.  I finally found some paper by Simple Stories with the "...all because two people fell in love..." theme when I was at a scrapbook store and knew that I finally had what I wanted to make this come to life.  So today, I cut out all the papers and adhered them to the big tags with Mod Podge.