Celebrating 50 Years- A Scrapbook of Sentiments

Recently, the Founder and CEO of our small start up turned fifty. This milestone can be a little tricky. Big enough not to want everyone to ignore it especially when your co-workers are looking for a reason to celebrate you. This year, we took the opportunity to collect warm thoughts that expressed how much we appreciate her in an album that she could take out and flip through anytime the blues got a hold of her. Speaking of blue- since that is her favorite color- we started with this lovely The Perfect Scrapbook fabric covered book:



The flowers, courtesy of Michaels' Recollections Boutique Fleur flower set, on the outside cover were adhered to the cotton cover with some simple hot glue. The insert in the page made with some Prima paper flowers and a little Viva Decor Pearl Pen for the centers.



A beautiful paper pack of coordinating Basic Grey papers became the foundation for each sentiment. Everyone made their sentiment to express their own unique relationship. The thoughts ranged from the most simplistic and accurate to sweet and thoughtful. Some of them were laugh out loud funny and others truly captured the personality and charm of their author. Either way, they all communicated the respect, care and love we all felt.



Throughout the book I scattered die cuts and embellishments that either matched or accented the written words. Here are a couple of Quickutz dragonflies over a Cricut Paper Lace cart cut glittered using my Zyron sticker maker.


Some of the sentiments were very simple and to the point!








Some of the pages were adorned with quotes from the famous and obscure, but all were intended to encourage, enlighten or simply to entertain.




This two page spread was inspired by a coworker's marriage this year. These cute pearl buttons were created with the Viva Decor Pearl Pen. Really nice details... and great accent for this page which needed a little sprucing up.








Some pages were accented by cutting out images from another portion of the 12 x 12 patterened paper. Here I glittered the edges of this beautiful flower and adhered it over the wallpaper of this page using foam squares to create dimension. This is my favorite page and was reserved for her parents heartfelt, loving tribute.



All of these pages were made while I wasn't feeling especially well. As I've mentioned before, papercrafting is an outlet for stress and a recuperating activity for me. I took extra time and attention to each of these pages in large part because I needed the recovery and couldn't think of a better project to pour out my recovery on. I hope she brings it out to look at often and always finds encouragement there..



 Andie