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Circle Brag Book ~ What a Cute Baby

By Terri Doney
Hot Rod Scrampers
Advanced Scramping Team Designer

Supplies:

•  Flopsy Bunny – T760 (The Angel Company)
•  Brilliance Ink – Blue (Tsukineko)
•  Circle Cutter (Creative Memories Custom Cutting System)
•  Cardstock in Varying Patterns and Colors (Club Scrap Tiny Treasures)
•  Yellow Ribbon (Anna Griffin)
•  Clikit (Karen Foster)
•  Gold Cording (Unknown)
•  6 Gold Eyelets (Karen Foster)
•  Blue Rub on Letters (Scrapworks)
•  Butterfly and Flowers Dimensional Embellishments (Brenda Walton – K & Co)
•  Tiny Treasures Cutouts (Club Scrap)
•  White Twill Tape (Unknown)
•  Adhesive
•  Colorbox Stylus Tool for applying ink to edges 

Instructions:

1. Cut about 20 circles with a 3” diameter.  You can make your book as large or as small as your circle cutter can handle.
    

2.  Punch 3 holes in 1 of the circles and use it as a template to know where to punch holes in the other circles.  Use a pencil to mark where the holes should be with your eyelet punch to punch the holes.  You can use 1/8” or 3/16” holes, but you will need eyelets that size, also.
    

3. Set your eyelets in the first and last pages of the brag book for stability.  You can put eyelets on every page, but it really isn’t necessary.
    

4. Since I used cardstock that was double dipped with a pattern on one side and plain colored on the other, I stamped with the Flopsy Bunny set on the plain side to add a design.  I inked the edges of the stamped sides and put it aside to dry while I worked on the cover.
    

5. The cover is simply decoration.  For my circle brag book, I started with the rub on letters in the middle and worked around them adding white twill tape.  I added a bow I made from yellow Anna Griffin ribbon, the Brenda Walton embellishments, and a small die cut which reads: “Something Wonderful Is about to Happen.”
    

6. Stamp all the pages and attach the photos in a pleasing manner.  I mounted mine on matching cardstock and then inked the edges.  Run the cording through the holes on each circle and tie to complete the book. 

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