Birthday Fat Book for Dee
Posted on 18 February 2009 by admin
So what is a fat page?
The decorative area of a FAT PAGE is 4″ x 4″ but the actual card should be cut to 4″ x 4.5″ leaving half an inch to the left hand side for binding with ribbon or book rings when collating the fat pages to produce a FAT BOOK for the person who receives it. Fat pages normally have a theme and are created by several crafters to swap or give. The front of the card is decorated and embellished which is where the ‘Fat Page’ comes from. The back should be decorated too, but should also have the details of the page creator, similar to an ATC.
Today is the 60th Birthday of one of our forum members, Dee a.k.a. Denise Hughes and we would all like to wish her a Very Happy Birthday!
Several forum members were approached to do a ‘Fat Page’ for Dee as way of wishing her a Happy Birthday and I’m sure you will love the results as much as Dee. A huge ‘THANK YOU’ should go to Debbie Moore (Debbee) for organising the Fat Pages, also to Fiona Haigh-Gannon (Fe Fe) Dee’s daughter for collating and photographing each page. Also a very large ‘Thank you’ to everyone who contributed to the Fat Book for Dee.
To start off the Fat Book Fiona (Fe Fe) created the front page (front and back):
Fiona (Fe Fe) did this page for her Mum also:
Paula (Wulfcwen) made this fab page with a grunge look:
Diane Von Kesmark (Vonxy) gave her page an oriental theme:
Marcus Grundy (Scrapyard Antics) has a teddy bear theme (hand drawn by Tracey)
Sabina who is our furthest contributor coming from Australia actually made three pages for Dee. The first with a girly dress theme:
Sabina’s 2nd page has a leather bikers outfit:
Finally Sabina’s 3rd page is gorgeous too:
Nicki Moss (Littleted62) made this gorgeous page for Dee with a double-sided removable tag:
Joani’s page has a lovely feminine look to it:
Dawn (Glitterpuss) made this excellent page (hope Dee sees the funny side!)
A cross-stitched cupcake and butterflies by Fiona Lowes (Flee) are a lovely combination:
Debbie Moore’s (debbee) card also doubles as a slide envelope (tutorial to follow shortly):
This 2nd bear is also a hand drawn ted on a motor bike, drawn especially for Dee by Tracey Grundy (craftycarrot):
This gorgeous floral page was by Gaye McLean (chooks):
Anne (Chocolate Fudge Cake) made this lovely page, again with a variation on the BIG 60:
Carole Vile’s (cazzy) page adds a bit of humour to the fat book:
Last but most definitely not least Cassidii’s page is gorgeous in pastels:
Finally here is a pic of the collated FAT BOOK:
If you would like to host or be a part of a FAT PAGE swap, check out our forum. Or if you would like to share a fat book or fat page with us, email a photograph to: submissions@papercraftjunkies.com
Tags | Biker Chick Dee, birthday, card, Carole Vile, Cassidii, Cazzy, Chocolate Fudge Cake, Chooks, craftycarrot, debbee, Debbie Moore, Denise Hughes, Diane Von Kesmark, fat book, fat page, Fe-Fe, Fiona Haigh-Gannon, Fiona Lowes, flee, Gaye McLean, Glitterpuss, Joani, Littleted62, Marcus Grundy, Nicki Moss, Sabina, Scrapyard Antics, Tracey Grundy, Vonxy, Wulfcwen
February 18th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
I hope you liked it Dee, looks good all together. There are some lovely pages by everyone.
February 18th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Happy Birthday Dee - hope you like it!
Well done Debbee and Fe for organising and collating.
February 19th, 2009 at 7:54 am
I have just completed my first ever fat pages and saw this. What a great birthday pressie for you Dee
February 19th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Wow, doesn’t the completed book look fabulous? Huge thanks to Debbie for organising it, to Fe for putting it together, and to both both for asking me to take part. And Dee, hope you had a day to remember. {hugs} from Nicki, xx.
February 19th, 2009 at 9:13 am
that is really something, congrats to all who contributed and toi those who did the collating
February 19th, 2009 at 10:51 am
It is absolutely fabulous, I really can’t express how thrilled I am with it. We went for a meal last night and I took it with me and passed it around the table for all to see…
Everyone were really impressed with it.
I shall certainly treasure it. Thank you to everyone for taking so much time and effort, I feel so privileged and so lucky to have so many lovely people think of me
Dee X
February 19th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
have a happy day,
it’s a lovely ‘fat book’ - if i said ‘it’s just like you’ would you take it the wrong way??? !!!
- you’ll have to tell me what it’s like to be a pensioner after all your a lot older than me
lots of love
doff XXX
February 19th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
What an amazing little book it looks wonderful. Thank you for letting me take part I really enjoyed making my first ever fat page. Thanks to Debbee and Fe Fe for all their work the results are beautiful.
So pleased you love it Dee.
February 19th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
What a great selection of styles and ideas. It was such a worthwhile project for a lovely person.
February 19th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Your fat book looks amazing Dee…I was thrilled to take part in it.
I hope you had a wonderful day, and now you have a beautiful little treasure to keep xx chooks xx
February 20th, 2009 at 8:47 am
A big thank you from me to everyone who took part and especilly to Debbie for having the idea and organising it. It was wonderful to be able to see all the different pages come through, I was desperate to tell my Mum about them but I did manage to keep my mouth shut and keep it a secret until the big day!! Lol!
You all did a fantastic job on your pages and the finished book looks amazing. Mum was thrilled to bits with it and was quite emotional that so many people had chosen to make such special pages for her for her birthday. Like she says it’s a gift she will treasure.
Fe x
February 20th, 2009 at 11:39 am
It looks brilliant Dee - so glad you liked it - I loved doing my page for you.
Hugs Flee xxx
February 20th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
So glad you liked it Dee! A big ‘thank you’ to everyone involved and huge ‘thank you’s’ to Debbie for organising and Fiona for photographing so I could put this on the blog and collating.
Tracey xxx
February 21st, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Wow your book is fabulous Dee - really pleased you loved it.
:)
Thank you to Fe for binding it all beautifully together and for photographing it…thank you to PCJ for making a fabulous feature from it and thank you to everyone who joined in making it a huge success.
:)
xxDebbiexx
April 9th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Hi just checked out the Fat Page Album it looks stunning I am already involved in a Fat Page Swap and having lots of fun