2024: Mother’s Celebration of Life Redirect Page
This is the first page of my 2024 album, and it begins with something deeply personal. If you’ve been following my blog, you’ll know that my mother passed away in January of 2024. In her honor, I created a separate album dedicated entirely to her Celebration of Life service. This spread serves as a redirect page from the annual album to that memorial project—something I often do when I’ve made a standalone album for a significant event but still want it to be acknowledged in the yearly timeline.
The memorial album is in 8.5×11 format, which is unusual for me, but it felt like the best choice to keep things clean, accessible, and easy to view. For this 12×12 redirect page, I reused some of the leftover papers from the memorial album. You’ll notice the rose paper, carefully torn from a cardstock pad—its raw edges are intentionally left in place on the far left and right sides of the spread, giving a soft, handmade feel.
In the top right photo, you might spot flowers tied with a pink ribbon. That ribbon was pressed with a ribbon iron and now carries forward into this design. I created a gray torn-edge mat for additional layering, echoing the gentle distressing from the original pages. On the left side, the program from her service is mounted so it can be opened outside the page protector—making it easy to touch, read, and remember.
The journaling block was designed in Cricut Design Space and drawn with the pen feature on my Cricut Maker, then cut using the same machine. I finished the page using embellishments leftover from her memorial album—butterflies, bees, flowers, stamps, and lettered accents. Each one was a favorite of my mother’s and carries a little piece of her personality into this project.
If you’d like to watch me put this page together, you can view the process video here:
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