I wanted to post some pictures of the gift I made Grammy, because I just recently discovered this craft project, and I am in love with it! What a great gift idea for your mom, grandma, friend, or just to do for yourself! It is the chipboard album. Now, maybe you are all familiar with these, but until a month ago, I was not. A good friend helped me do one for my mom for Christmas, and I loved how it turned out! They sell these at Hobby Lobby in words like FRIEND, LOVE, FAMILY, and BELIEVE. However, I've found a website where you can order a custom album to say ANYTHING you want! What a fun idea to do one in your child's name, or one that says SISTERS, or your mom's grandmother name! As you can see, the possibilities are endless! What I like about these versus a traditional scrapbook album is that they're made to set out in your house, and they're much smaller than a scrapbook, in how many pics they'll hold. Because of that, you could really devote just a week's worth of nap times to this project and have it completed! The only supplies you'll need are:
chipboard album
spray adhesive
scrapbook paper (1 piece/letter in your word)
brown or black ink pad (to distress the edges)
exacto knife (you'll glue the paper to the cardboard, then "trace" it with the knife on a cutting board)
ribbon
hole punch
and voila! You end up with this beautiful finished product:
I ended up writing the verse, "The righteous man leads a blameless life; blessed are his children after him." on the green paper.
I used my awesome new scrapbooking machine that Grammy gave me for Christmas to cut the paper into the neat shapes you see.
There were 2 other pictures of all 4 kids on this page.
This is my favorite page.... =)
What do you think? Are you inspired to tackle this project? If you have any questions on how to do it, let me know!
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