Father's Day Gift Workshop

We're having a My Treasure Box workshop this Monday  - I'm excited!

7 Items You Should Have in Your Father's Day Scrapbook

Father's Day will be celebrated on June 20th this year and I'm working on 3 Father's Day scrapbooks - one for my hubby, with the kids; one for my dad and one for my grandpa! Here are a few ideas to get you started and organized with your Father's Day scrapbooks:

1. What does your Papa like? What is his hobby? These are the memorabilia pieces you are looking for - a ticket stub, music sheet, his favorite brand of Golf/Fishing/Sport tag, a feather, a coin, stamps, something that shows his favorite past time in a very specific way.
2. Find the heroes of dad's story and get those photos in. It might be his spouse, kids, family members he feels most connected with, a tight friendship circle, you...- put them in!
3. Ask those people from item #2 to write your dad something and incorporate it into your Father's Day scrapbook.
4. Don't be shy - ask around for his best memory, best thing dad did and find a visual way to show it, i.e. photo, memorabilia, a line from a song.
5. Whether it's a song, a verse, a line from a book, a poem, byline from an advertisement, a quote, biblical verse - find out what's the line that describes your daddy best and place it in your Father's Day scrapbook album.
6. Remember the hobbies from #1? Find patterned papers that works with it. Daddy likes BBQ? - find picnic papers; Does he like Golf - find golf balls patterns. Combine it with corresponding colored card stock and you have a cohesive look.
7. Yes, I saved it for last and there's a reason for it. The cover should include a hint for what's the scrapbook album is about. So if Daddy liked his last trip to Switzerland, make a cover of Swiss cheese with yellow paper and a round hole puncher; if he loves chocolate, make a cover off of his favorite chocolate wrappers and if he walks the dog daily, you can wrap his photo album with a map of your neighbourhood, marking the spots (if you know what I mean...)

You can find more ideas and samples for Father's Day scrapbook albums or Father's Day mini scrapbook album kit on my site or in older posts of this blog.


Hope it helps and Happy Father's Day!
Sarit.

Father's Day Mini Album

It's hard to find a gift for our father of the house. He is very thorough at what he does, therefor he has only few hobies (about 3) and those race to the top of the list whenever there's a birthday/anniversary/special occasion. They are all very expensive, of course, namely Golf, Photography and food. The food comes with every celebration, so we nailed that one first thing. Than comes Golf, which we all know very little about (after all, it stands for Gentelmen Only Ladies Forbidden). Last but not least is Photography, which we both like but it is SO expensive!
So here comes my answer - I made him a scrapbook, of course. It will contain messages from the kids, cute photos and a gift certificate or kids coupons.

Happy Faher's day!

Sarit.