A Birthday Gift for my Dad

I liked the idea of making mini albums as gifts for people. Making a scrapbook for a guy isn't the easiest, since many of the colors i usually use can be considered girly. However, since I had a theme in mind, it wasn't too hard. I created this album for my dad with a sports theme featuring photos of my family in and around sporting events (note the pic of all of us in Giants' jerseys from like 1995...at 14, my look was still developing ;-)

The chipboard album is from the Little Yellow Bargains site and papers are Karen Foster and Paper House Productions. I made this before I bought my cricut, so I hand cut all of the pages to match the shapes of the chipboard.

My father has kept this photo on his desk for years, so I enlisted the help of my brother to take it, scan it and then put it back.

The most challenging part of the project was cutting out the pages, but once that was finished, it was very simple to finish up. The only issue I ran into was finding a place that sold 3 x 5 pictures, so I wouldn't have to crop them as much. But in the end I found them (www.dotphoto.com) and was happy with the way the project came out. It was a hit with my dad.