I thought I’d share a handmade gift i made for my husband years and years ago.
To give you perspective my kids are now a tween & a teen.
Yup, a long time ago, but I love to look at creative mementos like this all the time.
My husband use to have this at his office, but since he works from home nowadays we keep it with all the other minibooks.
I made this mini book out of brown lunch bags.
Yup, common paper bags which was all the rage in altered art about 10 years ago; or maybe still is, but I don’t know since I have not been active with my scrapbooking | paper crafting hobby in many years.
I used 3 paper bags for this project; folded them in half and bound them together with ribbon.
I am sure if you google it there are a million tutorials throughout blogland, youtube and papercrafting websites.
I layered the book with photographs, scrapbook paper, embellishments, ribbon, etc.
I also treated the bags with acid free spray before I started the project so it would prevent the pictures from yellowing years from now (all the other materials I used are acid free for memory keeping purposes).
I love projects like this because they are fun to create at the time and then fun to look at year after year.
I also believe a handmade project is a very special & thoughtful gift to present to a loved one, which silently says so much.
I tried scrapbooking with Miss Masterpiece back then when I was active with the hobby and instructing workshops but she was too young to appreciate it.
This summer we plan to set some time to work on some projects. I think she’s at a great age and I’ve been wanting to get back to it.
I have so many projects {lol~ sounds familiar right? regardless if it’s painting furniture, crafting, sewing, etc.} that I want to tackle.
I just don’t know where to begin since I haven’t touched my supplies, photographs, memorabilia, etc. in such a long time.
But when I look at a project like this… it inspires me and motivates me.
I love to look at them and read them; I love to look at my children looking through them; I love to present my husband and father of our children with proof of how fortunate we are.
Since it’s a paper back book, some of the “pages” have sleeves on the sides the bags have their openings.
Since i used 3 paper bags, I had three openings.
I made two tags and a mini folder to slide into the 3 openings of the bags.
It’s so fun to have interactive projects like this, tucking away little treasures and messages.
So although I didn’t create a handmade gift for Mr. Masterpiece this year I did pick up an inspiring & motivational book for him for father’s day.
I picked this up at target and it’s a perfect gift for Mr. M.
He coached Master Masterpiece in baseball for many years and he continues to coach & teach both kids each in every day whether it’s in sports, school or life in general.
I love so many of the quotes I’ve read simply by skimming through the book.
Are you ready for father’s day?
I’m almost there, just need to finalize some of the details for the day.
What an amazing keepsake!
thanks so much sandra. i think so too. xo- mj
Such a sweet gift he will treasure when they are grown and out of the house too. Thanks for sharing it. #HomeMattersParty
Hi Donna. Yes, we love it now although they are grown they haven’t flown yet. They are 19 and soon to be 17. ? Thanks for stopping by. XO- MJ