Father's Day Goodies

Just wanted to share what my son and I created for my husband for Father's Day.

The other night, my son and I wandered around our neighborhood to find some good photo opportunities.  We took along two pieces of cardstock and a black Sharpie and I wrote the letter d on one and the letter a on the other.  I took a series of photos of him in various spots holding each sign.  Once we got home, I uploaded them all and used Walgreen's photo site to create two 5x7 photo collages where I arranged the photos to spell out dad.  I did absolutely zero editing to the photos besides changing some to black and white.  I love Walgreen's photo services - they almost always have a coupon code and it winds up being just as cheap as printing them yourself.  While at Walgreen's to pick them up, I also found these gorgeous matted shadowbox frames to use for the pictures and they were only $5.

In addition to these two prints, I also have a large 11x14 collage of my favorite three shots that will be coming later this week. My local Walgreen's doesn't have the equipment to print that big in store.

Of course, in this house, no gift is complete without a card and I had my son help with that too.  Using just a cheap set of watercolors, I painted the bottom of his feet and had him step on a piece of cardstock.  The watercolor washed right off with no staining, but still left a good impression of his foot.  I wanted to use a recordable card SU! had available for awhile.  It's a 4 1/4x5 1/2 card and my son's foot is now bigger than that!  So I had to make the card front a little bigger than the inside.  I trimmed off as much as I could, although part of his other foot is still visible as well as a misplaced toe, but I kind of like how it balances out the card.  I mounted it on a piece of Pacific Point and attached that to the front of the card.

Once my son recorded a message of "Happy Father's Day!" I printed out this poem that I saw on a project kit in Oriental Trading and attached that to the inside.  The punched start marks where you need to push to make the recording play.  You can see some of the speaker and buttons through the white paper but I didn't want to put anything too heavy over it and mess up the sound.