E and I had a great Valentine's day this year. I flew south to Houston and escaped the freezing, although beautiful, winter wonderland in Dallas.
The weekend before Valentine's I was feeling a little crafty and was sick of writing reports for work so I decided to make a card for E. I realized that I much prefer card crafting to scrapbooking, because let's face it, what I am going to scrapbook about?? I get up way before the sun, drive the same route to work every day, teach sweet and crazy kids, convince myself (sometimes unsuccessfully) to exercise after work, watch DVR/or read Blogs.... exciting....
Here's the final product:
We have an ongoing Scrabble war going on, so I felt this was fitting. I saw something with real scrabble letters on another blog (sorry, I can't remember who!!) so I improvised and google-imaged scrabble letters and voila!It's an accordion type style with black and white photos on the inside:
I have had these photo corner tabs forever so I painted them red. I think it looks a little vampire-ish, but I was going for Valentine-ish. I wanted to add more detail around the photos, or some quotes, but I figured it might be a little much for a boy. Sometimes, less is more, ya know?
Sorry for the sucking face picture... I strategically put it on the end so it can be folded back. I just didn't take any pictures demonstrating this feature. Oops.
I purposely used pictures he does not have so it would be something new to look at. Funny thing is, he gave me a gorgeous silver frame with a picture that I don't have. That's why he chose it.I really liked this card idea, and it was very fun to make. Sooooo, in other words, act surprised if you get one like this for your birthday :)
Let the countdown to Spring Break begin!
