One of my very first pins on Pinterest was this one. . .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikaoline/6124646145/in/photostream
from Midwest Family Life's photostream. Thank you so much for the inspiration! I needed to do something like this, and this was just the idea for it!
My amazing mother-in-law, Kitty, knits each of her grandbabies a hat. All three of my boys have one that is as special and unique as they are. After they outgrew the hats, they were simply sitting in a box in the nursery closet which seemed like such a shame. I have been wanting to do something special, but I didn't know what! After seeing this pin, I rushed out to Target and bought these shadowboxes for about 10 bucks a pop. Sweet! The scrapbook paper was also from Target, with the exception of the middle frame which has Becky Higgins scrapbook paper from her Project Life collection.
These sat on a shelf in my office/art room for a good 8 months until today, when I decided it was time to just dive in and do it! The whole project took less than an hour. Maybe I shouldn't have procrastinated so long, huh?
I simply cut and attached the paper with double stick tape and affixed the hats with three thumbtacks each. For the birth announcement portion, I searched for free label templates and found these adorable ones.
http://haphazardhappenstances.blogspot.com/2011/03/simple-label-frames-freebie-download.html
Thank you so much for offering these for free! What a gift.
I opened the labels I wanted in Picasa and used the Picnik photo editor to add the text that I wanted for each. I made the color and font, and even the style of the wording different on each one. . .each boy is unique, each hat is unique. . .so I wanted each frame to have some elements of consistency and some elements that would set them apart! I printed the labels out on cardstock and used some little scrapbooking brads I picked up at Meijer to add some flair. In order to get the brads in neatly and in just the right spot, I improvised and used the seam ripper from my sewing box to roughly measure and poke the hole. Each label is held on with double stick tape. I know it doesn't seem like the most secure thing, but once you put the frame on everything is pretty much "in there". I am going to attach an envelope to the back of each frame and tuck in the cards their Grandma Kitty gave them when they were born. I save everything, so I know I have them somewhere!
This was so easy! The whole project cost less than $40. Now the hard part is going to be deciding where to hang them! Thanks so much to Midwest Family Life for the inspiration, Haphazard Happenstances for the labels and Grandma Kitty for the treasured little hats.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikaoline/6124646145/in/photostream
from Midwest Family Life's photostream. Thank you so much for the inspiration! I needed to do something like this, and this was just the idea for it!
My amazing mother-in-law, Kitty, knits each of her grandbabies a hat. All three of my boys have one that is as special and unique as they are. After they outgrew the hats, they were simply sitting in a box in the nursery closet which seemed like such a shame. I have been wanting to do something special, but I didn't know what! After seeing this pin, I rushed out to Target and bought these shadowboxes for about 10 bucks a pop. Sweet! The scrapbook paper was also from Target, with the exception of the middle frame which has Becky Higgins scrapbook paper from her Project Life collection.
These sat on a shelf in my office/art room for a good 8 months until today, when I decided it was time to just dive in and do it! The whole project took less than an hour. Maybe I shouldn't have procrastinated so long, huh?
I simply cut and attached the paper with double stick tape and affixed the hats with three thumbtacks each. For the birth announcement portion, I searched for free label templates and found these adorable ones.
http://haphazardhappenstances.blogspot.com/2011/03/simple-label-frames-freebie-download.html
Thank you so much for offering these for free! What a gift.
I opened the labels I wanted in Picasa and used the Picnik photo editor to add the text that I wanted for each. I made the color and font, and even the style of the wording different on each one. . .each boy is unique, each hat is unique. . .so I wanted each frame to have some elements of consistency and some elements that would set them apart! I printed the labels out on cardstock and used some little scrapbooking brads I picked up at Meijer to add some flair. In order to get the brads in neatly and in just the right spot, I improvised and used the seam ripper from my sewing box to roughly measure and poke the hole. Each label is held on with double stick tape. I know it doesn't seem like the most secure thing, but once you put the frame on everything is pretty much "in there". I am going to attach an envelope to the back of each frame and tuck in the cards their Grandma Kitty gave them when they were born. I save everything, so I know I have them somewhere!
This was so easy! The whole project cost less than $40. Now the hard part is going to be deciding where to hang them! Thanks so much to Midwest Family Life for the inspiration, Haphazard Happenstances for the labels and Grandma Kitty for the treasured little hats.
They look awesome honey! Love where they are hanging too.
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