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Dad’s “Envelope Book”

By Cindi Bisson

Hot Rod Scrampers

Advanced Scramping Team Designer

This special mini envelope book was created as a gift

for my husband for Father’s Day – but it would be a 

perfect gift for any man for his birthday, or just because! 

Supplies:
Coin size envelopes
Vintage Photo Distress inkpad (Ranger Industries)
Plaid patterned paper (BasicGrey)
Brown and blue cardstock (Paper Accents)
Fuzzy camouflage duck accents (Creative Charms)
Burlap (unknown brand)
Brown gingham ribbon (unknown brand)
Deckle edge scissors (Fiskars)
Scrapbook paints (Making Memories)
Gold metallic eyelets (unknown brand)
Bamboo paper clips (Magic Scraps)
Crop-a-Dile (We R Memory Keepers) or eyelet setting
   tools
E-6000 Adhesive
Craft & Bond Glue (Elmer’s)

Instructions:

1.    Make a stack of 5 coin envelopes with flaps upward (change number of envelopes as desired). 

2.    Glue together using Craft & Bond glue. Let dry.

3.    Cut tops from all 5 envelopes using deckle edge scissors.

4.    Use deckle edge scissors to cut a piece of brown cardstock approximately 11” x 3”.

5.    Place coin envelope stack near bottom of strip (approximately ¼” from bottom edge, with OPENINGS FACING DOWN.  Mount using Craft & Bond Glue.  Let dry.

6.    Fold brown strip of cardstock up behind stack of coin envelopes and mount to back of stack.  Let dry.

7.    Approximately 4” from bottom of folded piece (even with front brown flap on front side of coin envelopes) score cardstock to create fold line.

8.    Measure up ½” up from this fold line and score again.  Fold over top of coin envelopes.

9.    Measure piece of plaid patterned paper approximately 11” x 2”.  Ink edges.  Mount in center of brown cardstock cover of card.

10. Measure and cut strip of burlap approximately 11” x 1”.  Wrap around card and mount in center of plaid patterned paper using E-6000 adhesive.

11. Cut 10” piece of brown gingham ribbon.  Mount near bottom of front flap, with approximately 1 ½” extending off left side. 

12. Add fuzzy camouflage duck accent centered over gingham ribbon.  Let dry.

13. Add 2^nd fuzzy camouflage duck accent inside on front of book where burlap ends. 

14. Create 5 tags for each envelope – approximately 2” x 4”.  I cut 3 traditional tag shapes from patterned paper, inked the edges, and added burlap “pulls” with metal eyelets, and then made 2 rectangular cardstock tags from blue cardstock, inked with Distress ink, with brown cardstock pulls embellished with bamboo paper clips.

15. Cut a piece of patterned paper approximately 1” x 2”.  Ink edges with Distress ink.  Mount to inside of top flap near edge. 

16. Write personal messages; add photos, or type and print father/man themed poems, thoughts, messages for each tag. 

17. Mount to tags.

18. Write, stamp or print “Dad” or person’s name and mount to small rectangular on top inside flap.

19. Close book and tie shut by wrapping long end of gingham ribbon around back of book and tying with short extended piece on left side.

I mixed personal messages and small photos with the following quotes (mounted on both sides of the tags)….

The best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
                                                                       - Sydney J.Harris

There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.
                                                                            – Unknown

A great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart.
                                                                            - Mencius

Every dad is the family role model, whether he wants the job, or not.
                                                                           - Dennis Rainey

Children spell “LOVE”…T-I-M-E.
                                                                           - Dr. Anthony P. Witham

Measure wealth not by the things that you have, but for the things you have for which you would not take money.
                                                                           - Anonymous

It takes time to be a good father.  It takes effort – trying, failing, and trying again.
                                                                           - Tim Hansel

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