How to make a Valentine’s Day Photo book
My husband and I took a trip to Rome in 2012, and it was by far the best week of our lives. And you better believe we took lots of photos. Like, over 1,000. How many do you think we printed? Exactly none. If you’re anything like me, almost every single photo you’ve taken in the last 5 years lives on your phone or in your computer. It’s a sad fact of our ever-increasing digital world. So for Valentine’s Day, I wanted to create a little something special for my husband in honor of the time spent in our favorite city, with special friends. This project is the perfect way to celebrate a special moment in your life, while also getting your photos off your phone and the Fiskars tag maker makes it so easy!
-Lisa Rios
WHAT TO GET:
Fiskars tag maker punch with eyelet setter
Scissors
Photos printed on card stock
WHAT TO DO:
1. Cut out your photos.
2. Place your photo in the punch, face down, and turn the punch over to center your photo using the window. When you’re happy with the photo placement, turn back over and press down on the lever.
3. Continue for each photo.
4. To create the hole at the top of your tag, place the top of the tag in the slit located in the front of the punch and press down on the lever.
5. Continue for each photo.
6. Place the top of the eyelet over the hole of your tag.
7. Place your tag, with the eyelet resting on top, and center over the eyelet setter located under the lever of the punch. Press down to set the eyelet.
8. Continue for each photo.
9. Place your tags on your binder ring.
This is where it gets really fun! You can use the punch to create tags from ticket stubs, menus, receipts and other mementos from your trip. You can also create punches from blank card stock and write fun travel notes, funny moments, and favorite memories.
About Lisa:
“If you had asked my 12-year-old self what I wanted to be when I grow up, I probably would have had a perfectly sensible answer. Like a circus trapeze artist or an outer space explorer. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that I would craft for a living. But fast-forward 20 years and I’m the owner of The Makery, a walk-in craft studio located in Anaheim. In addition to teaching and organizing local creative workshops, planning craft parties and designing handmade craft kits, I also design for Whimsy and Ink, the handmade biz I share with my rad hubby. My work has been featured in Real Simple, Brides Magazine, Bust, The Huffington Post, Orange Coast Magazine, Sunset Magazine, in Etsy’s Featured Sellers series, and in my mom’s emails to Grandma.”
My favorite valentine memory was when I sent an acapella group to my roommate and they sang Nobody by Wonder Girls.
Fun!
My favorite Valentine’s Day was with a good friend… Neither of us had a Valentine so we decided to have a super fun date – and ended up in a relationship!
Nice!!!!
My favorite Valentine’s Day memory was a few years back, before marrying my husband, we had been dating for quite a few years (7 to be exact!). We went to the park (our first date) to do a barbecue. I remember researching online for good marinades for chicken and steak and preparing the meat the day before. We got to the park starving and hopeful that we would be cooking the most awesome food ever! It totally sucked!!! We ended up burning the meat so badly on the outside and it was raw on the inside. Thankfully, he had picked up a cheesecake for dessert and that ended up being our food. It’s the best memory I have because we made the best out of a crappy situation and ate the whole damn cheesecake
Lol! That’s awesome!
My favorite Valentine’s Day was spent picnicking with my then boyfriend. We were broke college students, so we grabbed a couple sodas and sandwiches and hung out peering into each other’s eyes. We’re now broke parents and have been together 17 years.
That’s the stuff love is made of!
Every year, despite us all getting older and sometimes less engaged in each other’s lives, my dad will send a Valentine’s Day card to each my sister and I with some sort of overdone/cliche, yet somewhat tasteful/classic gift – a manicure set in a hot pink case, perfume … He’s kept up this tradition for as long as I can remember. There’s something so cute about the image of my 65 year old father, reputably stubborn and proud, being so thoughtful and in a sense, humble in this way; walking into a store to buy two rosy, romantic perfume gift sets say. I imagine he doesn’t mind sharing at checkout—”for my daughters” (thick Persian accent, big smiles, red in the face). Through all he’s put up with – he really loves us! Awww!
Dad’s who are willing to do that kind of thing are great!!!
I found a picture of myself in 1st grade on Valentine’s Day that will always be my favorite. I’m holding a dinosaur diorama I had just made, my lips stained red from the red heart lollipop in my hand, all the while rocking some seriously purple jeans! I should recreate this as an adult!
Those are some seriously good times right there!
My favorite Valentines Day was when I was in high school and as the ‘strong feminist’ smart ass I thought I was , I hated everything about being in “love”. I was in the hospital for an anemic blood transfusion and my dad walked in my room with his face covered by two huge bouquets of sunflowers. With his thick filipino accent saying “I love you and you will get through this, Happy Valentines Day” it was the best valentines day of my life! However, this past summer I studied physics in England and after so long I met a guy who was also studying physics and ends up being we go to the same University and live across the street. I want to be able to make him something creative and awesome-seeing that this is my first “romantic” valentines day!
My favorite valentine memory was when my hubby surprised me by taking me to a pottery studio. He put so much thought into planning it and trying to keep it a surprise that it almost all fell apart. He was “running late” from work and I got upset that he wasn’t ready for our date. When we finally got to the pottery studio, he had dinner and wine waiting for us at a table. I was so surprised and floored. I’ll never forget this as it was our Valentine’s day as a married couple. We painted a set of bowls that night and still have them today. 🙂
Oh my goodness! That is amazing! What an incredibly sweet night!
My boyfriend came and surprised me with a visit at college and decorated my room with a ton of paper hearts dangling from the ceiling each one handwritten on with something he loved about me on it, and also filled my room with flowers..then took me out to dinner and a movie!
That is so sweet!!!
I always loved making valentine’s cards in grade school. My favorite year was when each kid made a little ‘mailbox’ to have on their desk to receive cards from classmates & my design won the prize!
: D
I loved those mailboxes!!!!
My “friend” driving across state to celebrate our day with the cake we ate on our very first night out.
Sweet “friend”;-)
My most memorable Valentine’s Day was many years ago, when my husband and I were just scraping by(financially) and our daughter was 8 months old. We couldn’t afford a babysitter let alone a meal out. I love to cook, so I had a dinner all planned out, but providence took over. I had entered a V-Day dinner giveaway, at Marie Callender’s, while picking up pies for my MIL. We won, and had a wonderful dinner and dessert, fresh flowers(that I took home with me),even chocolates! Of course we took our baby girl, because “3 is a magic number”!
I love how sometimes those things work out!
Snuggled up with a very good friend on the front of an icy fishing boat in the north Pacific, talking about everything and nothing.
Wow! That sounds like a scene from a movie!
My fave Valentines Day was the one when I decorated small tin mailboxes for my son and my husband. They got up on Valentine’s Day to find they had a mail delivery of a cute car and a small treat bag of goodies. Even now I sometimes slip something in and raise the ‘flag’ to signal they have a special delivery! Never anything major just kind of ‘I was thinking of you’.
My favorite memory is having an indoor picnic with my then boyfriend, now husband.
My favorite memory is being surprised with a rose from a very good “friend” 🙂 .
My favorite valentine memory is trying to make free hand heart shaped pancakes for my kid. Never figured out hearts or the number 8. I’ve since switched to heart shaped Krispy Kreme donuts.