DIY Father's Day Frame - PROVEN

I found an idea for a homemade Father's Day gift on Pinterest.  I saw this photo and knew I wanted to attempt making this for my hubby from our daughter.

The only problem is, the only thing I found was a photo.  No instructions at all, and even when clicking on the pin to go to the link associated, it showed nothing on how to create this masterpiece so I went at it semi-blind!

The first thing I did was order prints online of some of my favorite photos of my husband and daughter together. I ordered 20, even though I only needed 5!  There are many places online you can order prints but my favorite is www.mpix.com.

I bought a $6 frame at Dollar General and a couple 4x6 frames ($1.50 each). While at the dollar store I also picked up a piece of small poster board.

I printed out DADDY in extra large block letters to use as a guide when cutting out the poster board.

I had to first cut the poster board to the size of the frame, I used the piece of paper that was in the frame, traced it and using scissors, cut it to size.  After that I cut out the letters I had printed and laid them out.  After realizing I didn't have enough room, I staggered them to get them to fit.  I traced them and using an exact-o knife, I cut the letters out of the poster board.  This was not an easy task.  It took a steady hand and patience, neither of which I have much of!

I then chose the pictures I wanted to use to represent each letter, those also had to be cut to fit, I taped them to the back of the poster board to make sure they wouldn't shift around.

I then used a pencil to write the words "I'm lucky as can be the best [DADDY] in the world belongs to me!" After I had that done I used a sharpie to trace over those letters and erased the pencil markings.

I realized a little too late that the words were not centered on the board, and if you know me, that is NOT OK.  Also, the bottom line is at an upward angle and it still drives me a little nuts, but the imperfections are what make it homemade, right?.....Sure.  In order to add Madison's touch and also take up some of the extra space on the right side, I had her add her pink hand print!  It acts like her signature to the art, and it is perfect!  I am glad now that I didn't get it centered perfectly!

I used the smaller frames I purchased and put a couple photos of my precious family in them for my husband's desk at work.  The homemade gift is now hanging on the wall in our hallway at home. :)

Here is the finished product!!!!