A truly personal Grandparent's Day gift idea!
Grandparent's Day is coming up and it sure isn´t easy to come up with a gift grandma and grandpa would really be excited about.
A SmileBooks photo book would make a perfect present, but not just any photo book make it a personalized photo book with messages and drawings from everyone important in grandma and grandpa´s life!
It´s so easy to do!
Just create a photo book with our easy to use SmileBooks Photo Book Software. You can choose any size and cover you want, just make sure you have enough pages to allocate at least one for each person involved in the project, although a double-paged spread would be ideal!
The only thing you have to do is place one photo on each page. Use photos taken throughout the year and old favourites too. Place each photo in the middle of the page and leave the page white or add a monochrome background to the page. You could also scan drawings or notes made by the youngest members of the family and add them to the book as full page bleeds.
Once you have the printed photo book, use marker pens to add personal messages and doodles on each page. Our paper is high quality and the marker pen will not smudge although ballpoint pens will.
This book doesn’t have to be for family members only. Ask your grandparents friends if they’d also like to join in the fun. You can even ask people, grandma and grandpa meet regularly like the shop owner and the doctor. Get messages from old school friends of them and the surprise will be huge!
Here some ideas to get you started:
- Draw funny backgrounds, e.g. a smiling sun and birds
- Add speech or thought bubbles
- Extend arms and legs beyond the edge of the photo
- Add caricatures like smilies
- Draw your own fancy frames around the photos and don't forget to let everyone sign their created pages! It will be a beautiful moment when grandma and grandpa unwrap their book and page through it for the fist time! They’ll feel so blessed to know that so much love and thought went into making their gift!
