Friday, April 9, 2010

Personalized Felt Memory Game




So last night I stayed up late making this (more cards inside the bag). Tonight is Eli's buddy's birthday party. A couple of days ago I looked on my new favorite blog for ideas. A Make Your Own Memory Game was perfect, especially since I'm always taking pictures. After some online and craft store searching, I came up empty-handed, so I had to invent my own version. With some wallet-sized prints, picasa to add words to the cover photo, heavy weight interfacing, felt ( love you felt), pinking shears, and two hours of sewing and cutting, Curt will have a memory game that brings back memories. How tender.

I was so excited I had to bring it up to Brian to see when I finished, whether I had to wake him or not. He's learning to be impressed by my creations and numerous uses for the snap machine I asked for. I'm just glad I finally came up with something on my own rather than needing a tutorial. I searched around this morning and found someone else had done something similar, except with the expense and trouble of printing photos on fabric. Ha!

I'm already brainstorming a churchy one to keep the boy occupied on Sundays, even going to temple square to take my own pictures. It would be convenient to run into the prophet.

6 comments:

Anna said...

Beyond brilliant!!! You are amazing

sarahflib said...

Wait, how do you and Curtis know each other? And did I know that you did? I can't remember.

Also, great job on the game! That looks really fun. My favorite line is that it would be convenient to run into the prophet.

Helena said...

Sarah, I was wondering that myself. It looks like a spammer link. I clicked on him and it goes to some website. I thought he was related to you for sure.

sarahflib said...

That's confusing. Well, I do have a cousin named Curtis Gibby and he does have a young daughter.

sarahflib said...

I went to the site and it turns out he IS my cousin. I guess this is a new business venture. At any rate, your game looks cool!

Curtis Gibby said...

Small world. I am Sarah's cousin, and I am running the Match The Memory web site. I don't know Helena, I just found her site based on a Google alert for "personalized memory game" or something like that.