Basketball Mini Scrapbook.

August 22nd, 2009

Here’s a project I worked on recently as a gift to my husband. He plays in a nostalgia basketball tournament every year for his old high school and has been doing it for many years (he’s the oldest on the team!). You have to have graduated at least 15 years ago to be allowed to play. Anyway, he says every year he’s gonna “retire” and he hasn’t yet in the 10 years I’ve been watching, but back in 2003 he had the game of his life and I documented it in this little handmade scrapbook for him. I used Uline chipboard covered with patterned paper for the covers, plain old cardstock pages covered with basketball patterned papers and bound it all together with my trusty Bind-It-All thingie. I used things in this book that I’ve been saving for YEARS to make him a basketball book. This game was in 2003, if that tells you anything!

(that basketball hoop is actually a button! I cut the shank off the back of it & glued it on.)

I covered the inside covers with the tournament program (above).

I started off the first page (above) with a little commentary announcer style about how the game went for my husband. It was definitely the most exciting game of his that I’ve watched in the 10 years we’ve been together.

Page 2 (above) and page 3 (below)

page 2-3 as you’d see them with the book open (below)

page 4 (above) and page 5 (below)

and as you’d see page 4-5 with the book open looking at it (below)

(my favorite part where the score keeper guy stood up and did the “we’re not worthy” bow to my hubby out on the court. So funny!)

Page 6 (above) and page 7 (below)

and page 6-7 together when you’re looking at the open book (below)

Page 8 (above) when the game ended and people were coming out to shake hubby’s hand and page 9 (below) when he let our 3-year-old daughter come out on the court and “play.”