Father's Day Craft with #TruprintDads

I love Father's Day! A phrase I didn't think I'd hear myself say before I had my son!

I love finding unique and unusual gifts to surprise the best man on the planet with. I love that Max 'helps' daddy unwrap his presents after telling him exactly what is in it and most of all, I love creating something unique.

This year is no different. My man loves his family, old cars, spoiling us and Lego, so this year I got a canvas designed from Truprint which almost choked him up! To me, that's a good sign, means I got the right pressie :-)

What daddy loves the most

I can't tell you (yet) what the purchased item for daddy is as this post is going live before Father's day and I'd like at least 1 thing to be a surprise (it won't be, he just looks at me and seems to guess straight away what I've bought him!!). Saying that, if you're looking for ideas Truprint have a fantastic Father's Day gift range and a special offer on at the moment. If you use code LOVEMYDAD you can bag yourself money off on all orders over £20.

So our craft item this year involved a photo and Lego. Now I used a print out from my home computer but in hindsight a photo print (that you can order direct from Truprint) would have worked much better!

This will keep daddy and kids quiet for quite some while!!

Choose your favourite photo, I know, this could be quite a task! I chose my favourite one of the lads on the beach.

Love this piccie of my boys

Then, I had to open up a spreadsheet to mark out the word DAD so I knew what Lego bricks to find. This took some faffing around to do!

Click image to enlarge

After having a good rummage in the Lego boxes whilst the boys were out I managed to get the majority of what I needed. I just had to order a few bricks off eBay as I didn't want a rainbow effect.

I then set about making my plaque

My sneaky batch of Lego

Building up my Lego

Takes a while.....

Finally finished - may want to take a photo for reference....

Try to use larger bricks where possible. It becomes fiddly and very hard to put back together again with 1x1 squares.

I flipped the image and glued my photo on the back. This is where Truprint photos would work best, with a glossy finish a size 7" x 5" print would leave a nice border around the edge of the above plaque which is the same size as a 24 x 16 base plate.

Glue your image on the back of the Lego image

I left my image overnight to stick to the Lego. I did find that the blue came through ever so slightly so another reason to use a photo print rather than paper.

Once the glue was set I used my craft knife to cut the Lego pieces. The best way I found was to fold the Lego onto itself and slice the bend with the knife. This is a slow process and patience is needed.

Creating Lego Jigsaw

Because it's paper I covered each brick with Mod Podge to make it last. Once dried I checked each one to make sure there is no overflowing glue around the sides.

Trust me it was worth it! I got my boy to give daddy is craft project... I know it's early but that's just how we roll.....

And it took them AGES to put all the pieces back together again - and it was lovely to watch.