My husband’s birthday is coming up soon so Little Jo told me she wanted to make her daddy something.  He works at an IT company so I thought something geek-inspired for his office would be a good idea.  I’ve always wanted to try a craft with computer keys so this seemed like the perfect opportunity.  Little Jo suggested we make him a backpack for his computer.  That seemed a little more difficult than what I had originally planned, so I suggested a tissue box.  Much easier!

We took our boring, wooden box and painted it with glossy black paint.  Look at Little Jo go!

While Little Jo painted, I got a stack of old keyboards out of the closet and started popping the keys I needed off.  Just so you know, my husband has tons of spare keyboards and I didn’t even put a dent in his ancient keyboard supply.

I thought the keys would be boring just sitting on the black background so I found some computer themed scrapbook paper in my stash that looks like old punch cards.  I knew right away my husband would love a vintage computer themed tissue box.  After we used Mod Podge to decoupage the paper to the box, I told Little Jo that I had to do the hot gluing.  I seriously injure myself every time I hot glue something, and I didn’t want her to hurt herself.  It’s rather sad but I must suffer for my art.  Or, learn to not be so clumsy with a glue gun!

We used the keys to spell out different words on all four sides.  The two sides I didn’t show you had my husband’s name and his company on them.  I wouldn’t want you to hunt him down and steal his tissue box!  : )  This would make a great project for Father’s Day for the tech inclined dad!