Day 87: Playing with Paint

I needed to scrap my son's school kindergarten photo, but to coordinate with the next page, I couldn't use the typical primary colors.  I went through my stash of papers and found "Khaki Plaid" by Kelly Panacci for Sandylion.  It is a blue and green plaid, set on the diagonal. One of the shades of blue looked good with the shirt my son was wearing, and the paper coordinated with the grandmother and grandson page I completed a couple of days ago.  But how to make the page look "school-ish"?  I jumped on the internet and typed in scrapbook school page to get some ideas.  One idea I liked was to use a piece of notebook paper behind the feature photo.  I found some ledger style paper in a pack of designer paper from Stampin' Up, and used a punch from EK Success to make it look like torn out spiral notebook paper.  Then I roughed up the edge of the notebook page so it would look ragged, like it does after you tear paper out of a notebook. I wrote the word "Kindergarten" and "2009-2010" with the teacher's name and the name of the school at the top of the ledger page (journaling pen by Creative Memories).  I found the class list and wrote all of the kids' names on the ledger paper. I set the ledger paper at an angle and then placed my son's photo on top. I used some ribbon that looks like a tape measure across the bottom of my son's photo, and attached a "k" stencil over the ribbon.  I also added a soft yellow "k" charm from Around the Block to the stencil.  Beneath the ribbon, I used some white sticker letters that look like a child's handwriting to spell out "Kindergarten 09".  I added a large letter K from Deja Views with star clips from Oriental Trading Company to the upper right hand corner of the page. I liked how the page looked, but thought it needed something else.  So, I got a sponge brush and a bottle of white paint (Plaid) and smeared it on the page randomly, even on my son's photo.  Too much white...so I got out a bottle of lettuce paint (Ranger) and added that.  Then a little more white. I never had so much fun making a scrapbook page and playing with paint!

Day 77: Take Me Out To The Ball Game

I got my son's baseball layout all put together today.  I used two papers from my stash (manufactures unknown) that looked good side by side as the background pages.  On the left page, I used royal blue title strips from Creative Memories to back my title, "Take Me Out To The Ball Game". I like to use hodge-podge alphabets, which are just a bunch of different styles of letters combined.  This is a good way to use up extra letters from prior projects.  These letters were from Colorbok, Around the Block,  and Buttons Galore, but they all worked together because they were all round and blue. On the right hand page, I just arranged the photos in a pleasing manner, then added some adhesive foam to the back of my son's baseball card to lift it up off the page and add some dimension.  I used some blue Sticko glitter letters to add "June 2009" at the bottom of the page. I will have to post photos tomorrow.  I have to go sell Girl Scout cookies with my daughter.