Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Tanner's Kindergarten Photo

Jinger Adams and The Scpabook Queen are starting a brand  new scrapbooking product line and are having a Design Team Call on Jinger's Blog.  I really love Jinger's enthusiasm and would be very honored to be on her team.  I love The Scrapbook Queen too and have been in some blog hops with her ~ she is super talented!  

I had one of Tanner's kindergarten photos printed in black and white and took this opportunity to scrapbook  it Boy Style!



I started out with my Gypsy and put a 4x6 rectangle on the mat to represent my photo.  I added my title on another layer, a photo frame on another layer and some gears on yet another layer.

This image came from Lacy Labels and is sized to 9.82 inches.  I put this on a new layer and kept enlarging it until it framed my 4x6 photo with enough room for my title on the side.

I cut it out in burgundy cardstock.

I found the gears from Paper Lace 2.  I welded two borders together and sized them to a WIDTH of 11.50 inches.  The single gear is sized to 3.55 inches ~ I cut two so I could layer them.  I found the screw tops from Robotz and sized them to 1.47 inches.

I cut them out of metallic silver cardstock.

I welded Tanner using Varsity Letter (sized to 1.19 inches) to kindergarten using Plantin Schoolbook (sized to 1.19 inches).  I copied the screw tops to this layer and used Hide Contour to hide the "+" in the center.
I am having some issues with my Expression :(  After three attempts to cut this out and some not so nice words, I unwelded the TANNE and cut out the letters separately. 

I grabbed these sign layers from Street Sign sized at 2.41.  I wanted to make a fun journaling tag.

I grabbed the arrow and School Zone from Graphically Speaking and sized them at 1.75 inches and 1.16 inches.

I cut them out of black, burgundy, cream and blue cardstock and put them together.  I trimmed the top of the blue piece to make my sign multicolored.


I used Glossy Accents to glue down my chain.  I used some Tim Holtz paper in the background - perfect for my little boy!

I pop-dotted my arrow and interstate sign/journaling tag over the chain.

I added some staples and pop-dotted the gears border.

I really like how this turned out, well except for my non-welding!  When scrapbooking AND mothering, sometimes you have to be flexible and make things work!!  Thanks for stopping by today!

13 comments:

  1. Love the black and white for this layout and the gears are just right. Very fun.

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  2. What a great layout.... I LOVE the gears, how awesome and look how grown up Tanner looks in that photo! TFS

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  3. This LO is Awesome Lori! I LOVE IT! Good luck on Jinger's DT. I have been thinking of trying out, but worried about time if I was lucky enough to get it. Hee! Hee!

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  4. Lori, what an adorable picture of Tanner and a great layout!!!

    I hope you can become a DT member on Jinger's blog; I think you're both awesome talents.

    Hugs, my sister-friend!

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  5. Another great layout. Love all the embelisshment. The gear border is lovely. TFS

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  6. Terrific layout and a very handsome young man!

    Precious Hugs

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  7. Your project is wonderful... :)
    Wishing you a beautifully blessed week,
    **Lots of BIG Hugs**
    Deborah

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  8. What a wonderful project. Good luck on the Design Team Call. No matter what happens we are all in for some exciting new products when Jinger rolls out her designs.

    Linda - The Tulip Collector

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  9. Beautiful layout, love the colors

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  10. Great Layout!!! Love all the instructions! Thanks for sharing

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  11. I really love the vintage feel your layout has. Good luck on the design team call!

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  12. Gorgeous layout!! I love the colors and all of those gears!

    Kimberly

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