Posts Tagged ‘High School Musical’

Danielle is the “Star Student” this week! So she and I had a lot of fun this weekend working on her star poster. She is very into High School Musical, Camp Rock and Hannah Montana. Since she spends a lot of evenings singing along and knows most of the songs we decided to make a music star themed board. Of course we used black to accentuate the coolness factor!

We made the guitar by tracing hers on Cricut’s 12 x 36 white card stock. The fun part was decorating it with Hannah Montana, Camp Rock, and High School Musical stickers. We went to Target to get the stickers and I was surprised to find acrylic stamps for Hannah Montana and High School Musical! I snatched the last one of each up and made sure Danielle understood that these were MY stamps, but that she could use them for this project. The stamp sets at Target are larger than the ones pictured below. They have a lot of great stars, flourishes, hearts, and music graphics that are very versitile. They do not have the large character stamps pictured below.

I helped her stamp them in black and she worked on coloring the details the rest of the weekend. The huge gemstone sticker “knobs” were the perfect finishing touch, too cute!

The stars were cut with two Creative Memories star shapes. There are a total of twelve cut out with DCWV’s glitter card stock in pink, purple and silver. They made great mats for the photos which were cut and embossed with Nestabilities. Of course you’ll see that two of the photos are not of her. As we were leaving Target she saw greeting cards with John McCain and Barack Obama on them and she just HAD to add them to her star board. If she’d seen a Sarah Palin card then she would have insisted on adding her as well. I bet there are not very many Kindegartners with these “stars” on their board! Obviously we’ve had (FOX) news on pretty frequently in our house the last few months!

Danielle wrote all of the photo captions herself with a white Inkssentials gel pen, my FAV. Of course it took us a while since I had to spell (almost) every word! We disassembled two bows which she picked out at Target and I punched holes on the sides of the poster board. She got a lot of practice tying knots. And finally I let her fill in all the blank spaces with stamped silver stars.

My family was in the “In-Crowd” this past Friday on opening day of High School Musical III. We contributed just under $20 to Disney’s $42 million in gross box office revenue for the weekend. My daughter Danielle was all smiles and her first question when we got out of the theater was ”when can we go see High School Musical IV?”

When the kids went to bed that night my husband was browsing the Internet and asked me if I knew about Scrapblog. Well, of course. I’ve known about Scrapblog since they first launched. After playing around with them I decided to go with Tabblo because I thought Scrapblog’s graphics were too cheesy and because you could not print Scrapblog pages into a book. When I was working in Strategy at a Telecom company I kept tabs on companies like these because they consume a lot of bandwidth. Well, Scrapblog has been busy the last year!

They have interfaces for photo download with just about everyone…Flikr, Photobucket, Facebook, etc. They have recently announced printing. They do not have 12 x 12 books, but their books are stitched and glued. Nice.

There are about 150 designs now, which brings me to the point of my post. Scrapblog’s business development team is doing a stellar job at partnerships! They have three High School Musical III themes to choose from! Each theme has four page designs and every element on the page can be re-sized, deleted or even made semi-transparent!

I’m still not sure that I would print books with them because I’m very picky about my graphics. But, I’m not ruling them out because you can actually start with a blank page and use their graphic elements. They have over 900 background images, 6,000 stickers, shapes, frames and the ability to incorporate video. Halloween graphics are front and center right now, and they are actually pretty darn cute!

As far as I can tell you cannot import your own graphics. But I can’t imagine the licensing logistics if it were that open of a platform. Anyway, kudos go out to Scrapblog for having High School Musical III templates, and by opening night of the movie to boot!

Next time I want to make a Tabblo I might actually give Scrapblog a try! Both companies offer a great way to share your photos online with friends and family in a “layout” style. Scrapblog jazzes things up with graphics and the option of video. Tabblo has plenty of layout styles and infinite color choices. A little more subdued for the photographers that actually want the photo to take center stage.