{"id":642,"date":"2009-11-28T00:46:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T06:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/?p=642"},"modified":"2017-11-19T04:19:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T10:19:27","slug":"what-makes-a-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/28\/what-makes-a-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a lot of pictures and don&#8217;t know how to include them on your layout?\u00a0 Design Team Member Amy Wheeler did an outstanding job on this 2-page baseball layout.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-24327 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AW-What-makes-a-champion-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"949\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AW-What-makes-a-champion-1.jpg 949w, https:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AW-What-makes-a-champion-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AW-What-makes-a-champion-1-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scrappinstuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/AW-What-makes-a-champion-1-200x105.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 949px) 100vw, 949px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supplies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teresa Collins \u2013 Sports Edition \u2013 Sports Defined paper<\/li>\n<li>Teresa Collins \u2013 Sports Edition \u2013 Chipboard Charms<\/li>\n<li>MLYB \u2013 Say What? Journaling Tablets \u2013 Sports<\/li>\n<li>MLYB \u2013 Say What? Clear Cuts Sticker Words \u2013 Sports<\/li>\n<li>Queen &amp; Co. \u2013 Felt Fusion Border \u2013 Baseball<\/li>\n<li>Black Cardstock (2 sheets)<\/li>\n<li>Red Cardstock (scrap strips)<\/li>\n<li>White cardstock (I used a precut 4&#215;6 mat)<\/li>\n<li>Notebook punch<\/li>\n<li>White pen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Step-by-step directions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>For this 2-page layout, start with two sheets of black cardstock<\/li>\n<li>I had 8 4&#215;6 photos from this event that I wanted to use, so I started cropping them and arranging them into the best \u201crectangle\u201d shape possible<\/li>\n<li>The length of the top row would determine the length of my interior \u201cblock\u201d, I cut a scrap of the <strong>Teresa Collins \u2013 Sports Edition \u2013 Sports Defined paper <\/strong>to even out the lower row of pics on the left side of my layout (if needed I could have done this to the right side also)<\/li>\n<li>I chose to mat one photo \u2013 since I was using a precut 4&#215;6 mat, I trimmed \u00bc\u201d off two sides of my photo<\/li>\n<li>I pulled the \u201cWhat Makes a Champion\u201d card from <strong>MLYB \u2013 Say What? Journaling Tablets \u2013 Sports <\/strong>and did my journaling<\/li>\n<li>Next, I positioned the <strong>MLYB \u2013 Say What? Journaling Tablets \u2013 Sports<\/strong> where I wanted it on the layout, but did not adhere it yet<\/li>\n<li>To complete my \u201crectangle\u201d, I needed to add a 2\u201d strip to the bottom of my layout even with the matted 4&#215;6 photo on my right hand page \u2013 I used red cardstock for this and even added a strip on the right hand side of my layout to even it out (it will show outside the tablet piece)<\/li>\n<li>I adhered <strong>Queen &amp; Co. \u2013 Felt Fusion Border \u2013 Baseball<\/strong> across the red cardstock strip (*I had a piece of baseball hand over outside the red strip, so I backed that piece of felt with red cardstock to look like stitching \u2013 I just cut a scrap of red for this)<\/li>\n<li>Using a white pen, I drew a frame around the photos\/papers making up the interior rectangle of my layout<\/li>\n<li>I adhered my \u201cWhat makes a champion\u201d journaling sheet after punching the top with a \u201cnotebook\u201d punch<\/li>\n<li>I selected four pieces of chipboard from the <strong>Teresa Collins \u2013 Sports Edition \u2013 Chipboard Charms<\/strong> and adhered the \u201cPlay Hard or go home\u201d to the left side of my layout while grouping a baseball and two stars above my journaling card<\/li>\n<li>For a finishing touch, I added the word \u201cchampion\u201d from the<strong> MLYB \u2013 Say What? Clear Cuts Sticker Words \u2013 Sports<\/strong> to the photo on the upper left of my layout<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappinstuff.com\/store\/project-center-what-make-a-champion-layout-c-210_233\">Click Here<\/a> for printable directions and to purchase all the products you&#8217;ll need to create this layout.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a lot of pictures and don&#8217;t know how to include them on your layout?\u00a0 Design Team Member Amy Wheeler did an outstanding job on this 2-page baseball layout. 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