Monday, August 8, 2011

Senior Year Keychain



Hello everyone! It's time for another challenge at Celebrate The Occasion! This week the challenge is "Back To School".
I created this keychain for my son who will be a Senior this year (this is SO unbelievable! My baby is almost done with High School!) He LOVES football and the season has just started so that's what I used as my inspiration for this project.
I started by cutting a solid football at 2.5 inches from Car Decals out of a recycled cereal box to give it some sturdiness. I then cut the football, front and back and the layers for the front. The font and font shadow was cut from Robots that I welded together in my Gypsy. Once it was all glued on I added some white gel pen highlights to the letters. Then I ran it through the laminator on my Your Story. I was kind of disappointed how it wrinkled and didn't all laminate correctly. So I ran it through twice. My only thinking for this is that it was too thick. To finish I punched the hole and added a keychain ring. Thank goodness for the Crop-A-Dile because it was really thick!
I hope you all enjoyed my project and will play along this week. I can't wait to see what you'll create! Have a great day!
P.S. He is ACTUALLY using it too! He made a smart comment about my laminating skills and then put it on his keychain! :) This makes me happy because I know that he actually liked it! LOL!

16 comments:

Sherry said...

I think you did a great job and if you hadn't said anything about the laminating, I wouldn't have even noticed. It looks awesome, I thought it was metal.
Real Cool Job Mom
Sherry

Laurie said...

What a cute idea! The picture makes it look like metal!! I think it turned out great!
Laurie
scrapsbysissy.blogspot.com

girlia said...

Awesome job as always GiGi

Cindy Beland said...

Hi Gigi,Your project is soo AWESOME!SUPER job with this COOL idea,I LOVE IT!!:)

Mary said...

What a great idea, love it!!

Jenni said...

Great idea! Your son will love it!
Hugs, Jenni

Rhonda Emery said...

this is really cute great idea.

Yvonne said...

Super Cute Idea!!! ~Yvonne DT Member

Esther said...

OMG!!! What a clever idea!!! Super job!
Fellow - DT

Jayne said...

Wow,what a brilliant idea Gigi. Love all the details you've added.I actually thought you had used a football keychain as a base!!Amazing,will definitely 'borrow' your idea.
Jayne x

Paper Panther and Rayna said...

Gigi, Gigi, Gigi!! This looks store bought!!! Awesome job!
Paper Panther

Scrappin Diva said...

Too Cute !!

Lucianna Dilsaver said...

What a great idea, love that font, really fun :)

Sherrie K. said...

Super cool project!!! I love your keychain:) You might have a ton of orders once your son starts showing people...a GREAT idea for his buddies..great grad gift:)
Love it. TFS!
Sherrie K
http://sherriescraps.blogspot.com

MyCuriousCrafts said...

I love it...what a great idea. TFS! ~Shen

Aim said...

GiGi, I LOVE this idea!! I really thought it was a metal keyring that you added the font to -- I was so surprised to read that you made the whole thing!! WOW -- You are such a creative mom -- Bet he'll treasure that for a very, very long time!! My heart is so happy for you...

Thanks so much for sharing your talent at Celebrate The Occasion!! :)

Amy :) at www.lovetocrop.com
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