Over the past few months I have been working on a big project – that has taken quite a bit of time.  I created personalized 8×8 soft cover photo books for each of the graduating seniors in the band.  I did the same thing last year when Tyler graduated and everyone loved them so much they wanted me to do it again.  This year there were 13 seniors.

The basic layout of each book included a group photo of the seniors on the front cover.  The first page was an individual photo taken of the student on senior night with their parents – I also included all their bio information – instrument(s) played, awards, leadership,etc.  Then I had double page layouts – 4 pages for each year freshman through junior year and 6 pages for their senior year.  I included a 2 page spread for autographs and finished with another group photo as the last page and the band on the back cover. Here are a few more pages –

this is the autograph page

I was able to get some photos of the students from the parents and I also used photos that were taken throughout the years and added to our band website.  Each book is basically the same except I replaced some of the pictures that were of a specific student.  A few of the tricky books were the students who weren’t in the band all 4 years or the girls in the Guard that weren’t in concert band.  And a couple of parents didn’t send me any pictures of their student so I had to either find some on my own (which is hard when you don’t know the kids well and they are all dressed alike) or I replaced them with general band photos – like a trumpet player I may have used a picture of a group of trumpet players instead of that specific player since I didn’t know which one he was.    It was quite the undertaking but it is done and all the books were printed through Stampin’ Up!s professional print service and presented to the seniors at our band banquet on Thursday night.

Tonight is the final band concert of the year. Then the focus will be on next years Marching Band Show.  The percussion kids – which is Ryan – will have tryouts for the drumline and pit crew at the end of this month – Ryan is trying out for a snare drum spot – I’m crossing my fingers that he gets it – he has been practicing since last summer – he didn’t get it this past year because they only had room for a couple and the older boys got those spots.

And since it is Tuesday  – Stampin’ Up! has some new digital downloads – You can see them on my website – and view the May 15 digital downloads.

Also remember the Retiring Products – we are winding down to the end of this catalog – can you believe it?  So double check the list and see that you have everything you need.    Call or email me and I’ll place an order for you or place it online – you can add digital downloads and clearance items to an online order.

Have a great day!