Rebel Coach

I seem to be on a roll lately making layouts of my husband!  Given Father's Day is coming up, I felt he deserved to be honored in a few layouts.  In this case, he was being his typical self - a rebel who hates conforming.  On a dare, my husband shaved his head into a Mohawk for the girls soccer team he coached.  Little did they realize that he doesn't need to be dared to do such things - if it is a bit off center, he's all in!

The sketch is from Cheryl's Challenge #11 at Sketches4All.  I will also submit this to CropStop who have a banner challenge this week (#76 - It's a Celebration!) and to Cooking With Cricut #90 - Fathers Day (anything but a card).


So how did I do it? 

• I used several strips of red and printed paper from my scrap pile (why did I keep strips less than 1" wide?  No idea.). 
• I cut the banners from two of those strips using the Art Philosophy Cricut.  The rest of the strips went to the vertical panels, some layered, and one with a ribbon from Michael's. 
• The primary printed paper is from 7Gypsies Paddington collection
• The graph paper tags are actually a stamp from Verve
• Brads are everywhere - two kinds from Spare Parts (Paper Studio) and two kinds from Recollections, and one set from JoAnnes
• "Coach" title is from Thickers; I mounted them on red paper and fussy cut around the Thickers to get better definition against the printed paper.
• The frame was created in Make the Cut and cut on Cricut - it's just small squares cut out of the white frame and then that white frame mounted on a solid black mat.
• And finally, faux stitching around the edge between the square biker brads. 

This is the sketch I used: