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I.D. Card

Carlianne's page here at the Homeschool Oasis website!

Here (below) is one of the first I.D. cards I ever made ~ way back in the OLDEN days!!! Personal home computers weren't even heard of!!! No, I used my trusty, dusty (now; not then!) TYPEWRITER! If it looks "off," it's only because it IS!!! Notice the logos "Tree of Life Learning Center" in the upper left corner? Guess how I made that? (You'll never guess!) I went down to a T-shirt shop and borrowed the letters, (which were about 1-1/2 inches high), formed them in the arrangement you see below, lightly gluing them (with rubber cement, which is removable) to a large sheet of paper. Then I laid that, face down, onto a copy machine glass and made several copies of it in different reduced sizes.

Notice anything missing below? I forgot to put her age and the date! It must have been around 1987 as she looks like she's about 11 years old.

I did ALL of the typing below on my trusty, "one-size-font" typewriter, reducing and enlarging the get the various type fonts. Our school colors are black, grey and purple, which you can see in three striped that I colored with a felt pen a third of the way down. I took the picture of her standing in front of a blank wall in the hallway.

Homeschool Apron

I put one of the above-mentioned copies through the T-shirt shop's transfer-making machine, which produced a reversed T-shirt transfer that I then ironed onto an apron I made! See Tory in his apron in the picture below!

I also made a look-alike apron for Sharnessa, a tiny one for Carlianne, and a miniature Barbie apron! I went through the same procedure to get the transfer, but just kept reducing it even more, until it was the size of a postage stamp!

I.D. Card

And here is a later-on version of the I.D. card ~ which I called an "A.S.B. Card" at the time because that fit our purposes at the time. We needed such a card to get into Tory's basketball games, (yes, even Carlianne needed an "ASB card" to get in!*), so that's why it's not in the above full I.D. card format but, rather, is similar to a school A.S.B. (Associated Student Body) card I had seen saw somewhere. And this is all most people would really need. By now, I had entered the more "techy" age of computers, and made this on the computer.

* Why anyone would doubt Carlianne was a student and would actually need PROOF of that

is beyond me, but it gave me a good excuse to make one for her!

If you would like to make

something similar, click here to access

an MS Word document with several

templates and fonts, as well

as directions!

And yes ~ it's FREE!!!

School Colors

Here (above) is Tory a

few years older than the

little guy holding the

cupcakes to the right!

Tory's page here at the Homeschool Oasis website!

Here's what we did for school colors... I had Tory choose one color ~ he chose black ~ and Sharnessa choose another ~ lavender ~ and then I chose a coordinating color ~ grey, and those are what comprised our school's colors! (This was several years before Carlianne even entered the picture! ) So that's why I made Tory's apron in those colors. (grey, lavender and black)

You can just barely tell from the picture below, but these are the colors we used for the balloons and streamers for Tory's graduation! (For the whole story on that, click here.)

I (Barb) am at the podium

speaking, with Dave directly

behind me (ready to speak

next). Tory is seated, to the

left in the blue chair, in cap

and gown.

~ More ID Card Ideas ~

from my dear friend,

Amy Beckel!

Here's Amy (on the right) and me!

It's kind of fun to get ideas from several sources! Anyway, after planning for years to make ID cards for my children, I finally got around to it last month, and they turned out really cute. Mine are really simple, though, not nearly as professional-looking as Barb's; but even so, they look (and ARE) just as "real" as the ones I've seen from the local schools, and they work fine whenever the boys are asked for ID.

Here's what I did: I took a bunch of pictures of my sons at various distances (and was lucky to get some small enough head shots), took them to the one-hour window at Wal*Mart, and went home to make various cards on the computer. I let my youngest son have a go with Greetings Workshop, and printed out the cards (two for each boy, a little bigger than 2 x 3 each) on a piece of cardstock. By this time, the photos at Wal*Mart were ready, so we went back up there, then down to the print shop to crop and attach the photos, sign the cards, and have them laminated. Voila! It was fun!!! And I have an "extra" card for each boy in case a card gets lost (naaah...that would NEVER happen around here, LOL).

I bordered our cards with a double line, and included our school name (Green Tree School, which we never use in "real life" but I use for ordering things), the name and birth date of the boy, a picture of a tree, a signature line, and room for a photo.

Next time I might put the "school year" on as well, and make sure that the photos are smaller so there's more room for the signature. AND next time I'll make some cute bookmarks right on the same piece of cardstock... rubber stamp them or something... before getting it laminated. That way I won't have to throw away those nice scraps of laminated cardstock.

Of course, you could do all of this with a piece of cardstock, a photo, a Sharpie permanent pen (or some other fine-line pen), a typewriter, and a ruler. No computer necessary!

One of the boys' friends thought I was going to make them "fake ID." I had to explain that they were just as "real" as his own Christian-school ID card!

I hope these little ideas help. Have fun with your project, and feel free to email if you have any questions.

Blessings,

Amy