Making Some Cool Wanted Posters for my Saturday Night Genealogy Fun –

Sherry Stocking Kline
28 Aug 2010

It’s Saturday night, and due to sniffly little girl noses, our family plans to get together fell through.  With a couple of hours free, I decided to check on Randy Seaver’s Geneamusing’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge! It was fun!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and I hope that you do… this one is really cool!) is to cue up the mission impossible music now, and go have some fun!

1) Go to the www.ImageChef.com website and explore their FREE offerings. Click on the “Create” button, or choose to make a slideshow or posters from their main page (there are more than one screen of poster backgrounds).

2) Make one or more posters or other creation – perhaps they relate to genealogy or your own family history. Save them to your computer (right click, Save as Picture for Windows users).

3) Show your creations to us… in your own blog post, on a Facebook post, etc. If you make a really neat one and want to show it to the world but don’t have a way to do it, send it to me (rjseaver@cox.net) and I’ll show it off for you in a blog post.

I’ve always wondered what my face would look like on a Wanted poster, so here goes!

Wanted" poster for Shery Stocking Kline

I guess I put too much text on it, ‘cuz you can hardly read that it says:

“Caught red-handed in libraries, haunting cemeteries, and guilty of pestering family for info.”

Next,  I did this one of my two youngsters, when they were just about two and a half, and 3 months:

Awe, it makes me wish I did have a big locket just like that with their photograph in it/on it.  I’m going to be keeping an eye out for something like that.

So then I used the sidewalk chalk template with a photograph of my oldest granddaughter kissing a baby lamb when she was just a wee little thing herself:

And my brother’s flight in a vintage airplane lent itself well to the “Breaking News” template:

But I’m kind of partial to that Wanted Poster Image, so I did another Wanted poster that I think will look really cool on next year’s Family Reunion invitations that I’m getting ready to send out!

I’m still trying to decide whether to use this family photograph of them all, or just use one that has just Roderick and Fanny in it, but I’m beginning to lean towards using this one. (Wouldn’t it just look cool on a t-shirt, too?)

I spent a little more time doing some fun and funny stuff with the granddaughter’s photographs, and will probably pay the $10 to be able to size and re-size, and get rid of the watermark and use them in some fun scrapbook collages down the road!

Thanks, Randy!

Now, go have some fun and make your own wanted poster at http://www.imagechef.com!

4 Responses to “Making Some Cool Wanted Posters for my Saturday Night Genealogy Fun –”

  • These are all awesome! I really love the idea of using the last one as a reunion invitation.

    • Thanks for stopping by! This was really fun to do, and I do think I will add some to my scrapbook pages, hence I will need to subscribe. After doing it, I followed the link that Randy had in his blog post to his inspiration’s website, which had MORE links to other sites that do similar things. They all looked like fun!

    • hank you! I appreciate you stopping by my website, and didn’t realize until today that I had missed your comment, so my apologies to you. I get so busy in the summer, that my blogging doesn’t get as much attention as in the winter.

      The scrapbook pages were easy to make, and for anyone who wanted to make exactly (or almost exactly) the same thing, I would be glad to share the templates with you or them. Just learned today that now Heritage Makers offers a customizable post-bound scrapbook! That is a brand-new offering, and now I can put my family tree ’stuff’ in a book that is customized with the same photographs. I’m soooo excited. I had asked them if they would consider that, and so I’m elated that they’ve done it! (they probably were already working on it, but anyhow, made me feel good!) They are on sale today and tomorrow! Wish they were on for longer, though.

      Once again, thank you for stopping by!
      Sherry

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