Capture the Kids on Super Bowl Sunday!
Today is Super Bowl 2010!
If you have been following along with our blogs, then you know that in yesterday’s article (The Super Bowl and Digital Scrapbooking), we told you about how to get the logos and icons for the Super Bowl 2010 and the teams logos and icons too!
We also mentioned how you could scrap these icons with your digital scrapbooking supplies and showed you some some supplies that looked great to use with Super Bowl projects. And we gave some great links in this article for Super Bowl food! If you didn’t see this article read it now!
Today Capture the Kids on Super Bowl Sunday!
In today’s blog article we want to talk about capturing the children before and during the Super Bowl as these make precious memories!
If you look around before or during the game you will probably notice children getting ready for the game in the way children do.
For example, they may get out their football and throw it around the house. Hopefully not breaking anything!
They might try to dress up in the teams colors, put on a helmet, paint their face.
But whatever they are doing you might want to grab the camera and capture some of the action! Children can be rather cute and can come up with tons of great ideas that have to be caught and scrapped!
Here are some Tips to capturing your kids this Super Bowl:
Tip 1: Get you camera ready the night before, make sure your batteries are recharged and put your camera in an area you can grab quickly.
Tip 2: If you have multiple cameras put them all out. If you have more than one camera put them in different places that you might quickly capture the kid action.
Tip 3: Look for your children dressing up. Maybe they like to wear the team colors of they are cheering for? If so take photos! Maybe they like to wear a helmet during the game? If so take photos of that! Take photos of all the dress-up they do on Super Bowl Sunday!
Tip 4: Take photos of them helping make the Super Bowl food or eating it! Children usually love to cook so add them into the preparations and take lots of photos to scrap later!
Tip 5: Take photos of other pre or post game activities – like children playing football in the bedroom, or outside. Also take photos of other game day activities.
See the suggested coloring page activity towards the bottom of this blog!
Tip 6: Take photos of the children watching 
the game!
Or not watching the game! Put your camera on a tripod and if you have a remote snap the photo when something comes up!
You might be surprised how many great photos you can get of your children and your whole family while enjoying the game!
Tip 7: Don’t forget to take photos of the family pet! These images really might be fun to include in the scrapbooking projects too!
Tip 8: Don’t leave your photos in your digital camera – get them out and scrap them! After you have gone to all the work to get great Super Bowl photos with your children, don’t leave them in your camera! Get them out and start digital scrapbooking them right away. See the kits at the bottom of this blog that we used to scrap Super Bowl pages! Or go to the Scrap Shop for great Digital Scrapbooking Kits or Quick Pages Kits to scrap Super Bowl Sunday or other scrapbooking pages!
Capture the Kids Attention on Super Bowl Sunday with Coloring Pages !
Bonus Idea – A Craft Idea for Children:
Do you need to provide an activity for your small children while you are busy preparing food or so you can enjoy the game?
If so consider getting the Sports Brush kit to “Stamp” on pages and create coloring pages to keep children busy during preparations or while watching the game!
In a pinch brushes are definitely one of the easiest ways to create a quick coloring page for kids.
Here is how you make Coloring Pages for your Children
First, start Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and load your Sport brushes. If you don’t have these brushes you can buy them at the Scrap Shop. 
To create a Sports coloring page, take the brushes that come in the Sports Brush Kit and load them into the 
brush tool. If you don’t know how to do this get brush training for either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
Next in Photoshop or Elements make a new 8.5 x 11 digital scrapbooking page so it can be printed out in a home printer.
Then adjust one of the Sports brushes so that it fits on the page, and stretch it out as large as possible without extending it off the page. In this example I picked the Football brush.
Note: Since the Sports Brush I have picked is more a filled type brush, than an
outline brush I will need to make some adjustments if I am going to use this type of brush for a coloring page. So, I “stamped” it in a very light gray color so the children can color over the shape. This will give them a guide as they color on the Football Coloring Page.
You can use other sports brushes to make other coloring pages too!
Next, print out your coloring page(s) and give them to your children to color.
Take photos of your children coloring them too!
Also, you might want to scan the coloring pages and include images in your scrapbooking pages!
Ps. the great thing about these sport brushes is you can also use them to decorate your digital scrapbooking pages too! The possibilities are endless!
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Here are the digital Scrapbooking Kits we used in this blog:
If you are going to scrap facts, scores, and trivia then pick a digital scrapbooking kit that has note pages embellishments or some other tag that you can write the trivia on like Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit that was used in the scrap page above to write some info about the Indianapolis Colt team.
This digital scrapbooking kit has lots of embellishments to help us write down and illustrate all the facts we want to scrap about the teams in the Super Bowl!
Get some digital scrapbooking supplies like digital background papers that include some bonus embellishments like the Velvet Digital Paper Kit 1.
This kit looks great with this year’s game and was used to scrap one of the above Super Bowl scrap page.
Another Kit we used to make scrapbooking page was the Winter Snow Scrapbooking
Kit.
This kit is fun to use with scrapping children, pets and is also nice when scrapping your Super Bowl recipes. It is nice to use a digital scrapbooking kit that has a recipe card like the Winter Snow Scrapbooking Kit.
This kit comes with great digital papers, recipe card and MORE!
Get Sports Brushes for Coloring Page Activities or to Decorate your Scrapbooking Projects!
Get Sports Digital Scrapbooking brushes to add to your digital scrapbooking pages!
The Sports Custom Brush Set is a fun set of digital brushes that would make any sports-fan proud! Personalize a sporty Digital Scrapbooking Page for that favorite athlete in your life, or create a Digital Scrapbooking Project full of team-spirit for the kids, a parent, or even for your own, sport-loving self!
Add unique detail to sports-event pages, stamp-on detail for team practice pages, or design a one-of-a-kind project all about your favorite sport, players, and team!
Custom Brushes are just one of the many exciting things to do when Digital Scrapbooking within Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Custom Brushes can be used as a digital version of a rubber stamp, and can be “stamped” on Digital Scrapbook Projects as adorable embellishments!
See other custom brushes in the Scrap Shop.
Want to Learn how to Use Custom Brushes? Get Training!
Digital Scrapbooks and More Custom Brush tutorials sold at the Scrap Shop for either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
These tutorials cover the basics of the Brush Tool, Installing Custom Brushes, and Using Custom Brushes in Digital Scrapbooking, and the tutorials teach some of the special techniques needed to advance to things such as colorizing your brush images so you can use them like embellishments!
Have a great Super Bowl!
Cheri
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