More Fun With Stickers
Last year’s I Remembered My Library Books stickers were a huge hit with the kids. So much so that I decided to get a little crazier with them and make new subject spine labels. I’ve never been a big fan of those labels. The types available from the vendors are boring, cheesy and take up too much space on the spine. But three years of frantically searching for dragon books in the fiction section for apoplectic third graders has pushed me to new limits.
The array of Creative Commons licensed material on flickr is vast and what better way to spend a humid day on the porch than searching for fun pictures? And it gives me another excuse to play with Comic Life fonts. Using the fabulous flickr search engine Compfight gives you 250 thumbnails per page - which are a great size to judge whether a photo will work as a tiny spine sticker.
I also put into practice a little (Mac) tip I saw blogged last year. To keep track of ownership & permissions for these images, I’m pasting the profile url into the Spotlight Comments for each file (apple - i). Then I can email the owners of the images I use to let them know the joy they’ve brought to our little library shelves.
