Men in Progress

It’s a rainy start to the day here, with thunderstorms to come later.  Hopefully, they won’t be as bad as they’ve been elsewhere.

After posting the very girly The Power of the Pink  a few days ago, I got a request for a more boyish kit.  I don’t know if this was what you had in mind, but when I think of boys that age, specifically, my nephew, I kept coming back to the odd bits I used to find in his pockets.  He’s eighteen now, but I still remember the nearly endless variety of stuff.  Boys collect the oddest things.  This is a kit filled with bits of random junk reminiscent of the contents of little boy pockets.  Generously, I did not include pieces of chewed up gum!

Men in Progress contains (not all shown in preview):

• 15 papers
• 1 alpha (upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols)
• 7 ric-rac
• 8 frames
• 7 glitter tiles
• 7 chrome bits
• 6 buttons
• 4 bottle caps
• 4 tab backs
• 2 journal papers
• 3 rivets
• 1 staple
• 1 piece of Scotch tape
• 1 paperclip
• 1 safety-pin
• 1 flathead screw
• 1 Phillip’s screw
• 5 frayed patches
• 1 denim pocket
• 2 curled ribbons
• 2 word arts
• 1 sign
• 3 marbles
• 4 ticket stubs
• 1 popsicle stick
• 3 dog tags
• 4 playing cards
• 1 dog bone
• 2 band aids
• 2 iPod Nanos
• 1 USB Stick

The font used for the alpha is Vanilla Boys.  Also used were:  Loki Cola, my type of font, 20,ooo Dollar Bail, Mudshake 83, Retro Rock Poster, and University High.  All of these can be downloaded from dafont.com, with the exceptions of Loki Cola, which you can get here, and 20,000 Dollar Bail, from here.

I used a lot of tutorials for this one.  Some are Paint Shop Pro and some are Photoshop.  I don’t have Photoshop, so I adapted those for use in GIMP.

• Popsicle Stick
• Frayed Edge Flowers
• Frayed Denim Patch With Stitches
• Levi and Style Copper Rivet
• Bottle Caps
• Digital Denim
• Ticket Stub
• How to Make a Bookmark (for the tab backs)
• Antique Ace of Spades
• Personal Dog Tags
• USB Stick
• Apple iPod Nano

Download:  In dial-up friendly parts or the whole kit in a single file

Also for active boys, you might want to take a look at Tailwaters and The Old Tackle Box Collections at Raspberry Road Designs, and Lindsay Jane’s Techno Bytes.