Homecoming Float for Kelleigh Ratzlaff Designs

I’ll have to admit that I was more than a little nervous when I agreed to take on designing a float for our Homecoming Parade, but with Kelleigh’s templates, I knew that I’d be just fine in the end!

I used lots of Kelleigh’s templates in this float. Here’s a full list:

I was first inspired by her Candy Dispenser template:

I had the idea to make a vending machine using some the Candy Dispenser template and some of her other templates. So my first step was to make some tiny versions of some of my favorite Kelleigh templates:

I used these templates:

The next step was to assemble the Candy Dispenser Template. I decided that I wanted mine to be bigger than the standard, so I enlarged the template and printed it out using these products from Kelleigh:

I used some clear plastic that I had to fashion the shelves and the front of the “vending machine”.

It didn’t look like a parade float all by itself, so I decided that I’d add a workspace and show a template in progress. This time I used:

Then, I decided that there was too much “polka”, so I covered the “floor” with blue and made a little rug out of the polka. Now I decided that it looked a bit like an exhibition space, so I added Kelleigh’s logo to the top of the vending machine and then a “rope” around the edge. To finish it off, I added some of Kelleigh’s paper flowers to be the wheels for my float. Here’s the finished float: