Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween from Scrappin Sports & More! Do you have spooky plans for this evening? How have you spread the holiday cheer? How about sending cards to your favorite ghoul-friends?

However you celebrate...I hope you have a great day!!

~Shannon

Products Used:

1359 Kindergarten
1356 3rd/4th Grade

Ninja!

How many of your children think that Halloween is all about the costumes and not about the candy?  My Lily is all about the costume each year.  She has always had a strong opinion on what she wants to be on Halloween.  We have taken my prom gowns and made her a devil & Glinda, we have taken tulle and made her a cool vamipress skirt.  Last year she decided she wanted to be two different things!  This hectic Mom thought she was crazy since the first costume she decided on was Glinda As you can see in the picture below I had to primp up an 1980's prom gown, make a wand from wood, and the grown from mesh wire & duct tape.  Where was I fitting in time for her to be a Ninja, too?  

Well, she made the costume on her own.  Raided her own wardrobe (suspenders, too) and went digging in the ski bag for for the ski hat and under armour shirt so she could go all NINJA!  Pretty ingenious if you ask me!

The backsides of the papers in the "Sports and Activities" line are pretty fantastic!  I was able to pull out what I consider "Halloween" colored patterned papers and use them for this layout.   I distressed the  papers, including the banner, with my scissors.

I also added some Helmar ZapDots to the banner to give it some height.  Such little touches add depth to layouts.

Scrappin' Sports & More Supplies:
"Sports and Activities"
Basketball paper (orange & black) #1410
Golf paper (green dotted) #1416
Volleyball (black/white chevron) #1429

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween...a little early

We decided it would be fun to create something with either a fall or Halloween theme.  I found this cute little tray at Michael's and decided it would make the perfect place for a mini-page decoration.  The inside of the tray is 12 by 4.5 making it the perfect size for a mini-page.    It was already decorated with the rhinestones, again making it the perfect backdrop for my page.  Here is what I came up with....

The side B patterns were perfect for creating this Halloween layout.  I just love the black chevron pattern on the back of the Volleyball paper and the orange & black stripes of the Basketball papers.  It just screams Halloween to me.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Scrappin' Sports & More papers:

#1410 Sports & Activities - Basketball (orange/black stripe)
#1429 Sports & Activities - Volleyball (black chevron)
#1368 Title Sports - Basketball (orange stars)
#1379 Title Sports - Soccer (green stars)

Are you scared?

Does the thought of using sports themed papers for a Halloween layout scare you?  Do you shake in your boots at the idea of making "something" work?  Well fear no more, my friends!  I created this adorable Halloween layout using three of our papers and you can too!! I started with some fun photos I took last Halloween in our front graveyard-errr..yard...under our big tree...these children are my youngest daughter and her best friend all ready to go trick or treating.  My daughter was a little freaked out about her friend's Werewolf costume, I just love how the photos turned out with the Hipstamatic app.

The chevron background of my layout is the "B" side of the new Sports and Activities Volleyball paper and I used the School is Cool Second Grade paper for the orange stars.  My bats are from the School is Cool Freshman paper (a black on black polka dot)...I added my own chipboard tree (misted with the new Heidi Swapp color mists) and my little quote card that says "clothes make a statement- costumes tell a story".  I 

stamped the Oct 31 on cardstock and created a little accent with a circle of the Second Grade Paper and some more bats...and there you have it!  A great Halloween page with sports themed papers- who would have thought it!!
"Sports and Activites" #1429 Volleyball
"School is Cool" #1358 Second Grade
"School is Cool" #1362 Freshman

Boo!

I know, it's still way to early to be thinking about the holidays, but really Halloween is just 41 days away! The boys started talking today about costumes and such and it got me thinking. With a little bit of time on my hands today, I decided to start planning ahead --- well, at least a little bit. I went through all my fun Scrappin' Sports & More scraps and pulled out all the colors that reminded me of Halloween. These are the papers I used:

School is Cool - #1358 - 2nd Grade

School is Cool - #1359 - 3rd/4th Grades

Title Sports - #1384 - Wrestling

Title Sports - #1375 - Hockey

Title Sports - #1370 - Cross Country

Down on the Farm - #1291 - Cats

Family & More - #1275 - Cousins

Family & More - #1276 - Niece

Here is what I created with my scraps:

I am 2 cards closer to being ready for the holidays!

More "Punkin" Carving!

My daughter always likes to put silly faces on her "punkin," while my son usually goes for the scary look.  This year was no exception and she was very, very happy with how her "punkin" came out.  Scrappin' Sports & More's October paper was perfect for scrapping her "punkin" carving adventure.  She calls herself a "punkin artist!"

Products Used:
#1288  -Calendars Made Easy: October

Thank you for stopping by today!
~Nicole

Carving Pumpkins

Do you have your pumpkins ready to sit out for Halloween?  We had a wonderful time carving pumpkins this past weekend with friends.  I can't believe Trick or Treat is on Thursday already!  The months are flying by :) 

Scrappin Sports Product Used:
#1298 Sheep
#1288 October
#1231 Great Pumpkin
# 1276 Nephew (purple)
# 1229 Defining Fall
#5524 Fall stickers

Halloween is coming!!

What ways have you found to dress up your pets???

~Shannon

Products Used:

#1269 Mother/Mom Paper

October Already??

It doesn't seem possible that it is already fall!!  The kids are now settled into school, the days are getting shorter & cooler...can only mean one thing...Halloween is coming!!!  I love this time of the year!!  I decided to mix some of the older Fall line with our new Calendar line to create the layout below.  Gotta capture these days while I can, they are growing up so fast!

Scrappin' Sports & More Product:
#1288 October (pumpkins)
#1289 November (leaves)
#1231 Great Pumpkin Paper (tags)
#1229 Defining Fall Paper (dots)
#5524 Fall Stickers