Football Season

For my husband, Football Season is the happiest season of the year.  No matter the weather, no matter the team, he is happiest if he's watching football.  And while usually, he's playing armchair quarterback, occasionally, he gets the opportunity to go see a "real game".  Two weeks ago, he was invited to go see a BYU preseason game and he jumped at the opportunity.  Never mind that we live in Southern California...lol and usually BYU is playing the team we usually root for... he made a special business trip to visit a client in Utah just so he could also attend the game.  And while he was there, he happily texted me photos of himself and the stadium so that I could scrap this memory for him.

I added the pocket to the page so that he can save his ticket in there and journal on the tags about his experience at his first "home" BYU game...it's a great way to save memorabilia without creating an element on the page with it. I fussy cut the title from the "Title Sports" paper and added pop dotted footballs inside the "o"s for a little dimension.  I chose to keep the rest of the page pretty simple because all of the patterned paper really kept the eye moving on the page.  Hope he likes the page and it is a nice reminder of his quick trip to Utah!

Products Used: Game Day- Football Game
Title Sports- Football
Sports and Activities- Football
Cardstock Stickers- Football

Are you ready ...

... for some football?!  That's right football season is about ready to start!  On Monday, my son starts football camp!

Supplies used:

Football Cardstock Stickers #5549
Game Day - Football Game Paper #1243
Title Sports - Cheerleading #1369

Thanks for stoppin' by!

~Carolyn

Baseball Layout

Here is another baseball layout for you as we head into a baseball filled weekend !

Supplies used:

Sports on the Edge - Baseball
Title Sports - Cheerleading
The Sport is ... Baseball
Game Day - Volleyball
Girls Rule - Soccer
Baseball Cardstock Sticker

Thanks for stoppin' by!
~Carolyn

What's up Buttercup?

Every time we go to Arkansas to visit my sister in law, the kids are excited to go visit the horse, Buttercup, that lives next door. She is a very nice horse and enjoys the carrots she receives from my kids very much. It's hard not to stop and snap a picture because she is truly a very beautiful horse.

I have to say that it is very handy that Scrappin Sports & More also carries animal paper, so I always have plenty of horse-related paper and embellishments to use when I am in the mood to scrap some pictures of our dear Buttercup.

~Shannon

Products Used:
#5557 Horse Cardstock Stickers
#1296 Horses (Down on the farm)
#1243 Football Game (Game Day)
#1251 Tennis Game (Game Day)

Baseball pitching layout

This past weekend, my son's baseball team played in a five game tournament in which my son pitched five innings during the second game & he was on fire!  I love the simplicity of SSM's Sporty Words Line - worked perfect for my two photos!

Products used:

Sporty Words - baseball paper #1397

Game Day - cheerleading paper #1240

Dotted Baseball paper #1004

Cardstock baseball stickers #5544

Thanks for stoppin' by!

~Carolyn

Bowling 3.0

With teenagers, I am often not included in their "events"...luckily, their camera phones and iTouch obsession with Instagram allows me to snag their photos so I can still scrap the fun!  Inspired by the simplicity of the Instagram format that my daughter used to take these photos, I created this layout documenting her bowling day.  Each semester, the Humanitas program that she is enrolled in at school rewards the kids with above 3.0 GPAs.  This semester's reward was bowling!  Even though she didn't "win"..she had a blast hanging with her classmates, bowling, eating pizza and just being outside of school for a day!

As design notes, I fussy cut the bowling pins and ball from the Sports Head On Bowling paper and used Glossy Accents on the ball to give it a bit more dimension.  The pins are pop dotted off the "lane" I created from the Girls Rule Track paper, too.
Products Used:
Girls Rule Track #1396
Game Day Swimming #1250
Game Day Bowling #1239
Sports Head On Bowling #1321

Game Day layout

One of the great things about SSM papers is that you can mix and match the different lines with their custom papers!   I really like how the words on the custom paper highlight this photo of my son during fall baseball last year.  I love when layouts seem to fall together all by themselves especially when using all scraps (with the exception of the custom paper of course :) )

Products used:
Custom Marbled paper #901
Game Day - Baseball Game paper #1237
Defining the Game paper - Defining Baseball #1005
The Sport is Baseball paper #1337
Cardstock Stickers - Baseball #5544


Thanks for stoppin' by!
~Carolyn

Hey Batta Batta!!

The "Blue Cheeze" sure didn't stink!  The girls on this team made it all the way through playoffs for an impressive 1st place standing!  In this particular playoff game, my daughter scored a run which didn't happen all that much as she was typically "RBI girl" due to her fantastic "eye"...she was SO excited to score a run in this very important game!

Products used:

Sports Head On- Softball #1331

Game Day- Cross Country #1291

Title Sports- Wrestling #1384

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Be Mine!

It's time to start thinking about what kind of goodies you are going to make for Valentine's Day!  It's less than three weeks away, afterall!!  I used this tutorial to make this fun little gift box.  Then, I covered it with some fun red Scrappin' Sports papers.  I am going to fill it with candy for one of my kids.  And, of course I'll have to make another one, too!  These would be great as party favor boxes for birthday parties and baby showers, too!
It's hard to believe this is baseball paper!!

Products Used:
#1237- Game Day: Baseball

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Be sure to share your Scrappin' Sports & More projects with us on our Facebook page!  We'd LOVE to see them!

~Nicole

Spread some Holiday Cheer!

I played with a super-fun technique today to create a simple, but eye-catching card.  And, it's a great design to show off Scrappin' Sports and More's great colors and patterns!  I combined four different papers into a herrinbone pattern to create the card background and then just added a simple sentiment sticker and a small embellishment from my stash.

Products Used:
#1380- Title Sports: Softball (red)
#1381- Title Sports: Tennis (yellow)
#1333- Sports Head On: Track (green)
#1248- Game Day: Soccer (black)

Isn't that fun?!?! Now that I have it all figured out, I definitely want to make more of these for every season! We'd love to see your take on this design! If you try it out, share it on our Facebook page so we can shower it with love!!



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Mickey Golf?

This is one of those times when I scrapped one of the hysterical things my kids said so that we can remember it for years to come.  Around the age of three, my son would constantly ask to play "Mickey Golf!" I just figured he was saying it wrong and didn't bother to correct him-- it was kind of cute, after all!  So, one day I asked him if he'd like to go play some Mini-Golf.  He quickly corrected me: "Girls play Minnie Golf!  Boys play Mickey Golf!"

Scrappin' Sports and More has a few different golf papers, and I used two of them to create this layout, along with some fun cardstock stickers that I incorporated into my title!

Here's a close up of the chipboard letters that I put onto the cardstock stickers for the title:

Products Used:
#1244 Game Day- Golf Game
#1311 On the Edge Sports- Golf
#5546 Golf Balls cardstock stickers

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

~Nicole

Summer Concerts...

Can I just say that I am SICK of winter and ready for some summer weather?  Spring would actually be ok, but Summer is calling me!!!

For this 2 page layout, I wanted to showcase the concert we went to last summer.  This was the opening act for the Romantics (for all youu 80s music fans) and they totally ROCKED it!!  

The chipboard stars are wrapped in the same masking tape as the border.  I personally think the Scrappin Sports and more Music paper ROCKS and it totally helps that all the papers coordinate so well!!! 

So here's to Summer!  It's coming, right???

~Shannon

Products Used:

#1328 Music paper

#1246 Marching Band Game paper

#1276 Niece/Nephew Paper (purple)

Indoor Soccer

I love the new double sided soccer paper from SS&M's The Sport Is line.  I combined it with the great soccer ball cardstock stickers from the Name of the Game line  to create the background for my page.  I finished it off with the soccer ball from the Name of the Game paper.  Love how these all coordinate together :)

Scrappin' Sports & More Product Used:

#1349 The Sport Is Soccer
#5541 Name of the Game Soccer Cardstock Stickers
#1259 Name of the Game Soccer Balls Paper

Tennis Lessons

You may recognize this Becky Fleck sketch that the DT members used as inspiration a couple of weeks ago.  This sketch was perfect to capture the few photos that I had of my daughter taking her first tennis lessons.  I'm glad I was able to get these photos, as she decided maybe tennis wasn't really her thing :)  I was able to use several of the SS&M lines to create this layout.  The background is from the game day line, while the smaller patterns come from the Name of the Game, On the Edge Sports and Sports Head On lines. The stickers coordinate with the Sports on Fire line. Just one of the reasons I love SS&M papers, they can be combined to give you more options when scrappin'. 

Scrappin' Sports & More Products Used:
#1263 Tennis Balls (Name of the Game)
#1316 Tennis (On the Edge Sports)
#1332 Tennis (Sports Head On)
#1251 Tennis Game (Game Day)
#5534 Tennis Balls Cardstock Stickers

Using up those scraps...

and scrapping really fast!! 

With the holiday season upon us, there are so many things to do that I find my scrappy time being sparse.  That is why I try to take short cuts and get in a little scrapping when I can.  For this layout, I down into my stash of scraps and made a bunch of die cut trees in various shades of green.  I never realized how MANY shades of green there were!  Add a title and a little rub-on "journaling" and BAM!  one holiday page done!!

I also got to take a pretty good chunk out of my stash of scraps!!  DOUBLE SCORE!!!  So what are some of your shortcuts?  How do you use your stash??

Happy Holidays!!
~Shannon

Products Used:
#1224 Summer Wishes
#1245 Hunting Game
#1274 Uncle/Aunt

#1 Fans

The CHA release of Scrappin' Sports & More's Sports Head On line is a fantastic compliment to Scrappin' Sports & More's other lines!  Love that!!

In my layout "#1 Fans" I combined the new Baseball Sports Head On paper with two previous releases: Baseball Reflections paper (one of my Favs!) and Game Day Baseball Game paper:

Products used:
Sports Head On Baseball #1319
Game Day Baseball Game #1237
Baseball Reflections #1196

Thanks for stoppin' by!

~Carolyn

Scrapping out of context

The photos on the layout were taken at an outdoor concert last year.  They were not intended to document a relationship or any other emotion, but when I started looking at them, they showed a very candid moment between my husband and my son.  So many times these moments happen and we don't think to take a picture.  I call this my happy accident. 

Another element to this layout is the quote.  I searched high and low for words that would express their relationship.  I finally found it in this quote found at http://www.quotegarden.com/ .  Instead of adding a title, I enlarged the quote and emphasized a few words to convey the meaning of the layout.  No journaling needed. 

Another happy accident is the shirt my husband was wearing.  The writing on the shirt was camoflauge.  I added simliar paper to bring the colors across the layout.  How wonderful that Scrappin Sports and More had just the right papers.  Who knew a paper with a hunting theme could work so well on a Father's Day layout? 

~Shannon

Scrappin Sports and More
Products Used:
#1273 Grandpa-Papa Paper
#1274 Uncle-Aunt Paper
#1245 Huntin Game Paper

They Call Me Mom

With Mother's Day right around the corner, I had thought about doing a layout about my own mother as well as one about myself.  But, since my kids are so much more photogenic than either my mom or myself... well, once again they became the focus of yet another one of my scrapbook pages.  This is a photo that was taken over the holidays and remains one of my favorites of them. 

When those special family moments occur make sure to reach for Scrappin' Sports and More's Family line of papers to preserve those memories.  I used the Mother/Mom paper on this layout incorporating the word Mom (that's already printed on the paper) into my title - quick, easy and looks great! 

Supplies:
#1269 Mother/Mom Family & More paper
#1253 Volleyball Game Day paper
#1040 Defining Swimming paper
#1164 Cards, Anyone? Young & Active paper
#7520 Swing Rub-on

Spring Flowers

Tulip Time.  That's always the first thing I think of when I think of spring.  My family is of Dutch heritage, so spring always meant a trip to Mom's hometown in northwest Iowa for it's annual Tulip Festival, wooden shoes, the cleaning of the streets, and the daily parade - what wonderful memories.  Unfortunately, I haven't been back for the festival in a number of years, but I still love tulips. 

Here's my take on a spring-y layout - Toby in the Tulips. 

The Scrappin' Sports and More Young & Active Seasons paper and stickers sure made this layout quick and easy do, with a lot of fun colors!  Hope you like it too.

Products used:
#1279 Defining Spring paper
#5522 Spring Cardstock Stickers
#1241 Cross Country Game Day paper
#1300 Down on the Farm - pigs paper

Last Day of March Madness

It took me a long time to decide what March Madness meant to me.  It is the one month from fall until summer that we are not slammed with sports.  We still have basketball and indoor soccer and track starts at the end of the month, but it's not crazy busy with sports.  So, since I have more time at home during March, I get ready for Spring.  Yes, you guessed it, cleaning.  While I was cleaning my son's room, I decided to take a picture of his diverse task in reading.  Then I decided I should capture his entire space at age eleven and the result is the 2 page spread you see below.

Scrappin' Sports Papers Used:

#1296 Horses from Down on the Farm

#1271 Brother from the Family Line

#1240 Cheerleading Game from the Game Day line

#1237 Baseball Game from the Game Day line

 

Make sure you stop back on Thrusday as the Design Team takes on the Project 12 February Sketch from Scrapbook & Cards Today.