Soccer Star...

Luke has decided that he has played his last soccer game and truth be told, it makes me a little sad.  Soccer has always been a huge part of our lives and now all the boys are transitioning over to only baseball.  As I was looking back through my photos, I found these of his last season and wanted to get them documented.

This layout is a combination of all sorts of Scrappin Sports & More lines - I love how they are all so versatile and work so well together! 

Keep watching the blog for some great stuff from the Design Team using the BRAND NEW lines releasing soon!

Thank You Santa!

Our family has been spoiled for over 25 years.  Santa Ed has been at every Christmas Eve celebration in our family for so long, in fact, I can't remember him not being there.  So many children, grandchildren and now even great-grandchildren have sat in his lap and felt the true love and joy that he has for making children smile.  He is a man with a gift, a gift that he freely shares by making over 100 Santa appearances every season.  It's a sad day for us this year, as Ed has retired and no longer wears his red coat.  We will miss you Santa and we will be forever grateful!

Athlete in Action!

We had such a great time while Emma was here visiting last fall.  The boys couldn't get enough of her and were alwasy fighting for her attention...it's not surprising that they taught her every sport imaginable while she was here.  What is surprising is how fast she picked them all up!  Just look at that form with the soccer ball - arm back, head down - perfection!

Supplies Used:

Title Sports - Soccer

The Sport is...Soccer

Name of the Game Stickers...Soccer

Title Sports - Cross Country

Down on the Farm...Pigs

Sports Head-On...Soccer

Sports Head-On...Wrestling

 

Oh my - Another Baseball Player?

Sports is just what we do here in my house - and basball lingo is our second language.  As the boys get older, I have been starting to accept that it won't always be that way.  Soon, they will be out on their own and their families will come first and their love of baseball will have to find a new spot in their hearts.  But, it does my heart good to see Emma pick up a baseball and fall in love with the game too.  Time for another generation of ball players!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock Stickers Baseball

The Sport is...Baseball

Classic Baseball
Title Sports - Baseball
Down on the Farm - Pig
School is Cool - Preschool

Christmas Cards - Quick & Cute!

It's that time again, time to start to plan our Christmas cards.  I love quick & easy cards that my kids can help me make and that don't cost me more than a few dollars!  After all, we need all the time and money we can get at Christmas time! So, I always turn to my scraps.  With all the different sport papers from Scrappin' Sports & More, I have more than my share of scraps in all different shades of green.  Perfect for a cute Christmas tree card!

All you need to do is cut those green papers into strips, punch out some stars and hearts, and add in some brown strips and blue squares.

Then all you have to do is glue them on to your card base!  Cute & easy for sure!

Sketch Inspiration!

This week we are honored to be hosting the sketch challenge over at Sketch Inspiration!  Just look at this fabulous sketch that we all got to work with:

Here is my take on the sketch:

Supplies Used:

#5544 - Cardstock Stickers Baseball

#1337 - The Sport is...Baseball

#6500 - Baseball Album Emblem

#1145 - Classic Baseball

Be sure to visit Sketch Inspiration today and play with this week's sketch!  You could be the winner of this fabulous prize:

Bittersweet

This is Jordan's final season of college soccer.  It seems like just yesterday that she was 4 years old and tripping over her feet when she ran.  The doctor suggested putting her in soccer where she would have to keep the ball at her feet when she ran.  Who could have guessed that that would be the start of 17 amazing years of soccer. Soccer has been part of our lives for almost 18 years and now we are 2 months away from this chapter in our lives coming to a close.  I can't even imagine that there will be no more games.  No more butterflies in my stomach as she takes the field.  No more private celebrations every time she makes an amazing save.  No more instant prayers when she collides with another player.  I will no longer be the mother of the keeper.  No one envied me that role, but I reveled in it.  I wouldn't have had it any other way. 

Here is a layout from last year's season.  She played amazing and was awarded some great honors.  This year is starting out no different.  Already this preseason, she has been the Defensive Player of the Week for her conference twice.  I can't wait to watch every single game.  I won't miss one minute.

Products Used:

The Sport is.... Soccer - #1349
Super Size stickers - Soccer - #5570
Title Sports - #1384 - Wrestling

Title Sports - #1375 - Hockey
Title Sports - #1370 - Cross Country
#5575 High School Cardstock Stickers
#1357- First Grade

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!

Just playing around...

.... after browsing through all the fun primary colors in the School is Cool line and the new sports line, I decided that I would play with all of them together!  Then I decided to have some play tome with my sewing machine and my mists too - this is what I ended up with:

It was tons of fun just creating and playing with a bunch of wonderful products at once!

Supply List:

Title Sports #1378 Prom (blue stripe)

Sports Head On - #1323 - Fishing

Title Sports #1381 Tennis (yellow stripes)
School is Cool - #1360 5th/6th Grade
Schhol is Cool - 2nd Grade (orange)

Way back when...

..when I was 9, I took my first trip out on a salmon charter boat in Westport, WA.  I remember feeling sick most of the trip, but still having a fun time.  I enjoyed the casting, the reeling, and even the waiting, but I didn't enjoy the part where they hit the fish over the head! 

Products Used:

Title Sports #1378 Prom (blue stripe)
Title Sports #1369 Cheer (grey stars)

Title Sports #1380 Softball (red strips)
The Sport is ... #1342 Fishing
Sports Head On - #1323 - Fishing

Stars!

My favorite things about all the Scrappin Sports & More papers --- are the B sides!  They coordinate so well and can be interchanged among the collections!  This makes matching papers a breeze and makes for some quick and easy card combinations!  Here I have combined:

Title Sports - #1367- Baseball (red)

School is Cool - #1360 5th/6th Grade (blue)

Title Sports - #1381 - Tennis (yellow)

#1378  -Title Sports: Prom (baby blue)

Softball

Baseball is for girls too at our house - okay, well softball! Love this shot of my daughter Jordan on the field --- the addition of the fence in the photo adds so much dimension and character! 

Supplies Used:

The Sport is - Softball
Title Sports - Golf
Title Sports - Softball

The Man

Austin is definitely the man around here when it comes to baseball -- I find myself taking so many photos!  It's a good thing that there are so many wonderful papers here at Scrappin Sports & More!

Supplies Used:

The Sport is.....Baseball
Title Sports - Baseball
Baseball Stickers

Cougars vs. Huskies...

Here in Washington State the big football rivalry is between the University of Washington Huskies and the Washington State Cougars.  Being from the west side of the state, we are loyal Husky fans.  Well, we were until one of Austin's baseball tournaments took us across the mountains to Pullman, WA.  Getting a chance to visit and play on the Washington State campus has put a little cougar in all of us.  One night after the ball game, Austin and some of the boys grabbed a football and headed to the BIG field, Martin Stadium, for a game of touch football. 

Papers used:

Title Sports - Football
The Sport is...Football
Title Sports - Cheerleading

For the Love of the Game

Life is all about Baseball --- and for 9 weeks every summer that is how we live our lives.  We are either at the ballpark, driving to the ballpark or getting ready for the ballpark.  Non-stop baseball.  Austin wouldn't trade those 9 weeks for anything!

This layout incorporates a few different papers from the new Sports Title line - baseball, golf and gymnastics!

School is Definitely Cool!

Hello again!  I am here with another couple layouts for you created with out School is Cool line.  One of them you might have seen last week on my blog during the 1st ever Scrappin' Sports & More Blog Hop.  In fact, you can still get in on the fun of that blog hop! You can win the entire School Is Cool line of paper and the cardstock stickers to go with it!  You only have until Midnight on June 27^th, so hurry!  Just scroll down the blog to see all of the details… Don’t miss out on the fun!

Okay, so here you go....

So Proud!

I am so proud of my daughter!  She graduated with honors a couple weeks ago with her BA in Education and is officially an English Teacher!  I still remember teaching her to read, and then to write, and everything that goes along with that.  Seems like yesterday!  She will head back to graduate school in the fall for her Master's Degree and I can hardly believe it! 

Here she is on her big day:

The School is Cool Paper line was perfect!  I combined the Graduation papers with the 5th/6th grade sheet for a fun combination! 

Don't forget about the Design Team Call in progress right now!  You can find all the information here!

Memories of First Grade!

If your kids are anything like mine, they come home with so many treasures from school every year that I have no idea where to store them all!  So we have a fun rule at our house --- you can keep it if it fits in the memory box.  Now I'm sure to make their memory boxes fairly small -- usually I recycle an old candy box or something similar. 

Now at first, this seems almost impossible because most of their treasures are huge paintings or projects --- but that's what the computer is for!  The memory box is perfect to store a flash drive, CD or photos of those treasured projects.  My kids have become pros at taking pictures or videos of their items so that those memories will fit in the box!  Of course, we also have lego guys, pencils, rocks and other small items in there too!

Here is a quick example of what our memory boxes look like - you will see that I keep them simple and flat to make storing them easy.  No use to make them really fancy with lots of dimension -- because that would just get squished over the years!  The School is Cool line is perfect --- in fact, I would make multiple boxes at one time so they all match!

Party Animal!

I am in love with the new SCHOOL IS COOL papers!  I am drawn to the bright primary colors and simple patterns in all the different papers --- so versatile for so many things!  Today I used them as fun, bright accent colors on my Party Animal page:

Supplies Used:

All papers from the Scrappin Sports & More School is Cool line!

Party on! 

Kim :)

Lots and lots of Baseball!

It's becoming a blur - the teams, the players, the games --- all one big blur about this time of year!  As parents, we see over 10 games a week and sometimes they all just fade into one another!  My solution --- take lots of photos!  These photos from one of Chase's games last week are my favorite of the year so far.  Love the intense look on his face!

Baseball Reflections Paper

Baseball Game

The Sport is Baseball