Life Is Like A Golf Swing

Hey it's Lynette, and it's double treat Tuesday! Where I load up TWO Scrappin' Sports & More projects! One that was displayed in my retail store never seen here AND another exciting fresh brand new one! 

Below is a golf layout I made for SSnM's Design Team tryouts that was never shown on SSnM's Blog. It's a very simple layout that only used a few strips of textured cardstock to frame out the beautiful photo I took of Jessica Headley. I spent the most time hand drawing and painting the flourish across the photo and the "Name of the Game" paper. If you love my unique quote I wrote and would like to use it, please give me credit. :)

Name of the Game - Golf Paper #1262

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

New Sports Titles Line just in time for Summer CHA!!

Check out this fantastic new sports line from Scrappin' Sports & More to be released at the Summer CHA show.  It features 18 new papers!!!  The back of each paper is either a patterned stripe or stars so the possibilities are as endless as your imagination.  Look for these in a store near you soon!!  You will also start to see some wonderful creations with this line as it is on its way to our wonderful designers!! What paper do you like the best?

June Celebrates Special Men

This month we are going to honor the special men in our lives.

I decided to honor my husband, who is a fantastic father and husband - who probably isn't thanked nearly enough for everything he does for our family.

I have two layouts I want to share with you today.

The first one is called 'you give him wings'.  I love the butterfly trails on this paper so to emphasize them I hand-stitched over the trails.

Journaling:
you guys spend so much time together being pals yet still being a great father teaching Seth to become a great man.  May 2010

Products used:
Defining Summer Paper #1223
Classic Cheerleading Paper #1148

My second layout is called 'coach dad'.  I created this layout as a tribute to my husband who is an assistant coach on all three of our son's sports teams.  Being a coach isn't easy but season after season he commits to the team and to the athletic growth of our son.

Journaling:

I know Seth really enjoys having you as an Assistant Coach on all three

of his sports teams -- football, baseball and basketball.  I know it isn’t 

always easy - working at every game and every practice or the

complaining parents but you are setting a great example to Seth while 

creating a wonderful relationship with lots of memories!  Photos: 2009

Products used:
Football Double Sided Paper #1257
Baseball Double Sided Paper #1255
Basketball Double Sided Paper #1256


Thanks for stopping by our blog and be sure to come back to see more layouts by our fabulous Design Team!

~Carolyn

Using your patterned paper as embellishments....

A fun and easy way to add your unique touches to your layouts or cards is to cut the patterns out of your scrapbook papers and use those pieces as embellishments rather than leaving it as part of the patterned paper.

In my layout ‘first football uniform’ I cut the football from Scrappin’ Sports & More’s Football Reflection paper, distressed the edges a little bit and adhered it to my layout then die cut my letters for my title from the black paper left over. This allows me to show off more of the football in my layout than had I used the Football Reflections paper as a background paper.

You can also cut images from patterned paper and use it in place of an embellishment as I did here on my “8 second ride” layout. I wanted to add a little something with the photos and a cut out steer from Scrappin’ Sports & More’s new Steers paper worked perfectly.

Your cut out images do not have to be perfect, I think imperfection gives it more of a personal touch … or maybe I just say that to make myself feel better for not being able to cut perfectly! J Start with easier shapes such as a large football then work your way down to smaller more detailed shapes such as the steer. Have fun!

CHA Update

All I can say is WOW! It's that time again for the Craft & Hobby Association's Winter Trade Show in Anaheim, California and it is packed full of inspiration! There is fabulous new product everywhere and the booth at Scrappin' Sports & More is no exception!

New Releases for CHA!!!!

It's that time of the year again.  The scrapbooking industries best time of the year, the time when all the fun, new & exciting products are released at the annual CHA-Winter show in Anaheim, CA.  Scrappin' Sports & More is excited to be releasing not one, but two new lines!!!  It's a busy time for designers everywhere getting their projects ready for the booth.  Keep checking back next week as you will see some great new projects from the Design Team using these new products.  Okay...here they are....hot off the press today & ready to ship to your store :)

The first line was created by Ronnie McCray and is called On the Edge Sports.  This is an amazing new line; I mean who doesn't like those dotted swirls!!  Make sure you take a close look at the camping one...how fun is that little camper?  And the fishing paper....such a cute little blue fish :)  Okay, I'll stop writing and just let you judge for yourselves.

Pretty amazing, don't you think?  Well, that's not all.  The next line was created by Steve and is called Down on the Farm.  This line has so many uses.  For those of you involved in 4-H, you will be all set not matter what animals you brought to the fair.  Did you ever take pictures of your kids or grandkids feeding the ducks, well we have some paper & stickers for that too.  Do you have a couple of furry companions that live in your house like I do?  Well, check out the dog & cat papers & stickers.  You get the idea, so take a look for yourself.

And here are the stickers that coordinate with the Down on the Farm line.

And last but not least, we have some cardstock sports stickers being released at the show.  These coordinate perfectly with the Name of the Game line.  There are 3 different sizes on each cardstock sheet.