Scrappin' Sports & More sponsors My Sketch World

I mentioned earlier in the month that Scrappin' Sports & More was sponsoring My Sketch World this month to help celebrate their 4th anniversary.  Today, all the members from the Scrappin' Sports & More DT created some wonderful layouts using the February 15th sketch.  Here is the fabulous sketch that we were given.

Now, what did our design team create with this wonderful sketch?  Well, let's start with Carolyn.

How many of you have these same lego's at home?  I know my son has his star wars lego displayed proudly in his room. 

Product Used:
blocks paper #1166
blocks rubons #7534

Next up, Kim. 

Don't you just love this page for your cowboy?  Scrappin' Sports new Down on the Farm paper is the perfect fit for any cowboy.

Down on the Farm Product Used:
1296 Horses
1293 Dogs
1297 Rabbits
1032 Karate


Now it's time to see what Peggy came up with using the sketch.

This sketch is perfect for college age kids too.  Here Peggy's bold & bright layout touches on her feelings as she leaves her son at college for the second time. 

Product Used
#1242 Fishing Game Day 12 x 12 paper
#1247 Racing Game Day 12 x 12 paper
#1079 Writing Paper High School 12 x 12 paper
#1084 Field Trip 12 x 12 paper

Moving on....up next is Shannon.

Are these photos adorable or what?   Don't you just love all the arrows? 

Product Used
#1269 Mother-Mom
#1015 Defining Cycling

And finally, Karen.

If you have furry friends, the Down on the Farm cat & dog paper and cardstock stickers are a must have.

Product Used
Down on the Farm #1291 Cats
Down on the Farm # 1298 Sheep
Down on the Farm Cardstock Stickers #5552 Cats

And there you have it.  Five totally different themes plus one great sketch equal five amazing layouts!!  So, what are you waiting for?  It's now your turn to create something fabulous with this sketch and you could be a lucky winner of product from Scrappin' Sports & More or another wonderful manufacturer.  Check out My Sketch World for all the details.

Valentines Day Winner

Happy Valentines Day :)

We Have a Winner!!!! Congratulations to Jennifer Marusarz, you have won the wonderful layout created by Kim Holmes. Please send me your address to scrappinsportsmore@gmail.com and we will get your layout mailed to you.

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Happy Valentine's Day!!

I don't normally scrap too many pages with me and my husband, but being Valentines Day it seemed wrong not to celebrate our love.  This picture was taken on a date night with some friends last summer.  Hard to believe we celebrated our 19th anniversary. 

So, what Scrappin' Sports goodies did I use for my Valentine's layout, the Steer & Pig paper from Down on the Farm of course!!  I just love the red and the pink combination. 

Well, I hope you enjoyed this week with the Design Team.  Don't forget about your chance to win the layout posted by Kim this past Wednesday.  We will have Random Org pick a winner on Sunday.   On Monday, check out the blog for the newest sketch from My Sketch World and the design team take on the sketch.  You won't be disappointed. 

Say I Love You with a special card

What do cheerleaders, pigs, steers and basketballs on fire have in common with Valentine's Day? ... Well the Scrappin' Sports & More papers make a GREAT combo to create Valentine cards for your special someone! :) Here are two Valentine cards I created using an unexpected combo of Scrappin' Sports & More papers!

Love you card uses:
Classic Cheerleading Paper #1148
Steer Paper #1299
Pigs Paper #1300

I love you card uses:
Pigs Paper #1300
Baseball on Fire Paper #1133
Basketball on Fire Paper #1134
Cheerleading Game Paper #1240

Valentine's Day Giveaway!!

I love to celebrate Valentine's Day year round in my layouts. I am always on the lookout for ways to incorporate hearts into my designs. When the idea popped into my head to make a patchwork heart, I knew I needed to give it a try!

I gathered all the papers from my stash that had red/pinks in them. The beauty of the papers from Scrappin' Sports & More is that they all coordinate so nicely together! For this project, I used:

Baseball Game Paper - #1237
Wrestling game Paper - #1254
Steer Paper - #1299
Pigs Paper - #1230
Defining Recital Paper - #1172

Then you want to cut your paper in strips --- I made mine wavy strips, but straight strips work great too!

Next you want to glue your strips randomly on a piece of 12 x 12 paper.

Next cut your newly made piece of paper into strips again --- straight cutter only --- making sure to cut them perpendicular to the strips that you glued down.

Next cut a heart shape out of another piece of scrap paper. Glue down your strips moving them randomly up and down so that they do not line up with any adjoining strips.

Now turn over your shape and trim the overages along the edge of your heart shape.

Then finish your design! To finish off mine, I added a dark background (#1043 - Defining Tae-Kwon-Do) and a photo mat (#1045 - Defining Volleyball).

There are no pictures! Can you guess why?

Scrappin' Sports and More is now on Facebook and we want you to become a fan! Everyone who becomes out fan on Facebook and/or signs up as a Follower on our blog here will be put in a random drawing to win the above layout. Sign up for both and have two chances to win this completed layout all ready for you to add a picture of the love of your life!

We will draw the winner on Valentine's Day evening, the 14th! What do you have to lose?

What does love mean to you?

Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Show the people you love what they mean to you. Our Family And More line of papers will work perfectly with any project you do about those we hold most dear.


Here's a layout using a quote from a favorite book of my kids' as they were growing up, Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.

Products used:

#1269 Mother-Mom 12 x 12 paper
#1278 Family-Generation 12 x 12 paper
#1169 Defining Prom 12 x 12 paper

Using your scraps...

Cards are always a good way to use up some of those scraps that you just hate to throw away. Here is another way you can do that and get a few valentines done at the same time.

Begin by choosing some of your favorite scrap papers. Tear them into small pieces and glue them onto a piece of cardstock. You can then cut them out or run them through your die cut machine. I used my Sizzix to make these hearts. Arrange them onto your card and you have a fun card! You can also save your embellishments for your favorite layout...or use the negative part of your die cut paper for another card. The sky is the limit to your creativity!!

Paper used: #1237 Baseball Game Paper and #1254 Wrestling Game Paper

Tag, You're It

The other night as I was playing around with some of the new Down On The Farm papers and stickers, it struck me. How fun would it be to make a little tag book using this stuff? I mean, haven't we all, at one time or another, said to our kids, "What does a duck say?". The Down On The Farm line can certainly help answer that question!

Here's just a small sampling of the tags I made using the duck, pig and cow papers and cardstock stickers. I think they are just as cute as any baby animal you'll ever see down on the farm.

Hope you like 'em. Thanks for lookin'.

Monthly Sketch Challenge

Welcome to our monthly sketch challenge! This is a new feature for us here at

Scrappin' Sports & More and we couldn't be more excited! Your first sketch was created with hearts with Valentine's Day just around the corner, but those embellishments can be replaced with anything! I love the flexibility of a sketch --- use it all and work from it exactly or go with the basic shape and shape it to be your own!

I hope you have a lot of fun working with it --- we would love to see what you come up with! Post a comment with a link to your creation by the end of February and we will send out a RAK to one lucky winner!

Our Design Team spent some time with the sketch too ---

Carolyn's design:

using the following papers:

On the Edge Sports - Football paper #1310

On the Edge Sports - Red Stars paper #1312

On the Edge Sports - Music paper #1314

Football Reflections paper #1198

Peggy's design:

using the following papers:

#1293 - Down on the Farm - Dogs

#1295 - Down on the Farm - Four H

#5554 - Down on the Farm - Dogs Cardstock Stickers

#1251 - Game Day - Tennis

#1250 - Game Day - Swimming

Karen's design

using the following papers:

Down on the Farm - Ducks #1294
Down on the Farm - Four H #1295
Classic Sports Series - Classic Soccer #1153
Cardstock Stickers - Soccer #5541

Shannon's design

using the following papers:

Game Day:  Marching Band #1246

Leave your Mark - #1096

SS&M is sponsoring My Sketch World

Scrappin' Sports & More is excited to be sponsoring My Sketch World to help celebrate its 4th Anniversary.  If you Love sketches, like I love sketches, this is a great blog with bi-monthly sketches posted.  They have something for everyone creating both layout & card sketches.  In celebration of their anniversary, My Sketch World is having a Sketch-A-Thon starting on Feb 1st until Feb 20th, that's 20 brand new sketches!!  For Each Sketch you do your name will be put into the drawing- a random drawing will be done on March 5th.  If you name is chosen you will win some fabulous goodies from some wonderful sponsors.  You will have until March 3rd to upload your creations in the gallery then post it to the My Sketch World site.  Please see the complete instructions for linking you page at My Sketch World's blog.  Scrappin' Sports & More is sponsoring the February 15th sketch, so stop back and see what the DT has created with this fabulous sketch.

Stop back on Wednesday too, our very own Kim Holmes has created a wonderful sketch especially for Scrappin' Sports & More.  We will be posting the DT interpretations of the sketch & giving away a RAK for one lucky person.  We also have some fun items planned the next two weeks as well.  At the end of the month, check out our very first challenge for the month of March.

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!

Coaches vs. Cancer

Yesterday, our local high school basketball coach asked me to come out to the gym to take a team picture. The pictures I shot inspired this layout. The new "On The Edge Sports" basketball paper was a perfect choice.

Coaches vs. Cancer is something that started at the collegiate level to raise money and awareness in the fight against cancer. In Iowa, the state high school athletic agencies have encouraged local school districts to join this battle. Our student body, our school family, was dramatically touched by the ravages of this disease just last March when our long time high school principal lost his battle with brain cancer. That’s Mr. Cosens, or Cuz, as he was known around town in the upper left hand picture.

In an effort to raise money for Coaches vs. Cancer, the basketball team designed and sold these shirts.... the pink ribbon symbolizing breast cancer, the gray shirt symbolizing brain cancer. We’ll all be wearing our shirts at Friday night’s basketball game. Here's to Cuz and everyone else whose lives have been affected by this disease.

Supplies:
#1305 On The Edge Sports, Basketball
#1300 Down on the Farm, Pigs
#1175 Defining Competition
#5527 Sports on Fire Basketball Cardstock Stickers

No turning back...

One of the things I love most about Scrappin Sports and More papers are that they are 2-sided! Sometimes the back has another image, and sometimes the back is mostly one color. At times I take some very busy pictures and need a more subtle paper to match. Scrappin Sports and More has me covered!! Not only are the backs perfect for a more subtle look, the different lines coordinate perfectly with each other. For this layout, I used papers from the Family and More Line and the Young and Active line. Because the papers were mostly one color, I could even die cut my letters for my title to achieve a perfect match.

Products Used:
Item: 1271 Brother-Sister
Item: 1101 Balancing Act
Item: 1273 Grandpa-Papa

More Layouts from CHA new releases

I just love this time of the year when all the new products are hitting the market at CHA.  One of the things I like best about being on the DT is getting to work with the newest product hot off the presses!!  Below are a couple of layouts that will be in the Scrappin' Sports & More Booth 2988.  The first two layouts use the new On the Edge Sports line.  I just fell in love with the little campers & the fish paper.  The fishing paper is a perfect match for swimming paper from the Game Day line too (stripped paper).  A few circles to mimic the bubbles in the water & some wire for the finishing line and hooks and the layout practically made itself.  This is just one of the reasons I love this product, you don't need a lot of extras to make a nice looking page.

Next up is my camping layout, Smore Great Moments.  Again, I keep things pretty simple and let the wonderful new paper speak for itself.

Last up is a layout I created using the new Down on the Farm line.  My daughter loves everything about horses, so this paper was a perfect fit.  This was her first official ride on a horse, not walking in a circle at the fair. 

Adding dimension by Carolyn Lontin

Pop dots are a fun and easy way to add dimension to your layouts by allowing certain items to stand out on your projects. Pop dots are fairly inexpensive and come in a variety of shapes and thicknesses as well as different styles – some can be foam or some can be a blob of glue … they all have the same effect of making an element on your project stand out.

I love highlighting an element or elements on my pages and cards with pop dots, here are some examples:

On my ‘Quack Quack Quack layout’ I decided to highlight stickers, I used pop dots on one sticker in each cluster of stickers on my layout.

On my “hay there card’ I cut the hay stacks out of the patterned paper and used pop dots to emphasize the stacks of hay. I also used pop dots to add dimension to the ‘hay there’ saying so it did not get lost in the background of the patterned paper.

Have fun experimenting on your projects with pop dots!

Think Outside the Box by Kim Holmes

Cheerleading papers should only be used for cheerleading photos and karate papers should only be used for karate photos, right? Wrong!

I agree that they are perfect for those activities, but they are also versatile enough to use for all sorts of events and activities!

Take this layout for example:



It's a layout about soccer, but guess what? Only one of the papers is actually a soccer paper! This layout includes paper from soccer, karate, cheerleading, competition and volleyball!

How about this one:




This one contains paper from hunting, softball, golf and karate!

What about this card:




This adorable baby card is made from papers from the soccer, cycling, football and baseball lines!

So when searching for paper to use - look beyond the originally intended use - color outside the lines!

Journaling by Peggy Nardini

I'm a journaler. I like to journal. There's an old saying, "A picture is worth 1,000 words", well I like to use 'em all! So let's talk about ways to get creative with journaling and incorporate a couple of different ideas into your next layouts.

We've all seen examples of journaling written on strips of cardstock and then adhered to the page, typically along the side of a picture. A fun variation of this style is to use the strip under a row of photos as in this example from a recent layout, "Roommates". A second row of journaling could easily be added above the row of photos if you need more room.

This second layout shows images from the NCAA Regional Championship my daughter's college softball team won last spring. I've done a number of layouts about the tournament with quite lengthy journaling, so I've already written a lot about the experience, but still have some great photos to include on my scrapbook pages. Here, I made tabs to go along the sides of the pictures, including just a few words of journaling.

This final example is a more traditional style of journaling, the journal block. The plain, simple block containing your journaling is sometimes all you need to finish off a layout. In "Alley Cats", that's what I did. But don't be afraid to step it up a bit and add an additional design element (die cuts, stickers, rub-on, etc.) to your journal block. Here I included small black circles representing bowling balls to tie all of the elements together.

On your next layout, don't be afraid to write it all down! Include those words along with your photos. Whether you computer journal or use your own handwriting, the written word is important in telling the complete story. It's even more fun when you get creative with it and use the new lines of paper Scrappin' Sports and More will be debuting at CHA later this week. All of the layouts in this article used our newest sports line On The Edge Sports. You're gonna love it.