Senior pictures

I had the pleasure of shooting this beautiful gal's senior pictures this past fall.  When I found out SS&M would be coming out with a new school line, I was so excited and knew the paper would work wonderfully with photos of Jasey.  I love that the high school papers are black with white writing.  It makes it so easy to incorporate school colors for sports layouts as well as a bright color to compliment a photo as I did using the orange paper as the background in this layout.

Products used:

1365 - Senior, School is Cool 12 x 12 paper

1246 - Marching Band 12 x 12 paper

1221 In The Garden 12 x 12 paper

1275 Cousin/Cousins Family & More 12 x 12 paper

Thanks for looking!

Peggy

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

First Grade

I feel like I am really accomplishing something with this new line of school papers!  I am finally able to make a cohesive looking album of all of my kids' school photos and and adventures!  And, they look fabulous!  I'm having so much fun with the bright colors and fun patterns that this line has to offer. 

Here, I scrapped my son's first grade school photo (isn't he cute?!).  I used some of the Preschool paper as a background and had fun cutting up the "B" side of the First Grade paper to make journaling prompts about his year at school.  I put the photo and journaling on the black cardstock to give it a look of a chalkboard (even though there's not a chalkboard to be found at his school!).

Products Used:
#1355- Preschool
#1357- First Grade
#1335- Sports Head On- Watersports (Blue)

New school papers!

Like the rest of the design team, I was super excited to receive the brand new Scrappin' Sports & More School is Cool line!  These papers are so bright and fun!

Here is my layout of my son on his last day of second grade.

Products used:
School is Cool - Kindergarten #1356
School is Cool - First Grade #1357
School is Cool - Second Grade #1358

Thanks for stoppin' by!

Leprechaun Review...

OK, I know it's April, but I had to give a wrap up of the St. Patrick's Day festivities that go on at our house!!  Every year we leave Lucky Charms out for our leprechaun.  Normally, people tend to leave a trap, but my 9yo son is ethically opposed to the mistreatment of leprechauns!  LOL  So here it is...and here is my son with his gold truffles the leprechaun left for him!!

~Shannon

Products Used:
March custom paper
#1282 March Calendars Made Easy Paper
#1331 Softball paper (B side)

School is Cool!

Keeping up to date with our children's school pictures is always a task - we end up with mismatched pages over the years that never look quite right in an album together.  One thing I like to do is create a small minibook that spans their whole school experience.  Making it ahead of time keeps all the pages cohesive and makes adding photos super easy!  The new Scrappin' Sports & More School is Cool line is perfect for this! 

For this mini book, I kept it all very uniform and simple - just adding the basic paper and photo mats for each year of school from Preschool thru Graduation!  All you need to do is add a few pictures that represent that year and you will have a wonderful keepsake!  You can still scrapbook all those wonderful memories as pages too along the way - but the basics will be here in this book - guaranteed to look good together!

Here is a sampling of the inside pages:

For this book I used all the papers from the new School is Cool line!

First day of Kindergarten!

I can't even tell you how much I LOVE the new line of school papers from Scrappin' Sports & More!  The colors are perfect for doing school layouts and the designs are clean and fun and easy to use!  I used the Kindergarten paper to create this layout of my son's first day of Kindergarten.  It seems like it was yesterday, but he's almost done the 1st grade already! 

Products Used:
#1356- School is Cool- Kindergarten

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

No Hitter

Okay so maybe it's not technically pitching a no hitter but we will count it as one! :)

Journaling:
You came in as pitcher with one out and the bases loaded, you threw six strikes in a row to end the game!  You were so excited as you ran off the field with your team!  March 2011 (oh no!  just realized my layout says March 2010 - lol - have to fix that! :) )

Products Used:
#1196 Baseball Reflections paper
#1313 Sports Head On - Baseball paper
#636 Baseball Rubons

Thanks for stopping by!

~Carolyn

New School Line

I was so excited to work with the new School is Cool line from Scrappin' Sports & More.  The younger grades have bright vibrant colors that just pop on the page.  They also combine very well with each other, which makes picking out your paper for your layout very easy.  I used 3 different grades in this layout...Fifth Grade, Kindergarten (blue) and First Grade (green).

You can check out the complete School is Cool line here.

Product Used:
#1360 Fifth/Sixth Grade School is Cool
#1356 Kindergarten School is Cool (Blue)
#1357 First Grade School is Cool (Green)

Redefining Family Game Night!!

OK, I realize that traditionally Family Game Night was sort of a Hasbro activity complete with board games and perhaps some cards.  However, times they are a changin'...so that is exactly what custom papers are for!!!  I was able to add my phrase "Family Game Night" to the paper and add the colors of my choosing and viola!...

~Shannon

Products Used:
#922 Custom Stripe 2

Prima Ballerina!

I am always on the lookout for things that I can recycle in my scrapbooking.  We switched laundry soap last week and began to use an all in one soap & laundry sheet.  These go in the washing machine with the clothes and then directly into the dryer with them too.  They serve double duty. 

When I pulled them out of the dryer, I knew instantly that they would serve triple duty!  They are nice and thick and the perfect absorbing material for misting! 

The first thing I did was pull out my misting box and lay a couple of them flat on the bottom.  Using my mists, I saturated them in various colors:

I dried these with my heat gun (because I am a very impatient scrapper!).  Remember to keep your gun at a safe distance as the intense heat will start to melt the sheet.

Then I ran them through my Cuttlebug and made these:

I ended up using the back sides of the flowers for my design --- just really liked the variegated look of the back:

Supplies Used:

Down on the Farm - Pig:

Down on the Farm - Cat:

Family & More - Nephew/Niece

Family & More - Family/Generations:

Game - Marching Band:

 

Thinking Ahead

I was thinking about my mom today and decided to get a headstart on her Mother's Day card.  The Calendars Made Easy-May paper is perfect for the occasion!  The bright yellow flower pattern is springy, bright and works beautifully for what I wanted to do.  I used my Cricut to cut out the word "mom" and used the negative space from the cut to make my card.  I used the May paper as the background and to make the flower. 

Products Used:
#1283 -Calendars Made Easy- May

To make the flower, simply punch out 6 circles.  Make a small swipe of strong adhesive or put a small dot of quick drying glue (hot glue will work great, too!) onto one edge of 5 of the circles.  Then, just pinch each circle to create a petal and hold until the glue dries.  Once you have made 5 petals, glue them to the sixth circle.  I added a button to the middle to complete my flower.  Adding some ink to the edges would be a great addition, as well!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  We'd love to see how you use your Calendars Made Easy papers.  Leave us a comment and link us to your blog or gallery so we can see!

~Nicole

The Wild, Wild West

We recently spent a week in sunny Arizona - what a welcome and warm relief from the cold of a midwest winter!  While there we spent time sightseeing in Tombstone and a day at Old Tucson Studios.  Spending time at these places brought back memories from my childhood, spending time with my dad - a guy that loved watching "shoot 'em up" westerns on tv.  It was fun to see where old episodes of Bonanzo were filmed as well as movies like Rio Bravo and McClintock. 

Supplies used:
#1296 - Horses 12 x 12 dbl sided paper
#5557 - Horses Cardstock Stickers
#1269 Mother/Mom 12 x 12 dbl sided paper
#1221 In The Garden 12 x 12 dbl sided paper
#1332 Tennis - Sports Head On 12 x 12 dbl sided paper

Thanks for looking! 
Peggy

Game Day 2011

This past weekend my son played in his first AAA tournament, it was a weekend full of baseball & a great time!  I snuck into the dug out right before the last game to grab some candid shots of the boys.  I created this layout using a sketch created by Julie Bonner.

Products used:
Baseball Paper #1812
Custom Spirit Names Paper (#906)
Baseball Reflections Paper #1196
Baseball cardstock sticker #5544


Thanks for stoppin' by!
~Carolyn

Happy Birthday America

I know July is still a ways off, but I was longing for summer, warm weather & sunshine.  This layout celebrates our first holiday with Delta the dog.  The girls were excited to sit and watch the fireworks from a far with the dog :)

Scrappin Sports Product Used:
#1237 Baseball Game Day (Stripe & Polka Dot)
#1285 July Calendars Made Easy (Blue Fireworks)
#927 Custom Varied Spirit Names (July words)

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)

Working with Scraps!

I'm thrifty by nature - in fact, there is nothing that makes me happier than getting a bargain!  I'm not just talking about when you have to buy something --- another way to be thrifty is to use what you have.  This is the theory I apply to my scrappin'!  I love to use my scraps and I my rule of thumb is "If it's big enough to stamp an image on, then it's a keeper! 

Once in a while, my scraps start to take over my space.  That is when I know that I need to get to work making some cards!  I decide on a design and then I start mass producing them with any and all scraps that I have hanging around!  Scrappin' Sports & More papers are perfect for doing this because all the paper lines have coordinating color families! 

For this set of cards, I worked with this basic sketch:

and created these three cards made from various scraps and papers from all different

Scrappin' SPorts & More paper lines!

I'd love to see what you create with my card sketch!  Feel free to leave a comment here with a link to your creations so I can leave you some love!

Thanks!

Kim :)

My All-Star

Hi, everyone!!  I'm so excited for baseball season to start, that I decided to take a break from working on my calendar and play with the baseball paper from the new "The Sport Is..." line.  The red in the paper is just fabulous and worked beautifully with my son's baseball photo from last year.  And, the strip of baseballs is just a strip cut from the back side of the paper!  Isn't it cool?!  Colby truly is baseball's number one fan! 

Products Used:
#1337 - The Sport Is...Baseball

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

~Nicole

Go Kart Racing

Whe we were visiting relatives this past summer, we caught the bus right next to the go-kart track.  We told the kids if we didn't spend too much time in town that we would take a ride when we were done.  As you can see, we had plenty of time for racing.  It was pricey, but a lot of fun :)  Scrappin' Sports has some really wonderful racing papers & stickers.  It was fun to finally get to use them.

Scrappin' Sports Product Used:
#1348 The Sport is Racing (Racing words & tire tracks)
#1247 Racing Game Day (Yellow Dots)
#1329 Sports Head On Racing (background paper)
#5536 Racing Flags Cardstock Stickers (checkered & black & white stripe)
#5545 Checkered Flags Cardstock Stickers

Spring Training 2011

Here is another baseball layout from me - I love scrapping baseball photos! :)

Since my son started practicing with his new team in December, I wanted to scrapbook the amazing catching & pitching coaching he is receiving from this one particular coach - whatever my son will learn from him this season will be worth the move to this team.  It's wonderful to have a catcher / pitcher only coach in 10 year old baseball.

So, when I saw them warming up together at a seeding tournament earlier this month, I grabbed my camera!

Supplies used:

Baseball on Fire paper #1133
Baseball double sided paper #1255
Defining Baseball paper #1005
Baseball cardstock sticker #5544

Thanks for stoppin' by!

~Carolyn