I {heart} Banners!

I love all the cute banners that are showing up on scrapbook pages and as home decor these days!  I have wanted to make one for the bottom of our chalkboard for a while now and finally got around to it today!  I created mine with the B sides of the Down on the Farm Papers because the colors were perfect for my country style home decor!

Here is a quick tutorial for you!

Step #1 - Cut out various size hearts using your die-cut machine. In addition to cutting the hearts out of paper, cut one set out of chipboard to add some strength to the base heart.  I used my Cricut for the hearts and then hand cut the chipboard the size of the largest heart.  It works best if you use a odd number of hearts for your banner. I went with five.

Step #2 - Glue your largest heart down to the chipboard heart and add distress ink all around the edges.

Step #3 - Add distress ink to the edges of all the hearts and then lay them out the way you want the banner to be.

Step #4 - Set aside the chipboard heart and line up the remaining hearts one set at a time and then stitch down the center- complete all sets.

Step #5 - Bring thread to back side of heart set, trim and tape down.  Then use an adhesive strip to adhere heart set to chipboard heart straight down the center leaving the heart sides free.

Step #6 - Bend heart sides up to add dimension.  Use your hole punch to put a hole in each side of the chipboard base at the widest spot.  Match up the remaining hearts and mark where you want the holes to go.  Punch them all.

Step #7 - Using twine, thread all hearts together running twine down the hole from one side and up the hole on the other side.

Here is my finished product:

Products Used:

Down on the Farm - Sheep

Down on the Farm - Steer

Down on the Farm - 4 H

Down on the Farm - Tractor

Game Day - Marching Band

2010 MVP Metals

Don't you love it when a layout just falls in place quickly?  With Scrappin' Sports & More's Custom papers it's so easy to create layouts that are uniquely yours!  

Products Used:
#901 Custom Marbled Paper
#1150 Classic Football Paper
#1198 Football Reflections
#5549 Cardstock Stickers - Football

Thanks for stoppin' by!
~Carolyn

Celebrating Date Night!

Recently, my favorite college - Ball State, played a volleyball game against IPFW (our home college) and we had an alumni night.  How awesome that Scrappin Sports and More had the perfect papers to allow me to scrapbook the event!!

~Shannon
Products Used:
#1355 Preschool
#1353 Volleyball

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

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 :)

baseball ... baseball ... baseball ...

Yep, that is pretty much our spring & summer, that is where I was at today & where I will be at tomorrow, too! :)

So... here is another baseball layout from me - using one of my absolute favorite stickers ever!  The Scrappin' Sports & More's Super Size Cardstock Stickers!

Products used:
Super Size Cardstock Sticker - Baseball #5564
Cardstock Sticker - Baseball #5544
Baseball Rubons - At Bat #7501
The Sport is ... Baseball pattern paper #1337
Baseball Reflections paper #1196

Thanks for stoppin' by!

~Carolyn

Ben's Girls

I am really loving this new school line.  As Karen showed yesterday, it's bright with fun colors but it's not just for elementary or high school. It can be used for those photos you have of your kids in college too!  Here, I've used the Freshman paper on a college softball layout for my daughter.  With the word freshman written along the edge of the paper worked perfectly as a border for this page.

Products used:
#1362 Freshman School is Cool 12 x 12 paper
#1260 Softballs 12 x 12 paper

Thanks for looking!
Peggy

First Day of Sixth Grade

It's hard to believe that another school year is almost over already.  It seems like this picture was just taken a couple of weeks ago.  Time sure does fly by quickly which is why it's important to get hese pictures scrapped!  I am in love with the new School is Cool line from Scrappin' Sports & More.  The colors are so fun and you can combine all of the grades for even more options.

Products Used:
School is Cool Line
#1360 Sixth Grade
#1355 Preschool (red apples)
#1357 First Grade (green)
#1359 Third Grade (yellow)
#1358 Second Grade (orange)

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