Play Hard

I love baseball photos, I love it even more when I catch one like this where my son has finished his swing and the ball is still in the photo (and that I am getting pretty good taking photos behind the fence)!  

When I saw this photo I immediately thought of Scrappin' Sports & More's Sports on Fire line and then of course I added in some of my other favorite baseball lines by Scrappin' Sports & More! :)

Products used:

Baseball on Fire paper #1133

Baseball Reflections paper #1196

The Sport is ... baseball paper #1337

Basball Cardstock sticker #5544

Thanks for stoppin' by!  Enjoy your long weekend - I am sure you already know what I will be up to! :)

~Carolyn

It's That Time Again!

Graduation, that is!  In addition to my daughter graduation from college, I also have about 4 family friends who are graduating from high school.  The new school line has definitely come in handy for making all the graduation cards that I need to send out congrats to everyone!  Here are a couple that I added to my stash this week:

Supplies Used:

Bazzill Cardstock
School is Cool - Graduation
Game Day - Marching Band
School is Cool - 5th Grade/4th Grade
Pebbles Felt Star
Uniball White Pen

Freshman Year...Where did it go?

I have always heard that once your kids get into high school you barely have time to blink and they are leaving for college.  I have to say as fast as Victoria's Freshman year flew by, I believe it!  I can't believe we are already in the last week of school, it doesn't seem possbile that it has been 10 months since these pictures were taken.  I am thankful that I got to use the new School is Cool line from Scrappin' Sports & More to scrap these special pictures!  I love how easy it is to combine grades and even added the custom paper too!  If you haven't used this paper yet, we will be having a fun giveaway soon, so stay tuned!!

Scrappin' Sports & More Paper
#1362 Freshman  School is Cool
#1359 Third Grade School is Cool (yellow)
#906 Custom Spirit Names

School's almost out...

and I am finally getting all the pictures scrapped from the BEGINNING of the year! 

I am so happy that Scrappin Sports and More has come out with this AWESOME new school line!!!  It's so bright and cheery.  It just makes me happy when I scrap with it!!  It's also 2-sided...BONUS!!

So are you caught up with this school year's scrapping?  What was your favorite thing to scrap?

~Shannon
Products Used: 
#1349 3rd/4th Grade Paper
#1295 4-H Paper (backside)

It's Baseball Season!!

Colby's been waiting 9 months for baseball season to come around again!  Even though six of his eight games have been rained out so far, he's still excited and has even been practicing in the garage!  Since he has his pictures taken each season, I decided I might as well make a frame to keep them in.  The "The sport is..." line makes it easy to make frames for any sport!

I started with a basic wooden frame that I got for $1.00 at a craft store and inked the edges black.  Then I covered the frame with the baseball paper.  I put the rubons onto some smooth, white cardstock and cut them out.  Finally, I inked the edges of some corrugated letters and an acrylic star and attached everything to the frame using glue or foam dots.  I think it came out cute!

Products Used:
#1337- The Sport is....Baseball
#636- Baseball Rub-On

If you've made a frame using your Scrappin' Sports & More papers, share them on our Facebook page!

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So glad you stopped by today!!

~Nicole

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!