Scrappin' Baseball: Wacky Wednesday #6 - Sports Theme

Paula at More than Favors is hosting a sports-themed challenge - any project, any size, any color as long as it's sports-related.  Easy, peasy!  I have LOADS of pictures of my kids playing sports that I need to scrap.  My middle son just wrapped up his baseball season - we've moved onto football (I'm really not so comfortable with this!!) - so I chose to scrap a page of him playing in the first of the two leagues he played in this summer.  Simple, but it gets the job done!

Recipe

Batter, 'Play Ball', bat border, clipboard - Cricut Sports Mania cartridge

All cardstock - Recollections

Black Creative Memories marker, white Gelly Roll pen for doodling, journaling

I'm on a Roll - Meet My Giraffe - Whimsical Wednesday Challenge

Well, I enjoyed making the scrapbook page of the zebra so much that I decided to stick with my pictures from the zoo and do a bit more creating.  That Create a Critter cartridge has some of the cutest images...and I have a few lined up to help me make more zoo pages. 

I tackled my giraffe pictures next.  The patterned paper is a new purchase...My Mind's Eye 'Bloom & Grow' stack.  180 pages, 60 different designs...simple, pretty papers...I couldn't leave it at A.C. Moore, especially with a 50% off coupon in hand.  :-)  So glad I bought it...I thought this paper would be perfect for my giraffe.  What do you think?  I think he'd love to munch on those leaves!

I'm entering this page into Stephanie's "Whimsical Wednesday" challenge.  It's her first challenge...just create a project using the Cricut Create A Critter cartridge and link it up to her blog.  All the details are HERE.

Let me know what you think of my giraffe!

Recipe

Patterned paper - My Mind's Eye 'Bloom & Grow' stack

Cardstock - Recollections

Giraffe - Create A Critter

'looong neck' title - Mickey Font, welded with my Gypsy
Half Circle for journaling spot - George & Basic Shapes

Brown Creative Memories marker for doodling, journaling
Cat's Eye Chalk Ink

Pop Dots

Critter Challenge at Card Creations by C.

Christina at Card Creations & More by C. is having her 1st ever challenge.  Want to join in the fun?  Just create a new project using a critter from the Cricut cartridge Create A Critter by end of day, Friday, August 27 and link it to her blog.  All the details are HERE.  Thanks for the challenge, Christina!

Well, since Create A Critter is one of my favorite cartridges of the moment (have you seen some of the new releases???), I was more than happy to scrap a page using the cute little zebra.  The pictures were taken during a trip last August to our favorite local (well, it's a 45-minute drive) zoo.  This is the first picture I've scrapped from that trip.  I have the cutest pictures of my kids feeding baby deer that I should scrap using the adorable little deer from CAC...and some of giraffes...and a humongous alligator...does CAC have a rhino?  Ok, ok, here's my page:

Recipe

Zebra, grass - Cricut Create A Critter cartridge

Word "zebra" & shadow - Cricut Mickey Font cartridge, embossed with Cuttlebug folder 'distressed stripes'

Patterned paper - DCWV paper pack 'Little Safari' ($3.99 at Tuesday Morning!!!)

Cardstock - Recollections

White Gelly Roll pen for journaling

Black Creative Memories marker, pink Bic Mark It marker for doodling

Cat's Eye chalk ink

Googly eyes

Win a new Fall Mini Cricut Cartridge!!

Joy from Obsessed With Scrapbooking is giving away the 3 new seasonal 'mini' Cricut cartridges - H2O, Pumpkin Carving and October 31st.  Don't miss this chance to win....see more at http://www.obsessedwithscrapbooking.com/2010/08/hello-thursday-august-cricut-cartridges.html .  She'll draw 3 winners on Wednesday, 8/25.  Which of the 3 is your fave?

Fantabulous Cricut: Challenge #22 - "Smile"

Phew!  Another close one.  This has been one busy summer...not much time for scrapping.  But the kids go back to school in 2 weeks, so I'll have lots more free time then to work on their albums.  During the week anyway.  :-)

The latest challenge at the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge blog is to create a project that incorporates the word "smile" and, of course, an image cut from a Cricut cartridge.    Did you know that last week was "National Smile Week"?  Me neither!  But it's never too late to share a smile...

Here's my submission.  The picture is of my sweet niece (and Goddaughter) and my son....it was taken almost three years ago when my son was 4 and my niece was 14.  She's now driving....yikes!  The two adore each other and I'm lucky to have taken quite a few lovely pictures of them together over the years.  I'll be scrapping those too!  :-)

Recipe

"Smile" and shadow - Gypsy Wanderings

"cousins" - Gypsy Font, welded and sized with my Gypsy

Small dragonfly - Camp Out, used hide contour

Patterned paper - DCWV The Stack 6

Cardstock - Recollections

Tiny flat-back pearls - Recollections

Skittle - handmade by a friend  :-)

White Gelly Roll pen for doodling

Thanks for looking!!

Peachy Keen Stamps - Challenge #34

I wasn't sure whether I'd complete this one in time...but I managed!  What a busy week!  We returned from vacation in Maine last weekend (think laundry, laundry, laundry) and we've been struggling ever since to find the cause of an injury to my oldest son's knee.  Two doctor's visits, an x-ray and a blood test later, we think it may be caused by Lyme disease.  Not the diagnosis I was expecting, for sure, but we live in southeastern Massachusetts and the woods here are infested with the disease-carrying ticks.  Although his blood test showed negative results for Lyme disease, my son will be retested in a few weeks per the advice of his orthopedic surgeon.  So, he's on a 4-week course of antibiotics...but we're still not sure why his knee is aching like it is.  Hopefully, time will tell.  But soon.

Anyway, enough of that.  :-)  As soon as I saw the sketch for the current challenge at the Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge blog, I knew I had to use it to create a scrapbook page of my middle son's First Communion, which we celebrated this past Spring.  The cross just stood right out and made my decision for me.  :-)  Here's the sketch:

And here's my scrapbook page:

It will be the first of a two-page layout of the celebration.  It's simple and straightforward...and the best part is that it didn't take me too long to do...a definite first for me...yea!

Recipe

Oval cut for picture - George and Basic Shapes

Scalloped oval - Mini Monograms

White cardstock - Recollections; embossed with the Divine Swirls folder

Patterned paper - from a RAK !!!

Blue cardstock - Recollections

Chalice - trophy from Every Day Paper Dolls, trimmed

Journaling - printed on my computer

White Gelly Roll pen for doodling

Saying Goodbye to Family Friends

Friends of ours just decided to move to Denver at the end of August.  We were really sad to hear this news...they are a great family...super parents, fun kids.  My oldest son was lucky enough to be coached in soccer last year by the dad and led by the mom in his cub scout troop.  We're really going to miss them!!  The cub scout den, self-titled the "Penguin Patrol", held a going away pool party in her honor last weekend complete with a homemade cake decorated with a penguin theme and a lovely gift.

Well, I'd like my son to send his leader a card before they leave, so I decided to try my hand at a shaped penguin card.  I used some leftover material from a Webelos neckerchief (from another project) to make a tiny neckerchief for this little guy, and used the fleur de lis from Gypsy Wanderings to create the neckerchief "slide".  What do you think?

Recipe

Penguin - Create A Critter, welded with my Gypsy

Fleur de lis - Gypsy Wanderings

Gold "slide" - beehive shadow (upside down) from Gypsy Wanderings

All cardstock - Recollections

Black, blue markers - Creative Memories