Baseball Layout

I LOVE sketch challenges, especially ones geared towards Scrap Book layouts. That is why I love Let's Scrap! Take a look at this week's sketch!

 

I spent some time trying to figure out what to make with the circle element. I wanted to take it literally and make something with it. I thought of making it into a sun, or a plate, or a tire... but I decided on a baseball! Perfect for scrap booking a game outing this past season!

"01-25-12" Sketch from Let's Scrap

 

I used a small "X" letter stamp to create the red thread stitching on the baseball. My bases are "Pacifica" card stock. The daisy white circle shape was cut on my Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge at the 9 1/2" setting. For the scatter accents of the layout I used star stickers. The other papers are fourth of july type papers I picked up at Michaels.

Thanks for looking! Let me know what you think!

Baseball Photo Album

Photo Album

Wanted to find a fun way to send my Brother-in-law copies of photos we took at his Birthday party this past year. We traveled down state to go to a baseball game and have lots of great pictures! I decided to create a Birthday Mini Photo Album for him. I created the cover for it with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge as a template.

I used the colors from the jerseys of the team we went to see, blue and red. I used a ticket I had saved from the even as one of the decorative elements on the cover. I thought the popular pennant shape went well with a sports theme. The spot of the sketch that called for a circle was a perfect place to put a baseball! I created the baseball with my circle punch and the tiny button stitch stamp from the "Tailor Made" stamp set from Close to my Heart. The papers are from the new "Cruisin" and "Hero" paper packs.

Now to print the photos and get this in the mail before he wanders onto my Blog and see's this! LOL!