Play Ball Layout

Hi All! Have you all had a great summer too? Sorry I have been so neglectful! We have been running a mile a minute around here. All kinds of stuff and activities going on. I am sure it's the same with you though, right?

One of our favorite summer activities is going to the local minor league baseball team's games. The franchise is called The Salt Lake Bee's. Although we went this summer, the pictures used in the layout are actually from last year. I had already printed these pictures some time ago, but didn't know what I was going to do with them. When I pulled them out and they were black and white, inspiration struck. I used the team's colors, black and yellow.

Here is what I came up with:

All of the die cuts are created from my Cricut. See below for the cartridges used.  I used my Cricut to cut out the circles on the black cardstock. Then I took punched circles, slightly larger, and glued them from behind. 

This is my favorite part of the layout. I loved layering all the small little pieces together and then the circle cutout behind.  The different little words and phrases are from a piece of patterned paper made by My Mind's Eye. 

I don't have a Silhouette, but that didn't stop me from using my Cricut to come up with the title for the page! I used the darling font from my Cindy Loo cartridge, all in lower case and then used the negative space. Even though the font is pretty girly, I was able to make it work with the theme of the page by using the negative space. I also eliminated the holes in the letters p, a and b. For the tiny little banners, I cut them actually out from some super cute paper from My Mind's Eye. It's from the line designed by Rhonna Farrer. It was too cute not to use. 

I used the cream and black numbers from a piece of pattern paper from lily bee. I cut them out and placed them in order to represent the number of strikes or outs allotted, as well as the number of innings in the game. The other thing that I liked about this page was using my scallop border punch in a different way. I only punched a portion of each side on the top left and bottom right corners. Then I mounted a full piece of white cardstock behind, so that it showed on each corner. I added some details to tell about the time and place of the pics. 

I love this picture of the three of us in our little family having a great time at one of the things we love to do every summer. 

Here are the supplies used:

Cardstock - Bazzil Basics textured black 12"x12"; Stampin' Up! Whisper White 12"x12", Basic Gray textured
Patterned Paper - Stampin' Up; Lily Bee, My Mind's Eye, Pink Paisley
Cardstock Stickers - Lily Bee (some of the pennants on left side)
Punches - Stampin' Up! Scallop Border, 1" Circle, Pennant builder
Cricut Cartridges - George and Basic Shapes (circle outline, circles on left side and full circle for journaling), Forever Young (large flourish at bottom of page and small flourish inside circle outline - both same shape), Cindy Loo (title)
Marker - Stampin' Up! Basic Black
Clear Button - Stampin' Up!
Adhesives - Stampin' Up! Dimensional foam; glue stick

Well, I am off! Hope you all are enjoying your summer! I am sad it's almost over but I am looking forward to fall.

Stay Crafty!

Easter Morning

Easter morning, just waiting to get the okay to head down and see what the Easter Bunny brought this morning. Also, this is Peyton's latest furry friend, Tisket {She named her Tisket-a-Tasket!}

The Easter Bunny sure was tricky this year at hiding eggs! They were in plain site, but sooo hard to find them all!

Another egg found!

And the Grand Prize!

Mom, look at all the stuff inside!

Peyton, do you know just how beautiful you are :).

Hey, Mom, my Easter basket has my name on it!

Can you see the banner hanging from the basket handle? Love this punch from Stampin' Up!!

Here is the front view of the banner from the inside of the cellophane.

Easter Basket Supplies:

Paper Doilies - Wilton {found in the cake decorating section of Walmart}

Patterned Paper - American Crafts, October Afternoon, Stampin' Up!

Cardstock - Very Vanilla from Stampin' Up!

Stamps - Easter Memories, Letter It, Mixed Bunch from Stampin' Up!

Inks - Island Indigo, Soft Suede, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party from Stampin' Up!

Brads - copper, Everyday Elegance {Sale-A-Bration - butterfly brad} from Stampin' Up

Jewels - Basic Pearls from Stampin' Up!

Punches - Fancy Label, Blossom, Petite Pennant Builder, Small Heart, Itty Bitty Flower {4 Petal) all from Stampin' Up!

Other - Dimensionals foam adhesive from Stampin' Up!

Ribbon - Offray, All My Memories

Twine - Pool Party Bakers Twine from Stampin' Up!

I love the Easter Memories stamp set that Stampin' Up! came out with last year! The silhouette shape of the little girl with the Easter basket is my favorite image from it. When Easter was approaching this year, I knew I would be getting it out to decorate Peyton's Easter basket again. {I don't think I ever took pictures of the tag from last year's Easter basket.}

This year, Peyton kept seeing all the Easter baskets when we would go shopping and kept saying that she hoped the Easter Bunny would bring her one of those. I remember when I was a kid asking for the very same thing. I didn't realize that the one my mom put together was soooo much cooler! Well, now that I am experiencing it from the perspective of a mother, it gives me a whole new appreciation for the little things my mom did for me when I was a kid :).

I don't know what it is exactly about this time of year, but I get itchy for warm weather, and at the same time, I start to focus more so on vintage furniture and vintage inspired papers and such. Nothing says more to me about vintage than the paper from October Afternoon. I can't get enough of their papers!

Now that Picnic - the free photo editing site - is going away, I am excited to have discovered a new one, Pic Monkey. It's free and just as easy to use as Picnic! All the photo's that I have uploaded today are edited using that site. I really want to get more familiar with Photo Shop so I can start learning so many of the amazing edit options out there, but there is nothing like going to a web site to do photo editing. It makes it so simple and fast.

Alright, I am off to spend the rest of this beautiful day outside in the warm sunshine! It's about time :)

Stay crafty everyone!