PLAY BALL

This is my latest project for Creative Inspiration using the following sketch.  With baseball season beginning, I decided to dip into my picture archives and feature a picture of my daughter at the baseball field.  My brother in law is a pitching coach within the Detroit Tigers organization, and fourteen years ago, he got married and had his reception at the Erie Sea Wolves Ball Park in Erie, Pennsylvania.  My daughter had a blast playing on the baseball field throughout the day.  She was an especially good sport posing for me on the baseball frog.  To create the baseball theme, I used a variety of papers from Doodlebug Design's "Homerun Collection."  In addition, I used a tag I created for my design team Use Your Stuff as my main embellishment.  Finally, I used the attached sketch to pull the project together.

TRUE FRIENDS

This is my latest project for Use Your Stuff.  This week's challenge was the create a project that featured flora and fauna.  In other words, create a project that includes flowers and animals.  I knew exactly what picture I wanted to use.  Fourteen years ago, we used to live at a lovely Cape Cod house that was the perfect locale to grow hydrangeas.  I fell in love with hydrangeas during a visit to the Biltmore Estate, so I knew I had to have this plant wherever I lived.  Well this particular house was ideal location to grow these majestic purple and pink flowers.  Before we moved, I posed my then four year old daughter and her best friend, our cat Nugget, in front of the blooming bush.   Flora and fauna!  To pull this project together, I used a sheet of American Crafts herringbone paper as background with some scraps I had in my stash from Authentique's "Meadow" collection.  Finally, I used the sketch found below from my former design team "2 Broke Girls" to pull the project together.

HAPPY

This is my latest project for Creative Inspiration using the following sketch.  With this project, I was inspired by the circle in the middle of the sketch. I wanted to create a page with a circle theme.  And I had the perfect pictures for it; my daughter and her friends at The Island's Ferris Wheel in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.  This ride lights up a rainbow of colors at night; it is truly stunning.  While I followed the sketch, I decided to use a few more circles and some paper strips to keep the pictures grounded in the circles.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of papers from American Craft's Shimelle "Starshine" line.

HELLO SUNSHINE

This is my latest sketch for Sketchy Boards Challenge using the following sketch.  I'm so excited for Spring to finally erupt in the Northern Hemisphere.  Right now, we are experiencing rain, gusty winds, and snow on the back end of a cold front.  Needless to say, it's nasty outside. So when I was putting together this layout, I was trying to will Spring to arrive.  This is truly one of my absolute favorite pictures I have ever taken of my youngest daughter.  It was a gorgeous Spring day, and she was living THE LIFE!  She had dressed herself in a patriotic tank top on top of an orange t-shirt with a pair of silky pajama pants from a box of summer clothes I had just brought up from the basement.  Her sister had helped her climb our Bradford Pear tree in the front yard.  She felt like such a big girl.  And as you can see in this picture, she was happy.  Big beaming smile happy. So to pull together this project, I decided to use Carta Bella's Spring Market by Carta Bella along with chipboard butterflies from Michaels's "Recollections" collection to give this project a spring vibe.

BASEBALL ALLSTAR

This is my latest project for Let's Scrap using the following sketch.  With Major League Baseball season starting this week, I decided to go with a baseball theme for my project.  My daughter has never played a day of baseball in her life, but she loves to go to baseball games.  Perhaps it's the game...perhaps it's the players...Who knows...But these are a few of my favorite pics of her and her friends (and her parents and her favorite player) at our local minor league baseball team's games the past two summers.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of papers from Carta Bella's "Baseball Collection" line.

ON FIRE

This is my latest project for Use Your Stuff.  This week's challenge was to use primarily black and white on the project and a pop of color.  I happened to come across this picture of my daughter in my ever growing stash of photos.  I loved the flames circling her head from the Snapchat filter so I decided that orange would be my color pop on this project.  The black and white papers are from Bella Blvd's Illustrated Faith's "Faith over Fear" collection.  Finally, I was inspired by the sketch below from my former design team "2 Broke Girls."

SILLY PUPS

This is my latest project for Sketches in Thyme.  With St. Patrick's Day happening this past week, I wanted to create a project in honor of the holiday.  When I think of St. Patrick's Day, I often think of silly pranks done by the Leprechaun on unsuspecting people.  Well, that kind of happened to me when I was putting this project together.  As I was going through my pictures on my phone trying to decide what I wanted to do for this project, I found these two pics of my daughter and her friends horsing around with a Snapchat dog filter that I had no clue existed.  I was so excited to find these unexpected silly pictures that I decided they would be the perfect subject matter for a St. Patty's Day layout.  I used a variety of Doodlebug Design's "Lot's O Luck" paper to pull the project together.