COOKING UP CREATIONS SEPTEMBER 2 & 7, 2020 PROJECTS

Hello everyone.  I'm running a little behind this month (even though we are only 7 days into the month) and decided to feature both of my Cooking Up Creations projects in this post.  Our theme this month is "You Spend me 'Round;" in other words, create projects that feature round themes.  For my September 2 project, I decided to feature balls, specifically baseballs, in a scrapbook layout.  My daughters were, at one point in their life, willing participants in all my picture taking endeavors.  I took these of them horsing around on baseball statues when they were tiny little baseball fans watching their uncle's team play our local minor league time.  To keep in line with the round vibe, I used a variety of baseball die cut stickers and baseball themed papers to play up the baseball mood.  For my September 7 project, my "round" theme was wheels.  This is one of my all time favorite pictures of my oldest daughter hailing a taxi cab in Chicago.  To give it a round vibe, I used travel/car themed papers and chipboard wheels to highlight the content of the picture.

HOWDY

This is my latest project for Use Your Stuff where this biweekly challenge was to create a farm themed project.  When my girls were tiny, every fall we would take them to a local farm.  Not only did they have a wonderful selection of pumpkins and other fall related items, but also they had a petting zoo that my daughter's loved to visit.  My daughter's had so much fun petting and feeding all the animals.  I loved this picture of my oldest loving on a horse.  I thought she would be the perfect subject matter for a farmed theme project.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of papers and die cuts from Doodlebug Design's "Down on the Farm" collection.

COACH

This is my latest project for Cooking Up Creations.  This month's challenge is to create a project using a television game show as inspiration.  For my second project, I chose to create a layout based on the 1970's game show "Sports Challenge."  Two professional athletic teams would compete against each other answering trivia questions.  Winners would receive a cash prize that would be used to purchase athletic equipment for youth athletic programs.  So for my project, I decided to feature my favorite youth athlete and her favorite soccer coach.  This coach has been a God send to my daughter.  Not only has she taught her a much about the game of soccer, but also helped navigate my daughter through her broken leg recovery.  She is the best, and I thought she would be the perfect subject matter for a "Sports Challenge" challenge.  To pull this project together, I used a sketch created by Bev Code for my former design team Creative Inspiration.

ALL PLAY ALL DAY

This is my latest project for Sketches in Thyme using the following sketch.  For this project, I was inspired by pictures my daughter and her BFF took a few weeks ago at a local golf course.  She was having such a good time horsing, and I so rarely get her to share photos with me, that I thought she would be the perfect subject matter for this sketch.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of papers from Crate Paper's "xxx" line.

EXPLORE

This is my latest project for Cooking up Creations.  This month's challenge is to create a project based on a classic TV game show.  For my project, I picked Hollywood Squares as my featured game show.  Since the start of the pandemic, I've been walking a local nature trail almost every day and have seen amazing creatures.  I've been taking so many pictures of cool things I see that I decided to feature 3 of my favorites using the June sketch from Sketches in Thyme as my guide.  I thought the square layout would be perfect for a Hollywood Square themed project.  To pull this project together, I used a variety of nature themed papers and earth tone colors to give the project a nature vibe.

MY BEST DAYS ARE WITH YOU

This is my latest project for Sketchy Boards Challenge using the following sketch.  This month we were to create a project inspired by gears.  The other day, my daughter took our German Shepherd out for ride in her convertible, and he was in puppy heaven!  He patiently sat in the back seat letting the wind blow back his ears while his human was his chauffeur.  My daughter snapped this pic of them together, and I thought they would be the perfect subject matter for a gear themed project.  To pull this layout together, I used a variety of papers from Kaisercraft's "Workshop" collection.

DATE NIGHT & DREAM BIG

These are two my latest projects for my new design team Cooking Up Creations.  This site is a scrapbooking forum not only with all sorts of creative inspiration but also a wonderful community of fellow crafters.  Each month features an easy to translate theme, and I have been inspired more times than I can count looking at people's submissions.  This month's challenge was to create a project primarily using white with a touch of color.  On July 15, I submitted a white and red project (see below).  Today I submitted a white and gold project.  In all the years I have been a scrapbooker, it never dawned on me how powerful a project can become when white is used as the building block and a color the accent.  If you need some inspiration or want to join a community of paper lovers, please come check out Cooking Up Creations.  You won't be disappointed!