Let's Play Ball

Hi everyone. Back with another LO for you. I made this one a couple of months ago of Zach playing baseball. The picture was from last summer but pictures are always good for any time of the year scrapping. That is one of the things I love about crafting, it goes at your own pace and you can scrap anything your little heart desires, whether it is a photo from 40 years ago or a current one.

I have to admit, it is kind of rare for me to use stamps on my pages. I don't know why that is, but you think I would use stamps more because I have so many of them with my cardmaking. But, I had this idea with the star strip and knew I had the perfect stamp set to create it. I hope I use more stamps in the future, but if I don't, I'm OK with that because when I create a page I just go with what I feel. I never want to make myself use something because I think I should.

Supplies:

cardstock - Stampin Up!, Papertrey Ink

patterned paper - Cosmo Cricket

journaling spot - October Afternoon

stamps - Papertrey Ink

ink - Tsukineko, Memories

letter stickers - American Crafts

punches - Stampin Up! (label), Martha Stewart (scalloped circle), Creative Memories (small star), EK Success (large star)

My Lil' Fish

I figured it has been a while since I posted a scrapbook page so here you are. I made this one at the beginning of January. I go in spurts sometimes with my scrapbooking. If I feel the desire to make a page or two I go for it and get as much done as I can. But I don't push it if I don't feel like making a page because I will sit there literally for hours just trying to make it all work. I can make cards under pressure, but a lot harder for me to "make" myself do a scrapbook page. I used to only make scrapbook pages when I first started crafting and now look at me. I make one or less in a week now. Crazy. I still love to scrapbook but for now the small size of a card is appealing to me.

I love these little fish and I can't get enough of my Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge. It has everything in there. If you don't have the cart, you would be shocked at all you can create with it. One of my favs and my kids' because they like to make their own little people to play with.

Supplies:

cardstock - Stampin Up!, Papertrey Ink, Bazzill Basics Paper

patterned paper, date journal tag - October Afternoon

letter stickers - American Crafts

journaling sheet, rubon letters - Making Memories

gems - Hero Arts

border punches - EK Success

fish - Cricut by Provo Craft (Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge)

Last Post Before Our Vacation

Hi all. I just wanted to get one last post on my crafting blog before we go on vacation. We are going to Maine this year and with the whole Batta Family. It should be so much fun and we are anticipating some beautiful scenery and wonderful hiking adventures. Not to mention the ocean and lighthouses. I am so excited to see the lighthouses, don't know why, but I am. I just think of it as a beautiful work of solitary architecture along the shoreline. A beacon of hope for many ships who once passed. A lot of history in some of those lighthouses. I plan on taking many pictures and posting them on my family blog so watch for that in my sidebar under Family Blog.



This first LO I did was for a Hero Arts challenge. We had to create something with the theme vacation in mind. And speaking of vacation, these pictures are from 7 years ago when we all went to Montana. I don't know why I haven't scrapped them yet, I am thinking it is because I did a 12x12 album which takes so much long than an 8x8 album (which I have done for all our vacations since). No better time than the present, right?

Here is my second LO for you. This was also created for the Hero Arts Challenge. And I am still using the same vacation pictures from Montana. These little paper flowers I made are so simple to do. I just tore out three large circles from cardstock and three smaller circles. I then crumpled them up and curled the edges a little and then put a solid black circle in the center with a light blue brad. If you would like to create these but with a little more flare and more colors, visit this post HERE on Dawn McVey's blog. She is the master and creator of these beautiful flowers.

I hope you all have a wonderful upcoming week. Be thinking of me when I fly out Saturday morning at 5am on a 44 seat plane. I am a little freaked out about riding on that stinkin, small plane. But it is only to Minneapolis. I can do this. Or maybe I can do this with a little tranquillizer. :)

Supplies River Rafting:

cardstock - Bazzill Basics Paper

patterned paper - October Afternoon

stamps - Hero Arts

gems - Hero Arts

letter stickers - American Crafts

journaling sheet - Making Memories

butterfly punch - Martha Stewart

ink - Memento (black), Colorbox (blue)

Supplies Going to the Sun Road:

cardstock - Bazzill Basics Paper

patterned paper - October Afternoon

stamps - Hero Arts

letter stickers - Adornit (black), American Crafts (white and blue)

ink - Memento

brads - BasicGrey

One Wild Party

Here is a LO I did for my son's birthday. I got the color inspiration from the string of triangles across the bottom of the photos. I cut those out of some American Craft patterned paper. Big bold colors should be used for birthdays anyway.

I couldn't resist using THESE cute little animals stamps from Hero Arts. It was a chore cutting them all out, but I didn't mind it too much. I tend to like the art of cutting sometimes. I just thought the stamps go great with my title, One Wild Party.

Supplies:

cardstock - Bazzill Basics Paper

stamps - Hero Arts

patterned paper - American Crafts

letter stickers - American Crafts

ink - Memento

Right Now

Here is a LO of my son about all the stuff he is loving right now. I thought it would be fun to look back and read all the fun stuff he is really into and see how that changes through the years. I need to remember to make one of these LOs every year so I can keep comparing. And I also need to do it for all the kids. Sounds like another to do on my never ending to do list.

Supplies:

cardstock - Bazzill Basics Paper

stamp - Papertrey Ink

patterned paper - October Afternoon

chipboard piece - Maya Road

sheer owl - Maya Road

journaling tags - Collage Press

letter stickers - Collage Press

brads - BasicGrey

Halloween Layout

I thought I would leave you here with another layout I created before we head off this weekend for Minneapolis. (The kids are so looking forward to this, should be quite the adventure.) Anyway, I know these pictures are from Halloween, but I'm sure you have caught on that I don't get my pictures scrapped on time. I don't feel I am very far behind though because my oldest pictures to scrap are from the fall. That isn't too bad considering how many pictures I take. Anyway I had an old kit from October from Scarlet Lime (awesome monthly kits) and the Halloween themed stuff in there was great and everything came from the kit to create this LO.

Products used:

Cardstock - Bazzill Basics Paper

Patterned Paper - Cosmo Cricket, American Crafts, Glitz Design

Owl - Maya Road (only thing not from this kit)

Stickers - Cosmo Cricket

Letter Stickers - Adornit

Journaling Card - Collage Press

3rd Grade

Here is a LO of Zach's first day of 3rd grade. I know that was back in August, but I just couldn't think of anything for his page. After you do umpteen zillion back to school layouts you lose a little creativity. When I lose fresh ideas for pages I like to turn to my Cricut diecut machine. I look over the cartidges I have to get some idea of what I would like on my page. And the funny thing is, I don't think I have put apples on any of my back to school pages yet. So there you go, an idea is formed. I paper pieced these apples. In case you don't know what that means, I first diecut the apple border in green, then in red and then in brown and after that is done, I cut the pieces how I like them and assemble them. Green was my background color, then I adhered the brown stems and finally I adhered the red apples. This way I show all the colors of the apple instead of cutting this apple border out in just one color (boring). For a little shine, I put some stickles glitter glue in the corners to make the apples look clean. Yum, appetizing. The LO turned out really simple, but I don't think it needs any more. And the list I wrote on the LO is the supply list for Zach's school year.

Products used: CS - Bazzill, PP - Sassafras & October Afternoon, Pen - Zig, Cricut Cartridge - Makin the Grade and Teardrop, Glitter glue - Stickles, Letter Stickers - ? (from Target $ spot)

Autumn Fallin' From Trees

I thought I would share with you one of my favorite layouts. I made this a few months ago for a challenge and I was so thrilled when I got a comment on it by one of my favorite scrapbookers/cardmakers, Jennifer McGuire. She is one of the Hero Blog top designers and has her own column in the monthly Creating Keepsakes magazine. Her work is amazing and she inspires me in so many ways.

Anyway, for this challenge we had to pick a sketch to go off of and with the sketch I chose I knew exactly what pictures I wanted to use. And yes, I said pictures, plural. So many people thought that this was one big picture of the kids but really it is four pictures put together. In case you can't read it the title is Autumn Fallin' From Trees (a title to one of my favorite songs by Jaymay) and the journaling says, "How could you not love the autumn with these cute faces peekin' out at you?"

Products used: CS - Bazzill, PP - BasicGrey, Stamps - Hero Arts, Letter stickers - Making Memories, Die cut letters - Ellison Sunset die cuts, Ink - Memento, Pen - Zig