Day 213: Baseball Layout

For this baseball layout for my son, I selected the baseball stitching paper by Echo Park Paper and a baseball collage by Little Yellow Bicycle as my backgrounds.  For the left page, I added the ball glove by Reminisce on top of the stitch paper, added a chipboard "baseball" title from Little Yellow Bicycle to the top of the glove, added the team photo, and then added 4 baseball tokens from Doodlebug Designs to each corner of the photo.  For the right page, I selected 3 photos from one of his games, added 2 of his baseball cards (one front and one back), and embellished the page with a chipboard baseball and bat from Little Yellow Bicycle.

Day 212: #1 Soccer Player

Tonight I worked on 2 soccer pages for my son.

For the left page, I used a soccer background from Bella Blvd, the big round soccer ball paper from Reminisce, chipboard embellishments "soccer" and "#1" from Little Yellow Bicycle, and soccer ball stickers from Karen Foster Designs. I think it is pretty self-explanatory how this page went together, so I won't give details about what I did.

For the right page, I used a soccer collage paper from Little Yellow Bicycle as the background.  I selected 3 photos of my son and cropped them to fit inside the postage stamp frames (die and Big Shot machine by Sizzix; black card stock by Stampin' Up!). In the center of the two larger photos, I added a "soccer champ" sticker by Karen Foster. I used my date stamp from Office Max to stamp the month and year around the cluster of photos.  I used three epoxy soccer stickers from EK Success to add a triangle shape to the paper that helps to keep the eye moving across the page.  I added some info about the team, coach, etc., to the words at the bottom of the page with a journaling pen from Creative Memories.  Finally, I added my son's "soccer card" photo to the bottom right of the page and tucked another soccer ball sticker under the left side of the picture, further adding to the collage effect.

Day 198: Touchdown Scrapbook Page

I started working on a scrapbook page of my son tonight.  He had some photos taken for his birthday with a football as a prop, so I used a football field paper from Reminisce as my background paper.  Over that I layered a football die cut, also from Reminisce. I spelled out the words "Touchdown" and "Daniel" using letter stickers by EK Success. There were no numbers in that particular set of stickers, so I had to use some from Echo Park Paper Company to spell out "is 7" and the year "2010".  I want to add his initial "D" and the letters "MVP" to the page, so I inked them with black ink and will need to let them dry overnight.  I will finish this page tomorrow.

Day 43: Christmas Ornament Page

I used two papers from the Candy Cane Christmas Collection by Reminisce to create this cute ornament page for my daughter's scrapbook.  I cut a section out of the background paper (hidden by the ornament paper) and used it to create the corner punches and numbers.  A bit of glittery red ribbon around the top of the ornament is the finishing touch!