Welcome to the Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop for July 2018. This month’s theme is a Sketch Challenge! I decided to show off my 9-year-old son, Preston, in his first year of Traveling 10A Baseball!
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Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Use a piece of Whisper White 12×12 Cardstock as your canvas.
- Stamp “a cute” using the Lined Alphabet Stamp Set, Night of Navy Stampin’ Pad and Shimmery White Cardstock. Add Lemon Lime Twist to the center of the letters using an Aqua Painter. Note: Be careful not to touch the Night of Navy as it will bleed. Crop with the Layering Alphabet Edgelits Dies and a Big Shot with a Magnetic Platform. Snip the remaining attached portion with a Paper Snips.
- Stamp “THREAT” using the Letters For You Stamp Set in Night of Navy onto Shimmery White Cardstock. Crop with the Large Letters Framelits Dies and a Big Shot with a Magnetic Platform.
- Adhere both with Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.
- Cut photos and a piece of Whisper White Thick Cardstock to 2 1/2″ x 3 1/2. Use a Stampin’ Write Marker or Journaling Pen to add your journaling.
- I used a Pick a Pennant Stamp Set and Night of Navy Stampin’ Pad to create the title on my journaling block and Number * 5 above the top right photo (which was stamped on a piece of Whisper White Cardstock cropped using the Everyday Label Punch).
- Crop two 1″ circles using the Circle Punch and Whisper White Cardstock. Using one as a template, draw the two baseball seams using the Cherry Cobbler Stampin’ Write Marker. Freehand the stitches as shown. Adhere with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
This photo was taken during the first home game of the season with my newly acquired camera! I was lucky enough to capture some pretty amazing shots of him preparing for his first at-bat! I was so excited that this moment was captured and will forever be there to reminisce and remind us of how quickly time flies by!
Preston’s bat is Rawling’s Threat, hence the title I used for the page. He is a little too cute to pose a threat, but he sure loves giving those pitchers the stink eye…I wonder if they chuckle like I do?
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I added my own handwriting to my page (again)…I guess I should practice more to ensure consistency and neatness…I will improve as I go, but that is the fun of making memories! I get to see how I improve over time, can’t wait to keep trying.
My boys make me smile every day! I sure hope that my presentation of them makes you smile too…and motivates you to create memories in scrapbooks.
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Love your page Stesha. TFS
Your page is so clean! It works wonders for this set of photos, the attention is all on his face 🙂
Wow Stesha! This page is awesome. Love, love, love the pictures of your cute little threat 🙂
This is one fabulous LO Stesha! So fresh and stunning photos too!
Love how clean and crisp your layout feels! And the progression of photo blocks is just great, Stesha.
A great LO with great photo’s! Love it Stesha!
WOW those photos are so capturing especially for the title of this sketch!!!
I do love how you have created a tutorial of the layout and written out the instructions to recreate this layout exactly <3
Stesha your style of Scrapbooking is just so beautiful <3 Thank you for being part of the Creative Design Team and showing us your unique style.
Cheers Shaz
I really need to get those alphabet sets – they are perfect for scrapbooking! Love your page. 🙂
Love your page!
What a great page! Love how you really get to appreciate these fantastic photos with the simplicity of the lo yet the alphabet and fun title help keep it so FUN!
I just love your LO, perfect way to showcase those memories!
I just love this page – it’s so bold and yet cute. You’re son looks like a real superstar!