Future Baseball Star

Yeah!  I am going crazy scrapping my youngest grandson’s photos. I really like how this LO turned out.  I love the colors and paper in this LO.  I hope you like it too. 

The background paper is from ummmm . . . Autumn Leaves and the patterned paper is from We R Memory Keepers.  I love this patterned paper and brought several sheets a few years ago when I did a album for my husband for Father’s day.  It reminds me of a man’s tie.  Just love it. The card stock comes from my usual sources—Bazzill and Coordinations.  Also, see the woven net on the LO.  I’ve had that forever and I pulled it out and knew it would be perfect for this LO.  So nice. 

I used Base Camp for the words “Future” and “Star” and the Baseball word art comes from the Sports Mania Cart.  I used the black out feature on my Gypsy to get rid of rest of the cut.  The stars are all from George and Basic Shapes cut at various sizes and the swirls are several different ones welded with my Gypsy and are from Ashlyn’s Alphabet.  I journaled at the top and bottom of the LO because I thought it would make the best use of space on the LO.

I blew up the photo on the title page on my scanner and reprinted it as n 8 X10 and then trimmed it down. Then I scanned the smaller photos as pairs and printed 2 of them per regular 4 x 6 photo sheet.  I used my 2” square punch to trim them to size.  I also used some little star buttons I had in my stash to add some interest to the page and mix things up. 

Tomorrow’s Friday and I have another project to share with you. 

And 1 makes 9!

This week is going to be a hodgepodge of whatever strikes my fancy.  Today I’ve got a LO I did for my last grandson’s birth.  We have 9 grandchildren each one as special as the rest, but Chaz is our last and we are trying to enjoy every minute of his babyhood. This means I’ve been spending more time playing with him than I’ve spent scrapping his life so far.  So I stopped recently and started trying to do some scrapping before the details of all those photos disappear from my head.  I’ve scrapped the births of 7 of our nine grandchildren and it’s sometimes been a challenge to have a new take on it. I think that’s what kept me from tackling Chaz’s photos.  We were extremely happy for his arrival but we have been for all our grandchildren.  I also think one of the challenges of scrapping for a baby boy is to keep things slightlymasculine and yet hone in on the sweetness of the baby.  I chose these colors because I think they allowed me to do just that.  I wanted the page to have a slightly dreamy look because he really was a dream come true for our son and his wife as well as for us.  So I added the swirls and start to indicate how heaven sent he was. 

I remember doing lots of layering because I was out of dimensionals, but I think it turned out fine. You’ll also see lots of faux stitching and some ribbon at different points and for different emphasis on the pages.   

I also tried to echo the circle theme of one of the papers with the journaling circles.

Recipe:

DCWV for patterned paper

DCWV and Bazzill for the cardstock

Cuttin’ Up for the font

Ashlyn’s Alphabet for swirls

George and basic shapes for stars and circle cuts

Signo white gel pen for stitching and a blue gel pen for journaling. 

I like the way this LO turned out.  Satisfied—Content!