UFC Convention

I haven't scrapped in forever. I haven't made cards....or anything at all for that matter. The reasons are numerous, but I still really miss it. My dear husband was looking at photos and asked me to please scrap the ones of him and my son at the UFC convention last spring. Yep, you heard me right....husband asked me to scrap. Now normally, he hates this hobby....and teases me about it to no end. So his request got me up and moving.....and here's the layout. DCWV paper..rock star stack.....added MS star border punches. Lettering is Cricut Keystone (terribly underappreciated in my opinion....it's great for plain ole' letters....) triple layered.....and George Stars. Simple, but I like it....hope hubby does too~

Football Fun

Don't forget the great online crop at Practical Scrappers this week-end.  This layout is for one of the challenges:  Feast or Football.   Reminded me of these great pictures I had of Kati and Michael throwing ball.  Simple layout....sometimes it's good to let the paper do the talking.   Football is handpieced........lettering is Keystone (a forgotten little cartridge that I love, esp. for sports.)

Craig Did It!

Just getting around to scrappin' Craig's graduation. I used a paper set from Oriental Trading as well as some individual papers and embellishments I've been collecting through the year. Used his program and ticket on the pages too. 2009 is Cricut Keystone in metallic silver.

Emme Wants a Cracker!

My niece Emme loves crackers. Her parents try to limit her addiction; however, Papaw is a supplier! All lettering is Keystone...cut at base and shadow. Polka dots are from a regular hole punch...then glued (I need to get a life, I know!). The letters in Emme are staggered with pop dots under altering letters. Crackers are circles from George, cut from Bazzill, trimmed with decorative edge scissorts, inked in Chocolate Brown ink, and embellished with a Sharpie. Top layer is attached with pop dots. Striped paper is Bo Bunny...cardstock is Bazzill...embellishment is plain, old yellow rickrack and buttons.

Sock It To Me!

My first layout of 2009! The only thing my daughter Kati asked for this Christmas was a sock monkey. Here is her scrapbook page with her monkey, Bob! (She got sock monkey slippers too!)
Papers are Daisy D's Bambino collection and I just pieced the different designs together on brown cardstock. Then I used a strip of banana paper for the upper/lower borders and trimmed with some yellow ribbon. Attached a red ribbon and bow to the side and used Keystone for the letters.
The sock monkey is my design! I used paper doll dress up - cut 2 brown figures at 4 1/2" and one ivory one, using blackout. I glued them all together, rounded off the ivory hands, and trimmed the brown bodies hands/feets so the ivory would show. I cut a 1" and 1 1/2" oval one from George in ivory and a 1" and 1 1/2" oval two from George for the mouth and bottom. The tail was the monkey on Zooballoo....cut at 4"1/2 on Layers/Shadow in brown and ivory and then hand trimmed until I liked the look. It was glued betweent the body pieces. The hat was the top third of the pilgrim boy's hat in ivory with a brown band from the same hat. The pompon was made from crochet yarn. The eyes are Favorite Findings buttons, and I drew the facial details. And we had to put his bottom on to match the doll! We love him at our house!