Two sporty scrapbook layouts

Hello. It is June already. Oh my goodness.

Time for a new challenge at ARTastic.

Here's the inspo pic:

Russel Drysdale - "Children playing with ball"

 

Criteria is children playing theme.

I have two layouts to inspire you. I have two boys, there is one layout for each of them.

They both played cricket and football throughout their youth.

First is of Mark playing footy. He was a fabulous footballer. Always knew where to be, a great skill to have. He was also a great all rounder at Cricket.



Second is of Damon playing cricket.  He was a fantastic fast bowler, often opening. As for batting, well best not to talk of that.

I've done a double pager for him.  I did my own lettering for the titles.




Why not join in?  It doesn't have to sport at all. It could be a tea party or on the playground.

Hope to see your entries.

Dale x

5 sport cards for mood board challenge

I found a new challenge today. It's over at Let's Get Inspired.  This is the mood board inspiration.
I have made a set of 5 cards for my son's football (AFL) coaches and team manager's. Usually I vary them slightly but I decided to make them all the same this time. I've used all the colours and added a football, inspired by the brown leather shoes and clutch in the mood board.

How did I spot this challenge? I was looking at the lovely Debi's blog. Thanks Debi. xx

Here are my cards.

Kaisercraft sketch #4 June 2014 - Awards

I love layouts that have lots of circles. This week's Kaisercraft Saturday sketch was simply a must do.

Happily I had in my stash a background piece of paper from the Rewind collection that fit the bill admirably.

Here's the sketch.

Here is my layout.

I have decided to start a Kaisercraft board on Pinterest. Here's the link if you'd like to follow along: http://www.pinterest.com/daisydokes/kaisercraft/

Mystical CC for May 2014

It's Cyber Crop time at Mystical Scrapbooks.  Each Designer has a sketch for you to play with that has one embellishment type as an added criteria. Mine is ribbon.

MY CHALLENGE

Here is my sketch. It's a double. It's taken it from the October 2011 Page Maps. I like the big circle. You can see how I've altered it to suit my photos below.

Here is my take on it.

From the Shop at Mystical I have used the following:

white and purple cardstock
Cosmo Cricket Pixie-Licious/bloomin babies pp
Fancy Pants Memories Captured/Strips pp/ephemera pack and button set
Echo Park Springtime sticker sheet
Kaisercraft 13th Hour sticker alphas
MME Lime Tiwst Our of the Blue "Family" accessories sheet
black pen
Flourish With A Bling Jasmine, lilac
green and white striped ribbon

TRACEY'S CHALLENGE

Here is my take on it. I love working with circles. So much fun. Tracey's extra criteria is bling.

Products used from Mystical shop:

various cardstock colours, used circle punches and cutting system

Basic Grey Lime Rickey/Rob Roy pp

Ki Memories School days/monkey bars pp

mists

jillibean soup diced denim alphas

Basic Grey knee highs and bow ties sticker

Flourish With A Bling Grace, Pearl

MME Lime Twist Our of the Blue "Playful" alphas

JANE'S CHALLENGE

Jane's extra criteria was flowers.

Products used from the Mystical Scrapbook's shop:
Fancy Pants Memories Captured pp
Jillibean Soup Yellow salt pp
Kaisercraft black min i paper bloom and deep yellow rhinestones
Pink Paislee Hey Kid element stickers
Twiddleybitz musical notes chipbaord
black ribbon
Prima dollhouse collection velvet flower

April's Archi-scraps challenge

April's challenge is up at Archiscraps.


Look at this crazy place. Such a lovely setting.  This image is April's inspiration image for the challenge at Archiscraps. Of the course the extra criteria is triangles.

Here is my take on it.

I took my inspiration from all the green, outdoor setting and trees in the background. I have added a triangle in each corner, they seem to point at the photos. I've added a banner with each piece having a triangle shape as well.

Thanks for looking. Hope you join in. Love reading comments on my work.

Sporty Kaisercraft layout

I was so excited that Kaisercraft have their Saturday sketches back. They had a little break in January and I was looking forward to their return.

A terrific sketch this time and I have flipped it so the photos are on the right due to the orientation of my photos.


Here is my interpretation.

KC do some fabulous ranges for boys and I've done a real mix and match from their different collections to create this layout. Both of my boys were in the Grand Finals for their ages at indoor cricket last year. My son Mark played for both teams.














Products used:

Kaisercraft:
On The Move/Cylinders pp
Base Coat/Bark pp
Le Chateau/Lumiere pp
Rewind/Record pp
Rought and Tough Brads
Attitude! Collectibles

also Echo Park For the Record alphas

Thanks for looking.

Sporty scrapbook page

Today's layout was created for the Week 5 challenge at Scrapbooking Top 50's Monopoly competition.

Here was the criteria:

The Winning Team - a sports layout for FS2S based on The Fairy

Did the title tempt you to read a bit more?  I hope so.

I'm sure parents of girls will be thrilled with this month's inspiration movie poster, The Fairy for From Screen 2 Scrap's challenge. But, as a parent of boys, here is what I came up with.

So how did I come to do a football page you might ask? I knew I didn't have any fairy photos to use. I looked at the image of the girl and thought of leaping and then I thought of football. It's footy season in Australia at the moment.  My son Mark is a really good footy player. He joined in the School football team when he was back in Year 6 and they had a terrific year. The first game against Bateman was played in appalling wintery conditions. I goal umpired in my trench coat, wellington boots and a cap. The water was streaming down the front of my cap and down the back of my neck. Mark kicked 6 goals in those conditions, very admirable. Bateman's team contained 6 of his Booragoon Football teammates that he played with on the weekend. Much kudos that week for Mark.

This team photo that I took was put into the School newsletter.

The criteria this month is be inspired by the poster as usual, plus add clouds for 1 point, a white title for 2 points and lots of blue for 3 points.

I think you can see my inspiration pretty easily.

I hope you decide to join in. Poor old FS2S has not been well patronised lately. Please, please, if you can have a crack at this I'd really love it.

Cheers,
Dale

Scrap The Boys - Time for Tennis

The challenge at Scrap The Boys this month is a really easy one for me, scrap a sport page. I'm always doing these. Also have to use the colours, red, yellow, orange or teal. At least 2. I've used all 4, but mostly yellow as that's the colour shirt the boys are wearing.  Here's my layout.

Thanks for looking.

My next challenge at Soul - male layout

For my next challenge at SOUL SCRAPPERS I have created the following:


CUCC15 Cooking up a masculine layout, canvas or 3 card set

I tend to do a lot of masculine layouts and make a lot of cards for guys, being surrounded by a lot of male relatives has a lot to do with this. I feel like making a layout for a guy can be a little more challenging. With cards they tend to like them more simple but a bit cool.

For my challenge this month I'd like you to create a masculine single or double layout, canvas or 3 card set, no girls allowed and no flowers and no pink either.

I'd like to suggest some great elements for male projects and I'd like you to pick at least 3 of them to use.

I'll also suggest some techniques of which you should use at least 2.

ELEMENTS

Arrows, chipboard, stars, punched shapes, stamps, brads, buttons, tags, stickers that are male oriented, bits and bobs from hardware store such as washers, twine, clothing tags, washi tape, transparencies

Papers featuring plaid, stripes, argyle, chevrons, sports, spots, vehicles, tools, abstract shapes

TECHNIQUES

Stamping, distressing, inking, painting, paper tearing, doodling, hand stitching

Another tip I've got for  you is "add more photos". That leaves less space to fill.

PRIZE - Kaisercraft off the page wood album, a Homer tag I made and some green punched shapes

 

Please do join us at Soul.

Play Hard for Scrap The Boys

ANOTHER CRICKET PAGE

Scrap the Boys have some wonderful sponsors this month. I always mean to do their challenges but don't always get around to it. Who could resist this month though.  Here is the criteria:

2 photos 6 x 4 or smaller. I have had to add 3 as they were all needed for the story. Hope that doesn't disqualify me.
Chipboard - I have 4 pieces, the clouds, the title and the date.
Washi tape - bottom right hand corner chevrons
mists/paints - I have used a round tube to add circles to my patterned paper that already had white circles on it. I always enjoy adding an abstract "ball" reference to my sports pages.

The layout is about my son Damon's first game with his District cricket team, Under 17s Melville Storm. Their team colours and blue and white so I have used those and added green and taupe.

Thanks for looking and check out the other inspiring layouts at Scrap the boys.

Cricket layout

This is the link to the challenge at Soul Scrappers. Mandy Dodd creates some really beautiful pages, often making her background really unique and special (Hi Mandy, if you're reading this). I've been following her for some time and was pleased to try her guest designer challenge.

I chose to use mists on cardstock to make my background. I sprayed 3 different Mr Huey's colours, then pushed a 12x12 square of bubblewrap on to it to create a pattern. I then thought, why waste all that ink and pushed the bubble wrap on to another piece of cardstock to use at a later date.

The green mist represents the grass. The yellow is for sunshine. Cricket is a summer sport. For instance, Mark is playing a game tomorrow and the temperature forecast is 38 degrees celcius. The larger red splotches are to show the movement of the cricket ball flying through the air as it is being bowled.

Why not give the challenge a try yourself. You have til the 28th of Feb. It's fun.

Thanks for looking. 

Bring It On - Footy layout

 Here's another layout of Mark playing footy. He is such a little star I always have lots of opportunities to photograph him with the ball. Again, I have used his team colours as the inspiration.

I'm entering this layout in:

Flourish With a Bling's October Bling It On Boys (see how clever I've been with my layout title) where you had to use some of their product on a boy layout. I've use the Luke Blue Denim Metallic flourish. The second photo shows just how luminous the product is. Very cool.

I'm also entering it into Crafting Marfa's challenge. Marfa hails from sunny Florida and she asks us to use multiple photos on a layout. I mostly do this at any rate as I like to use lots of photos.

Thanks for looking and enjoy your crafting.

P.S. My layout won this challenge.

Footy layout for Scrap the Girls

I have created this layout for Scrap The Girl's September challenge, which is a sports/action page.

These photos are of me goal umpiring a football game. I have had many occasions on which to do this over the years. This year alone I must have umpired about 14 games. Booragoon Primary didn't seem to have their own flags so I went and bought myself some and put them to good use. I'm thinking of donating them to the School at the end of the year. Not sure I want to part with them though.

Thanks to Teresa Forbes from TJM Photographics for these great photos.

Sport card

The challenge at 365 Cards for Day 189 is Sporty. Yay, I think. I've made this card for my son Mark to give to him on his Football trophy day. He's had another great year, trying his best and succeeding. His team colours are red, white and blue.

Football coach card set

It is nearly the end of the football season. Mark has one game left to play this Saturday and then a lightning carnival on Father's Day. He has had an outstanding year. He has a lot of talent but also he is lucky enough to have great coaches and fellow players. It's been a pleasure to watch his games.

I volunteered to make cards for the Coach, Assistant Coach and Team Manager. The team colours are red, white and royal blue so I've used those on the cards.

I'm entering these cards in Day 167 - All Boy - at 365 Cards. The football theme certainly is all boy.

Published sports layout

I have an article in this month's issue of Scrapbooking.com online magazine. You can find it here. There is a written tutorial giving instructions on how I created it, the reasons why I created it and also a Youtube video. There are always lots of great articles at Scrapbooking.com each month. Why not take a look.

Love My Boy. A footy layout on Mother's Day.

Yet another sports layout. Another footy one. On a roll today. Unfortunately this photo doesn't do it justice as the weather is not great today, but  you get the idea I hope.

This is for Scrap Boutique's monthly challenge. This was set by Sonia Thompson and her criteria was to have love in the title and for it to be about how you love your Mum or you love being a Mum, or similar. I had to idea of using difference stickers in some journalling. I've done that up the top using stickers, rub-ons and a die-cut football. Mark quite liked that part of the layout.

Ruck. A footy layout.

I am on a roll with my sport layouts today. Do you like my succinct post titles?

This one is for Red Earth Scrapping's May 2012 Stash stomper. You simply had to create a winter sport layout with more than one photo. Easy.

The Batsman. A sports layout.

I'm really proud of my son Mark's sporting ability. He really is gutsy. He's a terrific cricketer. I think this shot I took of him is pretty good too. Do you see the ball? Pretty cool hey?  I've decided to use circles as my them for this layout to emphasise the cricket ball.

I'm entering this layout in ARTastic's May challenge. It has to be an outdoor sports theme and it's based on the painting The Cricketer's  by George Russell Drysdale. It's a real beauty. I've picked up the colours from the painting and used them in my layout.