Scrap the Bpys November Challange

This challange was to display team colours.  I chose to scrap SAPSASA district soccer team which not only did my son play in but my hubby coached.  The competition is held every year at the end of June for the year 6 and 7s from each school district.  This team was chosen for the Onkaparinga North district.



Engagement card

I don't really make many cards.  The odd one here and there for kids birthday parties, but my cousin is engaged and I thaught i would use the inspiration from the card Queen Natalie May and make a fold out card and the inspiration from the fabulous shabby chic Steph Devlin (Lucky me to have both these inspirational people as my teachers) to design the card itself.  This together with my scraps, I acheived this card to celebrate my cousins engagement:

The front:

The inside:

The card standing up:

Soccer scrap the boyz!

Another soccer LO done, the scrap the boys challenged me to complete the 4th of the 6 LO which are needed for Chet this year.  I am really happy with how it turned out, just needing my son to hand write his stats on the tag.  I used paer from a soccer pack I purchased containing paper, embelishments, ribbons and words.  I first used a chicken wire template as a stamp which reminded me of the goal nets around the edge of the paper.  The school banner and flags represent the school teams colours and made my own tags so that Chet could record some fun stats to look back on.  Again these were done with the chicken wire template one stamping the image the other using as a mask and filling in template with distressed ink.

Scrap my Boy!

 Renton, my youngest just loves animals.  From dogs to the creepy crawlies, anything he can touch and love.  He was in awe of the green caterpillar we found hiding on the tomato plant and just had to have a closer look.
For this page I used the Bug a Boo collection in the Adorn it paper range.  I dirtied up the page by stamping the edges and using a mask with stamps and glimmermisting over the page.  I embelised the page using bugs cut from the paper which are raised to different levels and the twine is stapled onto the paper (using green staples).

Renton also turned 6 this year and had his first birthday party with his friends.
Here I used the Lets celebrate range from Websters papers.  To embelish I cut our the balloons and raised the top half, created my own flags, and used stickers and doodling around the page.

2011 Country Championships LO

2011 SAPSASA District LO

I am still here

As soccer season officially draws to a close, and early weekends now temporarily a thing of the past i am busy trying to create scrapbook pages for the season that was.  All my photos are collated and printed and my largest collection i own, that of soccer papers and embelishments come out once again as I try to find some creativeness to showcase the 6 teams my eldest son played for this year.  SAPSASA District done, Country tournament done, and now I have scrpappers block.  No flowers or bling just pages focused on soccer.  Let me tell you with 6 different LO all with the common theme of soccer I really find it hard to find inspiration and change LO ideas.

Websters Bloomers Challenge

The Color Room LO (Sun Room) palette #66

Once upon a sketch challenge 1st July

The journalling should read.  "You were so excited to start school and expectations were high.  You hoped to be able to read a book by the end of your first day."

June 15th Once upon a sketch challenge

I Spy, something starting with "Let's Celebrate"

Hello............

I start this blog in the whirlwind of soccer season and mid SAPSASA tournament.  Although I have tonsilitis I am out in the cold happily shooting action shots of the Onkaparinga North soccer team, and more so of my eldest son, Chet.  With 3 games today he is exhausted, and me, I have over 300 photos to sort through keeping only about 20 of the truely worthwhile action shots of the team.  Its amazing what you see after on the big screen of your computer.  Elbows, shirt pulling, tangled feet, perfect foot placement, lucky strikes, tongues in cheek, concentration,  frustration and pure joy.  Sports photography is my passion followed on by scrapping the moment I capture through the lens to tell our story.  I am blessed with 3 active sporty children, and sometimes its hard to keep up.  Life is crazy mad, and I wouldn't have it any other way.