Everybody Loves Sweet Lou

Hi stamping friends and welcome to a new week...stars and stripes week!  I love the 4th of July!  I'm looking forward to the upcoming weekend...family, fireworks and fun!  Being that it is the 4th of July week, I'm planning on having some fun with stars and strips all week!
I'm kicking off the week with a new MDS layout...I've missed playing in MDS and I am happy to have a new page to add to our Family Yearbook.  Last week my older boys participated in the Walla Walla Sweets Baseball Camp and loved every single minute of it!  They each had their picture taken with the team mascot, Sweet Lou, or Onion Guy, as my little guy calls him :-)

MDS Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Summer Possibilities DSP

Ink ~ Night of Navy, Real Red, Smoky Slate

Stamp Sets ~ Extreme Elements, Great Sport, Game Day Baseball

Fonts ~ Arial Black, Throw My Hands Up

 

I enlarged the stars image from the Extreme Elements stamp brush set and cropped it for the bigger blue star.  I resized the same stamp to create the stars in the background.  I love being able to use one stamp in different ways in MDS!

 

Thanks for dropping by today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow and see what I have in store for you!

 

Happy Stamping!

Goooooaaaaalllllll!!!!!

Any soccer fans out there? I'm not a huge fan, but my boys do like to play, so I'm kind of forced to like it.  They've been asking to play fall soccer and all I can think of is cold, wet, windy evenings spent on the field, but then I remind myself that this is much better than them sitting around doing nothing.  I do love that my boys love to be so active!

I made this card at the request of a co-worker who said she needed a card for a friend who was turning 30 and loves soccer.  By the time I finished with it, I decided it was too juvenile for a 30 year old man, but still like it.  I'll keep this in my card basket for one of the many kiddo birthday parties my boys get invited to.  I used this weeks sketch over at Try Stampin' on Tuesday to get me started...

 

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Gumball Green, Whisper White, Basic Black

Ink ~ Basic Black, Whisper White Craft

Stamp Sets ~ Great Sport, Gorgeous Grunge, ABC-123 Sketched Alphabet & Numbers

Other Supplies ~ Honeycomb Embossing Folder, Neutrals Candy Dots, Hardware Essentials Clips, 1-1/4" Circle Punch, Crystal Effects

 

I inked up the soccer ball and stamped it numerous times, then punched the images out to create the "ball in motion" effect.  The sketched lines from Gorgeous Grunge was the prefect addition to achieve that effect. 

 

Now it's time to come up with a different and more age appropriate "dude" card for my friend...what will I come up with?

 

Happy Stamping!



Freshly Made Thank You

My boys' Little League season will come to an end this weekend and I decided it would be fun to have each of the kiddos sign a card for each of their coach's and the team mom.  It has been a great season and it has been awesome to see how much all of the kids have improved since last year!

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketches sketch from Jen M to get me started.  I had some fun using some soon to be retired stamps as well as a new one too!  The Crushed Curry and Midnight Muse are a perfect match to their team colors :D

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Midnight Muse, Crushed Curry, Whisper White

Ink ~ Midnight Muse, Crushed Curry, Jet Black StazOn, Real Red

Stamp Sets ~ Great Sport, Ciao, Baby, ABC-123 Sketch Alphabet & Numbers, Merry Minis

Other Supplies ~ Soda Pop Tops, Circle Punches, Merry Minis Punch Pack, Bitty Banners Framelits

I changed things up a bit for the other two cards, but still used the same stamp sets and supplies.  I did also make some cute jelly bean treat bags for all the kiddos too...they deserve it after a great season!

Sad to see the season come to an end, but happy to know my boys will have the chance to participate in some pretty cool baseball camps this summer in preparation for next years season!  PLAY BALL!

Happy Stamping!