Don't have the right embellishment? Make your own!

This is why I LOVE my Cricut so much.  And one day I hope to LOVE a Silhouette Cameo, too.  :)

I really wanted to document this day at Six Flags with my second cousin and his family when they visited SA a year and a half ago, but I didn't have roller-coaster-themed paper, and Six Flags is the Warner Bros brand but I didn't have any Bugs Bunny paper either (the ride is called Bugs Bunny White Water Rapids).... so I made my own stuff!  The actual roller coaster title is cut from the Summer Celebrations Cricut cartridge; the shield, which mimics the name of the coaster on the picture, is from the Create A Critter cartridge; and all the flourishes are from the Cindy Loo cartridge.  Thickers complete my title.

 

Also, I should mention that I cut the shield, flourishes, and background of the coaster title from WHITE, and the big 8x8 piece of paper is white too.  On the big 8x8 paper I used a CTMH background stamp so it would match my background PP (which is Little Yellow Bicycle), and I used inks to ink up the other pieces of white.  Finally, I added Stickles to the flourishes to make them appear wet as the ride we were on was also very wet!  OMGoodness it was such fun!  But Nick vowed that he will never.again. ride any roller coaster.  Bummer for him! 

 

Word stickers are Simple Stories. 

 

Next, I posted a week or so ago about Nick's baseball season coming to an end and how just one two-page layout was going to cover the whole season.  What's funny about that is I hadn't scrapped LAST YEAR'S baseball pictures.... I just found them buried in a to-do stack!  And my handy dandy Cricut came to the rescue again.  The baseball mitt, though easily available in a variety of stickers at any craft store, is also on my Sports Mania cartridge so I just got the right paper and cut!  The baseball itself is from a sticker pack I bought long ago.  The background brown behind all of my pictures is cut from the Art Philosophy (CTMH) cartridge.  Thickers, Simple Stories stickers, and some chipboard complete my layout. 

 

Oh and that's yet another Wal-Mart gift card that I used.  :D

Background PP is Bo Bunny. 

 

 

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Blessings,

Martha

 

Batter up!

I've only taken a few pictures of Nick's baseball season and the following pages are the total amount of pages about it that I will make.  Last weekend he had his last two games of Fall Ball and now the only thing left is the end of season party where he'll get his participation trophy (what a total crock... but I digress).   

ANYWAY!  First, on Sept 15 Nick had his first run of the season and he did really well.  I happened to have the stamps from the Huntington WOTG on my desk when we came home from the game and I immediately went to work with some mist and did my journaling.  I didn't make the entire page until I got the pictures a good month later, but the journaling part was done. 

You can see where I used VersaMark to stamp and then emboss my images with black EP. 

I embossed those arrows in black, too.  Below you can see what my embossed, misted product looks like.  I also added alpha stickers and twine. 

The next two-page LO is using a baseball page kit I purchased at Hobby Lobby.

Those two beautiful ladies pictured above are my dear sisters, who support me and Nick no matter what kind of crap we (*I*) try to pull!  LOL

Thanks for stopping by and leaving love!

Blessings,

Martha