Father’s Day gift

Sooo, I’m a little late in posting this. That’s what happens when you ignore your blog for months.
K gave me an belated but awesome Mother’s day gift of a Kindle Fire.  I received it about a week before Father’s day.  I think his timing was planned so he would be sure to get some good loot for dad’s day, instead of the usual ‘here’s a card and oh, yeah, you can choose where we go for lunch after church’ type of gift.
I had seen this idea on Pinterest (of course) and decided it would be a good father’s day gift.  The kiddo’s were not too thrilled with the idea of a photo shoot, especially one where they had to actually change their clothes and comb their hair, but they did it after extensive beatings minimal threatening.  I picked the letter “A” and “D” at a craft store.  The store only had one “D” but that didn’t matter for this particular project. (By the way, if your initials are A.D. or D.A, I can hook you up.)

You can’t tell from this photo, but the pictures are in a clear frame, connected on the back.  I think it turned out pretty cute. 

3,3,3,3, Let’s sing a song about Three!

Do you remember that song?? From Electric Company? Or was it Sesame Street? Anyway, Three is the subject of this layout…as in Jason’s first day of 3rd grade.  I combined a couple of challenges in one layout – 1) to use numbers in a layout and 2) to use a journaling card.
 

The cardstock is Kraft, and the patterned paper is from Basic Grey’s new line “Oxford”.  I made the journaling tag from MME Life Stories paper.
Thanks for looking!

Play Ball!!!

Much to my dismay, Jason loves baseball.  And I love him, so I suffer through long games on uncomfortable bleachers to watch him play the game he loves.  This year is his first in the Little League Minors.  It is completely kid pitched (which is why the games are so long).  He has gotten a few good hits in this season. The most recent development is that he pitched an inning last week. (I didn’t get to watch, since Grace was having a melt down and I took her home).  Tonight is his last game and hopefully he will be able to pitch and I will be able to watch him.  Who knows, maybe I’ll end up enjoying baseball.

This layout is based on a sketch from Sketch Thursday.  Most of the paper is from the WeRMK MVP scrap pad.  The baseball was cut with SCAL on my cricut.  I found the letter brads in my stash.

Middle School

I have been working on this layout for 2 days.  I finally finished tonight, after some help from the gals at ClubCK.  They always have the best ideas. 

This is of my oldest on his first day of middle school.

I am having some issues with Blogger. For some reason, it is not letting me comment on other blogs and keeps telling me to sign in.  Hopefully I will figure it out soon.

Boys & Embellishments

Yesterday, I was working on making some paper flowers, having seen a tutorial over on CK.  They are super easy and oh, so pretty. (Pictured here - please ignore the colors - I was working with scraps) Anyway, I realized that I don't have much embellishments for boy pages.  My boys are getting older, so bug and frogs are really not their thing anymore.  They are both into sports, but not every page is sport related.  So do you have any go-to embellishment for boy pages?  I'd love to hear what it is.