Baseball 2007
Sports by Stephanie Ackerman |
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My son has always loved baseball, but his favorite position this year was catcher. I wanted a modern, yet vintage feel so I selected the patterned papers that would provide that look.
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Supplies
 - Brads: Making Memories
- Cardstock: Bazzill Basics
- Chipboard: American Crafts
- Die cut: baseball (Ellison)
- Ink: Ranger, StazOn (Tsukineko)
- Patterned Paper: American Crafts, Creative Imaginations, Karen Foster
- Rub-ons: Making Memories
- Ribbon: American Crafts, Offray
- Stamp: Making Memories
- Tag
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Instructions
1. Start with a white cardstock base and lightly ink the edges for a distressed look.
2. Selecting 5 different patterned papers, which fit my baseball theme, I tore each till I had the look I wanted.
3. I sewed some of the patterned papers to the cardstock, alternating between straight and zig-zag stitching.
4. I then sewed my ribbon to the layout on a slight angle, in keeping with the movement of the photos.
5. I printed my pictures in different sizes to focus on the action shots, and then matted the photos on cardstock. I adhered them to the layout, allowing one to slip behind the patterned paper.
6. I used the Baseball die cut as my title and adhered it with brads inside the “A”s.
8. I used chipboard brackets in the lower right corner to highlight the words.
9. My journaling is on a tag that pulls out from under the center photo. This has been attached to an office supply tag with has been attached with ribbon.
I have been paper crafting with my mom at the kitchen table since I was a child. We did everything from decoupage to sewing to painting to macrame and all paper crafts. I’ve been creating for as long as I remember. In the last 13+ years, my passion for scrapping was rekindled with the birth of my son. Not having a lot of memories of my growing up years (and even fewer pictures), I wanted to be able to document our lives so that my son would have something to remember in years to come.
About 12 years ago, Mom handed me a bag of pictures she had acquired when her mother died about 30 years previously. Mom couldn’t look at those pictures and just put them in a closet. When I started inquiring into family history, she surprised me with this bag and I was amazed at what I found: a picture of my great, great grandmother (circa 1860); pictures from my Mom’s childhood; hundreds of black and white photos, wonderful photos of people I knew by name, but had never met. Unfortunately some of those pictures Mom cannot remember; some of the faces are familiar, but who are they? This is what I don’t want to happen, therefore, I scrap.
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