Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Tin Caps Baseball"

Who doesn't love a good home town baseball game? Well, me, actually. I am not a fan of baseball, but I do love to go for the sole purpose of spending time with the family.

Here's a layout from a night at the ball park with my family and my coworkers from Brotherhood Mutual. It was a great night, even if the fireworks are my favorite part.

Two Page Scrapbook Layout - "Batter Up"

I'm not a big fan of baseball. It's a little too slow for me. Does this  make me un-American? Each year we join our fellow employees for a company party at Parkview Stadium for a Tin Caps baseball game complete with food and fireworks.

 This particular company picnic was actually two years ago! How am I so far behind posting my layouts? This year's picnic will happen tonight, and even though I'm not a fan of the sport, I'm a fan of all the wonderful people we work with!! They are such a blessing in my life. We took my son and his family two years ago. That's our granddaughter with the cute little piggy tails, and her new baby brother in the car seat.

 The other couple are very long time friends and the wife also works with us. Love them!! All of this to say that coworkers, friends and family can make a baseball game tons of fun for this non-fan.

The paper is Recollections "Today, Tomorrow, Forever", along with Washi from MME's Boy Crazy collection and American Crafts. The title font is Cricut's Jubilee (runt).

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Two Page Layout - "Tin Caps"

It's baseball season. Fort Wayne has a new minor league stadium right downtown.  It's open for walking on non-game days. It's a great addition to the fun things you can do downtown. Our team is called the Tin Caps, and they are pretty fun to watch, even though, I'm pretty open about the fact that I'm not much of a baseball fan. Each year the company my husband and I work for sponsors a picnic for the employees at one of the Tin Caps games.

These pictures were taken at last year's company picnic at the ballpark. We bought extra tickets for our son and his family to join us. What a joy to share the evening with them!

 You can tell that baseball isn't Scarlet's favorite yet either, but overall, I think she had fun exploring the baseball park. The patterned paper here is all StampinUp! The baseball was cut from Cricut's Sports Mania cartridge. I inked around the edges with Tim Holtz Pumice distress ink.

 The brackets were cut with Cricut's Art Philosophy cartridge, and the title font is Jubilee. The paper flowers and butterflies are also from StampinUp! and the edges are inked with red to give them a little dimension.

I can't believe she's 2 years old already and she now has a baby brother. This layout is such a great reminder of the fun memories we had with our family that night. As the journaling reads, she is way more entertaining than any baseball game. It's kind of fun to do a girly baseball page!

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Two page layouts - "Dorm Sweet Home" and "Tigers Baseball"

It's days like today that make me love the fall so much. It's cool and breezy and I'd like nothing better than to stretch out in a hammock.

My son is back at college, and I'm missing him already. This seems like the perfect time to share a layout of him in his dorm last fall.



The paper is from Teen Angst paper stack. I used the Fiskars notebook border bunch and zigzag ribbon. I love the hand-shaped paper clip giving a thumbs up to his dorm room. This was such an emotional day for us. He's only an hour a way, but when they're not in their bed at night, they seem so far!

I really miss his gentle happy spirit. Both our boys have the ability to light up the room. We've been so blessed to be given the opportunity to raise them. Jacob is our youngest...Makes for an empty-feeling in the house.

We had the opportunity to take in a Tiger baseball game in July. Yep, I scrapped it already (patting myself on the back). Right in the middle of our hot, muggy, almost unbearable summer was this perfect night for a baseball game...Seriously, the weather was in the lower 70's with a nice breeze. I was so excited not to be cooking in the sun.

The best part was they played great and won. This was one of the first games in the series and very exciting to watch...that is coming from somebody who is not a fan of baseball. =) I actually find it kind of boring to watch, but this game was so enjoyable! 

I prettied up the baseball theme with a scalloped oval punch border. The word baseball was cut with Cricut's "Sports Mania" cartridge. The 3D looking stars are from Art Philosophy. I acutally remembered to work the ticket stubs into the design this time. I played with the grid a little bit to get as many pictures in as possible. It's a good thing my camera ran out of battery or I might have had to do a second two pager...lol.

Have a great week!!

Home run evening

Happy Labor Day to all of you...or would that be Merry Labor Day? =) I guess it doesn't matter as long as you are enjoying yourselves. My day off has been very constructive...cleaning, more cleaning, unpacking from our few days in Michigan, some laundry, and more cleaning. Oh...and a little bit of blogging now. It's been too long.

This is a double layout of photos taken at our company picnic and baseball game. I work for an insurance company who is so good to all of their employees. They pay for the entire event and we just come and have a great time with our co-workers and our families.



I especially like the dark blue background. It seems to bring out all of the colors in my picutres during the picnic, the ball game and then later on for all of the great pictures of the fireworks that my hubs was able to capture. He snaps them and I scrap them!! A match made in heaven....most of the time. =) I'm always excited when I can creatively scrap a lot of pictures of the same event on one layout. It's hard to choose the best photos! I like ordering them in wallet sizes as I did here for the fireworks. That keeps the focus on the pictures of the family, but still allows me to remember some of the smaller details of the evenings.

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Baseball - 2 double layouts

My son, Jacob, played baseball for the first time this year. He didn't get a lot of playing time, but he was happy to be on the team and with his friends. Keystone was such a small school and a lot like a family in so many ways.

This layout includes some random photos taken during the season. It shows some pitching sequences too. I embellished it with a handsewn mitt cut from the Sports Mania Cricut cartridge. I hand-stitched along the pocket of the glove with embroidery floss and I was pretty happy with the way it turned out. I also used some distress ink to get it the color I wanted. (Double click on the photos to enlarge.)
This one is my favorite of the two baseball layouts. Most of the random shots are from the end of the season baseball picnic at the coaches house. Of course, the kids are being silly and that why I love it! The other side features the individual and team professional photos. I cut the 8 x 10 size memory mate photo in half so I could put the title in the middle. I drew attention to my favorite photos with the red matting.
Here's a close up of my faux stitching down the right hand side. I used the piercing tool and then a pen to draw the fake stitching between the holes.

I used real stitches to stitch up the tear on the upper left. This page is just so symbolic to me. I've mentioned on the blog before that the school closed due to lack of financing and it just tore everybody up and left a hole in our hearts....hence the stitching. We tried really hard and raised a lot of money, but it just wasn't enough....

Enjoy and be inspired to scrap your memories too!