Go Confidently in the Direction of your Dreams!

I was blog hopping the other day and stopped by Creative Scrappers.  They had posted Sketch #164 which I thought was such a good example of  less is more! 

I created the below LO from this sketch:

This was Temple's first year on the swim team and she totally loved it.  The season ended yesterday with the Championships.  Temple finished this season landing somewhere in the middle of the pack of the 8yr olds and under.  She said she definitely will continue with this next year.  We've spoken with one of the assistant coaches who agreed to give Temple private lessons next month--she is looking forward to it!

Here are a few closeups:

No matter how many times I stamp, I rarely if ever get my stamping right!

Thanks for looking and Happy Scrapping!

Temple AKA Missy

Temple had a very distinct personality right from the start.  She didn't cry a lot and she was always observant.  When other babies would feed off of each other when one would cry and the others would join in, Temple would look at all of them as if they were a science project to observe!  When she was a wee baby, I used to look at her giving me her "Look" and I would always go right back at her, "Look here, Missy!!!"  I used that phrase so much with her that Missy just stuck.  Though everyone knows Charles and I call her Missy, we are the only ones who do call her by her nickname.

Anywho...  I finally did a LO of  Temple and her nickname!

I once again, turned to Creative Scrappers for their sketch inspiration.  This is another sketch (#120) by Aphra Bolyer.  The pictures I wanted to use were portrait size so I rotated the sketch 90 degrees left.

Here are some closeups:

As you can see, I used a bit of glimmer mist!

I also broke out the Cricut for the heart, stars and word diecuts.

There's my circut again for Temple.

and to cut out Missy!

Thanks for looking and Happy Scrapping!

Back 2 School!

Monday was the first day back to school for Temple.  This was no hardship for her because our girl simply loves school!  Of course I got pictures, and I decided to use another sketch from Creative Scrappers.  So this LO is based on Sketch #117 created by the very talented July Gaceta whose work I admire!

I really like the sketches offered by Creative Scrappers and the LOs created by their DT are wonderful!  You should go and check them out!

Happy Scrapping!