Boy Crazy

One of the things that I overlooked as a new release was kit called Boy Crazy by Dale Ann Cubbage (DC Designs).

It was the Freebie Quick Pages that attracted my attention. Some of the girls at the Miracle games were complaining that this years crop of baseball players looks too muck like well...baseball players.

So while this was a bit of silliness, I think it works out perfectly for the younger crowd. I've not showed them to the boys yet - they'll probably think I've gone over the deep end.

The alpha is the Duct Tape alpha by Maria LaFrance, also available from at Digital Freebies.







And also, just for fun...Missy was doing some campaigning at Bobblection night, but this was the only shot that turned out.



The Bandana Alpha is from Free Digital Scrapbooking.

The funny thing is, I haven't used the quick pages yet, but the bracket albums that come with the bundle have been very useful.

More Jurassic Art

With the season nearly over, it strikes me as the wrong time of the year to do more layouts as I'm never going to get them signed. However, as Andres said "There's always spring training."

In any case, Juan Sanchez has been on a tear the the other reason for doing these is to use them in the game recaps. As I only had like two pieces for him, I thought I should expand that selection a bit.

So here we go...


Juan Sanchez


Jon Goncalves


Xavier Brown


Hyun-wook Choi


Danny Ortiz


Aaron Hicks

I also have to say, as far as autographing is concerned, this year's batch has been been memorable for having a pair of stubborn ones in it. Danny Ortiz is notable, although T.J. says he fine, I can never get him to stop long enough to use the pen. Aaron was okay until he signed the Autograph deal, now he acts like I'm suddenly going to list this stuff on e-bay.

And get what? 50 cents less my sellers fee? Let's get real here. It costs me $2.50 just to print these things, not to count the time that goes into putting them together.

As before the Jurassic Art kit is by Angela Sharrow and is available from Digital Freebies.

Speaking of which, it is new release Tuesday at Digital Freebies. Unless you like ploppers however, there seems little on today's offering that I find of interest. A couple of Alphas and maybe the brad factory - as I was kind of looking for some brads for the Jurassic Art kit.

Hard Rock with Helly

This is from Helly's Hard Rock Mama kit which I got because (1) it was Rock and Roll themed and (2) because I really liked the stars in it. There's a bit of word art in it that says something like 30 years and still rockin' by which I take to understand that Helly is still a pup.

When I seem to be lacking in inspiration, I go back to rock and roll. This is not the use of the kit that Helly ever envisioned, I'm sure, however, I started out with Mike because, well...Mike is Mike.



So then I used it...conservatively for my new little buddy Javier:



Then yesterday, having more or less used all the standard stuff for Whit and Sing, I did these two...





And one for Foxy, just because I could, although I have a lot of catching up to do where Matty is concerned.



And finally, I was felling kind of artsy, and came up for this one for Sing which...I REALLY like...



Yes, I realize I probably really like it because it's mostly black and white. I wonder if I should have gray scaled the photo and if it's too late to go back and do that?

Floral Forest Fantasy

The latest kit from Tizzy Made Me Do this is Floral Forest Fantasy which you can get at Digital Chaos.

Diamond is of course, very fond of flowers. She loves to munch on any I bring into the house. In his first piece, she is will some of her Autumn Forest Friends which were done by Danielle Engebretson and which can be found at Digital Freebies.



Since I was afraid she might eat her friends, being the mighty huntress she is, I made her stay in a frame for that one.

In this one, she's out of the frame and having fun playing hide and seek in the forest.



My Grams very much like flowers too, so I sent her off into to woods to enjoy them as well.



There is a Freebie Add On for it. This last pieces was done using just the add on:



Much fun! Well, I suppose I must go and do laundry now. I've procrastinated enough for one day.

Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon is an interesing kit from Danielle Engebretson. I liked the dragonflies, although suddenly, it seems like everyone is doing dragonflies. I do like the watercolored look backgrounds, but it wasn't doing what I wanted to do with it as far as scrapping was concerned.



Dog Daze I came out okay, except that Gene didn't like me using his picture. I thought it looked sweet through.

The Reptar pieces I was not so happy with, although I suppose it's okay...



However, when I came time to scrap the Tie-dyed Missy shots, I knew exactly where I was going with it:



She is definatly stylin', is she not?

I also did the one shot of Mija...just kind of for fun. I had not really expected to get him to sign it.

As it turns out, the opportunity presented himself and the funny thing was, he REALLY like it!



But it was odd watching Mija pitch again in GCL after all these years. He's just not "little Mija" anymore.

The lettering on the Missy piece was the Pink-A-Dot Alpha from Free Digital Scrapbooking The alpha on the Mija piece is from the Beachin' Collection Biggie kit from Scrap Girls

A Pirates' boy for me (Part 2)

Tyler Cox - 35th round


Jesus Aguilara - Non-drafted Free Agent


Ben Gonzalez - 7th Round


Jarek Cunningham - 18th Round


Andury Acevedo - Non drafted free agent


Craig Parry - 50th Round


Frazier Pedron - Non drafted free agent


Alex Vargas - Non drafted free agent


Gabrial Alvarado - Non drafted free agent

The layout elements are from Marie LaFrance's ArrrMatey kit, which comes with its own alpha. On the whole, I prefer the black lettering I used on the previous kit, as it looks like some one took pen to parchment to create it.

I haven't decided if I'm going to autograph the Pirates or not. However, if I decide to, I've now got the pictures to do it with. I also think I could do more with the layouts if take the Pittsburgh logo off, but for the purposes of this exercise, I'll leave them on. (Maybe in Pirate Boys Part 3?)

As with the previous entry, with the except of the Vargas, Parry & Pedron photos, which were taken on 29 June, 2008, and the Alvardo photo, taken 19 June, 2008, these were all snapped at Saturday Morning's game (19 July 2008), which the GCL Twins won, 2-1.

Yo Ho, Yo Ho, a Pirates' boy for me

Tyler Cox - 35th round


Jesus Aguilara - Non-drafted Free Agent


Ben Gonzalez - 7th Round


Jarek Cunningham - 18th Round


Andury Acevedo - Non drafted free agent


Craig Parry - 50th Round


Frazier Pedron - Non drafted free agent


Alex Vargas - Non drafted free agent


Gabrial Alvarado - Non drafted free agent

The layout elements are from Yarrow's A Pirate's Life kit. The lettering is the standard Black Epoxy Alpha available from Free Digital Scrapbooking.

With the except of the Vargas, Parry & Pedron photos, which were taken on 29 June, 2008, and the Alvardo photo, taken 19 June, 2008, these were all snapped at Saturday Morning's game (19 July 2008), which the GCL Twins won, 2-1.

Owen vs. the Dinosaurs

Angela Sharrow has this great Quick Page Freebie made from her Jurassic Art kit. Here we see how Owen stacks up against a Brontosaurus.



I think he's got a little bit more growing to do!

Don't forget to leave her some love if you down load her freebie!

Midnight in the Garden

Designs by Helly had a freebie sampler up on Digi-free for her Hard Rock Mama kit. You know me, I'm into anything Rock and Roll, and this is actually a pretty cool little kit. But I was wondering what the full kit looked like so I followed the link over Scrapping Whispers where I also found a very nice little kit called Midnight in the Garden.

I particually liked the little fairies, but here's the rub. It's mostly black on black so you can't see a lot of things once you try to put them together.

Unhappy with my initial results, I started putting together a hybrid piece using the Gothic Envy kit and the Dark Elegance kit, which was a freebie.



Halfway through this piece is when it occurred to me to add a glow to the elements. Photo suite doesn't do glow every well, BTW, but...



So then I went back and reworked the Diamond in the Moonlight Garden piece, with much better resuls. I'll get the hang of this sooner or later.

Anyway, Helly's got some nice kits although I'm not sure what I'd do with some of them. Maybe something will occur to me eventually, but the Hard Rock Mama and the Midnight in the Garden kit I've found quite amusing.

I would love to play with this some more tonight, but we once again have a 10:00 AM game (bleck!) so I believe I'll head off to bed now.

Jurassic Park

A new release this last Tuesday, July 8th, Jurassic Art just tickled me pink. I love Dinos! However, is it worth buying something if I'm not going to use it?

How about....



When Dinosaurs played at the Lee County Sportsplex?

In any case, I did this one for Mike and was immediately struck by how well this would have worked with Danny "Bam-Bam" Rams last year. Ah well...

Maybe when he makes it to the Miracle.



I was trying to stay away from actually putting Dino's on the layouts, but...



I figured the little glitter ones weren't too obvious...right?





Maybe I could pass them off as dragons?



I'm sure I can find lots of amusing things to do with this once baseball season is over and I can move on to other projects.

By the way, if you hop over to Digital Freebies between now and Thursday, July 17, you can download the Jurassic Art Sampler absolutely free!