Thanks Coach Card 2

Hey y'all!

{Edit to Note...I am honored that this was selected as Top 3 at My Time To Craft on June 2, 2018.}

As promised from yesterday's post, I am back with another thank you card and I did manage to use those same papers and just came up with a different design.

I used Gray cardstock as my base adhering the felt stripped paper down the center leaving a border of card stock just on the left and right side. From there I just staked and stamped and added my baseball theme goodies. Just like yesterday, I stuck with the school colors of Navy and Gray.

I am joining in at: Hiding in my Craft Room - Masculine/Father's Day. CardzTV - Anything Goes, Brown Sugar Challenge Blog - Masculine or Father's Day, D.L. Art - May Linky, International Art and Soul - All About Boys or Men, 613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes with a Twist mainly blue, Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes, Pile It On - Sports/Hobbies, My Time To Craft - Circles (More than one)

I thought I would leave you with a picture of him making a pitching debut in a middle school game. 

 Thank you for visiting and I hope you have a Fantastic Friday and a Fabulous Weekend!

~Tammy~

Thanks coach

Hello! I'm popping in to share a card I created for my son's Middle School Coach! The school year is wrapping up and the sports season is wrapping up as well. My son is on three baseball teams this season. Middle School ball, Travel ball, and Little League.  He has two coaches for Middle School, so I will be sharing another card make in the next day or so.

My crafting time is so limited these days, so I always have a plan in my head to "just do simple", but then I start pulling out all my supplies and it keeps layering and layering. Ha! 

I started this card by making an A2 base from gray cardstock. I don't have a lot of masculine papers in my collection, so I always reach for this velour strip paper I have had for years. I actually used it to make my son's thank you notes from his 6th birthday and he is now 12 1/2. (Not sure how that happened, but I blinked is all) It has made the perfect paper to use in many of the baseball cards I've made over the years. The school colors are Navy and Gray.  I'm sure I will be using it in the card for the other coach, so don't be surprised if you see it again.

I adhered the patterned paper to the card base. I used some layered mat stack die cuts from PTI to hold my focal image. I stamped a baseball and thought it would be cute to make it into a ribbon.  I had a scrap of Navy ribbon, so I attached to a piece of gray cardstock and embellished with white enamel dots.  I stamped the sentiment and tucked it up under the ribbon panel. 

One down and another to go. 

I am joining in at: A Gem of a Challenge - It's a Man's World, Hiding in my Craft Room - Masculine/Father's Day. CardzTV - Anything Goes, Brown Sugar Challenge Blog - Masculine or Father's Day, D.L. Art - May Linky, International Art and Soul - All About Boys or Men, 613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes with a Twist mainly blue, Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes.

I thought I would share some pictures of my son and one I captured of them standing on the fence cheering and chanting during their at bat. 

 Anybody who has followed me long enough or follows me on facebook knows I refer to my son as the short stack. This picture says it all. He is the little guy among all those big guys. This team is 6-8 graders, but to his left #22 is in 6th. He is actually on the tall side for his age where mine is the opposite end of the height spectrum.

Thank you for stopping in! Have a terrific Thursday!

~Tammy~

Thanks Coach

Hello! I'm popping in to share a card I created for my son's Little League Coach! They went all the way to the championship, but were defeated by the number 1 seed. It was a great year and fun to dip back into Little League again. My son has played travel ball only the last few years..this year he has done both, so we have been busy.

To create my card, I started by adhering my textured velvet stripped patterned paper to my kraft card base. I stamped a wood grain pattern onto kraft cardstock and rounded the corners. I stamped the Thanks sentiment (Reverse Confetti In a big way) in the upper right corner of the wood grain panel and die cut the word coach out from red cardstock and adhered to the wood grain piece. I stamped a baseball and bat (PTI 7th Inning Stretch) and added them for finishing touches.

Inspiration was found from this great sketch at Sunday Stamps:

I will also share over at: Crafty Hazelnut - Patterned Paper Challenge.

Here is a picture of the crew!

Have a great one!
~Tammy~

Happy 10th Birthday!

 Hi!

Today, is my favorite guys golden or magical birthday. 10 on the 10th! Where does the time go? It seems like yesterday I was getting up for those midnight feedings and now he is double digits. 
   
My slugger loves baseball, so I made him a shaker card where I added a few die-cut baseballs to mix in with the sequins. I have to admit that I never can photograph shaker cards well. To me, they are always cuter in person then can be captured in a photograph.

Baseball is America's Pastime, and I can't help, but go Patriotic. I used the Take Me Out To the Ballgame ribbon on his card last year, and I will continue to do so till it's all gone...why...because he picked it out last year, and asked if I ever make him a card could I please use "this" ribbon.

 

Products

Baseball Stamp: DeNami Design

Happy: My Creative Time

Birthday die and number: PTI

Papers: scraps

I don't often post personal pictures, but I thought I would leave you with a few. This is my handsome guy (on the right) and his handsome friend. They are both turning 10, so they are showing how old they are going to be.

His Travel Team

At bat on one of the coldest days this fall. He did awesome despite the cold.

The view of life for a Mom on the other side of the fence!

#20 My love!

Where does the time go?

My heart is so full for this boy! Life is not always easy, but he has my heart! 

Little Man, in case you read this one day: I love you, My little fiery tempered, spirited spit fire of a boy. Your presence has always been one that makes a statement, #20.

Thank you for letting me share my piece "Somewhere Under The Sun" 

I am also sharing at Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes and D.L. Art - November Linky Party, Pause, Dream, Enjoy - Anything Goes.

Have a wonderful day!

~Tammy~

Baseball Player Birthday Card {Day 3}

Hey again,

{I'm honored that this card was chosen as "Take The Cake" Winner on 11/5/15 at Seize the Birthday}

My blog doesn't know what to do with postings everyday this week, and I will have one tomorrow too! 

I am back with Day 3 of baseball cards as I work on getting these ready for my son to give his teammates. Again, I worked with scraps and stuck to the travel team colors as you have seen over the last few days. :)

I started with a Navy Blue card base onto which I added a layer of Brown Kraft Cardstock. I took some patterned paper scraps and pieced them together to layer on top of the kraft. I added a felt border trim I had in my ribbon stash.

I die-cut, stamped and embossed the pockets from Wplus9 -A Pocketful of.  Next was the fun part adding the baseball elements.  You have seen these incorporated the last few days and they are from PTI. The sentiment which I built and stamped on a tag are from Wplus9 -A Pocketful of.

I am honestly getting my money's worth out of my baseball stamps. Please share if you know another company with cute baseball or a sports theme. I know I will be making baseball cards for years to come. 

I found inspiration at Seize the Birthday - A Pocket Card. (Toppings)

"A Pocket Card"

I am also joining one last time at Pink and Main - Birthday. 

 

Thank you again for visiting. I will give you a break tomorrow from baseball cards! :)

Have a Fantastic Friday!

~Tammy~

Baseball Player Birthday Card {Day 2}

Hello~

{Happy and Honored to have this card selected as a Design Team Pick at Can You Case It on 10/31/15} 

Yesterday I shared a baseball birthday card, and I am back with another today. My son has three teammates who are having birthdays soon (and my son will also be in that mix in a couple of weeks), so I am trying to crank out a few to have ready. My poor boy usually gets left out of the mix because his Mama runs out of time to make a card for him. I am going to make an effort this year to make him one. Although, I think last year I was successful! :-)

 

I started with a Brown Kraft Coverweight card base. I cut a scallop frame using my Silhouette Cameo from textured Navy cardstock. The baseball is also a file from the Silhouette Store.  I die-cut and stamped the bats and crossed them in the center of the scalloped Square adding the baseball to the center.

I stamped the sentiment on a banner that was die-cut and added it to the lower left  of the card. It came together pretty fast! I stuck to the colors again of my son's travel team.

I used the sketch at Can You Case It for inspiration. I took some slight creative liberties! :-))))

I am also joining in at Pink and Main - Birthday.

 

Thank you so much for popping by today! 

~Tammy~ 

Baseball Player Birthday

Hi!

Some of you who follow me know that I have a ball player in the house.  So that means I have a lot of baseball cards to make on various occasions either as Thank-You's or Birthday cards.

I took advantage of using some scrapss and much loved stamps and dies to put this together along with the help of The Papers Players sketch.

That background paper has a velvet texture. The Helmet, bat, and ball are from Papertrey Ink. The sentiment is one found at Jaded Blossoms. I stuck to my son's team colors which are Navy and Columbia Blue. When it comes to boys, I don't usually get too fancy. They are not interested in the card so much. I think only my guy is because he has grown up with this.  :)

Here is the sketch! 

I am also joining the fun over at Pink and Main - Birthday Theme.

 

Thank you so much for stopping by to check out this baseball birthday card for the Short Stack's friend. 

Have a great day!

~Tammy~

Baseball Birthday Card

Hello all~

{Thank you to Retro Sketches for giving this card a "Shout Out" on 9/12/15}

I know I have pretty much been MIA. Life takes over and summer was busy, out-of-state baseball tournaments, and during his break from baseball, my son and I went on a three week road trip...then my beloved computer just stop working on our trip....no warning...just the end of it's life cycle. So with school, and baseball starting back up...it's taking some time to sort out getting a new computer and getting my files off the old. I had to have an expert start working on it since the thing would no longer power up.

Having said that...I have not been around to visit or post, so I am sorry.

I was forced back into the craft room since my son has a birthday party to go to this weekend. I have not been in there in almost two months. I worked ahead for some DT assignments, so I had to really knock the dust off.

Inspiration was provided (thank goodness), by Retro Sketches!

I used the Sports Mania Cricut Cartridge for the ball and bat, and the sentiment is from Jaded Blossom.

As mentioned, inspiration found at Retro Sketches! 

I hope you have a TERRIFIC Thursday! 

~Tammy~

The Kraft Journal - CAS - Thank you!

I tried to keep the new challenge this week at The Kraft Journal CAS-Thank You, as clean as I could, but CAS is not the easiest challenge for me.

 

I started with a card base of Brown Kraft Cover weight cardstock onto which I added a navy star embossed layer. To the right, I stamped some baseballs (DeNami Design) using Versamark Ink onto a narrow Brown Kraft panel and added it to the right side of the card. I took a length of Red Baker's Twine and wrapped it around the right side of the card front and tied in a double bow where the papers meet. I die-cut the word grateful (My Creative Time) in red cardstock and added to the bottom of the navy star embossed panel.  I then used the Silhouette machine to die-cut the Washington Nationals Curly W which I placed on a die-cut layer. 

Please be sure to head over to the The Kraft Journal to check out the projects by the other talented ladies.  We hope to see your CAS-Thank You creations in the gallery this week for your chance to be featured on our "Feature me Friday" post as well as be entered to win a $15.00 gift voucher from The Kraft Outlet store.

 

Have a great week!

~Tammy~

Grand Slam Birthday - TKJ

Hi!

For this week's Boys will be Boys challenge, I decided to create a Baseball Birthday Card. I am in need of these quite often, so it's never in my stash for long. I started with a card base of Brown Kraft Cardstock next layering a navy blue layer of cardstock followed by Buff Ivory Cardstock which was decorated with various die-cuts, a stamped sentiment and sequins. The baseball bats were die-cut from Brown Kraft Cardstock and stamped with kraft ink. A baseball was created using Buff Ivory Cardstock and added to the center of the crossed bats.  

It's perfect for mailing and fitting for a big guy or a little guy...

Please be sure to head over to the The Kraft Journal to check out the projects by the other talented ladies.  We hope to see your Boys will be Boys creations in the gallery this week for your chance to be featured on our "Feature me Friday" post as well as be entered to win a $15.00 gift voucher from The Kraft Outlet store.

 

Have a great week!

~Tammy~

CAS Ribbon or Twine {The Kraft Journal}

Hey there! 

We have a fresh new challenge at The Kraft Journal this week and that is to use Ribbon or Twine on a CAS project.  

I started with a card base of Brown Kraft cardstock. I then found a piece of plain blue scrapbook paper from my stash and placed it over the card front leaving a strip of kraft peeking below. I stamped a sentiment from Paper Smooches in the lower right corner in black ink. 

I took a length of Red Baker's Twine and wrapped it around and tied in a bow! Three baseballs were cut and stamped placed at an angle. Lastly, a few sequins were added to give an extra bit of sparkle. 

Please be sure to head over to The Kraft Journal blog to see the projects created by the other talented ladies.  We hope to see your CAS - Ribbon or Twine creations in the gallery this week for your chance to be showcased in the "Feature me Friday" post as well as be entered to win a $15.00 gift voucher to The Kraft Outlet store.

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you have a GREAT start to your week! 

~Tammy~

Thank you~

Hi~

Well, I have been deep in mass producing Thank You cards for my son. His birthday was on the 10th and he had a birthday party on Sunday with his travel ball teammates as well as a few others he has met through other baseball teams he has been on.  So it only seemed appropriate to make a simple baseball thank you card.  It's pretty much all the boy talks and reads about even in the off season.

The key to mass producing is quick and simple in design. I was also determined to use up some scraps. Other than the card base, everything else was from my leftover pile. Yay...still no dent was made. Boo!

Here is one of many and the rest are still in "production" as I type this.

 I started with a Blackboard Card base, and added my patterned paper onto a panel of Brown Kraft Cardstock.  I used the same Kraft to cut out the Thank You from My Creative Time.  The baseball is one that is in my files from the Silhouette Store. 

It's a work in progress that I hope is complete by the time this goes live! :-)

Nice and flat for mailing! 

This is the month for giving thanks, my son has a lot to be grateful for...friends and family that are far who could not be here yet showered him with gifts, a wonderful baseball team that makes him feel like family, and the opportunity do what he loves 9 months out of the year!

I know you see a lot of baseball cards on here, but it's our love!  I love that I have the opportunity to make something special for all those in our son's life that share the same passion. It's why we do what we do. Right now we are missing it! If you missed yesterday's post, click here. I actually share some "personal" photos. My son got to meet  a Pro baseball player.  A day we will always remember!

Thank you for letting me share what I am working on!  Many of you know I have been struggling with balance lately! Still working on that and finding my mojo!

I am sharing at: Simply Create Too: Thank You, The Sisterhood of Crafters: Thank-ful, Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Have a Terrific Tuesday~

~Tammy~

TKJ#198 Sketch Challenge

Hello Friends,

Today we have a sketch for you at The Kraft Journal. I kept it pretty simple and followed it pretty closely.  A little over a month ago we had the privilege of meeting Miami Marlins Catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia when they were in town playing our beloved Washington Nationals.  Mr. Saltalamacchi actually arranged for our tickets through a friend of ours even though we are HUGE Nats fans. He is a class act. He invited us to come to their dugout and meet him. He knows my husband is in the military and wanted to thank him for his service. What an honor! We love baseball, and there is enough baseball love to go around!!!

I made a card to show him our appreciation, and my husband also gave him a military coin. He was so appreciative and so down to earth and he spent a lot of time with us visiting and encouraging my son to always be positive in the game and to remember it was about having fun. He really took an interest in our family and did not seem put out or rushed to get back to the clubhouse.

It was a day we will always remember!  

I started with a base made from Blackboard Stock Paper.  I layered my card with patterned paper from DCWV Citrus Stack and bright yellow cardstock to coordinate with the Maimi Marlins focal image. Following the sketch, I added a blue banner down the center.  I then wrapped the card with Orange Baker's Twine several times and finished it in a bow. Lastly I added the oval focal image to the center to complete the card. 

Here is the sketch

Please be sure to head over to the The Kraft Journal to check out the projects by the other talented ladies.  We hope to see your Sketch creations in the gallery this week for your chance to be featured on our "Feature me Friday" post as well as be entered to win a $15.00 gift voucher from The Kraft Outlet store.

Here are some pictures from our special day!

 He signed my son's catchers mitt!

As if that was exciting enough to meet Jarrod...my son met the local sports newscaster.

We are missing baseball right now. Both playing and going to National games. Come on Spring!

Have a GREAT week!

~Tammy~