Score!

I've been working most of the day on a couple of cards but things just didn't seem to come together.  I was almost finished with one for my granddaughter when I realized she will be 13 and wanted to do a special card for her special birthday.  Not that the one I started wouldn't be special but it didn't mention being a teen and I thought she'd like the recognition.  So I have three in the works but none finished.

I didn't want to go another day without a picture post, so I'm posting a layout I made last year of my grandson's soccer game.  The game was in 2010 but this is the first layout I made after getting my Cricut.  

I do all my layouts on 8 1/2 by 11 cardstock so they fit in sleeves in regular binder notebooks.  For this double page lo I used Sportsmania for the soccer ball in the corner and Plantin Schoolbook for the title and number 17.  I'm not sure what I used for the word "score".  I print my journaling on the computer after I figure out where all my pictures are going to go.  I am way behind in my scrapbooking and I need to get back to it after I get my next batch of cards done.

3 in aTube

Here is my layout for the FCCB Challenge #67  "Pool Time".  While the pictures are actual from a lake rather than I pool, I think the layout still qualifies.  These are my triplet grandchildren being pulled in a triple tube behind a jet ski.

As you can see, I do all my layouts in 8 1/2" by 11" format.  I put them in sleeves and then in regular 3 ring binders.  I usually have more pictures and some journalling on my pages but for this challenge I wanted to keep it simple.
The cuts for the wave, swimsuits and seagulls are from Life is a Beach.  The paper for the wave, picture mat and "in the tube" are from DCWV's Amber Autumn stack.  The background for the suits is torn Coredinations tranquil blue.  The 3 is from Plantin in the same tranquil blue paper, cuttled with Divine Swirls and sanded.  It may be difficult to see in the photo.  It is also shadowed in white. The seagulls are cut from a shimmer paper and inked with Distress Ink in Broken China.  I just happened to have some cord in the exact same colors and wrapped it around a couple of times to represent the ski rope.