Staying cool..one way or the other

This goofy Chicago weather is making me nuts!   On Saturday I got sunburned...last night I was freezing!  It went from 92 degrees down to 66!  

Anyway, I did this page with some fun pictures of my niece.

I used some cute acrylic pieces as accents and this sketch from The Studio Challenges:

The title was a challenge from Paper Issues - to use one tiny word.  I know,..there are lots of words on the background paper...lol.  But I chose to highlight just one!

And here is the original sketch:

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Musical Performance awards

Good morning!!  I was lucky enough to have some time to scrap over the weekend.  So happy to be able to have some "me" time in between baseball games and yard work.

Here is my page for the sketch challenge from Let's Get Sketchy:

I used some older metal rimmed tags. It feels good to dig into the old stash and finally start using things again.

And here is the original sketch:

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Sketch N Scrap #5

Gotta love being able to finish up the month with one more sketch challenge!

Here is my take on challenge #5 from Sketch N Scrap:

And here is the original sketch:

Sketch N Scrap #5

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More basketball!

And yet I have more pictures from basketball!

Here are just a couple more:

And the sketch I used was from My Creative Sketches:

And here is another page I made with the sketch below:

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Summertime Fun!

Getting closer to the time when we open the pool! 

In the meantime, I pulled out some fun Summertime pictures:

This was for the sketch challenge at Sketch N Scrap.

Here is the original sketch:

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Go Team!!

Watching my kids progress through years of sports photos has been so much fun!

It's hard to believe how little they were!

Here is a fun page I made for the sketch challenge from Sketches in Thyme #276:

And this is the original sketch:

And here is my take on sketch #277:

And this is the original sketch:

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BASKETBALL

Hello again!  Digging through the stacks of sports photos again.

Here are some older pictures of my kids playing basketball.  it's hard to believe how far they have come!  This is when they were first starting out.

And here is the original sketch from Sketch Savvy:

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