Sneak Peek: "School Sports, Spirit!" and "Back to School"

The set giveaway is closed, see the winner HERE!

Today we have a few new sets from Gina K you'll love, the first is my new "School, Sports, Spirit!" which perfectly captures and celebrates you AND your kids year-round sports and school activities and events, from the first day of school to the last! This set coordinates with "Just So Sporty", "Tee Talk" and "Sporty Accessories". Not just for school (and not just for kids!), you'll also be able to scrap and recognize your family and friend's favorite pastimes and achievements. I'm peeking just a couple images today, the images are so varied, but lots more to come at the party!

Here's a sports card I made for my 4 year old who starts soccer for the first time this fall. I included some shoes with cleats in the new set ( you'll love these shoes, the cleats can be removed to make running or dance shoes!) I cut them out and adhered them to look like they are running in to kick the ball. To suggest a soccer field, I stamped "Inspiration Mosaic" in Cream White on Green Apple Pure Luxury, I know it's not "regulation" soccer LOL! but I hope it suggests the feeling of playing field boundaries and helps ground my elements. Adding a small shadow under the shoe helps create the illusion of a little invisible person kicking it, no? :)

The "Go for the Goal!" greeting is curved so you can stamp it and then flip it and stamp again to create a circular greeting, this is really fun to frame up small or round images and use with your punches, here I have the soccer ball from "Sporty Accessories".

It is also nice for putting over images, which leads me to our next sneak peek set, Rupa Shevde's "Back to School"! I couldn't help use them together to show how many fun school projects you an do with both in your collection! Here I stamped it over the adorable stack of books and apple from her set to make a card for my big second grader.

To create the "spine", make a regular A2 card, then score again about 3/4" inch over from the center, fold and adhere with Scor-Tape. I stamped my solid line from "Inspiration Mosaic" across the spine in pairs to make a detail that match the books in the stamp image.

Inside my "book", I added the little pennant from "Sporty Accessories" and the "2nd" from "Just So Sporty" to go with this new "Back 2 School" greeting (more shaped greetings that fit the pennant and the megaphone! yeah! I stuck a bunch of these flags in cupcakes for the kids this week, they were a big hit!) and "Grade" sentiments included in the "School, Sports and Spirit!". Use that with numbers and you can recognize and scrap any year of school you need! The star and A+ are both from Rupa's set". It's going to be a ton of fun using all these images together for school pages!

Would you like to win "School, Sports and Spirit!"? Please leave a comment on this post telling me what hobbies, pastimes and activities your family is most involved in and traditions you might have that go with them (Friday night games, tailgating, dinner after awards etc). I will choose one person randomly to win the set and will announce it on my blog Thursday before the party!

For more inspiration with the stamps previewed today, visit Gina's blog as well as Melanie Muenchinger, the illustrator of Sports, School, Spirit.
For even more projects with tonight's two stamp sets, these Senior Design Team Members are participating in previews today: Carolyn, Cindy, Donna, Emily, Erika Jessica, Lee, Lynn, and Theresa as well as our CenterStage Spotlight Design Team members: Tina Gilliland and Vicki Dutcher

Don't forget about our Release Party on SCS starting at 7pm CST on Thursday, August 27th. There will be contests, challenges, lots of chatter as well as a ton more samples shared by the Senior Design team members and our CenterStage Spotlight team too. We'd love to have you join us!