Play Ball

I've taken the plunge and joined in for the monthly MFT Creative Challenge. This month the challenge was to "Frame It".

Hop over to the MFT Blog for a complete list of participating designers. I know the projects will be spectacular and hopefully inspire you to play along.

I took the challenge quite literally and created a fun baseball themed photo frame. I think this would be perfect for a picture of your sweet little league guy or gal. I framed a picture from the game we were at last Saturday.

I started with a plain wood frame from the craft store and I stamped the baseball bat from All Star stamps and Die-namics with frayed burlap ink.  Pure Innocence Baseball Boy was the inspiration for this frame. I stamped him with Memento Tuxedo Black and coloured him with copic markers.

I used the All Star stamps and Die-namics again to create the baseball and the Just the Ticket stamps and Die-namics were perfect for creating the admission ticket.

To create the "Play Ball" title I cut out Wild Cherry card stock using the Mini Pennant Die-namics, then I stamped the letters from the Banner Day Alphabet stamp set. I added some Charcoal Twine to hang the banners and secured the ends with two silver brads. Well, I "faux secured" them with silver brads...I wasn't up to the battle of getting the brads into the wood frame, so I simply cut off the pokey ends of the brads and hot glued them in place. I curled the ends of the banners to give them a blowing-in-the-wind kinda look.

You can take the challenge literally, like I did, or think outside the box. But whatever direction you take, I hope you'll play along this month.

Here are the Die-namics I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen