Hoops

This week's sketch at ScrapbookSteals was another fabulous one-pager, created by guest sketcher Erin Schultz.  She did a great job bringing inspiration to this busy week.  With all of the new releases being revealed this week, and looking forward to my first trip to CHA, I was eager to spend a little time in my crafty space!  I couldn't find the perfect combination of two photos featured in the sketch, so I improvised and used several smaller photos.

Several months ago I was lucky enough to win the Making the Team collection from Trinity Paper Arts, and I decided it would work perfectly with these photos.  I paired the colorful prints on a plain piece of cardstock but it needed a little something more.  I decided to make some fun background prints by using a slightly deflated small rubber basketball I borrowed from my sons.  I painted a thin layer of craft paint on the basketball and "stamped" a  few places on my plain cardstock.  It took some trial and error and I messed up and had to flip the page over for another chance, but the "b side" images turned out just as I hoped.  The paint washed off the basketball easily with a little soap and water.
Here's the original sketch by Erin that inspired this week's project: