I’m back! I know it’s been a long time since Tami’s daughter, me, has done a blog! I’ve been busy with entering the real world! I’ve moved up to Port Orchard, Washington, and I love it! If you all know anything about me, you know how much I love volleyball. One thing I was so blessed to get to do this year was coach a club volleyball team up here. My co-coach and I worked with a group of 13-15 year old girls for four and a half months showing them my love for the sport! I had so much fun and cannot wait to coach them next year. Here are my girls:

Throughout the whole season I saw a piece of me in all my girls, and I wanted to give them something special for the end of the year. Since I have been around Stampin’ Up for all my life, that I can remember, I combined it with volleyball. This was one of my favorite projects because I got to use My Digital Studio, which for someone like me is perfect. I work about 45-50 hours a week between athletic training and coaching so having something that I can do at home during a TV show or while Spencer makes dinner is perfect. I sat down to make this project and about an hour later I was done! If you are someone who wants to do stamping My Digital Studio is perfect for you! It is so easy to use and a lot of fun! Enough about My Digital Studio, and back to my project.
Our club’s colors were hot pink and black, so I stuck with Melon Mambo as the background, then used Basic Black and Whisper White as the accent colors. I wanted to highlight the team aspect with using only team pictures. My main focus was the one of us all cheering right before our game. To make this one stand out I put a Basic Black frame around it, this way everyone was drawn to that picture. I basically added detail little by little, using as little as possible. I did not want it to be too busy, but still cute. I used the Basic Black Texture stamp to break up the plain color in the background. This seemed to make it a little more personable then just using a designer series background. My favorite part of this project is the stamp set I used. I mixed the Certified and Cute Cues to even more personalize this gift. I do admit, I still call my mom to make sure she thinks it is just as cute as I do! She agreed and said “this is adorable and the girls will love it!” The girls absolutely loved the Genuine and Remember stamps.
Here is my finished project:

I put them in wood black frames to give to the girls so they could put it up on their wall and remember the fun we had throughout the year. I even kept the color scheme going and wrapped it in pink wrapping paper with black ribbon!
Here are all the girls with their gifts at our end of the year party:


I know it’s a little blurry…I didn’t have my camera so it’s taken on my iPhone! But they loved it and so did the parents!
If anyone in the Kitsap County or surrounding area is interested in starting Stampin’ Up or scrapbooking, card making, anything of that nature email me at waddell.elizabeth2@gmail.com I would love to get you into something I love and have been around for most of my life! It is so much fun!