Here is a list of the items I added to my cart at Scrappin’ {Sports} Stuff:

• Tattered Angels – Outdoor Bingo Boards
• Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper
• Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Go Fish! 12x12 paper

I also added these items from my stash:

• 1 - 12x12 cardstock (I used kraft)
• Scrap of cardstock (cut 8-1/2”x10-1/2”)
• 5 – Buttons (although brads could be substituted)
• 2 – eyelets
• Scrapper’s floss (I used two different colors)
• Alphabet of your choice
• Pop dots
• Gaffer tape

For my first project, I made the 12x12 “Happy Camper” layout.

Here are my step-by-step directions:

1. I selected the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Go Fish! 12x12 paper to use for my base.
2. I cut the “Gone Fishing” journaling card out of the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper.
3. Next, I arranged my three photos and “Gone Fishing” journaling card together. They measured 8” x 10”, so I cut my scrap of cardstock to 8-1/2” x 10-1/2”. (Whatever your photos measure to, cut an additional ½”.)
4. I adhered the photos and journaling card to the cardstock.
5. ***Before adhering my oversized photo mat to the base patterned paper, I measured the space that would be covered by the mat. Based on my measurements, I cut out the center of the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Go Fish! 12x12 paper to set aside for use on another project. (For my project, I left a top and bottom border of 1-1/2”, a 2” border on the left and a 3” border on the right.)
6. After removing the center of the base paper, I adhered my oversized photo mat to the page.
7. I cut the blue/yellow/white striped strip from the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper and adhered it to my page to the left of my oversized photo mat.
8. Next, using a circle punch, I punched the “Happy Camper” circle out of the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper and adhered it to the right side of my oversized photo mat using pop dots. This is my title for the page. (This circle could be hand cut from the paper if you do not have a circle punch.)
9. I also cut a fish from the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper and adhered it to the top right of my title circle again using pop dots.
10. To complete my page, I cut one more accent (the “I got one!” block) from the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper and journaled in my journaling block.

My second project is a Christmas gift for my mother-in-law. I fell in love with the Tattered Angels – Outdoor Bingo Boards and had an idea for them as soon as I saw them. I wanted to include photos of everyone in my husband’s family for this gift. Unfortunately, with one brother living out of state, I didn’t have a current photo of everyone together, plus I wanted to include individual shots of all five grandchildren. To accommodate that many photos on such a small project, I made a couple 4x6 photo collages and cut the photos out either individually or in strips. I opted to use both color and b/w shots.

To complete this “family” frame project, I followed these step-by-step directions:

1. Using the Tattered Angels – Outdoor Bingo Cards, place the bingo cards in order to read “Explore Outdoor Life” and tape them together on the backside using gaffer tape. (This project could also be completed by punching holes in the cards and either holding them together with book rings or ribbon.)
2. I matted my two color prints with Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Go Fish! 12x12 paper (cut from the center I removed from the “Happy Camper” layout).
3. Next, I positioned my photos in a way that was appealing to me. I purposely have them overlapping different cards to give it a unified look.
4. I cut the “frog” and “leaves” 12” strips out of the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper and positioned them overlapping at the ends of my photo strips.
5. Cut the “good times” block out of the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper and adhere it to the top right corner of the project.
6. Tie floss through four buttons and add them over the frog strips and at the end of the “good times” strip.
7. Cut the journaling block with brackets out of the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper and position it on the leaves strip in the center bingo card with title on it.
8. Hand cut the large tree from the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper and adhere it to the bottom right corner of the project with pop dots.
9. Take the “Who Are You?” calling card from the Tattered Angels – Outdoor Bingo Cards set and add an eyelet to the upper right hand corner.
10. Add an eyelet to the upper left hand corner of the “Explore” card of your project.
11. Using floss, attach the calling card to the bingo card.

For my final project, I used up as many scraps from the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Go Fish! 12x12 paper and Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper as possible. After matting my two color photos for the Bingo Card Frame Project, I used the three scraps of Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Go Fish! 12x12 paper without cropping them and simply cut pieces from the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper and positioned them around to form a grid layout. For a few finishing touches, I hand drew a border around the edge of layout; hand cut a cloud and fish from the Bella Blvd – Camped Out – Bits a Bella 12x12 paper; added a calling card from the Tattered Angels – Outdoor Bingo Cards set and a “frog” strip scrap from the Bingo Card Frame project finished off with a button; and raised the cut out fish with pop dots and added some hand-stitching with floss to mimic a fishing line. I used the same alphabet for part of the title on this page as I did for the Bingo Card Frame project. The other half of my title was a word strip cut out from the paper.