Scrap the Boys DT, June 2018 - Howzat

Hello Scrappy Friends, welcome back to my blog today where I'm sharing a DT layout for

Scrap the Boys.
 The challenge is to use this sketch to scrap about the boy/s (of any age) in your life,
using stitching on your layout.  It can be machine or hand sewn.

I chose to use machine stitching on this Cricket page.

The background paper is an oldie from my stash Basic Grey, Archaic Collection.

To create the cricket ground, I used Blue Fern chipboard, Beaded Strings
which I coated with white gesso.

The cricketer is a chipboard piece from
Scrapmatts.

The journalling is on the back of the page and it reads:-
 One day last year, we came to watch you play cricket for the school and were thrilled to see you slamming bat on ball and scoring runs for your team.  You'd been practicing your bowling in the lead up to the season and had developed a wily leg spin which managed to trick some of the opposition players into exposing their leg stump.  Unfortunately, your elderly relatives got so involved in the run rate that we yelled run! run! We shouldn't have because we managed to get you run out.   We felt so sorry, as you'd been batting beautifully.  You took it with good grace, like a Sportsman, but I could see the disappointment on your face.   Love Granny, 18 November 2017

I hope you will feel inspired to play along and be eligible for a prize.

I appreciate your kind comments and so enjoy reading them.  Thank you.