Another Tuesday Template Challenge

This was a tough one, but another page done and it was fun to enter it. Maybe I'll win the $5 gift card. Whoa!!!! Here is the template and the only rule was that you needed to leave the flower there, as in make a huge flower as a part of your page.

Here's my finished product I used the template for the right side of the page and the left was made to match. I always have to modify the templates since I love to do double pagers. The title of the page is called Budding Artist:

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To see what all the other people have done with the template go HERE.

Bubbles Speed Scrap

I did another speedscrap over at scrapmatters.com. It's always so challenging to get an entire layout done in such a short time, but it's a fun challenge. After I posted I realized I had some mistakes so I'll have to go back and fix those, but I am pretty happy with the results.

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Here are the instructions that were posted every ten minutes:
8:00 Choose your pictures. You can use as many as you want and color them however you want. I want them to be framed or have a border around them. Also try to figure out what your title will be, but don’t put it on your page yet. Don’t forget to save as we go along...

8:10 Create a wordart. Take the title or quote or whatever you want and make it into a word art. I want to see different fonts or alphas (at least 2). Play with color, size, and position of key words. Remember that save button… 8:20 Add 3 papers. Two have to be patterned. Be creative. See what works together. And there’s always that save button…

8:30 Now, for my own personal layouts, I usually let the imaginary tape or glue hold my pictures onto my pages. I want to be able to see how your picture is attached to your page. Use photo corners, staples, tape, whatever you want to attach that picture to your page. Each picture you have used must be attached somehow. And save…

8:40 Now add your elements. You can use whatever you want and as many as you want. But I want a good plenty of them to be tucked behind things. Let’s play with layering. Yep, don’t forget to save…

8:50 Add the story. What is happening in your picture(s)? Who is doing what? Remember, 20 years from now, you might look back and say, “Oh, look at little Suzy. I remember how she loved to run through the sprinklers. I remember buying her that swimming suit. I think it was the summer of ’08.” But more than likely (if you’re anything like me)…you’ll have to take a second glance to even realize who is in the picture, let alone trying to remember what was going on. PSA: Save your layout.

9:00 Find a creative way to date it. I don’t care how it’s done, just try to be creative with it. Just put it in your journaling, hide it somewhere, or use something different to you to actually put your date on. Just see what you can come up with.


To see what other speedscrappers did click HERE.

Quack Quack here

Wow, two challenges in one week. I'm on a roll. Actually I am just a sucker for those participation prizes from my favorite designer. Here's what you get just for participating in the Saturday Special Challenge over at Scrapmatters. I still have some scrapbook pages to do from my piano lesson days so I'm excited to use this. Ha.

And here's what you have to do. It's a Music and Lyrics challenge so you have to use musical inspiration in your scrapbook layout. For mine I decided to do a scrapbook page from when we went to feed the ducks. It seemed so fitting to put some of the lyrics from "Old McDonald had a Farm". Here's what I came up with.

Yeah, I actually won!!!

I won the Speedy Scrap Challenge so I got to pick a kit from my favorite designer, Brittish Designs. I'm so excited!!! She only has a couple kits that I don't already have (can you say scrapbook junkie???) so here's the one I picked. I love all the glitter and fun. I think it will be great for birthday parties too!

Speed Scrap

I did this speed-scrap over at Scrapmatters. Basically you get one hour of instructions, every ten minutes you get new instructions until the hour is over. At the end you have 1 more hour to finish your page and upload it to yout gallery. This one was super hard for me because I don't usually do black and white pics. I really had to struggle and I'm still not sure if I'm going to leave it this way. I definately have a few things to tweek, but it was a good learning experience and I got a nice participation gift. Doubt I'll win a prize, but it was fun to play along. Here are the instructions:


- As many photos as you want. All Photos must be black and white.
- 1 patterned paper and 1 solid paper (you may have more, but no less)
- Quote, saying or song lyric
- At least three circles of some kind
- Title must use 1 lowercase alpha, 1 alpha only
- Journal at least one sentence
- Date it. And have nice shadows.


Here's what I came up with:
If you want to see what everyone else did click HERE.

Scrap from the Past

Last weekend I went home to my parents' house and I scanned in all my childhood pictures so this challenge was just perfect for me. The Tuesday Template Challenge over at scrapmatters was to use the following template and to scrap a picture over 5 years old.


Here's the template:


Here's my final product. Of course I turned it into a 2 pager.

I hope Sarah decides to play along with me this week!

Try it Out Template Challenge

Ok, my favorite designer is hosting this week's Tuesday Template Challenge at scrapmatters.com so I decided I better start working on it. Here's the template you need to use:And here's my final product (of course it's a 2 pager). I'm not sure if I'm completely done with it. It just doesn't feel quite done to me. Hmmm.....

Out of the Race

Well, we totally dropped the ball on the ADSR. Sarah and I have both been out of town and super busy so we had to drop out. Pathetic, I know. BUT....we are going to keep out blog up and running for other challenges and maybe when we do the ADSR 4 (??) we will post here again. Til then, I am going to participate in other challenges and I'll be posting stuff here. I'm sure Sarah will too.

My first challenge is from my favorite scrapbook home, scrapmatters.com. You had to use the template below, 10 embellishments (no flowers) and one of them has to be glittery. You also have to use the color, purple, green or pink. To enter your own page, go here.

Here's the template:


And here is my finished layout. I'm starting to work on our vacation album. It shouldn't take long. Starting is always the hardest part.

Challenge #6...Love VS Hate

Wow. I really got this one done at the last minute. I just couldn't think of something to write about. Sarah's original layout was all about the things she loves. I really really really didn't want to do a layout about things I don't like. It just didn't sound like fun to me. So....I made up a silly layout from a recent birthday celebration and titled it "I hate it when I eat so much I think I might puke". I hope that's enough of an "opposite" theme from Sarah's to qualify! I will probably change the title to something a little more normal for my permanent scrapbook. Anyway, here's my page. It's only one side. I started on the second half, but it's going to have to wait to be finished until after spring break. I just wanted to finish this challenge so we could move on to the next one. I can come back to it later.

Here's my finished layout (remember I had to spin one of Sarah's layouts (see rules below) and use an opposite theme. I spun it clockwise 90 degrees.

Here's Sarah's original layout:

I can't wait to get that beautiful kit!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SARAH!

Just a quick shout out to my partner, Sarah. I hope you had a Happy Birthday! We had fun eating yummy BBQ with all you friends at dinner. Thanks for the fun!

Challenge 6 is a ROAD BLOCK

OK, for this leg of the race, only one team member can participate (you know, it's a road block, like on the TV show, Amazing Race, and so only one person does it). It's a crazy crazy, did I say crazy, one!!!! This is called a Spin-A-Lift. What you do is you take your partner's original layout and turn it 90 degrees left or right, a full 180 degrees OR flip it horizontally or vertically to come up with a brand new composition for your page. Then you just scraplift away. Also, you have to change the layout to the complete opposite theme of the original layout. For example, if Sarah did a layout on summer, I would have to do a layout on winter. If she did a layout on sleeping, I would have to do a layout on being awake. Wow, this one is crazy, but the prize is AWESOME!!! Check out the kit we get when we finish. It ROCKS!This kit isn't even in the shop yet. It is just too beautiful! I can't wait to have it in my collection. How great is that alpha?

Paige's Challenge 5

I'm not so thrilled with this scrapbook page. I don't have any current pictures of Kinsey with her milk and I think I need some extra time to figure out what exactly I want to do with this memory. I want to scrapbook it, because it is just so funny when she does it, but I need to get the right pictures to go with it. I will be the first to admit that I didn't put my full effort into this challenge, but I still finished and i'm ready for the next one. I'm going to have to go back to this page when I have the right pics to put into it. At least I have the memory written down so when I want to go back it's already there. This was a tough challenge....I mean, really, an interview with an inanimate object. That's hard.

Sarah's Challenge #5

for this challenge, I decided to write about my little office space and what my computer would say if it could talk to me.

We're talking to ourselves in Challenge 5

This is going to be a funny one. In this Challenge we have to feature an interview with an inanimate object. The only criteria is that it has to include a minimun of 4 questions and answers. For completing this challenge we get a Mega Kit from our friends at Digitals. I have NO idea what I am going to do. This one is a hard one!

Paige's Challenge #4

I think this picture of Kinsey and her Nana is just too precious. She looks so content sitting in her lap. I love it! I struggled with this challenge, but I'm happy with the end result. I love the background picture of Kinsey. She had just learned to walk and was having a blast opening and shutting the bedroom door.

Spill It in Challenge 4

Oscraps is giving us our next challenge and it looks like a good one with a good prize. The Challenge is titles, "Spill It" and they want us to pick a situation and basically spill the beans, the good, the bad and the ugly. It must include 1 large picture, blending, and journaling (your "spill it" part) on 1/4 of the page. Is it just me or are these challenges requiring a lot of journaling? Maybe that's because it's the part of scrapbooking that a lot of people have trouble doing. For finishing the challenge you get your choice of an Oscraps Collaborative Kit. Sounds Good. I think I want this one? Or maybe this one? I just can't decide! Off to work, I guess.

Challenge #3

Here's my page. At first I thought this was a weird challenge but I think I will really like it 10 years from now when I can look back and remember when my life was simple and kid free.

Yes, I am a little nutty!

Here's my take on Challenge #3. It was supposed to be all about you so I wrote all about my obsessivly organized self. I am pretty happy with the result and I especially like my picture highlighting my labelmaker. I have wanted to document my craziness for quite some time so this was the perfect opportunity!

The 3rd one has been posted!

Challenge #3 has been posted and it's a challenge to do a layout all about you. That's the only criteria. They said you can do a layout about your favorite things, where you live, whatever, as long and it's all about YOU. And half of the page has to be covered in journaling about you. For completing the challenge we will get the "In the Mood" CD shippped to us packed with 10 kits (I think we have to pay $5 for it if we want it, it's normally sold at Michael's for $25ish) and we are also entered to win a night stay at this place, a digital scrapbooking getaway in Park City, Utah. It looks pretty awesome, but it's pretty far so I think I would choose to trade it in for all 10 of their CDs since they don't cover travel. Geez, I really need to think about what I'm going to write. I did a great page about me on my 28th birthday so that wasn't so long ago. I need to come up with a good idea. Hmmmm.....

Paige's Bonus Challenge

I decided to do this bonus challenge on my normal "naptime" routine. I seriously have pretty much the same routine every time she goes down for a nap. Shower, lunch, scrapbook, coffee, relax. I look forward to the time to myself every day. I'm always recharged for when Kinsey wakes up a couple hours later.

Bonus Optional Challenge

And here I thought Sarah and I were done until Sunday. Oh no, this race is NO JOKE! They have posted a bonus challenge and, well, I don't think I can resist. For this challenge, you have to create a scrapbook page based on something that is part of your daily routine. Hmmmm.... I've wanted to do a "Day in the Life of Kinsey" page for a while. Maybe I should do a page about "Nap Time" as in, what's my routine during nap time. I just don't know. I guess we'll see what will come. I wonder if Sarah will partake in this optional challenge. For doing the challenge you get a $10 gift certificate to this store and you have a chance to win a year subscription to Ladies Home Journal. If I finish this challenge I might use the $10 to buy this, this, this, this or this. It all looks good.

Challenge 2 DONE!!!

Yeah! We just finished our second challenge, working on this layout together. I did the top half and Paige did the bottom. I am all about the swirls and Paige is about glitter and sequins so it really fit our personality. It was so much fun working together, with Paige looking over my shoulder, offering superb advice. It's nice to have a partner in crime!!

Sarah's Challenge #1

Here's my first page. It was so much fun. I took pictures of Chris and I when we were little. Aren't we cute!

Challenge #2

Wow they didn't waste any time getting the second one posted. I feel like I just finished the first challenge. Ok, this time we have to work together with our partner to create one layout. Basically, Sarah has to do half and I have to do the other half. We can split the page up however we want to, but we each have to do half. Hmmmm....I'm thinking maybe we should do a scrapbook page about our friendship and I can write about her and she can write about me? I don't know, but it has to be done by March 2nd, so we better get rolling. Here's what we get when we finish. I love this kit. It is so pretty!

Paige's Challenge #1

Here's my take on the first challenge:
1. Use Christy Haig's template. OK. Done.
2. I used my favorite color of pink for most of the layout. I don't know if it's because I have a little girl, but I tend to have a lot of pink in my life. In fact, I am wearing a pink sweatshirt right now. Ha.
3. I used my favorite subject for these pictures-my daughter, Kinsey. I have taken so many pictures of here it's just crazy, so now I am scrapbooking them.
4. I used my favorite thing--glitter! I am a glitter junkie. I just love everything about it!

You can go HERE to see all the other layouts that people have done using this criteria.

Let the Race Begin

Our first official challenge has been posted. We have until next Sunday, March 2 to finish it. We have to use this template:

And here are the things we have to do:

1. Use this template

2. Use our favorite color in at least half of the layout

3. Share a picture of our favorite person or animal

4. Pick out our favorite digital element and use it three times somewhere on the layout.

Ok, that's it. When we finish it we have to post our layouts in our galleries and we will each get a $10 credit to the this challenge's host site. Hmmmm....what are we going to buy?

Kick-Off Chat

Last night was the official kick off chat and, of course, my computer wouldn't let me access it. I hate having a 4 year old computer. Aarrrgghhh. Anyway, I was still able to get the yummy free kit they were giving all the contestents. See it below...looks like fun. I bet Sarah loves it! It's just up her alley. Well, the first challenge will be posted tomorrow at the main hosting site. Can't wait to get started. Til then I can play with my new kit!

Here is our team blinkie!!!!!

Credits: Kiss from Britt-ish Designs "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Kit. Smiley Monster Font.

We're going to be racing!!!

Sarah and I have joined up as at the dynamic duo knows as "Scraps in the City". We will be competing in Season 3 of the Amazing Digital Scrapping Race so stay posted to see our entries into the competition! It should be fun and a good learning experience. If you want to know more about the race you can click on the link to the right. See ya.