Challenge 12 - Gail

I loved the layout Laura did for Challenge 11 so that's the one I chose to scraplift for Challenge 12:


Here is my scraplift:

CREDITS:
Veronica Spriggs' Another Time, Another Place Kit
Alpha: Birgit
Quote: Heather Melzer
Stitching: Syrin
Staples: Kate Hadfield
Paper curl: Marcie Reckinger

I really enjoyed this year's race. The best part was making a new friend and getting to know her better. Laura and I learned a lot about each other, not the least being that we have a lot in common. I think we'll remain good friends.

As Laura stated, we won't know who won the grand prize until Tuesday, so keep your fingers crossed for us. I checked the website earlier today and the value of the grand prize is at a little over $1,100.00 now. WOW!! I know I'd love to win that!

Stay tuned...we'll let you know who wins....
Gail

Challenge 12 - Laura

Gail did a great job with all her layouts and it was so hard to choose just one to scraplift. The one I chose was her very first layout for challenge 1



Here is my scraplift


The race was a lot of fun and I hope to participate again next year. We won't know until Tues if we won the grand prize or not. Wouldn't that be nice? Gail and I are getting very excited and can't wait till they announce the winner. Only one team will win. I think the prize is over $800 worth of digital prizes. Wish us luck.

Challenge 12

Your challenge is to scraplift your favorite layout done by your partner. You must scrap your page about your favorite aspect of the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race.

That's it. Two components. A scraplift and a topic.

And for completing the challenge, you'll get a coupon for $7 good towards anything in my personal store at NDISB. The coupon is good through the end of the year, so if you don't see $7 worth of stuff you don't already have, I've got plenty of new stuff coming out.

ETA: The layout you scraplift of your partner needs to be one an ADSR layout. Thanks for the question!!

Challenge 11 - Laura's

I see a lot of movies. No not in the theatre but at home as we have a home movie theatre in our basement. We rent from Netflix so we get at least 3 movies a week to watch at night when the children are sleeping.

Recently my favorite movie has been "The Phantom of the Opera" but I couldn't think of how it relates to me except for the fact that I love the music from that movie. I have the soundtrack and listen to it often.

So I went with my all time favorite movie "Beaches". I saw this movie as a teenager and it remains to be my favorite movie. So here's my layout:


Credits:
Image of the movie was taken from
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3Den%26sa%3DN
Bling on the Beach by Meryl Bartho
Bling on the Beach Add on by Meryl Bartho
Peachy Keen Alphabet by Elizabeth Weaver
Font: Harlow Solid Italic

Looking forward to the last challenge and hoping it's not a difficult one since my children are celebrating their birthday on Saturday so I maybe quite busy and don't want to disappoint Gail. Maybe they'll post it early so I can get it done and don't have to worry about running out of time with the party.

Challenge 11 - Gail's Layout

Our next to the last challenge came from Rakscraps and it's all about the movies.

Challenge: We've been going to the movies as part of our Blockbuster Summer here at RAKScraps. Your challenge is to create a layout about your favorite movie and how it relates to you!

I was worried about how to do mine since I have a couple of movies that are my favorite. I just love "Blow" and "Mr. Holland's Opus" has always been a favorite. I've seen both movies several times, but couldn't come up with how they would relate to me. Well...my husband came to my rescue and showed me how one of them would work. My layout doesn't have a lot of journaling on it and that is on purpose. There are several meanings and emotions involved in it so I've left it to your own interpretation. Without further ado...my layout is below.

CREDITS:
Poster borrowed from hollywoodjesus.com
Hand template: Katie Pertiet
Background papers: Dana Frantz, Jessica Bolton
Alphas: Tracy Collins, Something Blue Studios, Toni Berman
Font: KJB Keely
Stitches: Syrian
Word Art: Anna Aspnes

Our last challenge should be posted tomorrow. I'm really anxious to see what it is. We don't have any clue as to who is hosting it either. I hope it's an easy one!

Have a good week!
Gail

Challenge #10 (Gail's Layout)

I really enjoyed this challenge. As I mentioned, from the minute I read the challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to do. This is a layout I've wanted to do for a long time. I've been mentally working on it for months. I just didn't have the motivation to actually get started on it. I had to make it a 2-pager to fit all my journaling! Hope you enjoy it!

Journaling reads:
I love Texas, more specifically Pineland, Texas, just a little speck on a map, population 1,014...my birthplace. Pineland became my “summer home” once my dad was transferred to Georgia. It’s those times I remember more than the short time I actually lived there. At the beginning of every summer, mom and dad loaded up the car with us four kids and all our luggage and we started the 14 hour drive from Marietta, Georgia to Pineland, Texas. Oh! The joy and excitement I felt when I saw that green sign that read “Pineland City Limits”! 5 minutes to Mamaw and Papaw’s house!! Once we pulled into the driveway we would scramble out of the car as fast as we could. Ah...The satisfaction of getting that first hug from Mamaw!
We normally spent at least a week, sometimes two, in Pineland before heading home. Those were the best two weeks in my life. Why? Family was all around. What was there to do in Pineland? Not much, actually. There wasn’t a mall or a movie theatre. There was a dry goods store which we thought was pretty cool. There was a cafe that my maternal grandmother owned and ran. Pineland also had a drug store up on the town square that had an old fashioned soda fountain. That was a real treat to go up there, climb on that stool and order a chocolate soda. Sadly, the drug store didn’t last too many years. Once it was gone we got a Dairy Bar. That was the closest to fast food Pineland had. Yum...a cherry coke, a hamburger and double order of fries!
We spent literally HOURS sitting in the swing on Mamaw’s front porch waving at the cute boys that drove by. Sometimes they even stopped and hung out with us for a while. You can bet when they did, one of our dads’ would come out there to question them...find out who their parents were. Now, if all us cousins were really good, one of our moms would talk the men into talking us to Mill Creek to swim. I think they did it so our moms could sneak off to Jasper and go shopping without taking any of us kids with them.
Nettiebeth lived just a couple of miles from Mamaw and sometimes she’d take some of us kids home with her to check on the animals. She lived on a farm and we’d all beg to go to her house. We loved it there. She had chickens, and pigs and cows. It was a city kid’s Disneyland! We could chase the chickens around the yard and get dirty. If we were lucky enough to spend the night we got to sleep in the summer bedroom, which was really nothing more than a screened-in porch. The biggest treat was getting to help Truitt milk the cows the next morning and then, that afternoon, Nettiebeth would let us churn butter!
What did we do at night? Well, Mamaw and Papaw did have a TV, but I honestly don’t remember it ever being turned on while we were there. Mamaw saved her mayonnaise jars for us to use to catch fireflies. After it got really dark, Papaw would come out on the front porch, gather us all around and tell us stories about the ghosts that haunted their house. I don’t know if these stories were true or not, but I can tell you that I never slept a single night in the front bedroom of their house!
Sadly, Mamaw and Papaw are no longer with us nor are most of the relatives on these pages. Their house has just recently been sold to a stranger who plans on retiring in Pineland. That’s ok, though. I have the satisfaction of knowing their memories and stories are still alive and well in my heart.

CREDITS:
Template: Janet Phillips
Memories element: Eva Kipler
Stitches: Jessica Bolton
BG papers: Bren Boone
Ribbon: Paper Mooms
Alphas: Paola Peia, Cleo Fitzgerald, Kimlizzy, Misty Cato
Font: DJBKeelyB

Only two more challenges left before the race is over. Stay tuned for Challenge #11 - the next to the last challenge in the race. Wonder how much it's going to make us think??

Have a great week!
Later,
Gail

Challenge #10 - Roadblock!

This week's second challenge is sponsored by FishScraps and it's a roadblock! Here's what Carrie has to say:

Hi ADSR2 Participants!! ;) Welcome to Challenge #10!!!

I hope that you enjoy!!

ROADBLOCK!!!!

*Important* -This is a project challenge for the participant who did NOT do the August 2^nd Challenge!

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Your Challenge: Your challenge is to scrap about your favorite place to go/visit and the emotions that you feel when you are there. Why you adore that place so much? How does it make you feel? What does it smell like? What do you do when you are there?

Ie: Your favorite place could be grandma’s house, a park, museum, your old school, etc. etc. etc!

-Use the word “ Satisfaction ” SOMEWHERE in your layout.

-Use several alphas on your layout to create an oversize title.

You may do either a one or two page layout.

The Prize: $5.00 coupon code to FishScraps.com!!!

Have fun and good luck!!

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Since Laura did the last roadblock, this one is up to me. I know exactly what I want to do. I just have to dig out the photos I want to use. I've actually found one of them and have started on my page. Hopefully, the page will get done and posted to the blog today. Stay tuned!

Later,

Gail