Lorraine's Challenge 13

Just when it looked like the race was finished, there was a surprise challenge 13. This surprised me, since the race was supposed to be 6 weeks only and all along there were only 12 galleries for posting your layouts. But, what do you do.

Well, apparently they decided that having a 13th surprise challenge was not fair (for the same reasons that I posted above) so they have made it optional as far aw being entered to win the grand prize.

For this challenge, the team each had to make one page of a two-page layout about the "diversity of love" and there was a list of requirements for each side of the layout.

Here is the layout I did for the left side:

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Challenge #12

The race is over. Here is our final layout.


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Lorraine's Challenge #11

For challenge #11, we had to ask a question to one person. The layout had to include one photo and the only journaling we could include was the question.

I thought quite awhile about questions. There were lots I could ask, but I could just ask or already know the answer in my heart. So, I wanted to think of a question that I can't know the answer to, but might really wonder about. So, I decided to ask Fermat what proof he had in mind when he made some notes that became known as Fermat's Last Theorem (because it was the last one that mathematicians proved, this one hundreds of years later). Anyway, here is my page.


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I personally didn't like the requirement that this was all the text that could be on the page. The layout is missing something. So, I added to the layout for myself. I like this one lots better.


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Lorraine's Challenge #9

Here's the layout I did for this challenge. It has 6 generations of women from my family.


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Lorraine's Challenge #8

For this challenge we had to choose a scrapping idol and scraplift one of their layouts. I don't know that I would say I have a scrapping idol, but I do love Amy Sumrall's layouts and she scraps in a style I would love to master, so I chose to scraplift one of their layouts. The layout also had to include the word "dream" somewhere on the layout and have a star somewhere on the layout.

This is the layout I chose to scraplift:


and here is my layout:

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Shelby's Challenge #7

Here's my #7!!! See, I knew I'd get back on track! Here's me with my sister-in-laws.

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Challenge #7

Aren't Shelby's layouts great! Wish I could scrap like she can!

Anyway, for challenge #7 we got a free mini kit and had to use everything in the kit in our layout. We could add other things as well if we wanted.

Here is what I came up with:

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A little behind...

Crazy how this week's just put me a little behind-and I didn't even have a husband or son around to blame! Well, here's my #4 and #5 challenges:



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It's been a good week!

Challenge #6

Challenge #6 was a roadblock - meaning only one person had to do the challenge. Since Shelby did the last one like that, it makes it my turn. I was to choose a layout from Shelby's gallery, flip it horizontal or vertical, then rotate it 45 degrees and then use it as inspiration for the layout. I also could only use the same number of items that she did.

Here is the layout that I chose to use:


By my count, Shelby had 5 papers, 2 elements, 1 photo and 2 lines of text. Here is what her layout looked like after I rotated it, etc.


And here is my layout about Lucille riding an ant at the zoo. I used 5 papers, 2 elements (tape and a staple), 1 photo and 2 lines of text, same as Shelby!

credits: Blush Blossom (revisited) by Neverland Scraps, font: Cupid

Lorraine's Challenge #5

First let me say that Shelby did indeed do Challenge #4, but she is on vacation. I am sure she will post her beautiful page for you all to see when she is less stressed! Anyway, here is my layout for challenge #5. The challenge was to create a layout that had at least 3 frames and no photos.

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Lorraine's Challenge #4

Here is my layout for challenge #4:


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Lorraine's Challenge #3

Here's my new layout:


which is a redo of this layout:


This one was hard for me. We had to keep all of the journaling and photos and I had a lot of each. Add to that my red kitchen walls and Camille's orange bib and it was hard to choose a color palette for scrapping. I ended up spending a lot of time editing my photos and the background is all black - which is an evolution: First I just cleaned the photo off the wall, which I did originally, then I decided to make the walls all red, getting rid of the doors on both sides of Camille, and then when I couldn't find colors I liked I turned the walls black. The journaling also moved around a lot before it ended up where it is. Additionally, I extracted Camille's hand to stick out of the 3rd photo and I recolored some of the buttons.

I think I like the new layout - at least I like it more each time I look at it. You can click on either layout if you want to see the credits for that layout.

Shelby's Challenge #3

Here's how I re-scrapped my first uploaded image:

I kept a similar color scheme, just updated the feel and took advantage of extracting the images-something I've come to LOVE since I first started digi-scrapping.

For the makeover I used Mango Tango-a collab kit from the Sunshine Girls. Font is DejaVu Serif and alpha is It's my Party by Jennifer Elkins.

and now to challenge #3!

It can be found here.


This is my first uploaded LO, it should be interesting what I come up with!

Piece-a-Cake Page and Overlays SHABBY MOMMY by Shabby Princess Designs

Challenge #2 Down!

This was a fun one to do because it's a nice change to scrap someone else's pics, especially when they're little girls. Then no colors are off limits! I scrapped Lorraine's pics of her little girls at a local museum last summer. There were quite a few little requirements so it took a little thinking to get everything right, but I'm happy with how it turned out.


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Challenge #2 is Up

You can see it here.

It is a collaboration page - so I guess we will be working together to complete this one!

Lorraine's Challenge #1

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Shelby's Challenge #1

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Challenge #1

I am jealous that Shelby already knows what she is going to scrap. I too intend to use an action to tear my photos. I have torn my paper before, and so don't need to learn that skill! Now to load the action into PS and then figure out what I want to scrap!

Challenge #1

Here we go!! The first challenge has been posted here. I'm glad that they decided to do this because it actually gave me the incentive to re-load my actions into my new laptop. I still hadn't done that and with it being Vista (aghh!) everything's different. So although the challenge isn't TOO tough, it is getting me doing some things I really haven't done in a while, and that's a good thing I think!

Can't wait to see what you come up with Lorraine! Mine is going to be of us ice skating yesterday.