Friday's challenges

Gotta Pixel provides two challenges most Fridays. At noon, there is Scrap with a List with Shawnery Mathis. Shawnery provides the list and we scrap, unlike the Speed Scraps where every 10 minutes or so an instruction is provided and we follow it. Very similar; some you know right away, the other it's a guessing game as to what's next. However, both are fantabulous!

Here's my first LO created for Scrap with a List

Kits used:
It's Playtime by ValerieN Designs (this is for members of the Pixel Club)
Let's Explore by ValerieN Designs.

The place to be on Friday evening at 8 p.m. is Gotta Pixel's chat room with Connie Prince. We have so much fun while we scrap, IF we scrap that I hate to miss any one of them. Here's my LO for last night's Speed Scrap.

Kits used:
Crash Boom Pow by Armenia Designs and Connie Prince

Another LO for today, now I'm all caught up!

This is for the Font Fever Challenge at Gotta Pixel.  I love the font Cindy chose for this challenge. Here is the layout I created using "Dirt 2 Echo" from dafont.com.

Kit used:
Riding Dirty by Creations by Rachel

It's catch up time, again!

I've been a bit lax lately in posting here. Well, not lax but busy, really. The beginning of a new month starts a new round of challenges, in addition to the ADSR5 in which I'm competing. So, I've had my head buried in my computer creating layouts. Here's the first one. It was created for a Speed Scrap hosted by Connie Prince over at Gotta Pixel.

Kits used:
Love Letters by Connie Prince
Plugged In by Connie Prince

Next up is the page I created for the February Brag Book hosted by Gotta Pixel. Each month, if you sign up, you are given access to mini-kits created by several designers at GP, in a 4" x 6" format. You create a page in a .png format so that someone can just pop in a picture and have an almost instant album. Upwards of 20 people sign up for this challenge so, in the end, I will end up with 20 pages just waiting for photos. A really cool idea. Here's the page I created using the mini-kits supplied. I just put my picture in there for you guys so you would have something pretty to look at! LOL!

And lastly we have the March Grab Bag challenge also hosted by Gotta Pixel. One of the stipulations of this challenge was to create at least one element or paper yourself (means don't use one from a kit). Look closely at my layout and you will see a little shamrock. I MADE IT from scratch and I'm very proud of it. My very first design element. Maybe there's a new career ahead of me.....LOL!

Kits used:
Emily by Coliescorner
My Sweet Girl by JulieMarie
Skinny Latte by Captivated Visions
Wonky Winter Alpha by Sara Ellis

NDIS Word Art Challenge

I spoke with my DD in London today and she told me they were planning a trip to DisneyLand Paris in June this year. It has been my 'heart's desire' to go to Paris, but it is unlikely that it will happen anytime soon for John and I. That lead to us reminiscing about our trip to Germany back in 1999 and how it would be wonderful to just rent a suitable van for us and travel around Great Britain and Europe one more time. I told him I'd even give up our plans for a new kitchen for a trip......Anyway, I go to one of my favourite digi-scrapping sites and see a Word Art challenge "The Time of Our Lives". Yep! You guessed it, I had to scrap some of our photos from that trip and this is the result.

Credits:
Hillside Morning by D. Cozzi
Word Art by - Nadine's Art Scraps

Anne & John celebrate their birthdays

Pictures of John and Anne on their combined birthday celebration. Ron picked up a fantastic chocolate cake from a bakery in Kitchener. Linda & Nicholle came over as well to help the 'birthday people' celebrate, Dan was their, too and cut this huge cake into eight slices. Believe me, no one wanted a second piece which was good because they would have been outta luck.

Kit used:
A Wonderful World by Connie Prince

Happy Birthday, Johnny K

The last thing John thought I would get him for his birthday was a visit from four of his buddies from Toronto. We had moved from Toronto to PEI and he was really missing his friends, so I started planning in October for a February surprise birthday. Now he wants to know what other secrets I have kept......shhh! I'm not telling! This was waaaayyy back in 2004, but I forgot to put the date on the layout. My bad!

Kit(s) used:
The Good Life by Julie Marie

ADSR5 Challenge # 2

Info about kits used to create this layout:

alphas: 5 from Numbered from My ABC's by simply.scraps
THINGS from My ABC's by simply.scraps
I from Squid Ink by LNS
fonts: love - fontdinerdotcom, about - Ironclad, Prince Edward Island - Harlow Solid Italic
5 frame elements from Squid Ink by CBR
sand-coloured background paper from Aiden by Meredith Cardall
red and blue background papers from Squid Ink by LNS & CBR
Basic Waves by Sweet Digi Scraps
all other elements from Squid Ink by CBR & LNS

I've been remiss in posting here....

.....ever since Amazing Digital Race 5  (a.k.a. ADSR5) began on Feb 6th. In order to catch up, here are my last three layouts I have completed.

Gotta Pixel Sketch Challenge

Kit(s) used:
Your Sweetness is My Weakness by Connie Prince

Then we have the GP Font Fever Challenge.

Kit(s) used:
Dino Stomp by Coliescorner

And finally, I was at a new site, Scrappity Doo-Dah, and participated in one of their Speed Scraps. I love this layout because it's so very different for me.

Kit(s) used:
Zoomsters by Sara Ellis
Oh Snap! by Coliescorner

Love Song

I created this layout for the Featured Designer Challenge at Gotta Pixel. We needed to incorporate the lyrics of a love song into the page. Because of the kit I chose, So Into You by Flutter Expressions, and the deep richness of the colours, it made me think of the deep, rich voice of Tony Bennett and I could hear his signature song in my head.

0 to nuts in 10 seconds

Phil, Kristyn I swear Jackson was just acting here. He did not have a temper-tantrum, we were just playing around so I could get some cool pictures for scrapping. I mean really, have you ever seen him have a tantrum? C'mon.....it was really fun. Make sure Jack gets to see this page, please.

Kits used:

How He Rolls Elements by Bella Gypsy

How He Rolls Papers by Bella Gypsy

Full of Energy Shabby Paper Pack by Connie Prince 

Kit used:

My Sweet Girl by Julie Marie