Drive In Scrap Out

We are now on challenge 4 of a 6 challenge Scrap Out at DSDI - you can check it out here

Challenge 1

Now playing TWISTER:  challenge Take two layouts and "twist" them into one!

Digital Credits: 3 Li'l Monsters Designs FRESH START (paper, clock, flowers) Jen C Designs IN THE WOODS (leaves RECOLORED); Dinphy OUTDOOR TREASURES (fern RECOLORED); Jen C Designs REFRESH (swirl RECOLORED); Jen C Designs IN LOVE WITH YOU (heart stickpin); fonts - Librarian (LOVE) Ballantine Serial (all other words in title)

TWISTER SCRAPLIFT of Natalie C http://www.digiscrapsdrivein.com/gal...mp;ppuser=2028 and 2girlsandadog http://www.digiscrapsdrivein.com/gal...mp;ppuser=3557

Challenge 2

Now playing Groundhog day (I love it) our challenge:  redo an old scrapbook page!

Here is the OLD layout, posted 10/25/2010 - two days after I joined DSDI forum

 

 

Digital Credits: J Carson Autumn Mix Freebies; Creations by Rachel Cornucopia of Colors ADSDesigners Collaboration  (This was a template challenge - and I really didn't know much about using layered template!  I have come LIGHTYEARS down the road since I did this layout!)

Digital Credits: papers made by me using CU and S4H ok papers and textures by KCameron Fabric Overlay (recolored); Scrappin Cop CORNUCOPIA OF COLORS (recolored); Scrappy cats CORNUCOPIA OF COLORS (recolored); flower - 3 Li'l Monsters Designs AUTUMN CHARM; ribbon wrap - Gunhild Storeide CU RIBBON WRAP (recolored); font - learning curve. Template - Jen C Designs CLUSTER FUNK V 4 #1

Photos from shoot at Christ Episcopal Church, Temple, Texas on 10-3-2010

Challenge 3

Now playing TOY STORY - our challenge:  use a children's song or rhyme as journaling

Digital Credits: Jen C Designs BABY MINE BOY, fonts Pea Nicki, TechnoHeavy.

"Hush-a-bye" (sometimes called "All the Pretty Little Horses") is an Afro American folk song. I had to pull down my long - unused Curriculum Guide from the shelf in my office to find a song to use!

Challenge 4

Now Playing THE SOCIAL NETWORK, our challenge - scrap a page inspired by Facebook ... and I took that literally!!!  I clipped out pieces of my current FB page to create the background, and used layouts I had done with photos of my BEST FRIEND FOREVER - Mike.

Digital Credits: Clipped pieces of my actual Facebook page for background 1/20/2012

Main Layout - The Lighthouse Beckons, originally posted at DSDI April 7, 2011 and on my FB page http://www.digiscrapsdrivein.com/gal...mp;ppuser=1642
; Ginger Scraps BEACH GLASS; K Cameron CU Fabric Overlay; font - Segoe Print

Small Fan photos: Big Moose River, originally posted Jan 17, 2011 on DSDI and FB http://www.digiscrapsdrivein.com/gal...mp;ppuser=1642
And So it Begins, DSDI Collaboration Jan 2011,(some elements have been recolored); Mask - Mini Renne Autumn Mask; Cajoline - Butterflies: Fonts: Cindy, TechnoHeavy

Our Dance, originally posted at DSDI and FB on Feb 7, 2011 ttp://www.digiscrapsdrivein.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=16626&ppuser=1642
Melly Scraps THAT'S WICKED; clipping mask made from Mommy Me Time LONE STAR ADDON (paper), Font TechnoHeavy.

Bucket List originally posted at DSDI April 21, 2011 (two days after I broke my arm!) on DSDI and FB
http://www.digiscrapsdrivein.com/gal...mp;ppuser=1642
Melly Scraps THIS IS ME; Fonts - Segoe script, technoheavy

He's a Keeper originally posted at DSDI and FB on Dec 12, 2010
http://www.digiscrapsdrivein.com/gal...mp;ppuser=1642

JOURNALING ON ARROW - Although he doesn't like to travel, Mike has followed me through 19 states in our 15 years together - He is my KEEPER!

Challenge 5

Digital Credits:  Jen C Designs IN THE WOODS (blue paper); Jen C Designs JANUARY TEMPLATE GRAB BAG - FADING MEMORIES 1 (blending mask on cloud); Marie H Designs POETRY OF THE SEA (sand and other beach elements); font - Librarian (HOME) Libby Script (other words); and 3 of my photos - cloud, lighthouse, and ocean (used twice) all blended into the background.  Our challenge was to create a layout inspired by a book cover - I chose Nicholas Sparks TRUE BELIEVER

Challenge 6

Challenge 6 was a NUMBER oriented layout - we were to take our inspiration from one of these movies: 

101 Dalmatians

50 First Dates

13 Going on 30

2 Fast 2 Furious

I picked 50 First Dates, one of my favorites movies  I can watch over and over.  I love how the character wakes up in her "happy place" each day (she doesn't remember her reality) and her family works so hard each day to help her regain her reality.  Nothing puts me in my "happy place" faster than traveling, so my layout became 50 places to go!  And the photo from Ocracoke Island in 2009 definitely shows me in my "happy place."  There are 51 one places I would like to go, or go again with Mike!  (I added HOME at the last minute to the overlay, because I really do like home too!)

Go check out my layout and the others entered in Challenge 6 here at DSDI

Complete!

Here are my layouts that I did for the January challenges at DSDI - such a great learning experience!

ALTERED ART

This challenge was hosted by purplesparkly (aka Giggly Polka Dots - one of the designers I work for)  Our challenge - a photoless layout, but I snuck in a couple of photos - a lion and a giraffe from my Cameron Park Zoo archive.   I blended the lion into a GPD paper, and used the giraffe as paper for my letters ZOO!  Love that word art that I made!

Digital Credits:
Background paper - made by me using Giggly Polka Dots THANKFUL FOR FALL paper 11 (used a Time machine photo effect on it to soften the color); a photo of a lion from my collection, a CU grunge mask (NO CREDIT REQUIRED) all merged together!
WordArt - made by me using Jen C Designs IN THE WOODS (leaves), 3 Li'l Monsters Designs ACROSS THE PICKET FENCE (flower); giraffe photo to clip out the letters.
Frame - made by me using KCameron CU Fabric Overlay (one of my staples!!!)

COVER TUNES

 The hostess picked an inspiration piece by Shabby Abby and it was our job to create a layout using it for inspiration.  And, you know I love butterflies and Fall color palette so here is what I did ...

Digital Credits: DSDI Collab AUTUMN FUN; Charm City Scraps AUTUMN SPICE; JCarsonCU AUTUMN Mix (flowers) font - Segoe script, gungsuh

Photos - Monarch butterflies at Zilker Botanic Gardens, Austin, TX 11.19.2011

GO FOR THE PINKS (OR BLUES)

This is the monthly color challenge, and it was really a challenge for me since I didn't own any of the kits that were suggested for the color palette

So I had to do a little creative colorizing on what I did have available ...

Digital Credits: Jen C Designs DIVA (recolored) ; Mad Genius Designs BRRR (recolored); Jen C Designs SINGULAR FOCUS template; font - Curlz MT

Photo - taken at Homestead Handcraft Farm near Waco, TX -

So what do you think, is it a bird or a bug?

(Leave a comment or send me an PM at DSDI - poki04)

FLAVOR OF THE MONTH

This is one of my CT layouts for January!

Digital Credits: DSDI Collab IT'S SNOW FUN! available as Flavor of the Month for January! http://digiscrapsdrivein.com/store/Its-Snow-Fun.html

MADE IN THE SHADE
(TEMPLATE CHALLENGE)

Digital Credits Jen C Designs QUALITY TIME (not at DSDI yet) template Jen C Designs MADE IN THE SHADE TEMPLATE Jan; font - Librarian, Pea Nicki

ORDER UP

This is the challenge that I hosted for DSDI in January (I've been hosting this challenge since July 2011) I did a gallery search, and picked 5 layouts in the gallery.  I wrote a description of the layout and that description is what each person receives as their menu for the ORDER UP.  I asked the first person who completed the challenge to pick the number for me to do - she picked #1.  And this is what I did with this description: 

1.  Use one solid, one patterned paper as background.

2.  Add a single photo cropped as a square.

3.  Add a frame on top of the photo but not around the photo.

4.  Use on large element to accent the photo.

5.  Scatter something under the photo layer.

7.  Date in half circle.

At the end of the month I will be posting all of the original layouts, and the participant layouts created by following my descriptions  on the ORDER UP Thread   in the DSDI forum - be sure to check it out! 

Digital Credits: Giggly Polka Dots THANKFUL FOR FALL and THANKFUL FOR FALL ADD ON; (flower, glitter) 3 Li'l Monsters Designs AUTUMN CHARM; fonts - Segoe Print, Segoe Script. Wordart title made by me. Frame made by me in PSP x2

Photo - sunset on the lake near my home 10/30/2011 - a beautiful place to live!

RADIOACTIVE (FONT) CHALLENGE

This challenge was hosted by Gail this month, and she picked a font called BREADY as our font for the challenge.  Being the FONT ADDICT that I am - of course I had to go get it and try it out.  Here's what I did  with Bready - the wordart was created with the font in multiple sizes.  

Digital Credits: Marie H Designs POETRY OF THE SEA

font - Bready

Photo - Beach Access #12 on Ocracoke Island NC - we've been there twice off season (in May) and had the beach completely to ourselves! What a beautiful time!

THE WORKS

This is a mini kit challenge - with a freebie kit offered in January by Wyld Peas Designs - love those non-tradional colors for winter!

Digital Credits Wyld Peas Designs BUNDLED UP  (Jan The Works mini) template 3 Li'l Monsters Designs PHOTO STRIPS; Font - Jenna Sue

Photos - Blake in the snow Feb 2011

SPICE IT UP

This is our embellishment challenge and we were asked to add wintry elements - I love this kit by Two Cute Kids, but had to really search for a photo (I've overused what few snow pix I have from Feb 2010 - hopefully my friends will send me some soon - I don't want to see snow here!!!! I prefer the 70 degree day we are having today 1/22/2012!)

Digital Credits: Two Cute Kids Designs SNOW DAZE; Jen C Designs SINGULAR FOCUS (template) Font- Century Gothic

Photo - Our one and only snow in 2010!

PICTURE THIS

MnMommy2 wanted to see a collection - so I gave her a collage of my reindeer collection!  (I still need to "stuff" them somewhere - they are still on my sofa!)

 

Digital Credits: DSDI Collab IT'S SNOW FUN
font - Santa's Sleigh

Photo - The PILE of reindeer I have received as gifts since I said I like reindeer!

OFF THE LINE

This is the Quote Challenge - we were given a choice and I picked this Louisa May Alcott quote:  "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.  I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead!

Digital Credits: Jen C Designs THANKFUL http://digiscrapsdrivein.com/store/Thankful.html
Jen C Designs JANUARY TEMPLATE GRAB BAG http://digiscrapsdrivein.com/store/J...g-CU-okay.html

WHAT'S COOKIN' GOOD LOOKIN'

This is a recipe challenge hosted by scrapastrophe this month - here was our recipe.

1. 2 patterned papers, 1 plain paper.

2. 1 doodle border

3. 1 doodle frame

4. 1 paint splat

5. 2 flowers (may be repeated)

6. 1 swirl (may be repeated)

7. 1 curly ribbon,

8. 1 photo

9. 1 alpha

Quite a list - and here's my layout ...

Digital Credits: Giggly Polka Dots CATERPILLAR

I also borrowed and altered elements from
Giggly Polka Dots GRANDMA'S OWLS (border, frame, flowers, swirl, button)
Giggly Polka Dots HIPPIE GRUNGE (splat)
Jen C Designs CHANGE (ribbon)
Mad Genius Designs PURPLE SWIRLY ALPHA (recolored)

Font - Pea Nicki

Quite a mix-and-match with a little creative colorizing!

GRAFFITI

We always leave a little graffiti around the gallery - this month it is a thematic signature, showing  a fresh start for a new year! 

Digital Credits: DSDI Collab IT'S SNOW FUN

DSDI - Paper Shaker CT work

Here are the projects I did as a Paper Shaker for DSDI in December and January ...

Digital Credits: DSDI Collab IT'S SNOW FUN! available as Flavor of the Month for January!

And, you know how I love the ocean, so my next two selections from the DSDI store should not come as a surprise to you.  I fell in love with the name of Marie H Designs' kit POETRY OF THE SEA, and just had to work with it ... I love how this layout turned out ...

Digital Credits: Marie H Designs POETRY OF THE SEA
font - bready

Photo - Beach Access #12 on Ocracoke Island NC - we've been there twice off season (in May) and had the beach completely to ourselves! What a beautiful time!

and then I found SEASIDE TREASURES by Sunny Day Scraps, so I had to do that one as my next Paper Shaker project

Digital Credits: Sunny Days Scraps SEASIDE TREASURES

And this one from Robin Renee Digi Scrap Delights was a real departure for me, but I think it complimented my "OLD" photo from Easter 1958 - see how tightly we are ALL clutching our Chocolate Easter bunnies!  LOL

Digital Credits: Robin Renee Digi Scrap Delights HAPPINESS
fonts - Ballantine Serial, TechnoHeavy

Photo - an "oldie"  from Easter 1958. That is poki sitting in the middle holding ??? not sure who that boy is (I don't have cousins that are the right age for that boy ... Mom doesn't know who it is either!)

December and January for 3 Li'l Monsters Designs

I really enjoy working for 3 Li'l Monsters Designs as well - our styles seem to match well!  Here are the layouts that I created as CT work for 3LM in December and January:

MERRY AND BRIGHT and MY DEAR WATSON

Digital Credits: 3 Li'l Monsters Designs MERRY AND BRIGHT 

and 3LM MY DEAR WATSON template

Photo - our family Christmas as Mom's house in 2010! 

SNUGGLE BUG

Digital Credits: 3 L'il Monsters Designs SNUGGLE BUG http://stufftoscrap.com/store/index....oducts_id=6497
template 3 Li'l Monsters Design PHOTO STRIPS
http://stufftoscrap.com/store/index....oducts_id=5679

Photo - Chase sleeping snuggly at Great Grandma's house on Thanksgiving 2011.  (He was just a little over a month old!)

FRESH START

Digital Credits: 3 Li'l Monsters Designs FRESH START

This next layout is not a CT layout - but it uses part of 3 Li'l Monsters Designs FRESH START along with some additional elements from other designers.  I created this one as Challenge 1 for the Drive In Scrap Out over at DSDI - I am exceptionally proud of my cluster in thsi layout so I have to show it off, although I repeated the photo of Julie and Chase from the layout above. 

Digital Credits: 3 Li'l Monsters Designs FRESH START (paper, clock, flowers) Jen C Designs IN THE WOODS (leaves RECOLORED); Dinphy OUTDOOR TREASURES (fern RECOLORED); Jen C Designs REFRESH (swirl RECOLORED); Jen C Designs IN LOVE WITH YOU (heart stickpin); fonts - Librarian (LOVE) Ballantine Serial (all other words in title)

TWISTER SCRAPLIFT of Natalie C http://www.digiscrapsdrivein.com/gal...mp;ppuser=2028 and 2girlsandadog http://www.digiscrapsdrivein.com/gal...mp;ppuser=3557

Go check out the great artwork being produced at DSDI for Drive In Scrap Out and our challenges.  I did a hand count of last week's submissions to the gallery to add the info to the DSDI Blog and found an amazing 218 layouts submitted between Jan 15 and 21! That's lots of inspiration!

I'll be back later ...

I still have 3 Li'l Monsters Designs, DSDI Paper Shaker designs, and DSDI Challenges to load - but I need a nap!

Giggly Polka Dots CT work - December & January

Here are the layouts that I have done for Giggly Polka Dots since my previous post:

Giggly Polka Dots BE MY PENGUIN

Giggly Polka Dots  IN HIS SLEIGH

Giggly Polka Dots MIDNIGHT SNACK

December went by like a whirlwind!

And January hasn't been much slower (My duties as Blog Manager at DSDI have kept me hopping) but I want to take the time to catch up here on MY blog!

Here's what I have done for Jen C Designs since I last posted my CT work for her:

Jen C Designs WINTER SPARKLES

Jen C Designs DECEMBER TEMPLATE GRAB BAG (Share the Memories)

Jen C Designs QUALITY TIME

Jen C Design THE JOURNEY BEGINS

Jen C Designs COCOA AND CANDY CANES

Jen C Designs sell at

FUNKY PLAYGROUND

THE STUDIO