Word Art Challenge with Jen

Yesterday, I enter Word Art Challenge with Jen from Word Art World. She gave us these 3 wonderful word art freebies:

The challenge this month is to find a photo of our children or whomever doing what they do best: PAYING. In the LO we should use the overlay and at least ONE of the word art images provided.

The overlay s 12x12 sized .png and we can use it in a variety of ways, as paper, an overlay, a digital stamp, etc.

And here's my final LO:

This is what happen when my friends come to my house for a meeting. Our children are playing and messing with all the toys.... well, at least we can do the meeting... :D

Mountain Retreat Speed Scrap Challenge

Today I'm entering another challenge. This time Digital Scrapbooking Studio offering a beautiful sampler FREEBIE from the Master Designer: Mountain Retreat Challenge!

They gave us the sampler contains items from both the Designers who did the Mountain Retreat Speed Scrap Challenge: Angel Hartline Designs & Ruby Lane Designs.

It's really interesting to see how they did the challenge. First, Toiny gave them the color palette & theme. Like this:

Then they have to make mini kits out of them (8 papers & 24 unique elements). And here's what they come up with:

Beautiful, right?
Now.. they challenge the forum to do lay out challenge. They gave us this mini

and these instructions:

1. Choose your background paper from the 3 provided
2. Crop the other two papers into any shape and layer on your background paper - you may duplicate these papers as many times as you need
3. Place the Frame (Ruby Lane) on top of your layered papers - you can rotate/resize & duplicate as much as needed
4. Take the circle Mat (Angel Hartline) and layer beneath your frame, anywhere as long as it is beneath the frame - resize to fit your needs, NO DUPLICATING! You can only use this element ONCE!
5. Add the circle border strip (Angel Hartline) horizontally across your frame, either under or on top - again, you can resize to fit, but DO NOT duplicate! You can only use this element ONCE!
6. Take the cluster flower and the leaf (both Angel Hartline) and layer/cluster around your frame, keeping most of the layering/clustering to the left-hand side - you may resize, rotate, duplicate as much as needed
7. Use the champagne glass (Ruby Lane) anywhere, but you can only use it ONCE!
8. Add the pre-shadowed bubbles (Ruby Lane) anywhere they fit, resize accordingly, duplicate up to TWO TIMES for a limit of 3 bubble scatters on your layout
9. Tuck the tag (Ruby Lane) under your cluster, NO duplicating, you can only use this element ONCE!
10. Add photos, a title & journaling to finish off your layout.

And here's my final page:

It's really amazing to see how these wonderful designer do their works. Wishing one day I can make some kits just like them. In the meantime there's an Annual Next Designer Contest kicks off September 1, 2011

The contest is open to ANYONE interested in becoming a Designer, and their 10 TOP finalists from Round 3 will all win an exclusive, brandnew, CU Grab Bag from theStudio Designers. The TOP 3 finalist from Round 4 will win Designer Contracts at theStudio as well as a bamboo wacom pen tablet. Wohooo... that's a dream come true. I really want to try..... but I think not this year... (tought I just start scrapbooking this month anyway.... lol)

BUT... I'm sooo excited to see the contest. I know I will learn ALOT from this kind of contest :)

Template Sensations August

This is my first time working on templates. I get this beautiful templates from Sweet Mesquite on SDD Forum  and then make a page out of it.

And here's my page:

It turns out really fun working with templates. Especially when it comes with layers, we just have to change the item into whatever image we have and .. voila.. a great lay out come in no time. I make this LO using Eat Your Heart Out Scraps by Mara Wegner and Bradley Hand Font.

Progressive Scrap - Road Trip

Finally I completed my 7 day of Progressive Scrap Challenge. The theme for this month is Road Trip, taken from Digital Scrapbooking Studio August Mega Kit Road Trip.

This progressive scrap has gone for days. For the first day, Min from Deli Scraps gave us a download link with some pieces to use acording to #1 day's instructions. Our first download is free, and we got the others via pm after completing the day challenge.

We may recolor and/or crop the pieces or change their opacity but we have to use them as specified in each day's instructions and once placed are not allowed to move them.

#1st day we got four papers to start the challenge. They were created by Christine aka Digilicious Designs, Darlene aka Darlene H Designs, Julie aka Julie C Designs and our Guest Designer Janet B:

Instructions: Use three of the four papers to create a background for a road trip layout.
And here's my first lay out:

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#2nd day we get elements created by our guest designer for August, JanetB, by Eva aka eqrAveziur Designs and Marie H Designs:

Instructions: Use the journaling frame and the steering wheel once each, the brown frame twice!
And here's my day #2 LO:

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#3rd day we get another element from Julie aka Julie C Designs and Rebecca aka Twin Mom Scraps:

Instructions: Use everything once! Add a destination (or a title...) to the green road sign!
And here's my LO:

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#4th day we get another great elements from Boo aka BooLand Designs:

Instructions: Use everything once!
This one is not too hard, so here's my LO:

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#5th day challenge is TRUE challenge for me, we get this elements from Stephanne aka Snips and Snails Designs and it's just giving me a little hard time. I have to move around the elements around a few times before I finally get mine done.

Instructions: Use the ribbon and the car once each, the bow twice!
And here's my LO for day #5:

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#6th day is much easier. We finally get a little time to stop and stretch your legs and fill up the car using this elements from Christine aka Digilicious Designs and Darlene aka Darlene H Designs 

Instructions: Use at least one of the wordart and the gas pump.
And here's my LO:

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And FINALLY, we reach the #7th day challenge. The last pieces were created by Maureen aka Let Me Scrapbook and Linda aka Designs by Linda Cumberland:

Instructions: Add at least three things of today's download to your page! (Your choice of which, can be three times the same, and how many as long as you use at least three.)

And here's my FINAL page.... taraaa.... complete with photos of me and my children travelling by bus :)

Really enjoy this challenge. Can't wait for another one :)

Font Challenge - Jaggy Fries

This is my first challenge in GottaPixel Forum. The challenge host by Cindy B  and she gave us this font to scrap:

Because this font is more like an alpha than a journal font, so we have to use a little work on it. 

And here's my final lay out:

You can download the free font here.

This challenge is being generously sponsored by Danimoy Designs

Everyone that participates in this month's challenge, will receive a $2 coupon to Dani's Store! Can't wait to get mine :D

The Works - Challenge

This time I tried to join The Works - Challenge by Theresa from Simple Girl Scraps. She give this lovely Softly Summer Mini Kit and ask us to use at least three papers and all of the elements of this mini kit. We may use items more than one time, but each element item must be used at least once.

Here's the screen shot of her kit:

And here's my lay out. This beautiful girl is Naura, my friend's cute little daughter :)

August Clutter It - Challenge

Another challenge from Digital Scrapbooking Studio that I enter this month is Clutter It - Challange. Darlene give us the basic page that we must alter it somehow - add a few elements to it, flip it, rotate it, recolor it or do whatever we want. We all can decide what elements to add to transform our basic template into our own page.

This is the basic element

And here is my final page:

My little boy playing in the river. He just can't stop 

30 Day Oase Challenge Day #1-16

My friends & I in Oase Club challenge our friends to make 30 days documentation of our children at home. Actually we don't have to make scrapbook. Since I'm in the middle of "LOVING" digiscrap, I tried to make my own scrap EVERYDAY! Well.. almost everyday... ^_^