Another week done for us. I was up until 3 last night getting these done so that I wouldn’t have to spend Pato’s day off scrapping. It’s not even a whole day off. He has to go in at 5 because someone is sick or something.
Alright, challenge 5 was found at Pretty Scrappy and here were the instructions:
The requirements for this challenge are fairly simple. Follow the guidelines being as creative as possible using the recipe below. You can incorporate other items into your layout, but you must use at least 6 of the items listed. Since this is the month of Valentine’s Day, your special challenge is to incorporate CHOCOLATE into your layout. So, 6 items in the recipe and chocolate!
* 1 ribbon * 1 tree
* 1 button * 1 staple
* 2 papers * 1 set of stitching
* 1 frame * 1 tag
* 1 flower * 1 alpha
And my layout:
Credits –
I used 2 papers, 1 staple, stitches, 1 frame, 1 tag, 1 flower, 1 ribbon (well, 2 ribbons, and I made the tag myself from parts of the kit.
I didn’t have a chocolate martini to take a picture of or any alcohol to make one.
Picture of the chocolate martini – [ link ]
Kit –
Artemia (collab)
Vera Lim – Journaling Pads
I want a chocolate martini now.
Challenge 6 was a roadblock. That means one of us didn’t have to do it. Kristi and I were duking it out over who doesn’t have to do it. Lady has a strong right hook. I lost. So, I headed over to Scrappity Doo Dah, one of my own stores that I am on hiatus from, and got the instructions while grumble grumble grumbling at Yvonne (one of my dear friends and the owner of SDD) and Laura, a very sweet person and one of Yvonne’s right hands.
Here’s what we had to do:
Theme: Scrap Yourself!
Directions:
1. Select 2 papers, solid/solid, solid/pattern, pattern/pattern.
2. Lay your first paper so that if covers the entire workspace.
3. Take the second paper insert it into your LO and decrease the size so that the paper is slightly smaller than the bottom layer.
4. Shadow the top layer.
5. Select a photo of you when you were younger and another one of you taken within the past year.
6. Photos should be 4 x 6. They can be vertical or horizontal. They can be color, sepia, or black/white.
7. Place the younger version of you in the top right quadrant of your layout.
8. Frame it.
9. Place the most recent photo of you in the lower right hand quadrant of your layout.
10. Frame it.
11. Select the following number of elements and cluster the areas around these photos.
Buttons – 4
Flowers – 4
Leaf//Leaves – 2
Heart shapes – 2
String / Twine – 2
Glitter/Bling – 2 (If you have glitter on a flower or other element, you can not count it towards your glitter/bling requirement)
Metals – 4 (this can be staples, keys, brads etc… it must be obvious)
Ribbon – 2
Flourishes – 2
12. Type up 10 words to describe yourself. They can be in any font, as long as its legible, and would prefer they be positives about you.
13. Tuck these words near your clustering — they must be visible and not hidden by elements.
14. Insert the following Title, anywhere on your layout : This one is for me!
It actually wasn’t as hard as it looks. I’m just one who is used to the instructions use 25 different items from 25 different designers while going by this theme. 
If you look through the gallery, even with the detailed instructions our layouts came out showing our own unique scrapping style. I also haven’t scrapped an AAM (all about me) page in a long time, so now there’s one for this year’s book.
Here’s mine:
Yep, that’s me as a baby, wasn’t I cute? I know they probably wanted us to go with 10 words that were adjectives and not nouns, but since they didn’t tie me down to that, I went with 10 nouns for me.
Credits:
Maelia Designs – Capturing The Memories (2 papers)
Heather Manning – Old Edges – frames
2 buttons from Maelia Designs (Capturing The Memories)
1 button – Kim B – toof fairy (white ridged stitched button)
1 button – Armina – Simply Me (white flower button)
1 flower – Maelia Designs (Capturing The Memories)
1 flower – Kim B (First Christmas)
1 flower – Kim B (toof fairy)
1 flower – Microferk(Summer Breeze)
2 leaves – Kim B (Heartfelt) – 1 under my baby picture on the right side)
2 hearts – Weeds And Wildflowers (I heart you)
1 string – Kim B (Baby’s First Christmas)
1 string – MGL – 365 kit
1 glitter – Micheline Martin (Going Green)
1 glitter – Micheline Martin (Glitter Stamps)
4 metals – Christina Renee (Metals) 3 clustered under baby pic on right side
1 ribbon – Karah Fredricks (Naughty)
1 ribbon – Kim B (Baby’s 1st Christmas)
2 swirls – Flergs (NSD Freebie)
Anita Stergiou – Tag (Brand New Day)
Blythe Evans – Bubble Fun alpha
Font – Darcy Baldwin – DJB BRITTANY, DJB Angel Baby
If you are newly introduced to the digiscrapping world as you are passing by my blog ever week, you’ll notice that in my credits, it’s usually Darcy Baldwin who makes the fonts I use. Got to give a shout out for Darcy. She is one of the best font designers I know and she has more fonts than you could ever imagine. If you need one, she’s got them. Plus, she can make your handwriting into a font for you. (I had mine done a couple of years ago.) I actually need to get caught up on my Darcy fonts. I haven’t bought any for a few months. I usually buy her big packs and just get a bunch at once. It’s an addiction.
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