Not Everyone's Mama

I can’t believe this year’s Amazing Digiscrap Race is over for me.  Unless they sneak in a #13, which would be A-W-E-S-O-M-E! I need to find a site that has lots of challenges that I can do.  I know ever site has challenges.  I need to find one that is good for me.

Challenge 11 was found over at Polka Dot Plum, which you have to love, just for the name alone.

Welcome to Polka Dot Plum’s ADSR Humpty Dumpty Challenge. The designers here at Polka Dot Plum created this plum gorgeous template, a really unique layout for you racers to use, and then our kids got a hold of it. Yes, 5 minutes away to answer the phone, and this is what was left of a beautiful layout. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take this template and put it back together again. Now, how you do that will be entirely up to you and your partner. Each team must take these template parts and create 2 entirely different layouts(one from each of you). Each piece must be used at least once, and you are welcome to resize, recolor, transform, use as a clipping mask, but the basic shape must still be there. The grey "photo spots" do not necessarily need to hold the pictures. You may also add anything else you feel fits your artistic vision. These come as a layered PSD file and separate png files, so any program should be able to use it. We can’t wait to see what you ADSR creative geniuses create for us!

Click here to see the template we needed to use.

And my take on it –

Credits –

Credits –
Heaven Gate’s Design – Little Angels
font – Darcy Baldwin – DJB BRITTANYscript

I’m not used to making “white space” layouts.  That’s what I started with.  Did I add too much to call it a white space layout?  Either way,  love how it turned out!

#12.  Oh #12.  The drama.  I bet Aimee had no idea that her challenge would cause grown women to panic the way they did.  Challenge #12 was found at Aimee Asher Elite.  The instructions –

Welcome Racers!  We are so happy to be a stop in the race this year. We wish each of you luck!  Here is our challenge….  Download these templates and create your own card and matching envelope using any digital or traditional scrapbooking elements and papers you already have. We welcome you to post in our gallery as our members and guest love to browse for inspiration.

Then she had to add this

**** this is not a hybrid, this is either digital or traditional or hybrid**** Just be creative and have fun. No printing required.

and this

My apologies for any confusion… you do not have to print. Just want you to have fun and create something wonderful and enjoy!

What was the drama about?  In the preview picture for the challenge, the card is shown printed out. People were upset that it was a hybrid challenge.  See my note on hybrids below. I suggested, as did others, that you just make the card digitally, then layer it on a 12X12 sheet to show it off.  I didn’t think anyone was going to have to BUY a printer to complete the challenge. 

If just printing something makes it hybrid, each and every once of our layouts would be hybrid once we printed it for our albums.  According to The Hybrid Chick, hybrid is –

What is hybrid scrapbooking? It is a fusion between “traditional” and digital scrapbooking. It is combining physical supplies that you might pick up at your local scrapbooking store, and the digital supplies that you purchase at your favorite online shop. It is mixing two art mediums to create one unique project. And, it is a BLAST!

I guess if because when you print the card out you have to use scissors to cut it out and a little glue to seal the envelope you want to call it hybrid, that is cool.  To check out some really awesome hybrid projects, hit Digishoptalk’s hybrid gallery.  Those ladies can rock it!  This here is an awesome example of a hybrid card.  See how there is lace?  Things standing off of the card?  It’s beautiful!

Ok, sorry to my non-digi-friends visiting, I was just a tad frustrated at the response to challenge 12.  We were making it so much harder than it had to be.  The ADSR rules state that we would never have to buy anything to complete a challenge.  That includes a printer, I would think.  In fact, for this race, I haven’t bought one new thing.  I have reached back to kits that are eons old.  Ok, like a year or so.  (That’s eons to me I guess.)  I haven’t digi shopped for awhile and have just been working from my stash that pretty much takes up an EHD.  I’ll shop again on the next scrapping holiday.

So, on to my card – which I didn’t print out BTW.  I am planning on printing it, but I am out of cardstock.  My children seem to think anything that is white and in my desk drawers is for them to draw on.

I actually was really excited about this challenge.  Now I have a template to make all kinds of cards.  Not that I couldn’t have gotten one before, but I never thought of it.  So woohoo!  look out family, I’m not buying any of y’all birthday cards anymore.  You’re stuck with my creations.  Unless of course I’m out of ink and cardstock.

Credits –

Anna BV Designs – SYTYCS week 1
Font – Darcy Baldwin – DJB AngelBaby

The whole point of the ADSR is to stretch yourself, try new things, learn new techniques, HAVE FUN!  This was my 4th race, 3rd that I’ve finished, and it was a blast!  I say if everyone decides to race next year, don’t take it so seriously, have fun with it!  The ADSR was not created to be a source of stress to the racers.  NDISB does the digiscrapping a great service by hosting the race every year and I’m grateful to Theresa and Ernie for it.  It gets bigger every year as more racers join and it cannot be an easy event to host, but they do each year with such an enthusiasm.  I’d like to thank them both for the Amazing DigiScrap Race.  I love participating each year!

On to other news.  New Moon comes out March 20!  Woohoo!

Either Pato or I will be at Walmart at midnight to grab it. 

I didn’t share about Tuesday night.  Tuesday we had gone to Walmart (where I received the mother of the year award) and the lady told me that New Moon was being released that night.  I was sure it was coming out March 20.  I thought she had to be mistaken.

Pato came home from work and said, New Moon is in Red Box already.  I was all, huh?  No way!  He said yes.  I said, I’m going to go to Walmart and grab it.  Needless to say, it wasn’t released yet.  I almost bought myself an Edward t-shirt so that I wouldn’t have made a wasted trip to Walmart, but then I thought you know, I’m 35.  How cool would I look walking around with Robert Pattinson on my chest?  So, I didn’t get it.  Came home all disappointed and went to bed.

Have a great St Paddy’s day and may the luck of the Irish be with you!

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