Layout for challenge 6 is done

but I wanted to wait until it was checked in before I posted it...for fear I would have to go back to fix something! So without further ado, I give you....challenge 6:

Challenge 5

I've had this LO done for some time, just forgot to post it here. The challenge was to choose 6 elements out of a list of 10 provided by the host site. Then incorporate chocolate somehow. I decided to do Erica's bridging ceremony when she was becoming a "brownie". I did the layout how I wanted it and then remembered that I had to use 6 elements from the list, so I checked the list and I had 5 already in my LO!!!! Yeah me, I just needed to change the title from a font to an alpha....easy-peasy!


I maybe shouldn't get too excited...I haven't been officially checked-in by our wonderful ADSR5 volunteer, Kat, but I feel pretty good about it. So here is Erica becoming a Brownie and the second page that goes with it.

Now I need to get started on Challenge #6. Been putting it off since it has a lot of element requirements, which is a real challenge for me!

Uh Oh! Another Recipe...

We discovered in week one that my race partner cannot follow recipes:)  Well, we got another layout "recipe" this week, will she be able to complete it?  The best part about this recipe is the main ingredient is CHOCOLATE!!!  Yummy!!  Check back later this week to view our tasty layouts:)

My favorites...

We finished this week's challenges so fast we really don't have anything to blog about.  I thought it would be a good time to share some of our other non ADSR5 layouts.  I say these are my favorites, but really I had so many favorites in both of our galleries that it was hard to choose.  My favorite layout out in Stacy's gallery is called "On the Fence"

Kit used "My Guy" from Brownie Scraps
Other elements from KristenCB, Scrappin Cop, Nicole Young

and from my gallery "Peekaboo"

 

Used Just a Normal Day by Laura Bozeman

Have a great weekend everyone and we'll be back Sunday with Challenge #5.

Challenge 4 preview

Part of Challenge 4 was to create the ATCs and the finishing touch was to submit all 4 ATCs in one preview. So here is the preview of all four.

Don't forget to scroll down to download the mini-kit freebie Bonnie made and used in her ATC.

Another Freebie!!

Who knew that in world of digital scrapbooking there would be so much fighting and controversy...I love it!!! :) As I was reading that we had to create ATCs I was thinking, "I hope they tell me what an ATC is" and was about to grab the phone to call Stacy with hopes that she knew.  Luckily, the next paragraph contained the instructions.  Of course, I still called Stacy to discuss the challenge:)

The theme is supposed to be Valentine's/Love and I really don't have anything like that in my stash of scrapbooking kits.  However, I did a layout a few weeks ago that I wanted to have a "lovey dovey" feel and at the time I thought it would be faster to create a couple of elements to use rather than go and search for a free Valentine's kit.  So, here are the elements I created for that layout along with a couple of more that I am using for one of my ATCs.  If you use them please just mention The Scraptastics, thank you.  Here is the link, enjoy!

Challenge 4 is up...and controversial

Challenge #4 is to create 2 ATCs (Artist Trading Cards), one about something you love, and one about something your partner loves. Now I've heard of ATCs but I've never really looked into what they are, so I had to search the ATC Gallery at Digitals to even find out what they should look like. Some were very artistic with no photos at all, some were all journaling, some looked just like a mini layout.

Then I started reading some of the posts regarding the challenge and boy were some people upset about it. I however, took the open ended "there are no element, journaling, or photo requirements" to mean make an artistic LO in the specified size (2.5 by 3.5 inches), which I much prefer to "make a LO using exactly 5 of this, this and this".

To add to the fun of this challenge, this is the exact size of the name-badge mini-album I have been contemplating for my Mother's Day gifts (Mom and Marie, if you are reading this, just pretend to be surprised when you get the gift...oh wait, the fact that you get a gift at all from me will be surprising so you won't really need to pretend, now will you?)

So, I am extremely excited about this challenge. Now to get the LO to look like the image I have in my mind...that's the challenge!