Challenge #5 - #7.....A Lot Late.

Wow, I have certainly been slacking on my job!! Needless to say I have been busy scrapping my way through the ADSR and not paying attention to the blog....LOL. I also have been spending time with my family and most of all my DH. We took some time just for ourselves, and we had a BLAST. I'm so glad we did, we both came back tired but renewed and refreshed.

So, I'm catching up now with 3 of my layouts.....so that Kerri can come back and catch up and hopefully we can get all of our ADSR layouts up for you all. First is Challenge #5 in which we had to scrap chocolate.....and I am on a new journey not only in scrapping but in changing my body. A weight loss journey that I am winning little by little. Baby steps but I am proud of where I am going!! So here is my Challenge #5 layout....No More Chocolate....

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The next layout was a roadblock and as we knew that I was taking an extended vacation near the end of the race, we decided it would be best if I did this one.....So the rules were we had to use and old picture and a new picture and the words This One's for Me as a title. We also had to use 10 positive descriptor words about ourselves and then there were also specific element requirements. My old picture was taken when I was about 3 I believe, the new picture was taken while I was at my part-time job one day for the web site to show the new computer software, yep I'm on another web site....LOL. Here is OUR Challenge #6.... This One's for Me...

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The last layout for Challenge #7 we had to make a list of 50 for our Bucket List. I couldn't believe how difficult this actually was for me. I knew of a short list I have.....but a list of 50??? Wow, this was a bit tough for me.....but I did it. And I surprised myself at what things I would want to do. So I give you my Challenge #7...... My Bucket List....

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Ok, so now it's Kerri's turn to come by with her next few layouts and I will be back soon I hope with more of mine. I sure hope you are enjoying all the layouts we are creating, we are certainly having a great time with the race, and it's really getting me back to what I need scrapping to be for me.....FUN!!! But, I have Kerri to Thank for that more than anything.....she has been such a ROCK....and a great friend and sister to me. Don't know what I would have done without you there to give me such great encouragement, you have been an AMAZING Blessing to me!! Until next time....

Blessings to you all!!!

Challenge #5 - Kerri's layout

Challenge 5 was all about chocolate, and we had to follow a recipe and use certain things on our layout.

This is what I came up with (I have a b-day theme going I think!)

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Leigh will be here soon with her Challenge 5 layout!

Challenge #4 - our ATCs

This was seemingly an easy challenge, we had to make two ATC's (artist trading cards) one to honour out ADSR partner, and one about someone/thing we love.
The only real requirement was the size of the cards, so off we went...and here is what we came up with

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Back soon with Challenge 5, which is very yummy!

Challenge #3 - Leigh's Layout - Burn

This layout was partially inspired by Kerri's layout. When I saw that she had done her layout with her boys in their firemen's costume, it inspired me to scrap one of the pictures I had taken of our Local Volunteer Fire Department at a Training and Live Burn they held. It was an awesome experience and I hope to be able to take more pictures for the Department again. This layout is titled Burn....

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Challenge #4 has been done and we are moving on to Challenge #5 already. This year the race seems to be moving so much faster for some reason, not sure if that is good or bad....LOL. I think Kerri will be back sometime tomorrow with our Challenge #5 post. Until next time....

Blessings to you all!!!

Challenge 3 - Kerri's layout

this one was fun too! We had to do some selective colouring, use a date element and journal 20 words or more, and highlight some of the journalling.

I chose to scrap Richard's Birthday

Credits:
Stop, Drop & Roll by Ziggles Designs at Scrap Orchard
Date bits by Connie Prince
Font: DJB Christy, MTB Hello Again

Leigh will be here soon with her take on Challenge 3!

Challenge #2 - Leigh's Layout - 5 Things

Wow, we are struggling with keeping up posting this time around. But I promise we haven't forgotten altogether. I struggled a bit with this layout, I had all the pictures picked out right after the Challenge came out. Since my focus in the last few months has changed, First and foremost my Family is NUMBER 1 in my life. After some REALLY stressful months for some reasons that I won't say here I had to make some huge descisions about my life. God has opened and closed many doors in the last few months for me and I have learned SO MUCH from it all. I am so truly BLESSED by it all. I have a new found Love for Life, a new found Love for GOD, a new found LOVE for my Husband and my kids and I am slowly working my way back to loving digital scrapbooking again. I knew it wouldn't take long, but what I LOVE the most right now is NO PRESSURE!! Yes I know that we are participating in the ADSR right now but I have to say that this is not pressure to me. Yes I struggled, I struggled with which kit I really wanted to buy to make this layout just right. But I love the kit I got because I'm going to be able to use it for so many more layouts!! Ok, so I know I've written a book at this point so if you made it this far....without further ado....I give you.....5 Things

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And now since I have posted this, Kerri can come back in the morning and post her Challenge #3 Layout. Then, if I can remember I will be back tomorrow with my Challenge #3 layout since I am DONE with it also....Woo Hoo!! I will let Kerri post her's first since mine was actually partially inspired by hers. Thank you to all who come and visit our little ole blog here, we luv you all and appreciate your support and kind words. Until next time....

Blessings to you all!!!

Challenge #2 - Kerri's layout

Oops, I should have posted this at the weekend, I admit I forgot.

I LOVED this challenge, even more so, because I did a layout that I really, really like which I would never have even thought to make if it hadn't been for ADSR.
So the requirements were:
Scrap about 5 things you love about...
5 fonts or alphas in the title
5 pictures and one has to have the number 5 in it
5 of the same element but in different variations

And here is my layout which meets all requirementsCredits:
I got a feelin by Lyndsay Riches at Scrap Orchard

Back after Leigh has posted her Challenge 2 layout!
Cu then

Challenge 1 - Leigh's Layout - My Baby Steps.

First of all I have to tell you that Kerri was oh so patient with me this year as about a week before ADSR was set to start I had a major.....well I will say I was ready to give up scrapbooking for a WHILE. I have left all of my Creative Teams and given up all my activities in the scrapbooking world. It was all causing me so much stress that I was having headaches weekly, and crying at least once a week. My DH was so understanding about it all, and above all SOOOO supportive. He knew that underneath all the stress I truly loved scrapbooking and that I just had to get back to that. To the fun of it, and through all of this Kerri has been such a blessing and a friend. Much more to me which is how I came to the name of the layout I made. I lifted her layout PS I Love You which I absolutely LOVE, especially the picture!! You can see it below...

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And so now I begin to take my Baby Steps back to scrapbooking.....for enjoyment, for my family, for my friends, for me and for what it is truly supposed to be about. No longer will I be burned out by trying so hard for others. And so I give you....More Than A Friend....dedicated to the friend who is helping me to discover myself in scrapbooking again, and someone who will forever be More than just my Friend...she will always be my Sister in my heart....I Love You Kerri!! Thank you

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Ok, so it's on to Challenge #2, have the pic's and theme picked out...now on to getting a kit. Kerri is done....she's a fast one that girl so be watching for her post soon. Until next time......

Blessings to you all!!!

Season 5!! - Challenge 1 - Kerri's layout

Woohoo! I think we could honestly say that we have been waiting for this ever since Season 4 finished!

It's so exciting to be racing again! I love the challenges and fun we have doing it together. And the skype lines have been busy again today, Leigh was still up when the first challenge went live and by the time I got to the computer had just about finished her layout - only sleep got in the way of her posting here first!
I spent most of the day working out my layout in my head - but let me tell you the challenge rules.
We have to introduce our partner, and our layout must be lifted from one of theirs from a gallery of our choice.
Well I chose to lift this awesome layout of Leigh's - Silly Monster!


And this is what I came up with

Credits:

Sister Sue by Sarah Bennett

Watch this space for Leigh's layout!
CU soon

Challenge #12

So here it is the layout we are both pretty proud of. This challenge was to have half or more of the page with journalling and we had to journal about "why we scrapbook? why we are storytellers", the wordart was given to us and had to be on the page, and we had to have a photo of each of us and it had to be in the bottom right. Leigh made the page and we each did our journalling. Then I added the journalling and the wordtags to the page Leigh had created. We worked closely together and it came out great, don't you think!

Credits:
Kit used: Dreamer by Flutter Expressions
Wordart by We are Storytellers
Wordtags by Karah Fredricks
Fonts: Pea Happy girl, Pea Amy Rica

So if you want to read it, here is the journalling:
Kerri:
Why do I scrap? Good question, I have always loved taking photos and of any holiday I have taken since I had my own camera I have made photo albums. Then digital cameras and pictures came around and I found the wonders of a photo book. And have told the story of my holidays in them. Mostly I let the pictures do the talking with only small additions of place names and people. That said, I have always kept a diary on my holidays and together the photo albums and diary make it whole. From there it was only a small step to finding "digital scrapbooking" and it came at a perfect time in my life. My Mother was just recovering from lung cancer and my husband was about to start a new job which took/takes him away from us during the week. Finding digital scrapbooking has saved me from feeling alone in the evenings. As soon as my boys are in bed, I am on the computer, keeping up with my online friends, scrapping, designing. I swear there are never enough hours in my evenings for all that I want to be able to do. My layouts still lack journalling, I am so used to the pictures doing their own talking, but slowly I am learning that sometimes they don't and that I need to tell the story on the page too. This Race for one has gotten me journalling and really liking the outcome of the layouts. So thank you NDISB for putting on this race. I have loved every challenge and minute of it.

Leigh:
I tell the stories my Mom never told us. My parents made myself and my 3 siblings photo albums when we were younger, all they contained were the pictures with no names, no dates, and no occasions listed. After I had my daughter I was looking for a better way to preserve the memories, some way to tell my daughter the stories behind the pictures long after I could remember or was gone. I had tried papter scrapping but I just couldn't bring myself to cut the pictures up. When I found digital scrapbooking it was perfect. This way I could manipulate the photo's anyway I wanted without feeling like I was destroying them. When my Mom died, making sure the stories were told became even more important to me. My Mom was always the one we went to for the information about the pictures in albums, and now that link is gone. I was determined to make sure my kids, and my family would have these all important pages, my stories. So, for now, I am the storyteller, and I hope someday to pass this on to my daughter so that she may someday be the storyteller. So the stories of our family will live on, for more than just my lifetime.

Thanks again for all your comments, and now fingers xed that we get drawn out of the hat next week. There is actually a 13th Challenge we would have to do together, but it is optional, and we haven't decided yet, if we are going for it or not! Any views on that?!

Challenge #11 - Leigh's Layout

Ooops is right!!! We both fell behind. I had a little bit of a hard time with this challenge. Not in choosing the picture or the question, but in finding a kit that would work for the picture and for me. I finally found one I thought would work....and in the end, I was really happy with the result. So here is my Challenge #11....Good Luck?.....

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Ok, so we are already finished with Challenge #12, and Kerri should be getting it onto the blog sometime really soon. We are really proud of the results of this last one. We had to work together to do it and I think we work really well together.....though I was probably a little picky for Kerri's taste....LOL. Just kidding Kerri. Anyway, we hope you have enjoyed the race with us. It's not quite over so.....Until next time.....

Blessings!!!

Challenge #11 - Kerri

Oops, I'm a bit behind, I finished this a while back. the challenge was to scrap a layout with a question, that you have always wanted to ask of anyone living or dead. The only journalling allowed on the layout is the question. Mum had a great idea for me, but I didn't have the bar of chocolate at home to take a picture of. She suggested "Why do you make me put on weight?" I really wanted to do it, but during the evening Sunny our cat came home, and then I remembered one of THE questions that I would love an answer to:

Credits:
Life is good by Sweet Digi Scraps and Valerie Ostrom at BTST

The picture is of Robert and Sunny on the day before Sunny went missing for 7(!) months! I'm so glad he came back!
Bye 4 now

Challenge 10 - Roadblock

Well, a little late getting this layout posted. Challenge 10 was a roadblock and I had to complete this one. So I had to do an interview of Kerri with at least 5 questions, I gave her many more than that because she had to work the next day and wanted something to do at work. Then the layout had to be primarily 2 colors, and you had to use elements from 2 different designers. With the new collab that came out at Been There Scrapped That by Liz- SweetDigiScraps and Valarie Ostrom choosing the kit was easy. The hardest part of this challenge was choosing questions that would allow me to learn new things about Kerri. With that said I give you....KayJay's Journey...

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We have moved on to Challenge 11 and 12.....this is the last week of the ADSR!! I can't believe it has gone by so quickly. We will be back soon with the next layouts. Until next time....

Blessings!!!!

Challenge #9 - Kerri's Layout

for some reason I found this challenge the most difficult. Even though it sounded simple enough, include at least two generations on your layout, some lace, something metal, a flower and some ephemera. the first layout I did has gone to layout heaven, it just wasn't right. But I quite like this one.

Credits:

Rusty Autumn by Linda Cumberland at DAC
Clock from Remember me Always by Sweet Digi Scraps

its a picture of Zoe with my brother, Mum and Grandad. A very treasured photo it was about time it got its own layout.
Thanks for looking!
Cu soon

Challenge #9 - Leigh's Layout

This has been a really hard week for me, and I think it has for Kerri also, so as a result we both are running late with our layouts for the Race. I spent the last part of last week at the Dr's office, I had re-injured my back after more than 10 years and seriously if you haven't ever had kids before this pain ranks right up there with labor. So with a shot of cortisone, some muscle relaxers, pain killers and a heating pad I am almost back to normal with that. Then I spent the first part of this week dealing with an abscessed tooth, again not fun. So with some antibiotics that is now starting to go away and I am feeling almost like a normal person again. But enough about my personal life, since you are here to see our Race layouts. Challenge 9 was interesting, it had to include pictures of two generations (if it was in one picture that was fine), a flower, lace, a metal object, and a "vintage" or "ephemera" object like an old clock, or and old book. It took me a while to find a picture I wanted to use, then with some thinking I knew what kit I wanted to use.....just one problem.....it's been retired. Hmmmmm, well lets see, so I started through my stash of kits on CD and what did I find??? The kit I wanted to use, I already had it (I thought I might have which is why I was going through my stash). So, I know what you're saying....let's see the layout already......OK, here you go......it's called Time.......

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Ok so I'm off to start on Challenge 10, it's a Roadblock and since Kerri did the last one guess what??? I get to do this one. I have some ideas for it so maybe I can get started on the layout and finish it tomorrow after I get to talk with Kerri. So until next time....

Blessings!!!

Challenge #8 - Leigh's Layout

Well, before you ask, NO Kerri and I did not plan to lift from the same gallery. But what and HONOR for Jan (IntenseMagic). I have Loved her gallery for a while, and this is the second lift I have done from her gallery. Anyway, like Kerri said the challenge was to life from a favorite gallery, a "scrapping idol" and in the layout include a star and the word dream. So this is the layout of Jan's that I lifted from....

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And the layout I did......

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So I no longer have a baby any more (tear), he's growing up so quick and it's so great. And yet there is a part of me that wishes he would have stayed that little baby for a while. Ok, so the wait is on to see if we will go on to the next round. Until next time...

Blessings!!!

Challenge 8 - Kerri

Well, here it is, I got a bit sidetracked reading in the evenings this week, but I've finished now, and just in time to get the Challenge finished.
This week, we had to go to one of our favourite Scrappers Galleries and lift one of their layouts. In addition we had to include a star of some sort and the word dream.

I lifted this layout by Jan (intensemagic)

Credits:
Layout by Intensemagic
Life is Good by Valerie Ostrom and Sweet Digi Scraps at BTST

And here is what I made of it, I turned it 90° because I had a landscape photo.

Credits:
A New Day - Scrap Orchard Collab Kit

I thought this photo was just perfect for the quote! Mum's words were "The 4 little horrors", that fits too!
CU soon

Challenge #7 - Leigh's Take

Well, like Kerri said this Challenge was a pretty easy one, and now that I have seen Kerri's layout I am surprised that our layouts are somewhat similar, though they have some big differences. Like minds really do think alike....LOL!!!! They really made this challenge easy by saying that we could recolor anything in the mini-kit and also we could use anything from other kits that we wanted, just that we HAD to use the 10 items from the mini-kit in the layout at least once. Ok, so here's my take on the challenge....my layout called Swinging....

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So we are more than half way through the race at this point, only 5 more challenges to get through. It will be interesting to see what is in store for us. We have certainly had to think "Out of the Box" in the challenges that have been presented till now. It's been great fun though and time has certainly flown. Until next time then....

Blessings!!!

Kerri - Challenge 7

Compared with the other challenges this one was an easy one! We get a mini kit and have to use all pieces in it for a layout!

Here is what I made with the bits and bobs, the picture was taken this weekend, its my niece Mia and my SIL Ramona

Credits:
Sunrise Special by Sunshine Studio Scraps

Bye 4 now

Challenge #6

this challenge was a so-called "road block", meaning that only one of us needed to do it. As Leigh said, I volunteered. So here is what I had to do, I had to browse leigh's gallery find a layout to scraplift, then flip it over and turn it 45° and use it as a sketch, but it had to have the same amount of elements on it.
OK, so here is the layout Leigh helped me choose (too many great ones in her gallery, so I needed some help)
this is the layout flipped and turned, so that you know what I am talking aboutAnd here is my layout based on Leighs

Credits:
Snowblind by Sweet Digi Scraps

It was again great fun, and I am now looking forward to Sunday when the next challenge is posted
Bye 4 now