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 #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 #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!

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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 #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 #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!!!

Challenge #5 - Leigh's Layout

This one was another bit of.....well.....a challenge for me. I had many ideas, none of which seemed to be just right for the layout. Then I got online with my partner in the race this afternoon and we got to chatting about our parallel lives again, and it hit me. Wow, did this layout come together quick after that!! I think Kerri was a bit surprised too, but I like doing that....he he he. So here you go....My challenge #5 entry....

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So now it's on to Challenge #6......which is a ROADBLOCK. This one can only be done by one of the members of the team....and Kerri has volunteered. So she has this next one. I am anxious to see what she comes up with. I'm also quite sure she will be done soon as she always amazes me how quickly she gets all of her layouts done, and they always ROCK!!! Ok, so until next time for me.....

Blessings!!!

Challenge #4 - Leigh's Layout

Oh My Gosh!!! This layout took me FOREVER!!! I started with one picture, then added a second. Then I finally found the kit I wanted to use which worked perfectly for me, though I'm not sure if it met all the requitements for the layout. So we will see. It took me 2 days to make the layout in and amongst cleaning the house with my DH (we have been doing a full clean of the house since the beginning of the year). Now it has taken me a little over an hour today to complete the journaling, usually journaling is not as hard for me but in this instance it was a bit harder. I had to stop a few times, too many tears. So, without further ado I give you....Someday....

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Journaling Reads:

Someday I’ll be able to tell you all the stories I want to tell you about Grand. Someday I’ll be able to tell you about all the special things Grand was to me as a mother without crying my eyes out first. Someday, we will be able to talk about Grand, and you will be able to ask me more questions than just “Mamma, Do you miss her?” and “Grand is in Heaven, right?” Someday all these things will be true about when we talk about Grand. Then there is Grammie, Oh what a truely special relationship you have with Grammie. How Blessed are you that you have Grammie to watch over you while you are here, and your angel Grand to help watch over you from above. I know in my heart that Grand watches over, and especially sits with Grammie as an angel on her shoulder also. The greatest Blessing is knowing that SOMEDAY we will all be together.

Ok, so hopefully we will get good news and we will be on to the next round, as nerveracking as it sometimes is, this has really been a whole lot of fun!!! Thanks again to all who have been by and commented, it does mean soooooo much to us. Until next time....

Blessings!!!

Challenge #3 - Leigh's Layout

Well, when we started this challenge I knew I wanted to choose between two galleries of mine, so when I looked at them both I couldn't resist doing a "remix" of my first layout in my very first gallery ever. So here are the before and after layouts....hope you enjoy them both. I totally LOVE the new one, but then again it really reflects my style now. Would LOVE to hear what you think.....

Before.....

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Sorry the image is so small, but you can see it bigger in the gallery.

After........

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Thanks for looking, and thank you so much to all of you who have visited out litte blog. I can't tell you how much we LOVE, LOVE the comments you all have been leaving. It just makes my little heart just swell and get all warm and "fuzzy" as Hummie always says....LOL. It's so nice to know that we have such great internet friends out there!! So in case we forget to keep saying it, just know that we think about all of you often and we so enjoy all the comments that are left in the cbox and the comments section. So....on to Challenge #4. Until next time....

Blessings!!!!

Challenge #2 Layout - Intersection

Here is our layout for Challenge #2, it was an "intersection" which meant that Kerri and I got to work together to make one layout. Really a lot of fun, and a lot of Skype talking back and forth about what we thought would be right about the layout. So here is what we came up with.

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We are having a lot of fun so far, and we are looking forward to advancing to the next round on Sunday. Here's hoping that we did everything right with this last layout!! Until next time....

Blessings!!!