Chill

Time for another DigiDare! (someday I'll upload some of my other layouts, but I'm having too much fun with the challenges right now) Here's the rules or guidelines:

     what would you just love to do “to your heart’s content?”
     run, swim, ski, read, bake, shop, scrap, or simply sleep the day away?

     Dare Flair:
     since February is a short month with only 28 days this year
        * 2 photos and 8 elements are the minimum required
        * use contrasting colors and at least one patterned paper
        * title your page with your {theme} to your heart’s content
And so, with no further adieu...

credits:

background paper - Jennifer Labre's Sunkissed Sunrise & Sunset kits

embellishments - Kate Hadfield's Sandy Toes & Island Paradise kits

title alpha: A. Richard's Orient kit (from the Blog Train Blog)

font: Traveling Typewriter

DigiDares #215

Whew! This was a tough one this time. Not only finding out the major world news, but narrowing down one story per year. There's a lot of journaling on my layout that I haven't copied, but my list of "top" events of each year is below.

2000: Y2K

2001: 9-11 (terrorist attack on New York)

2002: the Euro goes into effect

2003: SARS pandemic

2004: Asian tsunami

2005: Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans

2006: bird flu

2007: Virginia Tech massacre

2008: Thai political crisis

2009: H1N1 scare

2010: Haitian earthquake



Digi Dares Challenge #214

Loving the creative ideas that are offered through the DigiDares (http://www.digidares.com/). Here's my contribution for dare #214:

kit used: Plentiful by Shabby Princess

font: LoveLetter

Scrapper Bowl 2011

Had a ton of fun participating in some challenges at the Scrap Orchard Scrapper Bowl. (link for the gallery of amazing layouts: http://scraporchard.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=1022) Here's the layouts I created for the various challenges:

This was the Northern Division Color Challenge.

We had to choose team colors and scrap a layout using ONLY those colors.

I chose the Pittsburgh Steelers: yellow, black, and white.

End Zone Template Challenge

We could choose to used the template provided, which I did.

Love that I have finally scrapped some pictures which have been sitting on my hard drive for years!

Blitz Clustering Challenge

Once again, we were provided with a template to get our juices flowing... gotta love the freebies!

Finally, the Offense-Defense Opposite Challenge

We had to scrap a layout about opposites... guess I needed to make the move across the world for this challenge :)



beginning ... again

ok, so here I go again. don't even want to confess how many other "new" blogs I've created in the past, only to forget what my username and/or password was. so, I'm starting fresh... hopefully I'll be able to gather some faithful readers to keep me accountable on keeping this blog up to date!!

my hopes & dreams for this blog? to post through layouts the chronicles of my life. here's the first to get the ball rolling: