Saturday, August 15, 2009

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #45 - Sixteen Candles



Good Morning Everyone!!!! 

I am psyched to bring you the 45th Challenge from Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge!!!! woo-hoo!!! Every Saturday we pick a movie from which to draw our inspiration from in creating a card, scrapbook layout, altered item etc. and this week's movie that we are featuring is the 80's classic movie: Sixteen Candles in honor of legendary director John Hughes who passed away at the age of only 59 last week. Joh  Hughes was also the director of 80's cult classics such as: The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science and Planes.Trains and Automobiles among others. This movie is a coming of age kind of story about the sixteenth birthday of the the character Molly Ringwald plays and also brings out highschool politics - highschool crushes - and all the highschool drama - along with a ton of hip 80's fashiion! Gotta love it!!!

Our challenge this week is to creat
e a birthday card with colors from the 80's!!!! 
How fun is that!!!!
 Here is an example of 80's COLORS

Okay - I LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie - partly because I thought that the character of Jake Ryan was dreamy (did you know that the actor who played Jake Ryan, Michael Schoeffling now owns a woodmaking shop and creates handcrafted items!!!) and the other part because the very last scene still gives me tingles.... you know the scene where they lean into each other over a bday cake!  Well - for this challenge requirement - I wanted to do something FUN and 80's retro ish - and create a bday card with those fun and bright colors in mind. While I was blogging last night - I came across the store the Curiosity Shoppe thanks to SmilynStef's great inspiration challenge - and was simply tickled when I saw this picture in their store - it just looked like 80's colors to me - and so I used it as my inspiration for my Sixteen Candles 80's birthday card: The top right box reminds me of Molly Ringwald's hats in the movie.... wow - watching the movie and seeing all that 80's fashion is hilarious!!! I remember thinking HOW cool all of that was !!! lol!!!! Here is my card for the movie:


Card Details
Paper: DCVW
Ink: Stazon Black
Accessories: Whirligig button, Kand Compnay bling, Martha stewart sun and scallop punc, circle punches from CM, eyelet, cropadile,  black, pink, yellow and blue glaze from Sakura, white signo gel pen, yellow bling from Martha Stewart, smiling face punch from stash.

This card is a little out of my box... but it was a blast to make!
I had so much fun making this card and the whole time I was watching the movie .... and still that last scene just gives me happy tingles :) LOVE it!!!

You can check out the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge for more details!!!!

I hope you all play along!!! We all need birthday cards! AND 80's colors - now that just makes me want to sing: Girls just wanna have fun!!!!

Hugs!
Sankari :) 

13 comments:

Ida said...

How cheery and fun! The bright colors are so much fun and the images you used make me smile. Love your take on this movie.

Leonie said...

Love this card and love the theme, these kind of movies are my fav! I am an 80's child at heart! lol!!

Tasha said...

Oooh this is really pretty love the colours hun.
Hugs
Tash (inky one's)

Anonymous said...

Wow, I love this card. This is totally the style that I love. The colors are bright and the whole thing just screams HAPPY!!! Love it!

Kimberly's Krafts said...

Just beautiful Sankari! That is a classic and I love that movie!! :)
A bright and cheerful card!!
Love it!!

Happy Saturday!
Kimberly

Ann said...

I KNEW it was Sixteen Candles--I hopped in for a quick peek this morning and recognized it immediately from that leg shot! Your card is FAB!!!! I SO hope I can find time to play along this week--love, love, love this movie--but it's the first week of school--yikes!

Kim Sonksen said...

Oh wow - that card just knocks me off my feet! It is so fun and funky!

Jennifer Schmidt said...

Oh, what a great movie and what a fun, fun, fun card!! This is just adorable with the bright colors and I love the design! Hope you're enjoying the final weeks of summer and I'm so glad you decided to stay with our blog group :)

Desire Fourie said...

Gorgeously bright and happy creation. Love the design.
Hugs
Desire

Deb S. said...

Wow--this is so fabulous!! I love all the bling and bright colors! Sixteen Candles is still one of my all-time fav movies. Great job on the card!

The Mama Monkey said...

What a loss for cinema and what an awesome movie! I keep saying the 80's are going to come back as my kids are in HS!! Neon and big hair in da house!!

Your card is perfect!! I love the colors and the design!

Naomi said...

FUN!!! I love this one!

gale said...

Cute card! I love the bright colors and cheerful images.