Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #53 - Elizabeth - the Golden Age

Welcome to our 53rd movie challenge over at Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge where every Saturday, we pick a movie and create something (card, scrapbook layout - anything - that is inspired by the movie). This week we are featuring the 2007 Oscar winning movie: Elizabeth the Golden Age with Oscar nominated actress Cate Blanchett. This is an AMAZING movie full of amazing color, amazing costumes, amazing cinematography about the rule of the Virgin Queen: Elizabeth. For this movie challenge - you can play with either this movie or its prequel: Elizabeth (another amazing movie with amazing cinematography!). According to Wikipedia, this movie: Elizabeth: The Golden Age "won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and Cate Blanchett received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett was an Oscar nominee for Best Actress for Elizabeth as well." We hope you enjoy playing along with this challenge!

There was something so captivating about the first movie Elizabeth - there was something just lovely to watch with the amazing costumes (wow - the details are simply lovely) and the same in the movie Elizabeth the Golden Age. I just loved the cinematography and colors and the sets, costumes were like eye candy. I adore Cate Blanchett in these movies - she is an amazing actress - and the strength of character, emotion, vulnerability under the strength and beauty are simply lovely to watch. I am in LOVE with this dress/costume that Elizabeth wore and so i chose it for my card inspiration. You can kind of see the scoring that I did on the top to mimic the dress: (this picture comes from Grace Magazine)

I chose the sentiment: "Anything is Possible" from the gorgeous stamp set "Star Struck from Verve - I love the font in this set and the curls in the font felt like part of the dress. This is the sentiment I chose because I felt that is how she ruled -

she created possibilities and roles that were not thought possible at the time.

I loved making this card because I was watching the movie as I made it and love making cards when everything feels like it comes together :)

Here is a closer peek at the scoring, the ribbon (thank you Michelle and Laurie!!! You guys rock!!) and the sentiment:

Card Details:

Paper: DCVW

Ink: Memento Expresso and Cottage Ivy

Stamps: Star Struck from Verve

Accessories: liquid pearls, scorpal, ribbon from stash, pearls from Kaiser, spellbinders, dimensionals (and copics to color the pearls and crown embellishment)

I hope you have a chance to play along with us this week!!! Can't wait to see your royal creations!! Next week we have a very special guest designer joining us - along with a very fun movie!! Stay tuned and see you at the movies!!!

Please check out the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge site for more details!!

Big hugs and a huge thanks for stopping by and saying hello!

Ciao for now Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #52 - Mrs Doubtfire

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

Happy World Card Making Day!!! And to celebrate this, our challenge blog: Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge (where we take a different movie each week and then make a card inspired by it) will be are featuring the 1993 movie: Mrs. Doubtfire (which has been a popular movie to guess during the Friday Night sneak peeks for so long - that we decided that we should do it!!!!). This Oscar winning movie (for best make up) is the inspiring love story of a father for his children and how he figures out ways to take care and be with them. It is a wonderful comedy and such an inspiring movie of love, family and laughter. The challenge requirement this week was to create a card with a pocket or a tag (in honor of Robin Williams character who surprises us with his amazing character of Mrs. Doubtfire - transforming from one person into a completely different person.

So, for today's Mrs. Doubtfire card, I wanted to make an apron card in honor of Mrs. Doubtfire's apron (although I didn't make it very prim and proper, :) I created two little pockets in the apron for a little tag message - one that reads: Magically Delicious (in honor of Robin Williams character Daniel's attempt to transform into Mrs. Doubtfire - and the other sentiment reads: Let's Get together (in honor of his determination to keep his family together - even as he and his wife figure out how life after divorce).

Card Details:

Paper: Bo Bunny Kitchen Spice

Ink: Potter's Clay Memento Ink

Stamps: Year of Sweet Sentiments from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: threading punch from fiskars, eyelets, corner chomper, brads from Taylored Expressions, gold gel pen from Sakura, xacto knife, ribbon from stash and Karen Foster mini charms.

Here is a closer look at these super sweet charms (Michelle and Laurie, if you girls are reading this - I absolutely LOVE these charms!!! and you guys rock!)

This movie is simply hilarious (seriously the last scenes in the movie had me snorting laughing!) and more than anything - it gives me a feeling of being grateful for the blessings that we have, the importance of laughter and leaves me inspired to always see the silver lining in every situation!

Please check out all the fun details and all the card yumminess over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog!!!

We can't wait to see your fun surprise pocket cards!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday #50 - Pretty Woman - Celebrating our 50th challenge at Cinema Saturday!!

Good Morning Everyone!!!!!

Guess What?! Today's Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge (where we make cards, etc inspiredy by a movie) is our 50th Challenge!!! woo-ooooo!!! And to help us celebrate we have the awesomely talented Gina Krupsky of Gina K. Designs as one of our guest designers today who is offering some MAJOR blog candy and she has picked the movie Pretty Woman for our 50th challenge- so you have to check out the Cinema Saturday blog for more details!!!

This challenge all started out as an idea last fall while I was making a card and watching a movie :) I thought - wow - that would be kinda cool to have a challenge site where you make cards inspired by movies - so I asked one of my best blogging buddies Brooke to see if she would want to join and she said yes! I met Brooke while doing Kristina's color challenges last year - and it was so amazing to click with another person in blogland and then simply wonderful to be able to get to know each other better on the phone every week - can't wait to finally meet someday already! (it will be fun because Brooke is WAY tall and I am not - but I never think of her as tall becasue she is always this little picture on my blog :) lol!) After creating the site - its been simply fantastic to meet so many wonderful players along the way - I adore Ann from Creative Antics, Tina from Travelling Mama, Amy of Tethered 2 Home, Nellie Mae of this Little Blog of Mine, Sam from Ryemilan's Stamping and Scrapping, Chat Noir, Anthonette from Chavez designs, Jaimee from a Creative Need, Scrapper Julia, Libby and her family (her brother Jon and sister Linda who also guess the Friday peeks!), Nancy K., Erika, and of course my LOTR sister: Carol Dunsten (if I don't have links to your name I will I promise as I am typing this waaaay too late at night or tooo early in the morning!!! lol!!) Its been amazing to meet so many wonderful artists who have been our challenge players and now have melted into our families! I think that is the wonderful thing about doing challenges - getting to know people and being inspired by their visions!

And speaking of visions have we got some fun things for you in store! First of all the movie! I was over the moon when Gina agreed to be our guest designer!! She has picked out the 1990 movie: Pretty Woman for the 50th challenge with the challenge requirement being Paper Piecing!!!! And Gina has a HUGE amount of blog candy that she is offering up - so you don't want to miss out that information!

I remember watching this movie at slumber parties back in highschool when it came out and everytime I watched it - I was always in love with Julia's smile and her spunky attitude and I have to admit that I loved when Richard Gere was the knight in shining armor and he climbed up the fire escape at the end! so romantico! For my card I was so excited to use my new Gina K. stamps designed by Rupa Shevde called: Retro Boutique for my card. I love the shopping scene in the movie - especially the part where Richard Gere takes her shopping and loves watching her face as she begins to enjoy the shopping process. It is just too cute. And I love the part where she comes back to the store owners who were mean to her the first time and shows them to never judge a book by its cover! So to celebrate our 50th anniversary and one of my fave scenes in the movie: I created this Celebrate in Style card that is kind of like a little boutique.

and here it is as you open it: the ribbon is threaded through the eyelets:

and here it is opened:

Card Details:

Paper: white cardstock that I painted reddish brown and then scraps for all the things paper pieced

Ink: Memento Black

Stamps: Retro Boutique designed by Rupa Shevde by Gina K Designs.

Accessories: clear plastic sheet, spellbinders die cut, eyelets, ribbon from Taylored Expressions, oval cutters from CM.

Well, wow! I sure do talk alot!! Sorry for the super long blog post! Just excited that its 50 challenges old! Its amazing how it all started with an idea last fall and then led to lots of conversations with Brooke as we figured out how to do it - and now look - its 50 challenges later!!

The best part of creating this challenge site has been meeting all of YOU! and feeling like a little blog family! For all those of you who are new to this challenge, I hope you will join us this week!!!

Please make sure to stop by the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge to get all the details and deadlines AND Gina is offering OVER $60.o0 worth of BLOG CANDY!!!!! woo-Hooo!!!! So make sure to check that out! Thank you SO much Gina for your generosity and sweetness!!!

And thank you for stopping by to visit my blog!!! Big hugs and smiles,

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #49 - The Two Towers (Lord of the Rings) and some Blog Candy!

Good Morning Everyone,

Its time for another Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - where every week we pick a movie for inspiration in creating a card, layout, altered item etc. This week's movie is the second one in the Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Two Towers. You can check out THIS LINK which will take you to blog post and projects that we created for the first movie: The Fellowship of the Ring.

I absolutely love Lord of the Rings - I have read it so many times since I just became a teenager and it always seems newer and newer. I definitely felt that they did justice to Tolkein's book in these epic movies that they have created - the details are stunning - and my favorite is to watch the extended versions and listen to the commentary - it blows my mind all the details that they show that you might never see because it appears just for a second in the movie. 

This week's challenge requirement was embossing - and for my inspiration I took it from the speech of Sam towards the end of the movie. To watch the part where I got the inspiration from - you can watch it here:

I love the hope that Sam gives to Frodo at a moment where things feel so heavy and he is struggling in the darkness. I took the quote that Sam says and downloaded a Hobbit font and typed this up in Photoshop and then cut it out with my spellbinders. I was trying to follow the sketch that my awesome buddy, Tammy has up for the sketch challenge today at PCP - but kinda switched up one of the elements (not so good at following sketches exactly these days :)

Here is the quote of what Sam says at the end -"Even the Darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer." And here it is on my card:

Card Details:

Paper: DP from Taj Mahal

Stamps: none - saying is printed with a Hobbit font on Photoshop

Ink: Martha brown for smudging

Accessories: ribbon from Taylored Expressions, heart button from stash, cuttlebug swiss dots, corner chomper, spellbinders. 

I kept the colors kind of muted - kind of like their cloaks that they wear - and the embossing is of three kinds: I scored a pattern into the cardstock for an embossed texture, I did some Cuttlebug embossing with my swiss dots and also used some flourished embossed paper (golden flourish) for another type of embossing. I really had fun making this card. It is super simple - but made from the heart. I added a little heart embellishment - as a symbol of Sam - who has such a pure heart - and whose love and his one pointed devotion to Frodo is beyond endearing. He is such an inspiration - My Sam :) Here is the heart button detail:

I hope you will play along this week - not only because of this awesome movie - but also because we are having some blog candy to celebrate our 49th challenge!!! Carol Dunstan and Jen Cuthbertson are our guest designers today - so make sure you stop by the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog today to see more of a chance of how you can win!!! 

And don't forget - next week is our 50th challenge! We have a special guest designer and some serious blog candy booty in store next week - so mark it on your calendars!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping in today and visiting!!!

Hope everyone's weekend is off to a great start! 

Hugs and happiness,

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #48 - School of Rock

Good Morning Everyone!! Today brings on the 48th Challenge over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge, where every Saturday we pick a movie from which we draw inspiration from to create a card, layout, or altered project. This can be from taking inspiration from the themes of the movie, the costumes, the music, the characters, famous lines, time period of the movie - really anything! Today we are excited to feature the 2003 movie: School of Rock! In this movie, Jack Black pretends to be a substitute teacher and discovers muscial talents in his class = to whom he teaches the classics of rock. We thought that this would be a fun movie to do as we all transition into going to school, teaching at school or sending our loved ones off to school! The challenge requirement this week was to use some cork in our creation! 

I love that Jack Black teaches the kids to think outside the box and the Verve sentiment from Bountiful Backgrounds really stood out to me: Dare to be Different" - because he was taking prep school kids who were straight and proper and giving them a chance to let their inner rock star shine. I remember watching this movie when it came out - and thought how cute the kids were - adorable! I love that he inspired them taught them to find their own voice,style, calling  -  And that even though the kids might be learning how to play the classics perfectly - they still had to make it their own - their own interpretation - their own way to rock it out! Based on that I created this card: I had so much fun making it - and was totally excited to try some cork!!!

I used Mercy Kerin's sketch from Mercy's Tuesday Sketch for this week's Cinema card - (hi Mercy!!! :) I have been wanting to play along with her fun sketch challenge - and am so glad that I could play along this week :) 

Card Details:

Paper: Teresa Collins

Ink: Grey ink

Stamps: Bountiful Backgrounds from Verve

Accessories: cork, ribbon from stash, corner rounder, sponger, K&co bling, I forgot where that flower brad is from (it was fun putting it through the cork! :), circle punch from CM, red adhesive tacky tape.

I had so much fun using cork! Who knew cork could be fun on a card!? And it was fun to watch this movie as I made the card :) 

Hope you have a chance to play along with Mercy's sketches and also play along with the Cinema Challenge this week! Please check out the details and lovely creations at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog!

Thanks so much for visiting! 

See you at the movies!

Hugs :)

Sankari :)

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

 - check out this retro pic!

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

Stamps: Sweet Celebration and  For the Love of Cupcakes stamps from Taylored Expressions

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 :) 

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #44 - The Thief Lord

Good Morning Everyone, 

And Welcome to another Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge, where we pick a movie and create a card based from it. This week's movie is the 2006 release called the Thief Lord which is based on a German book. I hadn't seen or heard of this movie before and watched it last night. It was very sweet and the touching part of the whole movie to me was the relationship of the two brothers. 

So since this movie is so much about brotherly love and affection and the bonds of friendship etc. - the Challenge Requirement for this week is to make a card for a brother or sister - or - if you don't want to do that or don't have a sibling (like me) to make a card for - you can make a friendship card.

Here is my card and I used my fellow Paper Craft Planet DT member Tammy Hersberger's awesome sketch for this week's PCP Saturday sketch challenge. If you have a chance hop on over to Tammy's blog and give her some love - she is one of the sweetest, nicest people I know! 

You can check out the rest of the gallery for the sketch challenge here! 

Card Details:

Paper: Basic Grey and Bazzil

Ink: Printer

Accessories: eyelet, dew drops, ribbon from stash, spellbinder's die cut.

I had fun making my card - and then I thought its too simple - I should start over again and do something else - but as that point was a few hours ago this morning - I am just going ahead with this card.

I hope you play along - its very very simple! Just a card for a sibling or a friend based on this movie!!! And you could be our next guest designer - just by playing along with this challenge!!! So cmon' and play - you can check out more details at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog! 

Thanks so much for popping on over here!! 

Big hugs to all!!!

Lots of sunny smiles!

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #40 - National Treasure (1 or 2)

Hi Everyone, 

Today marks the 40th Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - where every week, we pick a movie and then create a card/layout etc. based on some inspiration from the movie. This week's movie pick is National Treasure starring Nicolas Cage (you can either one or two for the challenge). And the challenge requirement this week is to create something with the theme of treasure - it can be anything really from something or about someone that you treasure - to maybe even some real treasure - how ever you interpret it! 

For my card this week - I made an anniversary card for one of our friends (Julie if you are reading this - just act surprised tonight :) lol! I used Julee's fantabulous Mojo Monday Sketch # 94 this week and used kinda neutral colors. I wanted to create a treasure box of sorts - but it ended up being more like an accordian folder(  I loved seeing Norine's purse box and Adela's Accordian creations  and so used their pieces as inspiration for a little accordian action on my card :) that opens up to reveal two scrolls (like the Declaration of Independence from National Treasure 1) that have the messages: "treasure each day" and "treasure each other" on it. Which is something that I personally want to focus on - as I feel these days going by so fast! Here is the front view of the card: 

and then you open it up:

above are the two scrolls that are tied up in some embroidery string and when they are opened up show the messages:   "treasure each day" and "treasure each other" on it.

Here is a side view of the card - you can see the accordian fold better at this angle:

Card Details:

Paper: Paper Company and handmade textured paper and from scraps

Stamps: from Verve; Grateful Elegance and the sentiment is from Verve as well

Accessories: Circle punches, Martha star punc, copper ink to sponge, platinum stickles, EK sucess border punch, embroidery thread

I can't wait to give this to our friends - they are truly such a special couple and their love story is just the cutest and fairytale romance ever! And they are just as giggley and in love as the first day!

Well - I hope you have a chance to check out the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge! Can't wait to see your treasured project!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Sunshiney smiles,

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #37 - High School Musical

Good Saturday Morning Everyone,

This week over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - we are featuring the movie: High School Musical (you can pick any of the three that are out to make your card - every saturday we pick a movie from which to create a card etc.) and the challenge requirement for this movie was to create a card with school font lettering or numbers (or both). 

Okay so I have to admit - I saw High School Musical last night - and then made my card right after! For some reason - I was trying to avoid seeing this movie - I don't know it felt so teenager-ish and I felt suddenly "old" - but I have to say it was a fun viewing and I can totally see why this movie is a hit - fun songs - hip actors - (and finally now I know who Zac Ephron is who all my little nieces have a crush on!).

I used Taylor's Friday Cupcake Sketch Challenge for this card and was tempted to put a cupcake on it - but instead went with a  " PI" .. get it.. "pie" but "pi" the mathematical symbol... ha! okay --- maybe its not really that funny - but you get a little punchy when there are some late nights :) But anyhooooo - overall I really like how this card came out :) it was fun to create something that you have no idea how it will turn out :)

Card Details:

Paper: Paper Temptress Red and Black from Stash, Scenic Route Sonoma

Ink: Printer (used the Princeton font)

Accessories: Star Punch from Creative Memories, piercing tool , red stickles, dimensionals, ribbon from stash, button from stash, sponger

I wanted to make a fun card that was a little quirky and used the Princeton font on my computer to generate the sentiment " I love you Pi Squared" -( I wanted to use both the School Letters and numbers requirement for this challenge ) and also because I love the scene in the movie where they bake her a cake with the math character: "Pi").  I adore this little funky button - I knew I was saving it for a reason :)

Well - I had alot of fun playing and hope that you have a chance to join us over at Cinema Saturday for some High School Musical fun!!!

Thanks for visiting my little corner :)

See you at the movies !

Hugs,

Sankari :)

Beauty and the Beast - and a chance to win some Verve blog candy!

Welcome Everyone to our 36th Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge! WOW! Has it been 36 already?! Today we are so excited to feature the Oscar winning movie by Disney: Beauty and the Beast! And along with Amy Park our Audrey winner from last week, we also have special guest designer: Julee Tillman of Poetic Artistry and creator of the Mojo Monday Blog and the creator/designer of the beautiful stamp company Verve!

I was totally thrilled! when Julee said she would be our Guest Designer! I am a huge fan of Julee's Mojo sketches and love getting my Mojo on with her sketches and love the beautiful vibrancy of her Verve stamps! AND Julee is offering a $30 gift certificate to shop at the VERVE store - so hop over to the Cinema Saturday blog and get more details about this challenge and check out Brooke, Amy and Julee's beautiful designs!

I was excited to do the movie Beauty and the Beast - and I remember reading the story of Beauty and the Beast long long ago in a far away land of childhood - and seeing it acted out in my mind's eye. So I was so happy when the movie came out (definitely a different take then the book) but so beautiful - and after watching this movie countless times - I totally knew each of the songs by heart! I love the Gaston song, the Be Our Guest song - but especially the song: Tale as Old as Time- sigh - love that song! I think that my favorite lyrics of the song are: " Ever just the same, Ever a surprise, Ever as before, Ever just as sure, As the sun will rise...." Aren't those lyrics just lovely!?

I love the last scene where Belle pulls him up over the castle wall - and as they both realize their love for each other and - so here is my castle wall, the yellow ribbon is for Belle's ball gown dress - and there is a little quilled rose on the sentiment symbolic of the Beast's learning to love and be loved.

I used Julee's beautiful stamp set: Fairytales and her Mojo Sketch week 70 from January. What was funny is that I wanted to make a small part of the castle and thought to use the cardboard from an empty toilet paper roll for it - but of course there weren't any empty ones!! (then I thought about Carol's lolli-art story about how she needed a lollipop stick and had her daughter eat it so she could us it in her card and totally cracked up laughing :). Well, I couldn't just use the whole toilet paper roll in one evening! So I unwound it and kept it folded up in a little container in the bathroom :) - the things you do to make a card!

Card Details:

Paper: DCVW, toilet paper roll that I covered with gold paper from the Paper Company, tissue paper for the flowers

Ink: Pink Passion and Adirondack Expresso, Martha Brown

Stamps: Fairytales from Verve Stamps

Accessories: Making Memories brads, ribbon stash, pearls, xacto knife and dimensioanls

I really loved making this card - and naive as it is - I totally believe and cheer on fairytale love stories - and also understand that behind every fairytale - is some hard work - to make sure that it always has a beautiful ending :)

Please check out how you could WIN $30 in Verve stamps from Julee!!! All you have to do is create a card inspired by the movie: Beauty and the Beast! Check out the details here!!!!

Thanks so much Julee for this awesome chance to win some Verve candy!!

Thanks for visiting my little corner :)

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday #35 - Some Like It Hot

Good Morning Everyone,

Welcome to our 35th Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - where today, we are featuring the 1959 Oscar winning movie: Some Like it Hot, which has won an Oscar for best costume design and won 10 other nominations. It was voted #1 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies!! Wow! Number 1! Well, we couldn't wait to feature a number one movie! If you haven't seen this movie - your local library store might have it. And if you can't find it, you can find snippets of the song and movie on Youtube. We hope that you have a chance to see this movie and see these legendary actors shake it up!'

Well, I have to say that I was at a little loss where to start creating a card from this movie! It was a challenge for me to find a starting point - so I started by watching one of my fave scenes - Jack Lemmon disguised as a woman Daphne, dancing the tango with Super Millionaire:L Osgood Fielding the third! It cracked me up how into Daphne (aka Jack lemmon he was) and how in the first part of her tango with him s/he wasn't really into it and kept "leading" him - but by the end - s/he was totally tangoing it up! I just thought his character was hilarious in the movie - especially that s/he Daphne is really into being engaged... ha! Lemmon is hilarious comic actor.

Card Details:
Paper: Stash
Ink: Stazon Black
Stamps: Just Rite (Times font)
Accessories: velvet ribbon stitched to create a ruffle, other ribbons from stash, beads from stash, tacky red tape, flowers from stash (bling and brad too)

This comedic duo just had me cracking up. I love the way they were trying to walk in heels and then wondering if women have "Jello-in their springs" to make them move like that in heels :) The other funny part to me was how Jack (whose female character is Daphne) gets engaged to Osgood Feilding III and when he tells his partner Joe about it here is the exchange between them from Wikipediia:

Joe: [trying to get Jerry to face reality regarding his engagement to Osgood] Jerry, Jerry, will you take my advice? Forget about the whole thing, will ya? Just keep telling yourself: you're a boy, you're a boy.
Jerry: I'm a boy.
Joe: That's the boy.
Jerry: [coming around] I'm a boy. I'm a boy. I wish I were dead. I'm a boy. Boy, oh boy, am I a boy. Now, what am I gonna do about my engagement present?
Joe: What engagement present?
Jerry: Osgood gave me a bracelet.
Joe: [takes it and inspects the stones with Beinstock's glasses] Hey, these are real diamonds!
Jerry: Of course they're real! What do you think? My fiance is a bum?

I made this card using the You're a Star Sketch Challenge over at Paper Craft Planet and created the sentiment: Care to Tango? I loved expressions on Jack Lemmon's face throughout the dance - you can watch clip of the dance on YouTube especially when the switch roses in the mouth.

Hope you have a chance to play along with us this week! For more information and to see what the rest of the crew has been up to - please check out the scoop over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog!

Thank you so much for coming over for a visit!

See you at the movies

Hugs to All,

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #34 - "Oceans 11"

Good Morning Everyone,

Happy Saturday! I am so excited to share with you that this week for the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - we have picked the movie: Ocean's 11 as our featurette! I a-d-o-r-e this movie - (aside from the hot Clooney-Pitt eye candy duo :) I loved the clever writing, the witty banter, the awesome music, the eye candy galore, Clooney in a suit (yum!), Pitt and his sunglasses (yum!) and the list goes on.....

Ever since I first saw this movie (the 2001 version) - I was totally charmed by the Clooney-Pitt duo and the was totally loving what director Steven Soderbergh did with this all-star cast - seriously LOVED ever moment of this movie. For my card, I went with the charm aspect and how Julia Robert's character is George Clooney's missing link - and that in the end he wasn't just pulling the heist of the century for the sake of the money but also for love - hence the sentiment: You are my Lucky Charm...  

Card details:

Paper: Taj Mahal Paper Pack, Paper company (gold and black)

Stamps: Just Rite stamp set  - Times Roman

Ink: Stazon On Black

Accessories: Crystal Effects, Paper BLiss accents, ribbon and brads from stash

Shows Watched: Rescue Me on Hulu

I had a lot of fun making this card - and hope that you have a chance to play along with this movie challenge of Ocean's 11 -  you can check out all the details on our challenge blog: Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog corner :)

See you all at the movies!

Hugs,

Sankari :)

HOpe you all have a chance to play along this week!

Hugs to all,

Sankari :)