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 :)

A Bevy of Challenge Cards - well - okay just 4 :)

Good Morning Everyone,

This week has been flying by - I can't even handle it! And speaking of "handling this" - I love the slogan from the Color Throwdown  ladies: Can You Handle this!?! I loved these soft colors that we have for this week's  color challenge- aren't these colors just so sweet! I immediately thought of a baby card ....

and so I made two - one for a boy and one for a girl - one of each just in case I need a quick card - and these were super quick cards - literally 7 minutes each - crazy! I used the sketch that PaperCraftPlanet is featuring this week.

Card Details:

Paper: cardstock from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Bordering Blue from SU! and I forgot what kind of pink from SU!

Stamps: Year of Sweet Sentiments from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: booties from stash, spellbinders, cuttlebug embossing folder, corner rounder, Kaiser,  ribbon from stash

THanks ladies for the fun colors!!! The next color challenge that I did was one that my good friend Diana Gibbs created this week - she has her own color challenge! So I had to play along to support my chickie!!! Here are her fun colors for her Color Challenge #1: 

And here is my card for her challenge - I made this card using one of my new fave sets from Taylored Expressions: Chillax :) This is made for a good friend of mine who just started a new job and I wanted to give it to her on Friday (today :) - so that she good have a Chillaxin TGIF :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: cardstock from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Old Olive from SU!

Stamps: Chillax from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: liquid glaze, stickles, Kaiser rhinestones, circle cutter from CM, copics

Okay and one more challenge (actually two) - this is for Julee's awesome Mojo Monday sketch 101 and  I also used the Limited Supplies challenge this week over at SCS which was: chocolate paper of some sort, a butterfly, a birthday type card and it was to be a money holder as well - so here is everything:

and here is my card using the Beary Special Stamp set and sentiment from Taylored Expressions - it has a pocket for some moola in the inside (what is so sad is that when I went to take a pic of the card and was looking for some moola - all I could find was a dollar bill! okay - need to go to the bank!)

Card Details:

Paper: SEI papers

Ink: Stazon Black

Stamps: Beary Special Stamp set from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spellbinders, martha punch, corner rounder, white gel pen, Medows punch from CM, ribbon from stash, stickles

I had so much fun making these cards - the colors and images were so fun to work with and more than anything - I loved having some time to create something - this week has been so hectic and I really am always amazed at how therapeutic it is to craft! (the more stress - the more cards!!! ha!)

Thanks so much for visiting my corner :) Have a go at all these challenges out there! 

Big hugs to all!!!

Sankari :)

PS- Have a chillaxin friday ya'll!!!!

Cinema Saturday #26 - My Fair Lady

Welcome Everyone to the 26th Challenge from Cinema Saturday, where we pick a movie each week from which to draw inspiration in making a card, LO or altered item. This week, we have picked the classic movie: My Fair Lady, starring our beloved Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison.

I feel like I know this movie like the back of my hand because I have watched it and sang along, day dreamed to it every since I was 12. My father bought me the complete set of Sound of Music and My Fair Lady (back in the day where it was VHS :) and I remember that was the biggest treat for me! I watched this movie EVERY day during the summer of 8th grade... I adored Eliza Do-little, had a mini crush on Freddie and dreamed about dancing with the prince (I had a HUGE crush on the prince...). I used to be able to recite the lines to the whole movie word for word... and loved singing in my completely off tune voice to the songs from the movie... :) I love every song: The Rain in Spain, With A Little Bit of Luck, Ordinary Man, I'm getting married in the morning and countlesssssssss other classic songs!!!!

But my most favorite and my most favorit-est scene ever is the song " I could have danced all night" and the scene is the Embassy Ball. When Eliza emerges wearing this incredible gown (I am always in awe - even now - of that moment!) I just love the jewelry of stones glittering around her neck, the crown in her hair and the sparkles in that ethereal gown of hers that seemed to flow as she glided in the ball! And when she danced with the prince... well that was just the crowning moment for me... (talk about every little girl's dream) and I was hooked and in love forever :)


So that's the theme that I decided to focus on was the Embassy Ball scene where she dances with the Prince. I used Kazan's lovely or "loverly"as Eliza Dolittle from My Fair Lady would say, sketch #23 from 2 Sketches 4 You. If you haven't tried one of their sketches - you really have to! I am always amazed by the creations that Laura and Kazan come up with as well as their amazing DT! The one thing that I really like about their sketch challenge - is that they layout the basic elements of the sketch and based on that you are free to let your imagination lead you! I like the open white space above the three elements of the sketch and thought I would fill it up with the bling trail of Eliza dancing with her prince sans tiara (couldn't fit it in).I added two metallic hearts at the bottom bordered with candy cane stickles for accents.

Card details:

Paper: Paper Company and stash
Ink: Martha Black
Stamps: HeartFelt Hits 1- by Gina K. designs
Accessories: ribbon, silver pen, oval cutter system from Creative Memories, Polysparkle EP, Versamark, Sentiment created in Word reads: I could have danced all night... from the instrumental music that is playing that as she is dancing with the prince.

Here is a link to the Youtube video of this scene where she first makes her real public apperence (I mean Ascott doesn't really count!) and is hoping not to be discovered as a common flower girl (isn't the prince yummy :).

Thank you so much for visiting!! Laura and Kazan will have a new sketch on Monday - so don't forget to check them out!

You can check out more details here to the Cinema Saturday Challenge of My Fair Lady!

Can't wait to see your beautiful creations!!!
Happy Saturday!!!
Sankari :)

Friendship Card - 2S4U Sketch

Good Morning Everyone,

Even though today is Wednesday, I feel like today is Monday morning - I don't know how the week has already started and that we are half way done with this week already!! Whaaa? Anyhoo... it felt great to make a card again - my little craft corner was packed away this weekend to make room for a visit from my inlaws and a surprise visit from my SIL and her nephew. I finally was able to unpack my corner a little and attempted a card using Laura's Sketch challenge from 2S4U. I was so bummed that I couldn't do Kazan's sketch last week - but the good thing, is that there are always more challenges on the horizon :)

The sentiment on the card (on the umbrella stick) reads: Friendship is a cozy shelter from life's 

rainy days. It's been raining here the last few days and suddenly everything has gotten more autumnal - amazing how quickly the change of season can happen. I am kinda excited for squash season, and crunching fall leaves, and wearing sweatshirts and walking around the farmer's market with some hot cider.... I love fall.

Anyhoo - back to the card: the umbrella top was paper pieced and stickled. The tag was punched out with my CM tag punch. The scallops were punched from 1" circles and then were dotted with some white paint. The inside of the card has a wavy cardstock that was created by using the decorative trimmer from CM and then dotted. 

And as a beautiful surprise my husband and family and friends totally surprised me with a Big Shot (I didn't even knew my DH knew that I was thinking of putting it on my Xmas wish list - he gets major points for organizing this great gift!) - so I got to run some of the paper through it to do a little embossing - I 

suddenly want to emboss everything :)

Well, I am off to .... wake up this morning. Hope all of you are well and are enjoying some sunshine on this Weds. morning!

Thanks for coming over to visit!

Best wishes,

Sankari

Card Recipe:

Stamps: SU! The Fine Print

Ink: Staz-On Black

Paper: DCVW

Accessories: Tag punch and Decorative Trimmer from Creative Memories, Offray ribbon, Crystal Stickles, white paint