Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge # 8 - Miracle on 34th Street

Good Saturday Morning Everyone,

Hope you are all doing great! The Cinema Saturday pick for this saturday is: Miracle on 34th Street! Man some of you are hard to fool with the sneak peeks that Brooke posted here. I have to admit, one of my favorite part of this challenge is to read what everyone writes for their guesses -- you guys are awesome! This week's pick is a classic - the original movie was made in 1947 in black and white and a newer version was made in 1994. I don't know how many times I have seen this movie - and always what I remember: is the feeling that miracles can happen and that they do happen.

I remember watching this movie as a child and loving theme of miracles. Any story with that tagline always made me so hopeful and left me feeling like we were all connected and that our dreams could come true. This card was inspired by the theme of miracles and that larger theme of human goodness. As I was making this card, I have been watching the news of the current situation in Mumbai, India - and have been feeling this surrealness. I remember being in the Taj Hotel and now to see its state on the news is just surreal. Thankfully the family and friends that I have there are not injured - but my heart goes out to the thousands injured and all of those whose lives were taken from this tragedy. This card is inspired by the feeling of hope and of miracles from the movie and I hope that in the world that we live in today, the dream of a united world, one world family, is something that will come true.


I used the sketch that Kim has created for this week's sketch challenge at PaperCraftPlanet. You can find the sketch here. I created the mother and daughter in photoshop - because it reminded me of the daughter (Natalie Wood) teaching her mother (Maureen O'Hara) how to love fully. I cut out the figures and painted them and then pasted them on a universe scene that I created in Photoshop. I stickled the stars with Diamond stickles and painted the North Star. The cardstock is all from my scrapstash, the DP is leftover Oragami paper, the bow is from Martha Stewart and the embellishments are from a stash of scrapbook stuff from eons ago. I typed the sentiment and then printed it and adhered it.

All of those who enter the Cinema Saturday Challenge this week are entered to win some awesome Blog Candy. Don't forget to check out Brooke's awesome scrapbook layout for this week's challenge and her pictures of her adorable cutie patootie son!!!

Come on over and join the fun!!!
Check out all the details here: at Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge.

Thanks so much for coming over to visit!!
I hope that you are all blessed with miracles in your life!

Best wishes,
Sankari

Kristina Werner Color Inspiration Challenge #28 - Birthday wishes!

Good Thursday Afternoon everyone,

Today is the first day that my daughter has not had a fever (knock on laminated wood). I can't even tell you what a crazy few days it has been around here - she has been just super fussy crying if I hold her - crying if I put her down.... but today - she seemed much better and back to her mischievous self :) 

What do I mean by mischief you ask? Well, while I was talking to Brooke this afternoon, she managed to dump out a tube of glitter, take a bite of a candle, dump a container of blank CD-R on the floor, and rip her shirt.... she is quick and I am just not quick enough.... Who needs to go workout when there are a few munchkins to chase around.... No need to worry about getting bored around here!

While she was napping, I had a chance to do Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge. Check out the fun coin purse inspiration that Kristina picked for this weeks challenge. These colors were definitely challenging -but they totally grew on me. I loved the contrast of the bright orange and pink colors with the sage shadow green color. 

So I thought I would go with a flower theme for a birthday card for my friend whose big day is next week (good thing she doesn't read my blog :) I created the flowers on Photoshop and then cut each of them out - that felt like it took forever - and then adhered them onto the card stock ... and popped some out on dimensionals. I also added a few white brad buttons on a few of the flowers just for a little more white accents on the card. 

It's always so weird for me to work on Kristina's challenge during the day - kinda throws me off a bit :) Can't wait to go and see what everyone else has created!

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for our Cinema Saturday SNEAK PEEK Friday!!! 

We promise you that our pick for this week's movie inspired challenge - is a fun one!!

Thanks so much for coming over for a visit!!

Ciao for now,

Sankari :)

Butterfly Thank You Card!

Hello All,

Today is a bright and sunny morning and we have big plans to make a quick stop at the post office, hit the park and stroll around the town square (I will be strolling as the kids sit in their stroller... have you ever noticed that the more you write the same word - the stranger it looks?? anyhooooo.... I digress....)  This weeks fun color swatch from the lovely ladies at the Color Throwdown (yes! I still love saying that word! who doesn't??!!) are these lovely 5 colors above. 

I was trying to figure out how to play with it... I think the color that really inspired me was the soft sky - it is a beautiful summery color and so I wanted to create a little summer scene.... but I was too lazy to clean up my craft corner (see post below) and so I decided to play in photoshop. The sentiment reads "Thank you for your kindness" and after printing it out, I added a brad (from American craft) on the main butterfly, some stickles on the butterflies (you can't go wrong with a little stickles on your card) and threw some ribbon (from Offray) and added some Faith dots with my paintbrush.  

I like the way this card came out. Its very soft and was made for my friend who just sent us a huge package of goodies. So I am off to the post office, but first need to go and clean up the breakfast mess (my daughter is learning to eat by herself - i think we need to get a dog so that I don't have to mop up 3 times a day (get a tarp on the floor you say? yes her range in throwing food is in the same league as legendary pitcher Nolan Ryan) so... off I go to clean the floor.... again! 

Hope you are all doing well and have a chance to get out and play today.

Thanks for visiting!

Ciao for now, 

Sankari

TCP Tuesday - You Amaze Me card

Good Morning Everyone, 

Here is a little ditty that I made for TCP Tuesday this week. I really like the swatch from Michael Miller that was the inspiration for the challenge (on the left) and wanted to incorporate those colors and pattern into my card.... so I created my own background on photoshop. I printed it and then layered it with coordinating paper and added brads from Spare Parts and the ribbon from Martha. I dotted it with stickles and added stickles to the center of the little flowers on the background design. 

This card is made for one of my good friends who completely amazes me. I am so grateful to all the amazing friends in my life, whose love and kindness makes my heart smile. 

That being said, now I am off to do a house pickup....hope all of you are well and happy.

Thanks for stopping by,

Sankari

COLOR INSPIRATION CHALLENGE! Get Up and Dance!

Hey Ya'll,

It's time for another fun Color Inspiration challenge from Kristina. I absolutely love these colors - (Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Close to Coco, Certainly Celery and Whisper White) they remind me of the colors around my birthday which is in the fall (and also my favorite season). 

Having said that, I just had no mojo to make a card. Whaaaat??! That is crazy! So I couldn't let that be the frame of mind - and in trying to find inspiration, I read Kristina's earlier posts,and my interest was peeked when she mentioned the show So you think you can dance. 

WOW! I had just mentioned in one of my previous entries how I was in need of a new show, since Hell's Kitchen was coming to an end - so this was perfect!! Have you glimpsed this show yet - what an amazing amount of talent! and it also got my mojo flowing! So I came up with this card: 

I made the images in Photoshop and then printed it out into photo glossy paper. But when I printed it out the colors were a bit darker, so that was a bummer. But I still LOVE the card (the font is Baveuse and I loved the way it make the card a bit more funky). I really liked the layout of  Brooke's card for the challenge and did something a little similar to her card. Originally in the 4x6 photo, the back ground behind the dancers was Chocolate Chip, but when it printed it looked black - sooooo, I decided to take my handy dandy Xacto knife and cut the background out - which was tedious lemme tell you... Because of the hairs flying in the wind of the dancers were so small -- it was hard to exactly cut them out - but I did it listening to Greyboy Allstars - which made it go by fast! What's your favorite music that gets you movin' and shakin'?

After cutting out the images, I cut out circles from white card stock and mounted the images on the the paper that I had that was close to Certainly Celery. For the last dancer in green, I realized that I had to created a different background, to pop her out from the green background - so I created a background for her by punching out two squares from the dark brown paper. I also popped her out a bit with some 3D dimensionals. I then put the circles in the background to suggest motion   -  and I also wanted to incorporate the white circles from the Inspiration Picture into the card - so it seemed like a fun way to do both.  Then lastly, I finished it off with some ribbon from Offray. I thought it fun to put a watermark on the card similar to the circles on the card. 

I have to say that this card was sooooo much fun! It totally made me think outside the box because I wasn't expecting the colors to print differently - bu I have to say that I love the results. Makes me want to get up and dance!! 

That was such a great challenge - got me thinking and dancing outside of the box!

I love these all of these challenges (so many challenges, so little time)

Hope everyone is having a groove shakin' Friday!!!

Ciao for now!

Sankari