Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - #17 - The Princess Bride

Welcome Everyone to our 17th Cinema Challenge – where this week, we are so happy to present the movie The Princess Bride. Each Saturday on the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge, we pick a movie from which to draw inspiration from in creating a card, scrapbook layout or altered project. This week's movie pick comes with the chance to win an AWESOME PRIZE! (towards the end of the blog)

This week we have 2 wonderful guest designers. Ann from Creative Antics and Melanie Muenchinger from Hands, Head and Heart who have created amazing projects for this week's movie pick - the Princess Bride. Please check out their blogs and the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge for more details.

I can't even tell you how excited we were to pick this movie. This movie (released in 1987) was originally a book (released in 1973) that slowly grew into a cult classic. I totally fell in love with the Princess Bride when I was in highschool. I think I was like Ann, and could quote the movie line by line. I think I must have watched it over a fifty times. One of my favorite memories is watching it with my highschool girlfriends at a slumber party eating popcorn and swooning over Westley's character and quoting all the memorable quotes (in our pajamas, with popcorn in our mouths) as the movie was on. One of my favorite lines from the movie is: "My brains, his steel, and your strength against sixty men, and you think a little head jiggle is supposed to make me happy? hmmm? "

The other line that I love comes from Westley's devotion to Buttercup and how he expresses his love with the sentiment: "as you wish". For this card, I a stamp from Melanie's beautiful stamp set that I colored to show Princess Buttercup and Westley (Dread Pirate Roberts) holding hands with the sentiment as you wish being repeated in the circle again and again.


I had so much fun making this card. I used the colors from the dress the Princess Buttercup wore and tried to mimic the beautiful beaded work in her dress by doodling with my silver pen. The pretty shimmery teal paper is from the Paper Temptress. I don't know if you have had a chance to check out this awesome company - but if you haven't - please check it out here. The papers are truly beautiful and exquisite. The sentiment "as you wish" was typed and repeated and then cut with my CM circle cutters. The beautiful stamp set is from Melanie Muenchinger's set.

I love this stamp set and so this week - YOU have a chance to win this stamp set - all you have to do is play along. In order to be eligible for the prize this week you have to create a card, scrapbook layout or altered project inspired by the movie using the sketch from this week's PaperCraft Planet's sketch challenge. Every satruday Paper Craft Planet has a new sketch challenge and this week - it was my turn to create a sketch. I was so excited - I love playing along with sketch challenges but have never created one - so here is my sketch challenge for this week's Paper Craft Plaent:
I hope you play along with the sketch and also with the Cinema Saturday movie.

In order to be eligible to be eligible for the prize for this week's challenge, you have to use the sketch below with this week's movie which is the Princess Bride.
1. you don't have to use the sketch challenge to play along with the Cinema Saturday challenge
2. you can use the sketch for something else and then upload it to PCP using the tag sk013109
3. in order to be eligible to win Melanie's stamp set - you have to incorporate the sketch with the movie Princess Bride and also:
a. Please leave a comment on this blog post with your entry by this Thursday -9 pm PST
b. If using the sketch and movie challenge together - please also upload to Paper Craft
Planet using 2 tags: sk013109 and cinemasaturday (all one word, lowercase letters)
in this way - i can create an album that can be featured with all of your works ;)

I hope you have fun and try out the sketch and also try out the movie challenge. It has been so much fun to meet you all through these challenges! You are all such wonderful inspirations!
Don't forget to check out the beautiful creations at Brooke's blog, Ann's blog and Melanie's blog!!!

A big thanks to Ann and Melanie for guest designing and for making our 17th movie challenge so amazing and wonderful!

Big Hugs to all,
Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - #15 - Casablanca

Good Saturday Morning Everyone,

Every saturday, we pick a movie from which to draw inspiration from in creating a card, layout, altered project, etc. This Saturday, our Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog is featuring the movie Casablanca! We changed it up a little this week and included a color challenge: that has a black and white tones with one other color of your choice! Link your project to THIS post by 9pm PST on January 22 to be entered - and the card/project that is chosen - will be featured on PaperCraftPlanet!!! So come on and give it a whirl!

I have to admit that this is a movie that I hadn't seen before - it has always been on my list (that's why I love doing these challenges - because I get to watch some wonderful movies that I hadn't seen yet!). Well, I watched this movie - this week - and just loved it - Ingrid Bergman - is just so very lovely to watch. I can't believe that it was released 67 years ago!!! WOW! What surprised me in watching it was that the famous line: We will always have Paris -- came from this movie!! Wow! I didn't know that - so when I was watching the movie and I heard that line - I knew right then that I wanted to make acard withat that theme on it. I used Julee's Mojo Monday sketch #69 for this card.

I absolutely loved watching this movie and my most favorite thing was to call my dad who loves this movie and talk about it with him. Its always fun to see the movie through the eyes of my parents and what certain scenes mean to them. I will always watch Casablanca from now on with this conversation with my dad in my head.


For this card - I knew I wanted to do something soft and black and white with something about Paris. I was inspried by Kathie Bailey's beautiful Bonjour card for the last Mojo Monday and loved the color scheme that she used - it was so romantic - thank you Kathie :) I love watching a black and white movie - colorizing it somehow takes away something so special about that movie... I really enjoyed making a black and whtie card - and picked a pink tones for the "one other color accent"

Did you know that Casablanca is a 3 time Oscar winning movie (including Oscar for Best Picture) and was released in 1942 and has since then become an iconoic classic. It has been rated as the # 1 most romantic American movie by the American Film Institute!!! It was also rated to have the #1 most romantic kiss between Ingrid Bergman and Humprey Bogart! Well - that's alot of romance wrapped into one movie! If you are inspired to make a romantic black and white card (with one other color) then come on over and play with us! You never know - your card could be chosen to be featured on PaperCraftPlanet!

I hope you all stop by the Cinema Saturday Blog !! Just link up your black and white love creation to use by next thrusday 9pm PST and post it on the comment section here.

Thanks so much for visiting me - make sure to also go and visit Brooke!!!
Ciao for now!
Sankari :)


Materials Used:

Paper: Grey - Paper Company, Burgandy and roseish red - I am not sure about. The black is from my stash and all patteren paper is Basic Grey
Accessories: Created image and sentiment in Photoshop, scalloped circle is from a Martha Mini pucnh, Circle cutter by CM for the Eiffel circle, small CM punches for the smaller circles. heart punch for the hearts from MS., the ribbon (not sure from where --- but its being horded :), Bling from,
Movie watch: Casablanca of course! and 30 Rock :)