It’s Battle of the Creative Teams time at DigiScrap Addicts!  We’re on Round 3 of  BOTCT and the challenges are getting uber hard!

The polls are now OPEN so please don’t forget to vote for Merkee’s Menagerie! Click HERE to cast your votes now!

Click HERE to see my team’s LOs! BTW there is no need to sign up!

For Round 3, we had to Scrap by Numbers!  Here’s the challenge:

This week your team must come up with a formula to scrap by. You must use the following numbers 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. You can only use the amount of items in your formula on your layout, no more and no less. Here are a couple of examples:

10-flowers
9-staples
8-buttons
7-journal strips
6-doodles
5-photos
4-papers
3-frames
2-fonts
1-mask

-OR-

10-papers
9-stitches
8-word elements
7-brads
6-tags
5-fonts
4-shape templates
3-beach elements
2-photos
1-alpha

Each team can determine their own formula but all the members on the team must follow the same formula (i.e. you do not have to use our examples). You MUST include your formula in your credits and your team thread.

And sooooo, here’s what we, Merkee’s Menagerie came up with!  It was uber hard on my part because I hate putting limits to my LOs but I made it work!  Yay!  I had to count ALL of the items again and again and again.. (you get the picture) to make sure that I didn’t miss anything!

We had to use the following:

1 – grid
2 – photos
3 – alphas
4 – ribbons
5 – papers
6 – flowers
7 – word strips
8 – stitches
9 – curls
10 – buttons

I call this LO Twilah (I substituted the Y with an I because I thought it looked cute… LOL or it could be my pitiful excuse for forgetting how I spelled her name! LMAO).  See this cute kitty? You wouldn’t know that she’s a spoiled brat from the look of her eh?

Credits

1 – grid
Grid It

2 – photos

3 – alphas
Get Together
Old Glass
Hey Lady

4 – ribbons
Mocha and Pistachio (2ribbons)
A Moment in Time – Kit
Making Memories

5 – papers
Background Paper Mocha and Pistachio overlayed with a paper from Dusty – the Kit
Additional Papers
Sharon
A Moment in Time – Kit
Get Together

6 – flowers
Sharon

7 – word strips
Word it

8 – stitches
Get Together
A Moment in Time – Kit

9 – curls
Curl It – Black

10 – buttons
Hey Lady

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The Battle of the Creative Teams at DigiscrapAddicts.com is coming to a close!  I was just soooo excited last week when the Round 1 Challenge was open that I forgot to blog about it!

Anyway, our team Merkeley’s Menagerie has joined the competition!  There are 5 of us girls and each of us had to make a LO based on the current challenge.

The Round 1 Challenge is:

Since this is the first week, we thought we’d go easy on ya! Your challenge this week is:

White Space

Quote:
“White space is nothing. It breaks up text and graphics. It provides visual breathing room for the eye. Add white space to make a page less cramped, confusing, or overwhelming.”
-about.com

Make a white space (or negative space) layout.

Easy, huh? Not so much! Your team layouts must have a common color theme (examples: black and white; monochromatic; red, white and blue…).

Optional: For all you over-achievers out there, see if you can come up with a common theme or topic for your team to scrap, as well!

Our team chose the elements of our team as follows:

Color theme: Brown and Blue (brown background with at least one blue element)
Subject theme: A Sweet Memory and the title should reflect the subject in some way (sweet memory, wonderful memory, memories, Memory to Remember, I’ll Always Remember, etc).
Use of a Sepia/monochromatic photo

And so…uhmm with me loving white space and doing a few white space LOs, I decided to make my LO very, VERY simple.  Of course, it’s also a very sweet memory.

I Used

Background Paper (recolored): A Moment in Time – Kit by Merkeley Designs
Frame & Photo Fastener: The Oldies Frames 2 by Merkeley Designs
Journal Tag, Flower (recolored), brad: Dusty – the Kit by Merkeley Designs
Heart (resized) from Heart It – Open templates and clipped with a paper from Making Memories both by Merkeley Designs
Alpha & String: Chocolate Charms by Merkeley Designs
Flower: Making Memories by Merkeley Designs
Ribbon (recolored/resized): Hey Lady by Merkeley Designs
font: Adler downloaded at dafont.com

Click HERE to see our teams LOs!