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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!

Can you WORD IT?  The challenge is to pick at least 5 out of the 10 words below and use them creatively in your LO!

The words are:

family
love
happy
laugh
dream
grow
hope
sunshine
smile
learn

The catch:

You need to use a different font, alpha, wordart, flair, etc. for each word.

You must use at least 75% Merkeley Designs products and 100% Oscraps products

Easy?

Participation Prize would be WORD IT a new kit by Merkeley Designs PLUS one random participant will be drawn to win a $10 coupon to shop at the Merkeley Designs shop.

If you don’t want to join the Challenge, you can simply click on the image below and get it in the shop.

All you need to do is to post your LO at the July Word It Challenge thread over at Oscraps.  You need to register to Oscraps first, if you haven’t already done so.

Here’s my take for the challenge.

My Mom

I Used:
Background Paper: Crumpeckles Paper Pack by Merkeley Designs
Ribbon: Ziggin by Merkeley Designs
Tags (modified), Additional Elements: Making Memories by Merkeley Designs
Journal Strips (resized & modified): Word It by Merkeley Designs
Silver Embellishments: Curl It – Silver by Merkeley Design

Click on the images to get the kits at Oscraps.com.

Hi ladies!  It’s SM time again and I just finished a new LO a few minutes ago!  This LO is a scraplift of Lili’s LO “Cherry Blossoms” for this weeks’ OScraps Desinger Spotlight Challenge.  For those who don’t know what scraplifting is, it simply means, you “lift” the design of your favorite LO without the aid of templates and use it as an inspiration for your LO.  You can add or remove elements from your LO, move things around, the works!

Credits:
Frames, Background Paper, Heart: Indefinitely by TaylorMade Designs
Additional Papers: Crumpeckles Paper Pack by Merkeley Designs
Journaling Strip: A Moment in Time – Kit by Merkeley Designs
Brush: Mere Modesty by TaylorMade Designs

Ranunculus Blossoms is really inspired by Lily’s Cherry Blossoms LO (shown below) and I lifted her idea and her design.

For this LO, I used a few papers and strips from Merkeley Designs where I CT.

On a lighter, uber yummy note, I got accepted to a new CT  Kimi’s Kreations!  Yay!  Read about it here!

THIS WEEKS’ PARTICIPANTS

Pacey

Arlene

Julie

Chuchie

Maiylah

DJ

Ladynred