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

Merkee’s Spotlight at Oscraps is almost coming to a close! Don’t forget to drop by the Merkeley Designs Blog Train and grab the awesome freebies for you!

For her Spotlight at Oscraps this Week, Merkee has set up a challenge with AWESOME prizes when you join!

Your Challenge This Week

- Scrap a “past” event/time that marked a very special moment, achievement or get together in your life or the life/lives of someone you care about.

This can be a milestone birthday, anniversary, graduation, babies first steps, special award etc. (Anything that is a “Kodak” moment you don’t want to forget!)

- Use at least 50 percent of Merkeley’s stuff (keep reading….she’s got a great freebie for you) and as always, 100 percent of Oscraps stuff. (Dig into your Oscraps stash and have fun!) (Remember photo actions don’t count).
Edited to add: You may use the blog train element/alpha freebies but NOT the Quick Pages. Your layouts need to be created from scratch.

Note: Any Merkeley Designs products will work, you don’t have to use the freebie…just her stuff!

- Post your layout in the Oscraps Designer Spotlight gallery.

- Come back to this thread and post a link to your image (and the pic please if you know how) so we can leave you some lovin’ in the comments.

- Post all layouts by Sunday, Aug. 2 (midnight EST-USA time zone please).

The Prizes
WOW…take a look at these prizes!

First Place: $100 coupon to Merkeley Design’s store – To the person who completes the most layouts during the spotlight.

Second Place: $50 coupon to Merkeley Design’s store – To the person who completes the second most layouts during the spotlight.

Third Place: $25 coupon to Merkeley Design’s store – For the most creative layout (this layout/person will be picked by Merkeley Design’s Creative Team members)

Additional Prizes!!!!
Merkeley Designs will also have three random drawings for all qualifiying participants! $5, $10 & $15 worth of products.

Take Note: Each layout gets your name entered into the drawing. So, make five layouts, your name will be in the drawing five times!

Wait…there’s more. Everyone who participates in the challenge (and meets the qualifications) will receive a $2 coupon good towards their next purchase at Merkeley Designs.

Another Reward!
During my spotlight week, wear Merkeley Design’s fan blinkie and you could win a coupon for $25 worth of Merkeley Design products at the end of the spotlight week…..

Isn’t this AMAZING?!  Hurry now before you miss this awesome opportunity!  Anyway, for this challenge, I did a LO with my friends from High School.  Of course we’re still friends today even though all of us don’t live in the same city.  This photo was taken in our sophomore year in college back in 2002.  We also had different Majors but we still found time to be together, glam shots and all.

I Used:
Background Paper: Making Memories
Additional Papers, Green Curl, Button: Sharon
Additional Papers: Get Together
Purple Paper Piece: Hey Lady
Alpha, Stitches: Chocolate Charms
All by Merkeley Designs

Val is hosting this August’s Treasure Hunt Challenge at Scrapable! (I know I’m posting this earlier but…teeeheee I couldn’t wait!)

For this challenge, I made this bright and fun LO using Val’s (geaniaBeana scraps) kit Playtime!

I used

Playtime by geniaBeana scraps
Playtime Alpha overlayed with Happy Go Lucky Glitter Sheet
Tag (recolored) Tranquility Kit

To complete this challenge you must use EVERYTHING included on the list:

1. 3 Papers
2. 3 photos
3. Some Flowers
4. 1 String
5. Stitches
6. Glitter
7. 1 tag
8. 1 alpha title

(You can add more elements, but the lei-out must have at least the items listed.)

Want to get the Playtime Kit? Click on the image below!  Have fun scrapping!