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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!

Good morning girls!  I’m up bright and a little bit early (at 8 AM LMAO) to post my entry for SM.  I was busy making a LO las night and when I was done, I decided to post it while I was already ensconced in bed.  Unfortunately, I feel asleep on my laptop, it being turned on and ON my lap!  Luckily my kitty, Twylah jumped up on my bed and woke me up about an hour later and I must have just turned it off and went back to sleep. hehehehe

Okay, enough of the babble and on the LO!  I just love the new July Collab Kit, Homespun from Oscraps!  I entered this LO for their Spotlight Challenge and this time, they spotlighted a member and all I had to do was to lift her page!  Unfortunately for me, this lady makes AWESOME LOs and I had a hard time lifting it.

Here is my attempt.  I call it Love Will be Our Home.

I Used:
Homespun, an OScraps Collab Kit
Available at OScraps

Journaling
*this is a few lines from one of my fave songs by Sandi Patty, Love Will Be Our Home

Wherever there is laughter ringing
Someone smiling, someone dreaming
We can live together there
Love will be our home.
Where there are children singinig
Where a tender heart is beating
We can live together there
Love will be our home
Wherever there is laughter ringing
Someone smiling, someone dreaming
We can live together there
Love will be our home.
Where there are words of kindness spoken
Where a vow is never broken
We can live together there
Love will be our home

*I lifted Not in the Mood by my3hens*

The Homespun Collab Kit is jampacked with wonderful goodies from individual OScraps Designers!  This is the perfect kit if you want to get a sample from all the wonderful designers.  Want this awesome kit?  Click the preview below to head on over to Oscraps and check it out!

THIS WEEKS’ PARTICIPANTS

Maiylah

Julie

Carlota

Arlene

DJ

Chuchie

Marz

Here’s another LO that I did using the Curl It – Gold Kit by Merkeley Designs.  Have you noticed that I am making LOs that I call “string/keychain”?  LOL  I just love this type of design and will make more like this until I get sick of it…if I will ever get sick of it!

Want to grab some of these curls for yourself?  Just click on the image below.