Amazing Digi Scrapping Race

Hey...do you recognize these two gals a rockn' and a rollin'?


We are Qadirah (QadirahDesigns) and Lajuana (scrapladyandmore) CT members at Deco-Pages. And we are Team Number 164 entered in the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race (ADSR). This is the 5th year for this fun event and the first time for either of us to participate. We travel from host site to host site the next 6 weeks receiving 2 challenges each week. There's deadlines and prizes with each challenge.

We are not alone in this race...Nelleke and Dawn are the Deco Darlings and Team 174...so you all can cheer both teams! Both Deco Teams are pumped and ready to get started. We will receive our first challenge February 7th


Monday, March 15, 2010

Challenge 12 - Create Card and Envelope

Welcome Racers! We are so happy to be a stop in the race this year. We wish each of you luck! Here is our challenge.... Download these templates and create your own card and matching envelope using any digital or traditional scrapbooking elements and papers you already have. We welcome you to post in our gallery as our members and guest love to browse for inspiration. **** this is not a hybrid, this is either digital or traditional or hybrid**** Just be creative and have fun. No printing required.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Challenge 11 - Humpty Dumpty


Welcome to Polka Dot Plum's ADSR Humpty Dumpty Challenge. The designers here at Polka Dot Plum created this plum gorgeous template, a really unique layout for you racers to use, and then our kids got a hold of it. Yes, 5 minutes away to answer the phone, and this is what was left of a beautiful layout. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to take this template and put it back together again. Now, how you do that will be entirely up to you and your partner. Each team must take these template parts and create 2 entirely different layouts(one from each of you). Each piece must be used at least once, and you are welcome to resize, recolor, transform, use as a clipping mask, but the basic shape must still be there. The grey "photo spots" do not necessarily need to hold the pictures. You may also add anything else you feel fits your artistic vision. These come as a layered PSD file and separate png files, so any program should be able to use it. We can't wait to see what you ADSR creative geniuses create for us! If you have any questions, we will be available anytime between 9am EST and 9pm EST. Please visit our ADSR Q & A section in our forum or email us at: customerservice AT polkadotplum DOT com

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Challenge 10



Inspiration Lane sponsor Challenge 10...we were to a joint LO showing our individual inspiration in life. Qadirah and I both choose Family as our inspiration. We both contributed various parts of this LO!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Callenge #9 is ready to go.

Hello, racers! Welcome to Oscraps! We're very excited to be the next stop on your journey.

Now, on to the challenge...

The first step of the challenge is to look at the color wheel. You and your partner must choose opposing colors on the wheel, so for example, if you pick blue, your partner must use orange. It should be the predominant color in the layout but it does not have to be the only color used. Please use THIS color wheel to make your selections. As long as you are using opposing colors, they do not have to be in the same band.



The second step is incorporate this quote in some way.
“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” - Mary Lou Cook
You can use any part of this quote as your inspiration. For example, you could make a layout about growing. You could make a layout about breaking the rules, etc. You can use any part of the quotes or words from the quote. The quote itself does NOT have to appear on your page.

The third step is to include the following:
You MUST include paint. This item is mandatory.

Then, pick 7 more from this list:
swirls
glitter
black and white photo
2 alphas
something metal
stitching
patterned paper
funky font
journaling

Please note that an item does NOT count for more than one category. So, for example, if you were to use a glitter swirl, it would either count for swirls OR glitter, NOT for both. You MUST have different pieces for each of your seven mandatory items. Also, if you decide not to use a black and white photo, that's fine, you can still use color photo(s) or no photo. You can use anything else that you want on your layout as long as you meet the mandatory requirements.

We will be available from 8 am to 8 pm EST to answer your questions. Questions can be posted in the forum here.

You must post your completed layout in the NDISB challenge gallery. We would also love to see the completed layouts in our own ADSR challenge gallery here.

All participants who complete layouts will receive the Oscraps collab of their choice.

Have fun and enjoy the challenge!

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Challenge #8 - Someday

Special Note: This is a FAST FORWARD Challenge! The first team to complete this challenge will have the option of SKIPPING next week's challenge if they choose!

We've all said "someday...". Whether it's "someday, I'm going to get this filing cabinet cleared" or "someday, I'm going to find happiness" or anything in between. So, we want to see your "someday".


In order to allow as much creative license as possible, we have very few stipulations about what you need to use on your layout, but of course there are a few.

- Your layout must contain journaling. Whether you choose for it to be 1 line of journaling, or an entire page of journaling, is up to you.
- Somewhere in your journaling or title it must say "someday". If you want to make the title 'Someday', that's fine. If you would rather make your title something else completely and just mention 'someday' in the journaling, that works too. Even if you happen to have a 'someday' word art you want to use, that's fine as well! As long as we can see 'someday' on your page somewhere, it counts!
- We love elements here at Elemental Scraps, so of course we would love to see some on your page. At least 10 of them! But, use your creativity! If you want to use 10 pieces of ribbon and no other elements, that's fine! If you pick one button, 3 staples, 2 flowers, 3 ribbons and a frame, that works too. If in doubt, feel free to add more.
- I am currently obsessed with tone on tone papers. So, I'd like the background of your page to be a tone on tone patterned paper. If you don't have any tone on tone papers in your stash, you can use the one below. Otherwise, tone on tone paper you already have will work.

**Alphas with elements as part of their design, ie. a staple or a stitch, do not count toward the 10. Neither do the items in a pre-made cluster. If you add a flower that has a button and a stitch built into it, that is 1 item. If YOU build a flower with a button and stitch by adding all 3 items to the page, then it counts as 3. Only items that you physically add to the page count toward the 10 required elements. Pre-constructed items and clusters count as one item. If it's one .png file, it's one item. If it's 2 .png files, it's 2 items. And so on. Papers do not count toward the 10, even if it's a shaped paper mat. Journaling spots or frames made of paper, however, do. Remember, it's a minimum of 10, so if you are in doubt, you can always add more!**

**The journaling and title must be 2 separate items. A multi-word title can not be counted as journaling, and the journaling can not be considered the title.**

**We would prefer to see a photo, but if you're moved to do a journaling only layout with no photo, that's ok too! However you want to handle the photo situation is ok by us.**

**You do not have to use ES products on your layout - but of course we'd love it if you did!**

**Tone on tone paper means any paper with the background and the pattern being 2 shades of the same color. Dark purple base with light purple damask. Light blue base with dark blue dots. Kraft base with brown dots. And so on. See our example paper for a good idea of what we mean, and if it's still not clear, feel free to use ours.**

**Your background must be visible and clearly "the background". Obviously you can have stuff on top of it, so long as we can still see that it's the paper you used as the base for your layout. Feel free to layer stuff on top of it, just don't obscure it completely and you're good!**

**If you are using our paper for your base, you are free to recolor it to match your layout, provided it maintains it's tone on tone appearance and the pattern is still visible.**

That's it! We truly hope you put your own spin on this challenge and think of what "someday" means to you. It can be funny or serious, traditional or artsy, just be YOU! We can't wait to see what you create!

If you have any questions I haven't already covered, you can reply here and I'll try to answer as quickly as I can. I am usually around most of the day (EST) from 9am-10pm - but I do walk away from time to time to keep from sticking to the chair

Upload your layout to (link)the ADSR 5 gallery by midnight EST on Sunday. If you'd like to also upload here at ES to share with us (optional), you can upload them (here), as well!

Everyone who completes this challenge will receive this AWESOME collab from the ES designers! They totally outdid themselves this year.

Challenge#7 - Bucket List

ADSR Challenge 7 Welcome to Scrap Orchard! We are so excited to be participating in ADSR again! Last year was fabulous and we can only expect pure awesomeness for this year too!

If you raced last year, you might remember our challenge was thought provoking and a little on the tough side. This year when we started planning our challenge, we decided we wanted to step it up a notch! We've come up with a fabulous challenge and we think you will absolutely *love* it!

Without further ado, Scrap Orchard ADSR 5 Challenge 7:

The Bucket List
Scrap 50 Things you would like to do in your lifetime. (While a Bucket List is typically a list of 100 things you would like to do in your lifetime, we've cut the number down to 50, given that you are all under a serious time constraint. However, if you would like to list more than 50 things, you may!)

When making your list, please keep your items realistic, things you could actually do, achieve and cross-off your list. For instance, we would all love to win the Lottery, but we have no real control over or means to ensure we are the winner, so it's not a feasible goal. Your items can be small, outrageous, bizarre, modest.. just make sure you have at least 50 of them!

Once you have scrapped your list (we hope you cherish and start working on your list once the challenge is over), please upload your layout to the ADSR 5 Gallery and post a link in your team's thread so you can receive credit for completing the challenge. Psssst.. we would love to have you upload your layouts to our Gallery too, so we can see all your awesomeness! To make it easier on the fabulous ADSR checkers, please include a numbered list in your layout description!

All Racers who complete this challenge will receive their choice of one of our Mixed Fruit Megas for Free (does not include the March Mega).

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Challenge 6 - What a Challenge

Here it is...only one team member had to do this. Since Qadirah is packing for a move, I got elected to do this. Great challenge for me as this is my first cluster type LO!


Welcome to ADSR! Whoot, we at Scrappity-Doo-Dah are so excited to be your host.

For this challenge you have reached a ROADBLOCK. Huh? What does that mean you ask? Well, this means that only one of you may complete this challenge.

Are you ready for this challenge? It's easy-peasy, NOT!

Theme: Scrap Yourself!

Directions:
1. Select 2 papers, solid/solid, solid/pattern, pattern/pattern.
2. Lay your first paper so that if covers the entire workspace.
3. Take the second paper insert it into your LO and decrease the size so that the paper is slightly smaller than the bottom layer.
4. Shadow the top layer.
5. Select a photo of you when you were younger and another one of you taken within the past year.
6. Photos should be 4 x 6. They can be vertical or horizontal. They can be color, sepia, or black/white.
7. Place the younger version of you in the top right quadrant of your layout.
8. Frame it.
9. Place the most recent photo of you in the lower right hand quadrant of your layout.
10. Frame it.
11. Select the following number of elements and cluster the areas around these photos.
Buttons - 4
Flowers - 4
Leaf//Leaves - 2
Heart shapes - 2
String / Twine - 2
Glitter/Bling - 2 (If you have glitter on a flower or other element, you can not count it towards your glitter/bling requirement)
Metals - 4 (this can be staples, keys, brads etc... it must be obvious)
Ribbon - 2
Flourishes - 2
12. Type up 10 words to describe yourself. They can be in any font, as long as its legible, and would prefer they be positives about you.
13. Tuck these words near your clustering -- they must be visible and not hidden by elements.
14. Insert the following Title, anywhere on your layout : This one is for me!