Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #57 - My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Good Morning Everyone!! Today we are so excited to feature the totally fun and sweet Oscar nominated movie from 2002: My Big Fat Greek Wedding!!!! This movie was the sleeper hit of the year and it was nominated for best original screenplay. This love story is all about family, love, culture and coming into your own. If you have never seen this movie, or want to see it again - it is in segments on Youtube - just watch it here! We thought it would be fun this week to have the challenge requirement be to make a wedding card inspired by the movie!!

Brooke's Card inspired my the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

You all have to relate to this movie in some way or another.. Wether you felt like some day my prince WILL come(When I am not expecting him especially when I am dresses like a totally nerd.....) or.. You have a family that takes over completely, Or you have totally different backgrounds an you find a commend ground and totally fall madly in LOVE and live happily ever after... I think I am totally the nerd that got the cool guy... If you ask my sweet heart he would say the opposite...

I LOVE that they find common ground and learn to work through their differences and fight for what they want separately and together.. Through it all two family come together and support them both.. What a wonderful witty Romantic movie... I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did..

Come see my on my blog...

Hugs

Brooke

Sankari's Card inspired my the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

I absolutely LOVED this movie from the very first moment that I saw it!!! You could replace the word "Indian" with "Greek" and it would fit perfectly! I related to so many things in this movie - like her desire to want to fit in when she was younger (I remember my mom packed me curry sandwiches to school - when everyone around me had PBnJ sandwiches but the real fun started when my DH and I got married - it was definitely a "cultural experience" for his family to meet my loud, huge family :) I love each character in this movie, from the way the mother and father interact with each other, to her aunt, to all the cousins, to the main characters as they fell in love with each other. I love how they would celebrate the moment in the movie with the greek word: "Opa!" which can be understood as an exclamation of joy!

So for my card today, I created a little wedding card with the colors from the Greek flag - with two lovebirds and the sentiment Opa! on the side:

It was so much fun to watch this movie as I made this card! Made me want to call my whole family and tell them how much I LOVE them!!!

Please check out my blog for more details!!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Samara's Card inspired my the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

This week we are happy to have Samara Navi of as our Guest Designer. Samara's got the Audrey Award for her magical Hocus Pocus card from Challenge #55 captured the three sisters of that movie so well, and we are so happy to welcome her today as our Guest Designer with this awesome card!!!

I couldn’t have been happier when I was told MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING was the choice of the movie for today! I am SO excited. This is really a dream come true for me. It is my very first time designing for a blog. I am SO happy it is for CINEMA SATURDAY’S CREATIVE CHALLENGE!!! I love this blog...and I’m not sucking up…honest!!! So, on with the card and where I found my inspiration. Truly, I had about 5 cards in mind to make, but could not resist focusing on “the zit” and when I thought of the zit, I automatically thought of Gus and his “windex for everything!!” From there, it came together in the custom of their Greek Wedding Theme. I have my bride, Toula, both “remembering when” through the generations dancing together lavishly and ceremoniously. And of course the necessary “glitz.” I couldn’t avoid highlighting bride’s total and complete “omg-ness!” that was present throughout all the wedding planning (and wedding!)

I hope you enjoy my card. I had a blast creating it (and a pack of nerves designing for the first time, I must confess!) And I hope you have bunches of fun creating your own CINEMA SATURDAY creation!!! Shalom.

What a great take on the movie Samara!!! And how perfect and awesome is it that you added the Windex to your card! That ROCKS!!! Thank you so much for joining us this week as our guest designer!!! For more details check out Samara's wonderful blog!

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Who is going to be our guest designer next week??! It was seriously difficult to pick just one of your inspiring cards from Legally Blonde!!! You all are our inspirations!!! One card that caught our attention was Maureen's beautiful Blossom card - the sentiment just perfectly captures the blossoming of Reese's character as she comes into her own and goes after her dream!!! Maureen, we hope you love your Audrey and that you will join us next week as our guest designer!!!

A HUGE Thank you so much to everyone for playing along!!! Hope that you had a great time playing along and we hope you play along with us this week!!!

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So are you ready to play along this week!!!!!! Well, all you have to do is to create a wedding card, layout, altered project etc that is inspired by the movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding! Your inspiration can come from the costumes, the dialogue, the music, the themes, the characters, the colors - anything at all from the movie!

Please link to us by Thursday, November 11th at 9PM PST!

We can't wait to see your lovely wedding creations!!! You are all such inspirations to us!!!

OOOO-PA!!!!!!!!!!

Hugs to all,

Sankari and Brooke :)

Sneak Peek Friday

Happy Friday ladies

Where did that week go!!!

With the holiday coming up, what plans do you all have? Are you staying at home and just chillin' out? We started hanging up the Christmas lights... I know your thinking WHAT... We are taking advantage of FABULOUS weather. We have been in the high 60 and 70's and LOVING IT! It's a record here in Utah. Can you believe we have had snow already and now we have Fall finally...

Tonight our plans include game night and hanging out with friends...

Don't forget to share what you are up to this weekend with your guess..

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On my errands today I found turkeys for .40cents a pound at Walmart.... Hello! That is a raging deal! Check out your Walmart..

Check back with you later.

Hugs

Brooke

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #56 - Legally Blonde

Good Morning Everyone!! Happy Halloween!!! Instead of Halloween movie - we have something a little different in mind for you! This week we are excited to present our 56th challenge featuring the fun movie: Legally Blonde - which was the winner of two Golden Globe Awards and nominated for 9 other awards! Admist all the pink fluff - this is a wonderful movie about going for your dreams, believing in yourself - even when other's question your abilities.

So for this week's challenge requirement, we thought it would be fun to create something that inspires with an encouraging or uplifting sentiment!

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie "Legally Blonde"

I remember when this movie was premiering thinking this is going to be dumb... Isn't is nice to be surprised.. I think that Reese Witherspoon was the reason.. Reese was adorable in this movie.. For me I started out thinking Elle was a really dingbat.. As the movie develops and you see her try so hard to prove her self worth and intelligence she really grows on you and you can't help but root her on... One on my favorite all time relationships in the movie is between Elle and Paulette(Jennifer Coolidge) I love how they help each other out with out even realizing it half of the time, the way real friendship works.. You think outside yourself, you become a good listener and a confidence builder.. Don't we all become better people when we serve others... We can't forget the cutest little star Bruiser Woods.. The little baby doggie is ADORABLE... Go Bruiser! Cute, cute movie...

Visit I.M.D.B for all the cast bio's and more info for this movie here.

Don't forget to check out my blog...

Happy Halloween

BROOKE

Sankari's Invisible Card Inspired by the movie Legally Blonde :)

Hi Everyone! We are finally home from our travels back East - we arrived late last night - and after a whole day of travel with two little kids all by myself - I was exhausted and I am so bummed that I don't have a card ready to go this morning because I love this movie - but I definitely will be making one later on today! Its so good to be back home and so good to start blogging again!!! yay :)

Thank you all for playing along with our challenges!!!

Big hugs! See you Soon!!!

Sankari :)

This week we have two wonderful guest designers!!! Nancy was our Audrey recipient for the 53rd movie challenge: Elizabeth: the Golden Age with this lovely card and Regina was our Audrey recipient for our 54th movie challenge Finding Nemo with this lovely card and we are so excited to welcome them this week as our guest designers for the movie: Legally Blonde! They are so clever and have created some simply lovely cards for today's challenge:

Regina's Card Inspired by the movie~ Legally Blonde

I love how Elle Woods goes for what she wants, with a plucky attitude and a winning personality. The other star of the movie is Bruiser Woods, her adorable chihuahua. My little boy has a beloved stuffed chihuahua (a gift from his Nana), quite possibly the ugliest toy in the universe (no offense, chihuahua-lovers of the world). It is so bizarre people actually stop us on the street to comment. So, naturally, the "star" of my card had to be an homage to this tiny canine.

I don't have any chihuahua stamps, so I decided to draw my own, using my little guy's as a model. Using a light table, I traced the image a second time so that I could pop it out over the big juicy bone I thought would be the perfect "dream." Wanting to keep things simple, I stuck with plain shades of pink (of course!) with just a few brads and a bright ribbon to finish off.

Thanks again for choosing me.
Best,
Regina

How absolutely clever!!! Can't believe that you drew Bruiser!!! And he looks sooo adorable as he looks at the huge bone!!! Simply awesome!!! Thank you so much for joining us this week as our guest designer!!! For more details - check out Regina's awesome blog!

Nancy's creation inspired by the movie: Legally Blonde

So, I just love this movie and it's sequel -I was inspired by so much! Of course, the card HAD to be pink, and Reese Witherspoon/Elle Woods just *sparkles* in this film, so I felt this project called for lots of glitter and stars as well to capture the character. Elle Woods is such an inspiration: she's fun, determined, considerate, and full of courage. I chose the quote: "It takes courage to grow up to be who you really are" as my encouraging sentiment, because Elle really did grow in this film and it took a lot of guts for her to stick with it.

Now, I couldn't leave out one of my favorite parts of the film (I know there are others with me on this...): The "Bend and Snap" scene in the beauty salon. This just makes me laugh out loud every time. So, I made a little "bend and snap" background technique, using rubber bands and craft white ink.

Check out my blog for more details! My family got quite a kick out of me bending and snapping my card -LOL!

I hope you get as much out of this movie as I do, enjoy!!

What a great take on the Bend and Snap part of the movie Nancy! We love your uplifting sentiment as well!!! Thank you so much for joining us this week as our guest designer!!! For more details check out Nancy's wonderful blog!

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Who is going to be our guest designer next week??! Well after looking through everyone's entries (still working on leaving comments :) It was hard to just pick one! We loved Karli's house (and your writing is hilarious!!), we loved the creative way that Aubri used the die in her card and Awilda had a lovely Halloween card ready to take off as well. So we looked through all of your yummy Halloween creations again and one card that caught our attention is Samara's hocus pocus creation - we loved the three witches on the card and their similarities to the three sisters in the Hocus Pocus movie! So Samara we hope you will join us next week as our guest designer and display your Audrey on your blog linking back to us! Thank you so much to everyone for playing along!!! Hope that you had a great time playing along and we hope you play along with us this week!!! All you have to do is to get your favorite inspirational sentiment out and play along!!!

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So are you ready to play along this week!!!!!! Well, all you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project etc that is inspired by the movie: Legally Blonde (or even the sequel if you would like) with some uplifting or encouraging sentiment and link it up here! Your inspiration can come from the costumes, the dialogue, the music, the themes, the characters, the colors - anything at all from the movie!

Please link to us by Thursday, November 5th at 9PM PST!

We can't wait to see your uplifiting creations!!! You all are simply the best!!! We love seeing your weekly creations and hope that you are having fun while crafting!

Bend and Snap!!!

Hugs to all,

Sankari and Brooke :)

Sneak Peek Friday

HAPPY HALLOWEEN ALL!

I have enjoyed looking at all the AMAZING cards you have made this week... Wow what a talented group you are... I think this is one of my favorite challenge weeks ever...

We just watched "Hocus Pocus" last night with the kiddos.. What a cute show... I love Bette she is so stinkin' talented...

So I will try my hardest to post a more than just 2 sneak peeks.. I am of the the school for the A.M. Halloween parade for the Kindergartner. And Back again for the 6th grade Halloween party.. Then of the the Doc.. To see what is going on with me... Our church has a trunk or Treat in the p.m. as well and a few of my kiddos have parties to attend..

Man I am just tired just typing all that...

Did I mention I am in a Sewing phase right now.. I have been having sooo much fun.. I decided 2 days ago I was going to make a quilt so I am almost through with the quilt top.. I will post when I am done..

I better find time to make my card... Yikes...

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I hope you are all having a great day so far... We have enjoyed a halloween parade. A quick home for lunch and back to the school for the 6th grade party...

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Hope you all have a great Halloween Week-end!

Halloween Hugs

BROOKE

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #55 - Hocus Pocus

Credit: Elements of the challenge banner was created with Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun Digi kit from the Sweet Shoppe Designs.

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Welcome to our 55th challenge - where this week, we are going Halloween with the 1993 movie: Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Katy Najimy. This movie was released by Disney and although it did not do well in the box office, it became a cult classic to watch on Halloween! The story is about the Sanderson sisters who are witches and the curse that brings them back to life.

THe challenge requirement this week is pretty simple:

Make something Halloween-y!!!!

Brooke's Card Inspired by the movie: Hocus Pocus:

What a cute Halloween Movie "Hocus Pocus" is .. We have loved this movie forever... We took our oldest child to this movie 16 years.. he was not even a year.. We were babysitting a bunch a cute little friends and they all loved it... I LOVE Bette Midler she is soooo perfect for this movie she really knows how to go over the top with this one.. What a talented gal she is...

I have a little give away over on my blog this week so be sure to stop by and leave me a little message...

Thanks for joining us this week

and

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Hugs

BROOKE

Sankari's Creation for this week's Movie:

Hi Everyone, I am off to a wedding this weekend and left Iowa to travel all the way to Maryland and am SO excited to see my friends from highschool :) My usual Friday night Cinema card making did not work so well this week as I am away from home - but I am hoping to get a card made in the next couple of days - but in the meantime, I wait to see your Hocus Pocused Halloween creations!

Hugs to All,

Sankari :)

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Thank you all to who played along with us for the movie Finding Nemo!!! You guys sure make it hard to narrow it down - seriously - you all are amazing!!! One card that caught our attention was Regina's card: You're One of a Kind! What a unique layout and love the way you did the colors! We hope you enjoy your blog candy and that you join us next week as our guest designer along with Nancy. A HUGE thank you to all who played along with us!!!

SO are you ready to play along this week?! All you have to do is to create something Halloween-y inspired by the movie: Hocus Pocus and link back to us!

Please link to us by Thursday, November 5 at 9pm PST

(when did it already become November!?!)

We can't wait to see your awesome Halloween-y creations!!!

You always amaze us with your creativity!!!

Cheers!!!

Hugs to all,

Sankari and Brooke :)

Sneak Peek Friday

Hello ladies! A huge THANKS to Taylor for being our SUPER STAR this week and being soooo generous with you time, talent and stamps! And a HUGE thanks to Juli for being our guest designer... We love you both...

Here is the first sneak Peek.

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Sorry I have been missing to day.. My Mother -in-law is visiting and we have went to lunch and went quilt fabric shopping... We had a great time!

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I think we are in for a late night... I haven't made my card.. We are making an Amy Butler "Birdie Sling Bad" Tonight... I miss sewing.. It's been so fun lately to get back into it...

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All most finished my bag... Yahoo.. I am soooo loving it.. Off to make my card... Hello it's midnight..LOL

See you all in the A.M.

HUGS

Brooke

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #54 - Finding Nemo and Yummy Blog Candy :)

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Welcome to all of our new players and guessers to our Cinema Saturday Challenge! Every week we pick a movie from which to draw inspiration from in creating a card, layout or altered creation. This week we are excited to feature the movie Finding Nemo for our Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge! (Did you like the sneak peeks and the sneak peek reveal!?!) Our dear Brooke has been very sick recently - so she is resting right now - please send her some love! We are also excited that our Audrey winner from last week Juli is joining us this week along with a very special guest designer: Taylor VanBruggen (yippeeee :)! I love working with Taylor as part of her Baker's Dozen Design Team and Brooke and I are thrilled that she is joining us this week and giving away some yummy blog candy (more about that at the end). Taylor's movie pick was for the movie Finding Nemo and the Challenge requirement this week is a color challenge that Taylor picked out: are the above four colors: navy blue, turquoise blue, an orangey prawn and white as a neutral! Finding Nemo won an Oscar in 2004 for Best Animated Feature! One of my favorite descriptions of the movie is its tagline: 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water. That's a lot of space to find one fish! Love it! And we hope you will love playing along with us! And to make it a little sweeter - there is blog candy involved!!!

BLOG CANDY did you say!??!??!!

Taylor is giving away YOUR choice of the newest holiday stamp sets that have just been released from Taylored Expressions as blog candy for this challenge!!! HOW yummy is that???!!! Thank You SO much Taylor!!!

Sankari's Card Inspired by the movie: Finding Nemo:

I am so excited to play along for this challenge - I love this movie but I was really stumped for what to make and then I thought about the different themes of the movie: father/son, friendship, finding courage, letting go etc. and the one theme that I loved was just the essence of the father and son relationship that through everything their love was for "always". Marlin's adventure to find his son Nemo is so amazing and inspirational - that no matter what the odds, you will do anything and overcome anything for love! I was inspired by the journey and so I created a card with little fishes jumping out of the ocean with the words "me and you - always" for the sentiment.

here is a closer peek of the fishes :)

All the papers, fishes, frame etc. is digital - you can check out my blog for more information :)

I had so much fun playing along. A huge thank you to Taylor for the yummy blog candy and for being our guest designer! Woot!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Taylor's Card Inspired by the movie: Finding Nemo:

Taylor has always been an inspiration to me with her awesome style and amazingly beautiful creations! This week she has created this most amazing card with her awesome clear favor circles to make a little virtual fish bowl! So awesome!!

I'm so excited to be the special guest designer for the Cinema Saturday Challenge today! When Sankari asked if I'd be interested I knew right away what movie I wanted to use for inspiration! I'm a sucker for animated movies and Finding Nemo is one of my absolute favorites. I just love that little fish!

This is simply such a beautiful card!!!

Please check out Taylor's blog for more details of her lovely creation!

Last week, our Audrey went to Juli for here sweet card that captured a father/son moment of Mrs. Doubtfire and this week are happy that Juli has joined us as our guest designer:

Juli's Card Inspired by the movie: Finding Nemo

Here is the inspiration from Juli: My first thought for "Finding Nemo"was the love of a father for his children, which reminded me of the "Mrs. Doubtfire" Challenge two weeks ago! But that image is so 'two weeks ago'! heehee My next thought was the same stamp set, but the image of the little boy building a sand castle. This image reminds me not only of the beach and the sea, but also of the 'home' Nemo leaves behind in search of adventure. Then I thought about a clown fish made out of punches. So how to incorporate the two ideas? Why a birthday card with a 'gift' attached - a clown fish jumbo clippie bookmark!

I went to the Disney "Finding Nemo" website and looked at gallery pictures there to try to re-create a clown fish for the clippie bookmark. I like the outcome, and it got thumbs up and smiles from my kids too! Thanks to Taylor for the color combo challenge - I always enjoy trying new color combinations, especially when they are still inside my comfort zone! THANK YOU Sankari and Brooke for awarding me the Audrey Award, and giving me the chance to be a guest designer this week! I look forward to seeing everyones creations...ENJOY!

Thank you so much Juli! You can check out more info on Juli's blog

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And a huge thanks to all of you who joined us last week to play along with Elizabeth: The Golden Age :) We loved peeking at all of your lovely creations!!! We truly appreciate you playing along with us and the best part is - seeing your interpretation of the movie :) We loved Nancy's lovely creation - the blue reminded us of her beautiful dress and the crowns were beautiful! We hope you will join us next week as our guest designer and hope you will display your Audrey on your blog! A huge thanks to everyone who played along with us! You guys ROCK!!!

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So are you ready to play along this week!!!!!! Well, all you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project etc that is inspired by the movie: Finding Nemo with the following colors:

and link it up here! Your inspiration can come from the costumes, the dialogue, the music, the themes, the characters, the colors - anything at all from the movie!

Please link to us by Thursday, October 23rd at 9pm PST

We can't wait to see your awesome creations!!! You always amaze us with your awesome creations!!!

Thank you Taylor for the yummy blog candy!!!

Happy Swimming!!!

Cheers!!!

Hugs to all,

Sankari and Brooke :)