Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge # 8 -Miracle on 34th Street

You guys are just amazing! Can we just tell you we thought that you would be stumped - but a couple of you got the sneak peek was from "Miracle on 34th Street". The original movie was in black and white and was released in 1947 starring Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwen. There is a 1994 version of this film which stars: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott and Mara Wilson. You can read more about the stories and plots at IMDb both here and here, where all the images for the above challenge pics are from.

This is such classic movie and is something that could inspire a Christmas theme, a Thanksgiving theme or even a larger theme of believing in miracles and in hope. We hope that you enjoy this week's Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge and play along. In honor of Thanksgiving and the upcoming holiday season, we wanted to have a special blog candy for this week's entries as a thank you - we are so grateful for YOU! and for all the beautiful creations that you share here every week . We are truly grateful for all of you!

Here is some great Trivia from this movie from IMDb:

Did you know that:

• In 2006 this movie was ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's 100 Most Inspiring Movies of All Times. Ranked #5 in 2008.
  
• Natalie Wood was 8 when she made this film.
• The scenes of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade are of the actual parade held in 1946.

Here are our card and scrapbook layout for this week, inspired by Miracle on 34th Street, you can find more details on our blogs.

Sankari's Card:

I remember watching this movie as a child and loving theme of Christmas miracles. Any story with that tagline always made me so hopeful and left me feeling that we were all connected and that our dreams could come true. This card was inspired by the theme of miracles and that larger theme of human goodness. As I was making this card, I have been watching the news of the current situation in Mumbai, India - and have been feeling this surrealness. Thankfully the family and friends that I have there are not injured - but my heart goes out to the thousands injured and all of those whose lives were taken from this tragedy. This card is inspired by the feeling of hope and of miracles from the movie and I hope that in the world that we live in today, the dream of a united world, one world family, is something that will come true.

For more details - check out Sankari's blog.

Brooke's Scrapbook page:

Since the movie is all about deciding if you really believe in Santa Clause or not I decided to scrapbook a few pictures we took this week.. This is so huge for my little DS because this is the first time we have and memory of Zach even entertaining the thought of wanting to visit with Santa. He is usually the child that is the furthest away sitting on mom, dad or a big brother's lap - NOT on Santa's... Zach was a little nervous and luckily he got to take his sweet time because he was the only kid even visiting with him at all.. We have two son's with birthdays front and back of Halloween and we just didn't get around to having a birthday party for Zach. Dad had taken this week off of work so Mom and Dad took Zach for a special date to make a "Build -a- Bear" all of his own. His big sister had just attended a b-day party at "Build -a- Bear" and she had looked on the computer to see what she might choose at the party and Zach saw the Zebra and that is all that was on his brain for weeks.. We had a great time watching him create his Zebra. Zach named his after a favorite cousin.. So sweet. The girl helping Zach asked if the Zebra was stuffed just right and he said " he is just perfect for snuggling" he didn't want to change a thing. Zach was so excited to show his new Zebra to Santa he even let him hold it while he talked to him. What a magical day.. We created a new friend. Visited with an new/old friend. Went to lunch just the three of us and cute little Zach is still dragging his Zebra with him every were he goes. Oh to be a child again.

For project details check out Brooke's blog.

So are you ready to come and play along!!! Well, this week, we also wanted to show our appreciation for all our lovely readers with some yummy blog candy. Included is a packet of Christmas Clear Stamps, 8 sheets of Italian DP, a packet of embellished flowers by Handmade Art, a DVD of the movie Sabrina, 2 clear checkbook cover you can use as Christmas gifts, Christmas Peeps to make your own treat bags, and some lovely ribbon!

You could have all this for the taking - all you have to do is to create a card and link your creation to this post and mention this blog candy on your blog. All projects must be uploaded by Thursday, December 4th at 9pm PST. You can also link your creations to Splitcoast using the keyword, CSCC#8.

We hope you enjoy this Cinema Pick and can't wait to see your Cinema inspired movie projects. It could be anything from the movie that inspires you, from the characters, the dialogue, the costumes, the furniture, the themes - anything at all!

We would also like to thank all of you who played last week! You guys are awesome! And we would like to congratulate our Audrey winner from last week: Amy from Tethered2Home for her beautiful card of Woodstock - you have to check out her beautiful creation here. And also our blog candy winner from last week is Arielle from SnappyStamper. Congrats Ladies and thanks to all who played!


We hope you have fun with this movie pick and enjoy making your projects. Can't wait to see your beautiful creations!!!

See you at the movies!

Hugs,

Sankari and Brooke :)