Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #47 - Forrest Gump

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Welcome to our 47th Cinema challenge!!! We are getting close to our 50th challenge complete with yummy blog candy and a special and wonderful designer! But first the movie this week is the 1994 Oscar winning movies: Forrest Gump! (Nancy - you totattly guessed right!) This movie won 6 Oscars (including: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director among othesrs and won 32 other awards! Amazing! The tagline for this movie is: the story of a lifetime - and what an beautiful story it is and such wonderful acting. If you haven't seen this movie yet - its a definite must! The sweet innocence of Forrest in a time that is not so innocent is simply inspiring....!

This week's challenge requirement is to use some brown in your creation - it could be brads, ribbons, cardstock, ink - anything brown (a lot or a little!)!!!

Sankari's Card inspired by Forrest Gump:

There were so many different cards I wanted to do - but finally I settled on making a card of the relationship between Jenny and Forrest. His steady love for her and absolute devotion to her from the very beginning to the end is simply heart warming - and also when she starts to really the see the person who he is and also when she realizes that she has to wrap up some threads in her life - well - that part always gets me teary (the part towards the very end of the movie.... sigh - I can't write more because I am getting teary eyed already). So for my card - I chose this dialogue between Jenny and Forrest:

Jenny: Why are you so god to me?

Forrest: You're my girl!

Jenny: (pause) I'll always be your girl.

I used the colors from this picture of Jenny:

And here is the card that I made:

I loved the process of watching this movie again and feeling like there were so many different kinds of cards that I wanted to make - but I really felt as soon as I heard those lines - I wanted to make that card :) For more details on this card - please check out my blog! Can't wait to see what you create!

Hugs!

Sankari :)

Karli's Card inspired by the movie: Forrest Gump:

Our guest designer this week is Karli of Crafting with Class who wowed us for the movie challenge: Sixteen Candles with her cake in the box! This week she has created an awesome card that is a box of chocolates!

"Looking at the challenge details - using brown and thninkingof this movie and the famous tag lines as inspiration, there could only be one thing to do- a box of chocolates! Actually....a box of chocolatescard!! The box of chocolates lifts to reveal the card underneath! So super chocolatey quick!!!

You have to check out her blog for how the card opens up! Its awesome! Thanks so much Karli for being our guest designer this week!!

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Thanks to all who played along with us last week for the movie: Field of Dreams! Its definitely hard to even try to pick one because they were all so awesome!!! We loved the creativity and the red stitching! One card that caught our attention was from Maureen of Buttons and Bling - who created this beautiful card for the challenge! We hope you will become our Guest Designer for next week's challenge!!! A huge thanks for all those who played along last week!!!

Brooke's project inspired by the movie: Forrest Gump

Better Late than never...

Soooo Confession I have had this card finished and ready for some time now... But every time I would go to work on the computer it would loose connection(we switched servers)... And I had a massive migraine.. So I didn't have the patience with the computer...

Inspired by Bubba Gump Shrimp... mmmmm.

When I started this card we hadn't decided on the challenge requirement.. When I was finished I thought what was the requirement?? Help!!! So When I got back to take a picture of the card.. and knew the challenge requirement I thought how can I add in the color brown... I know I will burn the edged of the card. It's a B.B.Q. after all...

This movie just kills me. Forrest is such a devoted and loving person... What a great example to us all...

More photos on my blog!

Hugs

Brooke

So are you ready to play along with us this week!!!

We hope so! All you have to do is to create a card inspired by the movie Forrest Gump (this can inspired from the movie's different costumes, characters, themes, quotes, colors, music, etc.) and this week's requirement is to use some element of brown in your card (it can brown ribbon, cardstock, ink, brads, sewing - whatever you would like!). Post the link to your direct blog post to Mr.Linky so we can check out your beautiful creations!

Please link to our blog by Thursday September 3, PST !

Also - we have some exciting things planned for our 50th blog challenge which is coming up (this includes celebrating our 49th, 50th and 51st challenges!!!) - so stay tuned!!!

We can't wait to see your lovely creations!!!

Big Hugs!

Sankari and Brooke

Sneak Peek Friday

Happy Friday to you all!

Summer is over... It's time to put your thinking caps back on

and help us solve the movie mystery..

Sneak Peek #1

Back to chat soon.

Hi Guys - Sankari here, Ms. Brooke is having internet issues - so here I am with another peek - and guess what this one does not involve pictures of trees or leaves or grass! (that one is coming next, LOL!!!) Okay here it is:

What do you think? is it too much? maybe I should have cropped it more? alright back soon with another peek! Hugs!!!!

Okay - here is the last sneak peek of the night - sorry for not posting it earlier - its been a busy busy day over here! :)

okay - what do you think of this one :)?

Here are a few little peeks that I (Brooke) am sneaking in... My internet is back on board...

See you all tomorrow morning at 9:30am CST!!!! Woot!!!

hugs to all,

Brooke and Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #46 - Field of Dreams

Good Morning Everyone!!! We are so excited to feature the 1989 Academy Award nominated movie: Field of Dreams for today's movie challenge! There are two taglines from this movie that are so inspiring! The first is: "All his life, Ray Kinsella was searching for his dreams. Then one day, his dreams came looking for him." and the second tagline that is inspiring is: "If you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true. " Among other categories - this movie was nominated for Best Picture and is a movie that inspires the audience to reach for your dreams and enlivens the value of hope, faith and listening to the inner guiding voice. It is truly beyond a sports genre film - and rather, as one movie review wrote: ".... it is a testament to the timeless nature of its story and the universal reach of its theme of family, faith and redemption."

So this week - we hope that this movie inspires you!

And our challenge requirement for this card creation is to have some red stitching in your card/creation.

This can be faux stitching (like with a pen, gel pen, etc.)

or it could be with embroidery thread or with sewing - whatever you would like!)

Sankari's Card inspired by the movie: Field of Dreams:

I hadn't really wanted to see this movie because I thought it was kind of a baseball movie - but watching the movie as I made the card for today's challenge - totally moved me - its really so much beyond a story about baseball. I was inspired by the journey that Kevin Costner's character took in listening to "the voice" and the ending of the movie is just so touching. So I made my card as a tribute to enjoying the journey that we are all on and used the baseball as a motif from the movie - I wanted to make a rugged, manly boy card - and you have no idea how much pain it caused to sponge the baseball in way that wasn't pretty (lol :) I wanted it to look a little rugged - as life's journey sometimes is:

And after making such a card with "not pretty" sponging - I wanted to make a more "pretty" card so I made this one because I was totally inspired by the quote: This quote totally makes me think of the movie - because he listened to that "voice":

You can check out more details at my blog later today!

Thanks so much for checking out our blog today! Can't wait to see your creations!!!

Brooke Card inspired by the movie "Field of Dreams"

Hello everyone.. I have miss hanging out with you all over here at Cinema Saturday.. Thanks to Sankari for holding down the fort.. I was of attending the Stampin' Up Convention which was amazing!!! Can't wait for all the new and amazing things coming up! Then my poor computer had to go to Mac Doc's 2 times..... I have been busy catching up on my post so come over and visit and see what I have been up to...

I love the movie this week. I posted a few cool facts I found while catching up on this movie jump over to my blog and learn a few new things about this movie... Don't forget to leave me a message and say hi!

Hugs

Brooke

Guest Designer Darlene Deon's card:

Our Guest Designer this week is Darlene Deon who was our Audrey recipient from the movie: The Thief Lord for this lovely card. We are happy that she joined us this week with this beautiful card - love the part of the sentiment of the joyful memories and love and laughter - and can see that in this movie - and the red stitching is just beautiful!

Thank you so much Darlene for sharing your beautiful card and for being our Guest Designer!

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And thank you to everyone who played along in last week's totally fun and rad movie challenge - Sixteen Candles where the challenge was to use 80's colors! We totally loved all your bombdigity cards that were totally Def! It was hard to pick one card! One creation that totally caught our attention was Karli's creatively awesome cake in the box creation (and she now has a tutorial for it too)! Karli we hope that you will display your Audrey in your blog and join us next week as our guest designer! A huge thanks for everyone who played along - it was seriously so much fun to blog hop and read all of your comments about the 80's (what a fun, strange "colorful" decade it was!)

So are you ready to play along with us this week!!! We hope so! All you have to do is to create a card inspired by the movie Field of Dreams (this can inspired from the movie's different costumes, characters, themes, quotes, music, etc.) and this week's requirement is to use some red stitching in your card (it can faux, embroidery, sewing - whatever you would like!). Post the link to your direct blog post to Mr.Linky so we can check out your beautiful creations!

Please link to our blog by Thursday August 27th at 9PM, PST !

Also - we have some exciting things planned for our 50th blog challenge which is coming up (this includes celebrating our 49th, 50th and 51st challenges!!!) - so stay tuned!!!

We can't wait to see your lovely creations!!!

Big Hugs!

Sankari and Brooke

Sneak Peek Friday

Hi Guys - Sorry for the delay in putting up a sneak peek! Hope you are having a fantabulous friday!!! Here is a peek especially for all of you who LOVE it when we peek foliage (trees, grass etc!!!)

Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek #2

Sneak Peek #3

We have TOTALLY LIKE loved all your projects this week.. Thanks for rocking the 80's with us ladies.. We hope you all enjoy the flick this week.. Back later for another peek.

Alright ladies - (and Jon (Libby's bro :) here is the last peek for the night :) I am sure you will guess it!!! But hey - that's what sneak peek guessing is all about right?! :) Can't wait to see what you think about it tomorrow :) Nite everyone!!!

Hugs

Brooke and Sankari

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #45 - Sixteen Candles

Good Morning Everyone!!!! 

We are excited to feature the 80's classic movie: Sixteen Candles in honor of legendary director John Hughes who passed away at the age of only 59 last week. Joh  Hughes was also the director of 80's cult classics such as: The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science and Planes.Trains and Automobiles among others. This movie is a coming of age kind of story about the sixteenth birthday of the the character Molly Ringwald plays and also brings out highschool politics - highschool crushes - and all the highschool drama - along with a ton of hip 80's fashiion! Gotta love it!!!

So this week's challenge is a SUPER easy and fun one too! Ready?

The challenge requirement this week:

 is to make a birthday card!!!

and if you make it 80's colors - that's bonus points!!!

Here is an example of 80's COLORS - check out this retro pic!

Sankari's Card Inspired by the movie: Sixteen Candles:

Okay - I LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie - partly because I thought that the character of Jake Ryan was dreamy (did you know that the actor who played Jake Ryan, Michael Schoeffling now owns a woodmaking shop and creates handcrafted items!!!) and the other part because the very last scene still gives me tingles.... you know the scene where they lean into each other over a bday cake! 

Well - for this challenge requirement - I wanted to do something FUN and 80's retro ish - and create a bday card with those fun and bright colors in mind. I found this inspiration pic while blogging and then used that for my card:

This card is a little out of my box... but it was a blast to make!

I had so much fun making this card and the whole time I was watching the movie .... and still that last scene just gives me happy tingles :) LOVE it!!!

You can check out my blog for more details here at my blog!

Thanks so much for checking things out!!!

Hugs!

Sankari :) 

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A HUGE thanks to all of those of you who played along with us to the movie: The Thief Lord. It was lovely to see the cards that you that you created for a  brother, or mother or friend in need! This week - our Audrey Award goes to Darlene for her beautiful card "Forever Friend" that she created with colors inspired by last week's movie The Thief Lord - Darlene your card is gorgeous and we hope that you add the Audrey Award to your sidebar and that you will be our guest designer for next saturday!!!! 

Thank you all so much for playing along - you guys are awesome!!!!!!

SO ARE YOU READY TO PLAY ALONG WITH US THIS WEEK!!!

All you have to do is make a card or layout or altered project that is inspired by the movie: SIXTEEN CANDLES The inspiration for your creations can be from the music, the characters, the dialogue, the costumes, etc. This week’s requirement is to create a birthday card inspired by 80's colors!!!! We can’t wait to see what lovely creations you create this week!!!

All you have to do is to link your creation to our blog by linking to your specific post for this challenge on your blog/SCS/PCP/etc/ thru Mr. Linky. If Mr. Linky is down for some reason – please link to your blog by leaving a link to your blog in the comment section. You can check out Kristina Werner’s awesome video on how to link to your direct blog post here.

Please link to our blog by this Thursday, August 20th by 9pm PST.

We can’t wait to see your lovely creations!!!

Big Hugs to All!!!!!!

Sankari and Brooke

Friday Sneak Peek Time - You are going to LOVE this movie!!!

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

Its Sankari here - Brooke is back from Convention - woohoo!!! Her computer has been on the fritz - so I am going to have a go at the sneak peek again for this week!!

I am SOO psyched to sneak peek something for this week's movie!!! Seriously - its one of my ALL time fave movies :) And we hope you have fun with it!!!!

Here is today's first sneak peek!!!

okay now I know that this picture looks completely depressing but its really one of my fave parts of the movie! Okay... I am going to be quiet now as I will probably give away the whole movie in a second... ha!! stay tuned for peek #2 soon!!!!

SNEAK PEEK #2

Okay - maybe this is a mite sneaky :) ... I am so excited about this movie!!! I think I might have to scrounge up some blog candy in honor of it! Hmmm.... off to scrounge.... and be back with some more clips!!!!

Sneak Peek #3

Okay - I totally feel like this peek totally gives it away!!!

Will be back for another peek after an hourish or so!!!

Sneak Peek #4

This to me is totally the movie! I am pretty sure you will guess it from this peek - and I hope you are excited and like this movie!!! It is such a classic - not like a "classic" but... well.... you will see :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #44 - The Thief Lord

Good Morning Everyone,

Our dear Brooke is off enjoying the Stampin' Up Convention! We wish we were with you! Here is a fun little movie that we have for you today called the Thief Lord. I myself only watched it last night (I don't how it happens that my Cinema cards always get created at the last hour almost always!).  The Thief Lord  is a really sweet movie that was released in 2006 and is based on the German children's book released in 2000 by Corneila Funke. 

Here is the story line for those of you who haven't seen it yet from IMDb: "This tale follows six-year-old Bo and fifteen-year-old Prosper, two recently orphaned brothers who escape their impending separation by running off to Venice. There they have fantastical adventures with the mysterious masked figure known as the Thief Lord and his band of child followers, who show the boys all the magic the city has to offer." 

The challenge this week is really simple:

Make a friendship card or a card about sisters/brothers (for your sisters or for your brothers). Since this movie is all about Prop and Bo coming and staying together and bond of friendship that develops and is tested with the gang who takes them in and helps them in Venice - the challenge is to make a card either for your sibling or about siblings (your children and that they are each other's siblings, etc.) or it  could be for a friend.

Sankari's card based on the Thief Lord

Well, after I watched the movie - I decide that I would make a card for a friend. I really loved the relationship between the two brothers - so sweet how they took care of each other and wanted to be with each other. I also loved the friendship between all the members of Scipio's band - very sweet they way they stayed loyal to each other and maintained their friendship even when it was questioned. So here is my friendship card - I printed out the sentiment on my computer:

It is  very simple - I was almost ready to chuck it and start over - but that was a few hours ago - so I thought it was better to show you a card than nothing so here it is in all its simpleness.... you can check out my blog for more details about the card.

Thanks so much for coming and visiting the Cinema Saturday Blog!

Hugs!

Sankari :)

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You all know that I am sad sad sad to leave a Johnny Depp movie - I had a blast making the rum jug for last week's challenge and was psyched to see all of you that played along with us!!! THANK YOUUUUU!!!! All of your pirate-y, beaded creations were simply fabulicious! Our Audrey goes to Leisa of Big Red Scraps. Leisa's scrapbook page card really caught our eye - love the way the beads come around the "mast post"! We would love it if you would display your Audrey on your page and link backto us - and we would love it if you could be our guest designer for next week!

So are you all ready to play along with this week’s challenge!!!!

All you have to do is make a card or layout or altered project that is inspired by the movie: The Thief Lord. The inspiration for your creations can be from the music, the characters, the dialogue, the costumes, etc. This week’s requirement is to create something with for your sibling (for a brother/sister) or for a friend. We can’t wait to see what lovely creations you create this week!!!

All you have to do is to link your creation to our blog by linking to your specific post for this challenge on your blog/SCS/PCP/etc/ thru Mr. Linky. If Mr. Linky is down for some reason – please link to your blog by leaving a link to your blog in the comment section. You can check out Kristina Werner’s awesome video on how to link to your direct blog post here.

Please link to our blog by this Thursday, August 13th by 9pm PST.

We can’t wait to see your lovely creations!!!

Big Hugs to All!!!!!!

Sankari and Brooke

Friday Sneak Peek Time

Good Morning Good Morning Everyone!!

Its time for another sneak peek for tomorrow's movie!!! We have been loving your pirate themed cards and as much as we are sad to see Johnny Depp go (specifically me :) its time for another friday sneak peek. This week our very dear Brooke is at the Stampin' Up Convention in Utah (lucky duck!!!) and so I am stepping in to attempt some sneak peeks....  

I am TOTALLY not good at the sneak peeking as Brooke has it to a science but here is my try: 

Here is the first sneak peek: What do you think?

Okay - here is the second sneak peek:

(hmmm...? not sure about my cropping skillz - what do you think?) :)

Here it is sneak peek #

Maybe some of you know it from this clip - I think my crops are too obvious - I am pretty sure Brooke would have cropped this much better - but here it is:

I had never heard of this movie till Brooke mentioned it! Who knew! Now I am going to watch it! Be back in a few with some more clips!!!

Sneak Peek #4:

Sorry that this peek was getting late in posting - we went out as a family tonight and things got way later then expected! 

Here is the final sneak peek - what do you think... interesting? :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #43 - Pirates of the Caribbean

Ahoy Ye Mateys!!!

Happy August! And what a great way to celebrate the start of a new month then featuring the hit movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, for our 43^rd movie for our challenge this week! Woo-hoooo!!! This movie almost went direct to video, but Disney decided to release it to the cinemas and good thing because according to Wikipedia, this movie which is the first of this series went on to receive 68 nominations including 5 Oscar nominations (one of which was for Johnny Depp for his leading role as Captain Jack Sparrow). There are numerous curious facts, trivia, goofs and details at this link on Wikipedia, one of which is that the gold teeth that Johnny Depp had implanted in his teeth were real and were actually implanted by his dentist! Now that is true dedication!

For our challenge requirements this week – how about something a little bit different? How about including some beads in your creation! Hope that sounds like fun to you!!!

Here are our creations from this week’s challenge:

Brooke’s creation as inspired from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean

I am posting more pictures on my blog... Come visit...

Hugs
Brooke

Sankari’s creation as inspired from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean

Hello lovely ones! I am sorry to be MIA recently – but I am back in the saddle!!! – this summer has been anything but relaxing… I think summer’s are only relaxing when one is young and can frolic the whole day! Between taking the kids to their various lessons, going on vacation, coming back to do vacation laundry and numerous activites in between – I need a personal vacation of my own J And so I was psyched to do Pirates of the Caribbean for our movie challenge this week – since as many of you know, I am somewhat infatuated with/have a major crush on Mr. J Depp himself (insert dreamy sigh here!) And a huge thanks to Libby who sent me this AWESOME card of the Deppster (man – I wish that would some day happen that it would rain JD! Thank you SO Libby – and I have meaning to send something back to you – promise its coming!!!)

So there are a TON of things that I wanted to do for this movie – and I couldn’t pick just one and after making two different projects – I went with an idea I had – why not focus on my f-a-v-o-r-I-t-e line of Johnny Depp/Jack Sparrow from the movie: “But why is the rum gone?” OMGosh – the expression on his face is priceless – I have watched it so many times! And it always cracks me up – so in honor of this line that always brings a smile to my face, I thought I would make a card that looked like a rum bottle of old (inspired by this picture) and have the sentiment on the bottle. I totally enjoyed watching this scene as I made this card and totally feel that JD completely made this movie rock!

You can check out my blog for more Johnny Depp infatuation stories (lol!) and details of my card J

Hugs to all,
Sankari J

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Thank you to Julia, Radha and Amy for playing along in our last challenge– we are always thrilled to see all of your lovely creations!!

So are you all ready to play along with this week’s challenge!!!!

All you have to do is make a card or layout or altered project that is inspired by the movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (which is the first movie in the series, but if you are really inspired to do something from any of the other Pirate movies – that is cool too!) The inspiration for your creations can be from the music, the characters, the dialogue, the costumes, etc. This week’s requirement is to create something with beads in it – we can’t wait to see what beaded creations you create this week!!!

All you have to do is to link your creation to our blog by linking to your specific post for this challenge on your blog/SCS/PCP/etc/ thru Mr. Linky. If Mr. Linky is down for some reason – please link to your blog by leaving a link to your blog in the comment section. You can check out Kristina Werner’s awesome video on how to link to your direct blog post here.

Please link to our blog by this Thursday, August 5 by 9pm PST.

We can’t wait to see your lovely creations!!!

Big Hugs to All!!!!!!

Sankari and Brooke