Saturday, September 19, 2009

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #50 - PRETTY WOMAN - with special guest designer Gina K!


Good Morning Everyone!!!!!

Welcome to our 50th Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge where this week's movie is the 1990 Oscar nominated movie Pretty Woman. And today we have a very special Guest Designer (drum roll please :) Gina K. from Gina K Designs! I can't even tell you HOW excited we were when Gina agreed to be our guest designer for our 50th movie challenge and I am telling you she is just the sweetest person ever! This week, Gina has picked our movie: Pretty Woman and the challenge that she has picked to go with it is paper piecing!!!

What inspires you when you watch the movie - is it the clothes, the music, the dialogue, the themes? Whatever it is that inspires you from this movie - we can't wait to see your take on it as you create a card - just add some paper piecing to it!!

This 50th challenge is pretty special as it all started as an idea last fall. And then I remember calling Brooke (who was one of my blog buddies that I met doing another challenge site :) and we totally connected over our love of movies :) So I am so thankful to have created this challenge site with one of my best friends (who I can't wait to meet someday!) and also for all of YOU for keeping us going and playing along. You have really become part of our Cinema family! We love guessing the Friday sneak peeks with you (and you guys are SOOO good!!! I don't know HOW you guess it from these small crops that Brooke does!!! That is why they are so small because you guys are SO good!! I remember that is why at one point we were cropping pictures of grass and clouds from the movies - and you guys would STILL guess the right movie!!! WOW!) We are so thankful for YOU! And also want to welcome all the new faces!!! Please join us this week as we celebrate 50 challenges!!!!! And there is some FANTASTIC BLOG CANDY that Gina is offering that you don't want to miss!!!!! (more on that towards the end!)
Here are our cards inspired by the movie Pretty Woman: We are so thankful to Gina for letting us use her BEAUTIFUL stamps for this week's card creations! Thank you GK!!! And we welcome Jackie Wilcox as our guest designer this week for her beautiful card from Challenge #48 movie: School of Rock! We are so grateful to have you on board!!! yay!!!



I have only seen this movie on t.v. and ages ago.. So when I read up on all the in's and out's of this movie on I.M.D.B. there were lots of comments about how it's was a modern version of Cinderella so I thought that the sentiment.. "You're the fairest of them all" sounded very princess-like even if it's a Snow White quote... I {HEART} the little lipstick and nail polish Adorable... hand to add them to the card..

When I think of this movie Julia Roberts's brown with white polka-dots comes straight to mind.. I remember how much everyone was a buzz about how great that dress was.. So when Gina told us she would love to have the technique be "paper Piecing" that juts straight to my mind.. If you want to see the card I made with my interoperation of that great dress you will have to come visit me on my blog... Let me know what you think...


A HUGE thanks to Gina for joining us this week. We have enjoyed chatting on the phone with you as we have prepared for this week. What a truly sweet person you really are.. So kind, generous and thoughtful. We are so proud to call you friend.

We have seen a TON of new faces that have joined us from Gina blog.. We would love to have you all join our weekly challenges and become part of our challenge family... We have really created some amazing friendships through our challenges and hope to share our joy of creating with others...

I hope you all have a GREAT time creating a card/project that is inspired and reflects the movie "Pretty Woman".

p.s. Don't forget to go back to the sneak Peek post and see the un-cropped pictures... :)

HUGS
BROOKE


I love this movie (isn't Roy Orbison's song in your head RIGHT NOW??!!) And I especially LOVE Julia's smile and the way that she discovers who she really is, what she wants and how to make her dreams come true. I love the shopping scene where she and Richard Gere connect begin their falling in love-ness. I created a little Boutique, inspired by Rupa Shevde's stamp set for Gina K. called: Retro Boutique. I love this set full of all kinds of shopping yumminess that I wish were in my closet right now!!! I chose the sentiment : Celebrate in Style! to celebrate our 50th challenge and to celebrate following your dreams which is one of the themes from the movie!

For more information on this card and details. Please stop by my blog!
Thank you so much everyone for all your support during these 50 challenges and here's wishing many more challenges to come!!!
A huge thanks and big hugs to Gina for your support, encouragement and amazing generosity!!! Thank you so much!!!
Big hugs!
Sankari :)



We are so excited to have Gina as our Guest Designer for our 50th Anniversary! Check out her beautiful card and her wonderful inspiration of her card:

"One of the things I really liked about the movie Pretty Woman was when the main character, played by Julia Roberts begins to realize that she is worth so much more than the profession she has chosen. As she dresses up in more elegant and respectable clothing and spends more time with the man who cares for the woman she is inside, she begins to respect herself more. And when that starts to happen, she becomes even more beautiful!"

You have to stop by Gina's blog to see more pics of this AMAZINGLy beautiful card and all the details on it!!!. Thank you so much Gina for helping us celebrate our 50th challenge!!!

Last week, we were wowed by Jackie's card Rock to the Music card that she made for challenge #48's movie School of Rock and as the Audrey Winner for the movie challenge, we are SOOO excited that this week, she joins us as our guest designer for Pretty Woman:


I took my inspiration from the major changes in Vivian's and Edward's lives. Their meeting was a fluke...he was looking for Beverly Hills and she was looking for a "date". During the time they spent together, they helped each other look into themselves and make the changes necessary to have a happier life. The centerpiece of my card is two paper pieced butterflies, a true symbol of change.
For more details, please stop by Jackie's blog: Grammie Loves! Thank you so much Jackie for being one of our guest designers today! Your card is so beautiful and totally is a symbol of the change and beauty within us all!!!

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So would you like to be one of our Guest Designers? We would love it!!! All you have to do is play along with our challenge and the Audrey winner of that challenge becomes our guest designer for next week. Speaking of which, Last week we were wowed by your amazing creativity as you showed us your Two Towers creation for last week's movie challenge: Lord of the Rings. Our attention was caught by Libby's Courage card - such a beauty and her inspiration behind it!! Libby your card is beautiful and we hope you enjoy your Audrey Award! And as the Audrey winner - you are also the blog candy winner from last week! Let me know which stamp set that you would like from Taylored Expressions and I will mail it our right away! Woo-hoo!!! Thank you to all who played along last week!!!!



So are you ready to PLAY this week!!!!!!!! There is MAJOR blog candy involved this week! 2 stamps sets from Rupa Shvede, 5 spools of yummy ribbon, dress it up glitter brads and 2 kinds of awesome rain dots!!!! This is over $60.00 of yummy products that GIna has so generously put together!!! (thank you Gina!!!) So what do you need to do to play along?! Well, just create a card inspired by the movie: Pretty Woman with some paper piecing - 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! We can't wait to see your creations!! Also we love reading about from where in the movie you got your inspiration - so let us know what inspired you from the movie - was it the clothes, a certain line, the music, the colors, the themes, the characters, a certain scene... anything!

Please link to us by Thursday, September 24 at 9pm PST

We can't wait to see your lovely creations!!! A huge thank you to all of those who have been playing with us since the very beginning and a huge thank you to those who have joined us recently - and huge thank you to all those who read our blog or stop by for a visit!!! You guys have made this journey so much fun for us!!!

We also want to give some Cinema love to Amy from Tethered 2 Home - who has played in EVERY SINGLE one of our 50 challenges!!!!! AMY you ROCK girlie!!! Thanks for being there with us and supporting and playing along with us from the beginning!!! We would love to give you a little blog candy love! So email me so that I can send you a little something yummy!!!!

We can't wait to see all of your creations!!!!
Thank you to everyone!!! BIG BIG HUGS all around!!!!

Cheers!!! And happy 50th!!!!
Yayayayayay!!!!!!1 Here's to the next 50!!!!!
Hugs to all,
Sankari and Brooke :)


35 comments:

Shaz said...

YEAH! happy 50th Cinema Saturday Challenge... we love you. Keep them coming....

Patti J said...

Sankari, we knew an Andy Wegman from Jefferson City, Mo. years ago - are you any relation?

Sankari W. said...

HI Patti!

I don't think we are related to Andy Wegman - but I will ask my DH!!! THanks for asking!!! hope you are well!!

And Shaz! Thank you so much - you are sweetheart!!!!
Thank you!!!!

Darlene D said...

Awesome! Congrats to all you great card makers and guessers!!!

Sankari W. said...

Thank you Darlene!! And Yes!! You Guessers were AMAZING!!!!!

I still don't know how guess from such small snippets!!! That's why Brooke crops them so small - because you guys are SOOO good!!!!

Can't wait to see all your creations!!

Juli Smith, said...

Well - at least I had the right male star in my guess - Richard Gere! lol (I guessed Nights in Rodanthe). I'm so glad you asked GinaK to guest design for this - or who knows how long it would have been before I found this. Totally FUN concept ladies - THANKS for bringing a very different and fun kind of inspiration into the paper-crafting world. I hope I'll get to play along. I've bookmarked you now in any case! :)

Winter said...

WOW! 50 Challenges, looks like you ladies have made this an amazing challenge to be a part of! I love Pretty Woman and my wheels are already turning on ideas! Can't wait to play! :)

Lisa Hjulberg said...

Congrats on 50 challenges! Gina K rocks and so does Pretty Woman! I will definitely try to play this week. What awesome DT cards today... they all knock my socks off!

Brooke S said...

Morning ladies,

Welcome to our 50th challenge..

You are all amazing, I can't believe how good some of you are at guessing.. It really makes my job hard he,he...

Sankari, Jackie and Gina one word WOW! absolute stunning..

I can't wait to give you some love on your own blogs..

Now is the time to play for all of you who have been following us... We have great blogs candy... Warning you will get hooked...

Hugs
Brooke

Tethered2Home said...

Woo Hoo Can't believe it's been 50! Such fun challenges. I'm off on a little vacation (yes, I asked that we have internet access in the hotel, is that bad?), but will try to squeeze in time to make a pierced card after we get back & before Thursday.

The Bug said...

What a great concept! I just found your blog today and decided to jump right in. I have posted my project and included a link with Mr. Linky. I was inspired by Julia's red dress. I hope you enjoy.

Thanks for the inspiration!

Carol Dunstan said...

congrats on the big 5-O! Love all your cards again. Unfortunately with the soot everywhere, and then putting the house back in order I can't see me getting a card done this week but I hope to come back and check them all out

Jaimee said...

Congratulations on 50 girls. i am so glad i found this site it has been so much playing along with you guys. i have seen heaps of movies i had missed out on and has been great to see all the beautiful creations every has made.

i love all your projects this week they are so stylish!

Anonymous said...

I think I linked my card that is in Gina K's gallery on her stamptv site. Not sure if I did it right. But I am excited to see all the creations. I was very inspired by the Pretty Woman theme. I loved that movie and Julia Roberts is my favorite actress. I made the card based on the ending when Richard Gere delivers flowers to Julia on the balcony .. she is a princess afterall.

Jennie said...

Love this movie...Hope to create for this this week :o) I need to think about which scene...Hhh...

scrapperjulia said...

Congratulations for having 50 great challenges, Brooke and Sankari! Everyone made awesome cards! Great movie for inspiration!

yyam said...

Congrats on challenge #50!

I'm playing along!

Jenny McGee said...

Congrats on #50. I am excited to play in this challenge. I heard about if from Gina K. Designs blog. I have entered my card. Thanks

Jaimee said...

hi girls i am done..i accidently pasted the wrong link at number 13 (oppsy its been a long week! lol)
so the project is at #14 on mr linky
sorry!

Nancy K said...

Happy 50th Brooke and Sankari!
Thank you for making this such a fun and welcoming place to visit!
This was a great challenge and a fab movie! I've got my project up (I couldn't resist doing a dressy one too!)
The projects up this week are wonderful -I love seeing what every one comes up with each week.

Lauretta See said...

Happy 50th ;) I am here for the first time playing ( Thanks Gina K ;)) ) I love these challenge's. and with this movie .. one of my fav's i got to say.. i had my inspiration right away.
Thanks for this challenge.

hugs

Tina said...

HA! I had to do a stair step card 'cause I LOVED so many parts of the movie!!! But... I was in a hurry so it didn't quite turn out like I wanted. Maybe next time!!

Lorraine said...

First time I have joined you, love this idea. Love all the cards shown.

Tethered2Home said...

So laundry mountains can wait, but I did have a blast with the challenge this week. I'm not able to be in the draw for the goodies, because I forgot to do the challenge requirement ... paper piercing. LOL I need tea. Thanks again for running such a fun challenge each week.

Anonymous said...

All the cards are great.. I have to comment "Slippery little suckers" made LOL. At first I was like.. ok snails? Then I read on and chuckled... very clever!!

Abby said...

Hello, ladies! Great cards! I just realized my pic was kind of small. Oh well! Happy Monday! Nellie and I had so much fun guessing and playing along this week! Doing challenges with friends is way fun...cause I get to sneak more ideas from Nellie! :)

Lori said...

How fun! I have been wanting to do this challenge for a while now. Pretty Woman hit me just right, except I did miss the paper piecing... I went with simply elegant, just like Vivian when she came out of her shell.

Tanya said...

Congrats on 50!!!
I mostly played along.... :)

Radha said...

Love all of them!!!

Beverly S. said...

Would you believe this is my "first" time doing the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge??? BUT it sure won't be my last. Fun, fun, fun! :)

theneon said...

Fantastic 50! Much congratulations. I am so glad to find this blog -- thanks to Gina K. I love movies -- so you'll see me around again.

Lindsay Harrison said...

Great movie! I will do this again!

Nancy K said...

I just have to say how great it is to have 50 (and still going) projects for the 50th challenge!
Love all the creativity ladies!!

theneon said...

Last night when I posted, you hadn't reached 50 and I thought to myself -- you've gotta have 50 for your 50th -- so I did another card -- but I shouldn't have worried because I am a last minute person and so surely there are lots of others who are too to make you 50 ++! I've had a lot of fun with this one -- but the song won't leave me alone!

Michelle VP said...

My first paper-pieced card ever! And I had to pick a stamp with such teeny tiny flowers to cut out and paste, haha. But the tub stamp was the perfect choice for this movie. :) Congrats on your 50th Challenge. I'm so glad Gina directed me to you blog.