Saturday, January 30, 2010

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #64 - Titanic

Good Morning Everyone! Welcome to our 64th Cinema challenge where today we are featuring the Oscar winning movie (actually 11 Oscars!!!) - the epic movie: Titanic - which among many awards - also won Best Picture! (We still can't believe that you guys guessed it! See this is why we have pics of sky and grass!!! And you guys STILL guess it right!! Amazing!) This movie is simply amazing - the music, the costumes, the visual effects, the story, etc. Its actually hard to watch it again without crying (okay - sobbing! :) The challenge requirement this week is to use a little bit (or a lot) of blue and silver in your creation - You are free to use any colors - just add a big of blue and silver to it. If you need more inspiration - here are some themes that you can use for your creation - hope that this is helpful:

For more memorable quotes from Titanic: check out this link
***For more information about the Titanic (the history behind it) Check out this link
For more information about the making of Titanic and you can check out the trailer here or you can watch it here:

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie "Titanic"

I have to say this was one of my favorite challenges.. I really love vintage things.. I have the hardest time watching this movie.. It's just sooooo sad.. My sweetheart was so cute when we watched this movie at the theater.. When it was time to leave he pulled on my coat to stop me from leaving and said "Don't leave I need to stay here for a few minutes" bless his tender-heart.. He had a little sob... He couldn't get the mother and child from the lower deck out of his head.. Then he started thinking of our own kids.. And vowed from that day on he would never watch that movie again... So read all about my inspiration please visit me here and say HI!
Enjoy the show..
Hugs!
Brooke

Sankari's Card inspired by the movie "Titanic"
I always hear music when I think of the movie Titanic - actually - just one song..."The Heart Does Go on" by Celine Dion.... sigh - and it always makes me think of Jack and Rose "flying on the bow of the boat... don't you just hear the song in your head! So I created a little card of the bow of the boat with the sentiment from the song from the verse:

"Love can touch us one time, and last for a lifetime, And never go till we're one..
Love was when I loved you, One true time I hold to, In my life we'll always go on..

Near, far, where ever you are, I believe that the heart does go on,
Once more, you open the door, And you're here in my heart - And my heart will go on...."

Sigh.. what a movie - I couldn't even watch parts of it last night as I made this card - because it just made my heart ache... actually sniffling right now just thinking about it... I loved making this card and can't wait to see your creations this week!
To check out the card details please stop by my blog!
Big hugs!
Sankari :)


This week we have Nancy joining us as our guest designer - who received the Audrey for her "DumDum/GumGum" creation for the movie: Night at the Museum! THank you so much Nancy for joining us today!!!

Nancy's Card inspired by the movie "Titanic"
I love this movie, talk about inspiration! The costumes, the sets, the music -all beautiful and amazing, not to mention the strength, the triumphs & the tragedies of the characters. So many scenes in this movie captivate me. I have been mildly obsessed with the Titanic story since I was about 10 or so, I've seen the exhibit several times in different cities, but it wasn't this that caught me for this challenge. It was a lengthy quote by Jack's character, while he was having dinner with the first class passengers when asked about his "third class lifestyle":
Jack: Well, yes, ma'am, I do... I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.
The last few lines just really clicked with me -grabbed ahold of my heart and made me run for the tissue. :) So I wanted to make a project (not a card!) that would remind me to make each day count. I initially had planned on putting in a picture from our family vacation on an Alaskan Cruise, but then I decided I would rather show a picture that demonstrated the "making it count".This is a pic of DH and kids on our last day together before his deployment. It was a great day, and we made the most of our last hour together."

Thank you so much Nancy for being our Guest Designer this week! What an amazing moment you have captured of your DH and your children just before his deployment... And just that you will use this gorgeous clipboard everyday and see this moment is just the sweetest!

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So who is going to be our guest designer next week? It could be YOU!!! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project etc., that is inspired by the movie: Titanic! Your inspiration can come from the costumes, the dialogue, the music, the themes, the characters, the colors - anything at all from the movie!!! ****The challenge element in this card is to use some blue and silver your card!!!!


****Please link to us by this THURSDAY,February 5th - by 8PM CENTRAL standard time
and we will announce the Audrey winner on Friday
with the sneak peeks for next saturday's movie!!!

Happy Creating
Can't wait to see your yummy creations!!!
See You at the Movies!!!
The Cinema Sisters ;)


Friday, January 29, 2010

The Audrey Award, Cinema Inspirations and Sneak Peeks


Good Morning Everyone!!!
A huge thank you to everyone who played along with last week's movie: Australia!! (ps- "oh where or were can our little "Carol" be, Oh where o where can she be?) Your creations are just gorgeous!! (so sorry that Mr. Linky wasn't up last week - I was CHA'ing it up - and totally forgot to get it going - but I added it in and added all of your links - if I missed anyone - I totally apologize for that and also for not commenting on everyone's for this week - but Brooke and I looked at everyone's together and I can't wait to go back and comment!) You guys are just the sweetest and we every time we surf onto your blog (usually we are on the phone together) we always sigh and say "wow"!!! Its so hard to pick every week - but these were some creations that we loved and most of all - we loved reading the inspiration behind the cards! Please take a moment to check out this week's Cinema Saturday's Inspired Creations:


One card that caught our eye was Julia Herald's gorgeous "Love Remains the Same" card. We love how this creation on Kraft just captured the romance and the love between Dover and Lady Ashley - simply gorgeous! And we loved her technique behind creating this scene! Thank you so much Julia for playing along with us and we hope you will join us next week as our guest designer! A huge huge huge thank you to each one of you who played along with us - we truly adore each of your creations and takes on the different movies - and hope you are enjoying playing along with us! We sure are enjoying playing along with all of you!!!! So how about some sneak peeks?! The uber fabulous Ms. Brooke is back again with some awesome sneaky peeks!!! Here is the first one for all of you Sherlock Holmes!!!


Sneak Peek #1
Sneak Peek #2


Sneak Peek #3

See you soon
Love the Cinema Sisters

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #63 - Australia



Thank you everyone for your super sweet comments of support and love for this challenge!!! We are so touched by your sweet words and are so happy that you love playing along! Well, today, we are happy to welcome you to our 63rd Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge, where today we are featuring the 2008 Oscar nominated movie: Australia in honor of Australia day which will be celebrated on 2008! This movie is in honor of all our "down under" CSCC players! This movie is set in WWII times and unfolds the history around that time period. Even though it has a historical backdrop, this story really is about the full spectrum of love - love of a mother for her son, love of a grandfather for his grandson, romance, love of the land, love of freedom. The colors in this movie are very earth tone and so we thought our challenge requirement would be to use Kraft in your creations.

Here are some more ideas from the Cinema Saturday Inspiration Corner:

For some more information about the plot/storyline of the movie - Click here
For some trivia behind the movie- Click here
For some quotes from the movie: Click here

Brooke's Card Inspired by the movie: Australia
A few inspiration detail to my card include, Kraft color of course only my favorite.. Second Carol the main reason we were sooo excited to present this movie. Our cute little hobbit from down-under.. When I was review still photos from this movie there were several outfits that Lady Ashley's wore that really caught my eye. The blue and white(I know her dress is navy but I used the challenge blue on this card) are in remembrance of the dress she is wearing as she arrives in Darwin. Nichole Kidman is not real! No one is truly that skinny are they?? I wish... Other blue inspiration ideas came from the Australian flag and the ocean of course. To learn about my inspiration you can check out my blog here.

I hope you all sing your way home to our challenge this week.. We would love to have your join us.
HUGS
BROOKE


Sankari's Card Inspired by the movie: Australia
The main element that drew me into this movie was the beautiful love story of the grandfather and his grandson Nallah and Lady Ashley and Nallah. I love when Nallah says - i sing you to me - as he weaves magic to create his destiny. The two hearts represent Nallah and Lady Ashley (hers is the one with the bigger bow) and the smaller one has the sun behind it to represent his grandfather) and the "hole" in his heart is filled with the love of Lady Ashley:

I hope you all play along with us this week! Sending you big hugs!!!!
Sankari :)

This week we have two guest designers joining us: Sue (Audrey Winner from the Chronicles of Narnia Challenge) and Jennifer (Winner from the Knight's Tale Challenge): We are so happy that we have these two wonderful artists joining us to showcase cards from this movie challenge:

Sue's Card Inspired by the movie: Australia
"I took my inspiration for my card from the scene where they were at the dance and he came in in that white tux (is he gorgeous or what) and danced.And that kiss in the rain..............ahhhhh. The left side of my card represents the softer side of Sarah when she arrived in Australia. The right side is the rugged side of Drover with the rope and cowboys. The sentiment seemed perfect, as they were so different, yet love prevailed."

Thank you so much Sue for being our Guest Designer - what a beautiful moment to capture in your gorgeous card!!! Absolutely LOVE the sentiment and the beautiful stamps!!!

Jennifer's Card Inspired by the movie: Australia
"The parts that stuck out to me have to do with love. The characters each struggled with loss of love, and had to find their way to love again. Plus...the love of the land. Nicole Kidman's character was annoying to me in the beginning. But she learned to love the land, and it really changed her. By the end of the movie, you can't help but root for her to have a happy ending.

One part in particular stood out to me, and it had a line in the movie I loved. "The rain will fall. The grass grows green. And life...it begin again." It summed up the whole movie for me. Each character learned to love again. That's what life is all about. There was a tree that seemed to be "their" spot. I incorporated the quote with the tree, and muted colors. I chose to keep the card free from too many adornments, since that's how I felt after watching the movie. So, here's my card with that line as my inspiration."

WOW! Thank you so much Jennifer!! This is just gorgeous and its so beautiful to read where you got your inspiration from!!! The love stories in this movie is really so beautiful and it simply perfect how you tied it in with the movie!!!
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So who is going to be our guest designer next week? It could be YOU!!! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project etc., that is inspired by the movie:Australia! Your inspiration can come from the costumes, the dialogue, the music, the themes, the characters, the colors - anything at all from the movie!!! ****The challenge element in this card is to have Kraft in your card!!!!


****Please link to us by this THURSDAY, January 28th - by 8PM CENTRAL standard time
and we will announce the Audrey winner on Friday
with the sneak peeks for next saturday's movie!!!

Happy Creating
Can't wait to see your yummy creations!!!
See You at the Movies!!!
The Cinema Sisters ;)



Friday, January 22, 2010

The Audrey Award, Cinema Inspirations and Sneak Peeks


Good Morning/Afternoon Everyone!!

First of all - we just wanted to thank everyone for your amazingly sweeeet comments and all of your support and encouragement and we are so happy that you like to play along with us - that is really the main reason that love to do this challenge - to be with all of you!!! We just absolutely loved all of your creations this week from the movie: A Night at the Museum! What awesome creations!!! Check out these Cinema Saturday Inspired Creations below:

It was so much fun to read where their inspiration came from and how they created their gorgeous creations. We just love reading about what part of the movie inspired you - and how you create a card based on that inspiration!!!

One card that caught our eye - was Nancy's beautiful "Dum-Dum/Gum-Gum" creation - we are still floored that you made the whole thing!!! How awesome - and what a great way to include the little miniature part of the challenge with the little piece of gum! Too Cute!! Nancy, we hope you will join us next week as our guest designer!!!



Sneak Peek #1
Sneak Peek #2


Sneak Peek #3


See you at the movies
Hugs
The Cinema Sister

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #62 - A Night at the Museum

Welcome everyone to our 62nd Challenge - where this week, we are featuring the 2006 movie: A Night at the Museum! This movie is filled with action, adventure, comedy and a wee bit of romance as well! There are literally SOOO many possibilities of cards you can create since this is a Museum of people, animals, etc. from all around the world! Our challenge requirement is adding something miniature in your card (in the movie - there is such a vast array of different scales - from the huge dinosaur to the little tiny cowboys and roman soliders - so we thought to make our challenge requirement one of scale - just adding something miniature in your creation :) Here is a Cinema Saturday Inspiration Corner for this movie to help out:

To read more about this movie - check out this link
You can watch the trailer for the movie here: or here on Youtube


Brooke's project inspired by the movie "A Night at the Museum"
Ok Ladies it's 1:11 in the a.m. lol and I just got the internet up and going we had to reboot... Can I say good luck with this movie ladies there are sooooo many things you can get inspired from this movie...



When I got back on the computer I noticed that my sweet Sankari had left me a LOT of sos messages.. So I sent her a message and told her what I was making... Guess what? We both made a book marks... How CRAZY is that... Great minds that are having brain cramps think alike he,he. for more details check our my blog...

p.s. Did I mention it's 2:11 a.m. where Sankari is. Go girl.
Enjoy the show
HUGS
Brooke

Sankari's project inspired by the movie "A Night at the Museum"
Can I just say that there are waaaay toooo many things/elements/ideas in this movie! Its so hard to just pick one thing - there are so many different options - sooo much so that a last minute procrastinator like me had a hard time to pick something - so I finally created a bookmark from the the theme of the movie: "Knowledge is Power" since after reading through the history books, Larry the nightwatchman - has a better idea how to handle all the people, animals etc. of the museum who come to life after sunset! The funny thing is that during our 2am conversation, Brooke also created a bookmark! We totally laughed about our brain cramps and our bookmarks!
Here is my bookmark inspired by the cute big dinosaur who likes to "play fetch" in the movie - that I made for our son who is a total dinosaur fanatic right now - the little dinosaur is for the miniature element of the challenge. I thought that border punch looked like the back of a stegosaurus - totally very simple - very quick and the best part was giving it to my son when he woke up!
I hope you enjoy the movie challenge this week - its definitely one with lots of possibilities!!!!
Happy weekend and Big hugs!

Our guest designers for next week will be our Audrey winners - Jennifer B. and Sue D. for their beautiful cards from the last two challenges!! Can't wait to see your gorgeous creations ladies!
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So who is going to be our guest designer next week? It could be YOU!!! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project etc., that is inspired by the movie:A Night at the Museum! Your inspiration can come from the costumes, the dialogue, the music, the themes, the characters, the colors - anything at all from the movie!!! ****The challenge element in this card is to add something miniature to your card!!!!


****Please link to us by this THURSDAY, January 21st - by 8PM CENTRAL standard time
and we will announce the Audrey winner on Friday
with the sneak peeks for next saturday's movie!!!

Can't wait to see your yummy creations!!!
See You at the Movies!!!
The Cinema Sisters ;)


Friday, January 15, 2010

The Audrey Award, Cinema Inspirations and Sneak Peeks


Happy Friday Everyone!

A huge thank you to everyone who played along with our Challenge #61: A Knight's Tale! It was so much fun to see your gorgeous creations and more than anything to read the inspiration behind your cards. We love reading about how a certain part of the movie - or even a certain line from the movie created the idea for your card - so brilliant! Our Cinema Saturday Roundup this week has creations with such lovely sentiments and inspirations from the movie -(please check out the inspiration behind their creations.)
Our Audrey this week goes to Jennifer B. of Just Jennifer Stamping - her card inspired by the movie A Knight's Tale has so many gorgeous elements - simply beautiful! We loved the colors, the twine, the stars, the metal, the backgrounds and thought it was so sweet that her DH participated as well! You can check out her beautiful card here. Thanks so much Jennifer for playing along with us - we hope you will join us next week as our guest designer! And a huge thank you to each of you for all of your sweet comments and for playing along with us with our cinema challenges!!! We hope you know - that each of you is an inspiration to us and that you guys are really what makes this challenge so much fun to do!!! And so speaking of challenges - Brooke has come up with some challenges for this week's sneak peeks! Check out our first sneak peek- :) and then stay tuned for a couple more today!


Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek #2
Sneak Peek #3

See you at the movies!
Big hugs,
the Cinema Sisters :)

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #61 - A Knight's Tale

Welcome Everyone to our 61st Challenge: the 2001 movie"A Knight's Tale". We are still in shock at how quickly you guessed this movie from the sneak peeks (see this is why we end up showing sneak peeks of grass and clouds!!) The tagline of this movie is: "From peasant to knight, one man can change his stars". So we decided that we would make the challenge requirement to be to add a star to your creations. If you haven't seen this movie - we would totally recommend it - it is fun, has a modern twist in a renaissance movie and is full of romance, valor and comedy.

Sometimes its hard to get started on making something - and so we have created this little Cinema Inspiration Corner to help get your mojo flowing (but these are just some ideas - PLEASE feel free to do whatever card you would like with your own favorite colors from the movie, themes, etc.) We just hope that this little section will help make something that is a little bit abstract become somewhat concrete:

(I thought I would some of the colors from the pictures about in case some of you would like a color palate - but again - these are just some ideas and please feel free to do anything from the movie that inspires you!!) (The above pictures are from the follwing links: Jocelyn, Knights, and the Trio). Here are some links to help:
If you would like to read more about A Knight's Tale

We hope that this little corner helps get your mojo flowing :) Here are our cards inspired by this movie:

Brooke's Card Inspired By the Movie: A Knight's Tale:

Please join me on my blog to read all about my inspiration for this challenge.. There are so many things to be inspired by in this movie. You could simple create a card with stars and include the tag line from above "From peasant to knight, one man can change his stars". The sky is the limit... We love all your creations they are like the stars all truly unique you...
HUGS
Brooke

Sankari's Card Inspired By the Movie: A Knight's Tale:
I have to say that I was a little skeptical about this movie when it first came out but as soon as we started to watch it - I really fell in LOVE with it and since then, I have seen it at least 15 to 20 times over the years. Its just a sweet story with a modern feel (if you haven't seen it yet - its an awesome date night movie - as I think the DHs will like the jousting/and all of that too). I made my card inspired by the romance between Jocelyn and William. She asks him at one point that if he loves her - he will lose each joust in the tournament... love those scenes between them).
I used the fluer-de lis since the tournament happened in France, the copper and the silver to show the metalwork in the movie, and the red for the love between Jocelyn and William. I had so much fun making this card - for more details - please check out my blog :)
Hugs!
Sankari :)
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So who is going to be our guest designer next week? It could be YOU!!! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project etc., that is inspired by the movie:A Knight's Tale! Your inspiration can come from the costumes, the dialogue, the music, the themes, the characters, the colors - anything at all from the movie!!! ****The challenge element in this card is to add a star to your card!!!!


****Please link to us by this THURSDAY, January 14th - by 8PM CENTRAL standard time
and we will announce the Audrey winner on Friday
with the sneak peeks for next saturday's movie!!!

Happy Jousting!!!
Can't wait to see your yummy creations!!!
See You at the Movies!!!
The Cinema Sisters ;)