Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #97 -Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Welcome Everyone to the 97th Cinema Saturday Challenge, where this week we are featuring the 1997 movie: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood which has an all star cast and follows the life stories of the young group of best friends who stay close and protect and take care of each other through their lives. This story is about sisterhood, motherhood, and how we uphold and love each other through thick and thin. For our challenge requirement today, we thought it would be fun to create something that has a "collage" feeling (this can be to create a card with different elements layered together, or a scrapbook page, or a 3D element). Can't wait to see what you come up with!

Sankari's Creation Inspired by the movie: The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
This movie is so lovely - it is such an amazing movie - filled with comedy, drama, romance and examines the bonds of friendship, sisterhood and motherhood/and being a daughter. In thinking of the bond of sisterhood that was in this movie, I wanted to make a scrapbook page of my daughter and her best friend - these two are like peas in a pod and since the day they met they have been together like super glue. They always hold hands and giggle and even if they ever "fight" they immediately make up with hugs and kisses - its really the sweetest thing. My daughter talks about her BFF all day long - even while she is at home brushing her teeth, she says goodnight to her BBF :) She is only 3 and it always melts my heart how much love she has for her friend at this tender age.

I loved watching this movie about the depths of sisterhood and the sweet bond of friendship. I hope that my daughter and her BFF remain like this always, and even when they are older - that they still remain close! Can't wait to see what you create!
Hugs,
Sankari :)

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Brooke's Project inspired by ~ The Divine Secrets of the Ya, Ya sisterhood

I knew from the start that I was going to get my inspiration from the ya,ya's scrapbook. I love all the whimsical personality. The Sentiment GIRL POWER is so reflective of the movie.. All the ya, ya's are there for each other through think and thin.. The movie really comes full circle when Sidalee is asked to join the Ya, Ya's.. Only at this point does she really understand and start to love her mother and begin to live her life free from pain and anger towards her mother. This is SUCH a wonderful movie... It only shows that you really have to walk a 100 miles in someone's shoes to really understand who they are.

Enjoy the challenge...

Stop by and say HI!

HUGS

BROOKE

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Who's going to be our next guest designer? It could be you! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, 3D creation - that is inspired by the movie: DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD and uses the challenge requirement to USE COLLAGE ELEMENTS in your creation. You creation can be inspired by anything in the movie, from the themes in the movie, to the dialogue, costumes, character, music, lyrics, quotes, events in the movie, furniture, time period - anything at all that inspires your creative "light bulb" to go on!! Please share with us - where you got your inspiration from because we love reading about your creative process!!!

You can post your challenge entry anytime from now till Thursday September 30th at 8pm CST! Can't wait to see your beautiful creations!

Big hugs,

the Cinema Sisters

Sneak Peek Friday

HAPPY FALL YA'LL

We are enjoying lovely temperatures of the high 80's here in Utah. Lets cross our fingers that we can keep the weather warm until Halloween. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE... I don't like trick or treating in the either freezing cold wind or SNOW for that matter...

What a COOL challenge the Iron Man was.. I had SOOOOO much fun creating a card for it.. I was really thrilled with the final result... Not to mention I have a male/boys card in my stash...

This weeks AUDREY winner is~

NANCY K

over at

Crafting my world..

Nancy's card really incorporated many levels of the challenge and movie in her card.. First when you look at her card you get the color scheme first of.. Then the usage of the Metal for the challenge requirement is PERFECT for the movie challenge.. Last but not least the sentiment is what sealed the deal for me..

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are"

In the movie IRON MAN the main character Tony Stark(Robert Downey Jr.) struggles to find himself in the Stark industries world. Tony has to choose if he want to keep the company alive and continue his passion for invention and technology or party like a socialite..

Nancy's sentiment totally sums his journey up!

CONGRATS NANCY!!

We look forward to having you as our next weeks Guest Designer.

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Hugs

See you soon

BROOKE

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #96 - Ironman

Welcome to our 96th Challenge, where this week we are featuring the 2 time Oscar nominated 2008 movie: IronMan starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, and Terence Howard. This movie is based on the Marvel Comic books character Ironman and is about a wealthy industrialist who builds a powerful "ironman" suit and becomes powerful superhero. This movie was hugely successful after its release and Downey was praised for his acting and his role as a superhero, which prompted the release of Ironman 2. For this challenge we thought it would be fun for the challenge to be to use something with Metal in your creations (a little bit of metal or alot of metal: this can be from sheets of aluminum, brads, bling, eyelets, metallic paper or ribbon etc.) Our guest designer this week is Jenny Peterson (Audrey winner from the Sleepy Hollow Cinema Challenge, with this gorgeous card). We can't wait for you to play along with us - here are our cards inspired by IronMan:

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie: Iron Man

I think my favorite part of the Iron Man series is watching the chemistry between Tony and Pepper... Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow or defiantly two of my favorites.. Robert can totally pull off the arrogant wealthy social-light and Gwyneth is so good at playing a strong but elegant women.

The little robot reminds me of Tony Stark's soft side.. He is forever taking Pepper Potts for granted and has to ask for her forgiveness. The 3 hearts are Tony and Peppers of course. The little metallic heart is Tony's Iron Man heart.. Pepper is always trying to keep all of Tony's hearts in check.. The color scheme is Iron Man inspired of course.. All the Silver reminds me of the FIRST Iron Man attempt..

WHAT A FUN CHALLENGE!

I was "NUTS" about it.

HOPE YOU ALL HAVE FUN!

Hugs,

Brooke

Sankari's Card inspired by the movie: Iron Man

I remember watching this movie and thinking that Robert Downey Jr. totally rocked the role of this Marvel comic book character Ironman - he was so good at the "dry" humor and more than anything, it was good to see him comeback from all the hard things he has gone through in his life. In creating this card, I thought I would make something inspired by Pepper Potts and IronMan - that they both say how they other is "all they have" - and so I thought I would make a little love card inspired by the "heart ring" that he has to wear in his heart. This is what it looks like:

and so I created my card inspired by that design and in the center of the heart I put a little flower inspired by the flowering love between Potts and Tony. The sentiment reads: "It's always been you":

The center of the flower has metal and both the black and gray are metallic sheets. It was fun to create a love card inspired by the movie. Can't wait to see what you create!!

Hugs,

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Guest Designer Jenny:

Well, this was a hard challenge for me!!!! I am an Iron Man fan, but to make a card using an action film as inspiration..tough! I decided to go with a bit of a love story twist! I thought there was major chemistry between Tony Stark and his assistant, Pepper Potts, so I made a card that I might give to my sweetie ;)

The metal id

ea was fun to base the card design around. I used tinfoil over CS and ran it through my bigshot using a diamond plate embossing folder. I used tons of brads , eyelets and metal stickers along with rhinestones and gold glitter and stickles. The sentiment is supposed to look like dog tags (army influence in the movie). I had initially made the card using more of a burgundy shimmer CS (more the ironman red), but it wasn't working for me, so I went with a brighter red. The robot couple obviously symbolize the robotics in the movie. Well I guess thats about it!!

Thank you so much Jenny for playing along with us this week as our guest designer - please check out her gorgeous creations on her blog and check out all the details for this super awesome creation that she made today!!! A big thank you to everyone who played along with last week's movie challenge: HIGH NOON - you guys are so amazing!!!

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Who's going to be our next guest designer? It could be you! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, 3D creation - that is inspired by the movie: IRONMAN and uses the challenge requirement to use metal in your creation. You creation can be inspired by anything in the movie, from the themes in the movie, to the dialogue, costumes, character, music, lyrics, quotes, events in the movie, furniture, time period - anything at all that inspires your creative "light bulb" to go on!! Please share with us - where you got your inspiration from because we love reading about your creative process!!!

You can post your challenge entry anytime from now till Thursday September 25th at 8pm CST! Can't wait to see your beautiful creations!

Big hugs,

the Cinema Sisters

Sneak Peek Friday

Hooray ya'll hope you had fun making a western card.. I know for both Sankari and myself it's totally out of our element. So what a fun challenge it was.. The highlight for me was finding out that we both used the same paper... "We are one soul" as Sankari has said to me from time to time.. Crazy how close we end up on challenges when there is so much distance between us.

This weeks Audrey goes to........Drum roll please...

Kristina over at Kristina's World.

We love all the little details you added to your western card.. The little Corduroy buttons, the lasso, Boot, the lonely stamp that finally saw the light of day again(love it... I have a few of those)the mini Marshal's badge etc.. We really loved the way all the elements came together to tell a little story...

CONGRATS!

This weeks challenge is another great challenge.. Go get that Mojo a going...

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Ya'll come back now ya here..

HUGS

BROOKE

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #95 - High Noon

Welcome everyone to our 95th Cinema Saturday Challenge, where this week we are featuring the 4 time Oscar winning movie: High Noon - starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. We realized that we had never done a "western" before and wanted to honor this genre with this amazing movie. According to Wikipedia: "in 1989, High Noon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" , entering the registry during the later's first year of existence. The film is #27 on the American Film Institute's 2007 list of great films." The challenge requirement for this is rather simple: to create a something that has a Western inspired feel.

*** If you haven't seen this movie, its really very powerful - some have called it one of the best Western movies of all time - one that tells a tale of civic responsibility without having frontier violence or tribes of marauding Indians. It tells the story of a lone marshall, who feels compelled by his duty to face dangerous criminals who come back to town to get rid of him at high noon, and as he turns to the town for help, everyone refuses him any assistance. This tale is one of internal struggle to do what is right, without any support from anyone - as you struggle with your own conscience.

Sankari's card inspired by the movie: High Noon:

This is one of my favorite all time movies - yes - you heard that right :)- I have watched this movie every year with my father ever since I was 15. My father loves this movie with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly and so it became a tradition after a few times that we would watch it together every year. The opening song: "Do not forsake me O my Darling" is forever stuck in my heart - this song is the FIRST Oscar winning song that is not from a musical! There is something about Gary Cooper asking everyone for help and no one comes to his aid that really inspires me because he has to face these men by himself. He didn't run away from the conflict - he faced it head on, alone - and that just makes me admire Marshal Will Kane. In making my card, I decided to focus on Grace Kelly's character Amy. In this movie, Will marries Amy - who is a Quaker and therefore a pacifist - she refuses to help him as he returns to town to fight the criminals but in the end comes to his aid. I don't want to ruin the end for you - but her appearance and what she does which is 100% opposite to her belief is what saves his life. Grace Kelly later on became a "real" princess as she married the Prince of Monaco, and so this card is a tribute to that - as well as to the fact that she is definitely brave and comes to help.

I am not a very good "western" card maker, but I had fun playing with pink and making it a pink western card :) I hope that you all will play along - I know that Western movies is not a favorite genre for all people, but I promise that this one is really amazing - one of my all time faves -

Can't wait to see what ya'll will make!

Hugs,

Sankari :)

This week we are joined by Toni - who caught our attention with her beautiful card from the Cinema Challenge: Annie. Check out her amazing creation for this week's challenge:

Toni's card inspired by the movie: High Noon

This was a hard one for me as not watching the movie all the way through before had me at a disadvantage, but Hubby came through with his rundown of the movie. He's a movie buff and loves the westerns. The main inspiration for me was my card being black and white like the movie so I focused on the black and white movie era, the sheriff's role and his show down with the bad guys:

Thank you so much Toni for joining us this week as our guest designer! We love how you incorporated the feeling of time in your card along with the western feel - the clock is shown so many times in the movie, as Marshal Kane has to figure out how he is going to face the criminals by himself at high noon - LOVE how you incorporated that and your glittery star in your creation! You can check out more details of Toni's lovely card on her blog here: http://cuppa-craft.blogspot.com/

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie: High Noon

First things first.. Holy Batman baby we used the same paper. LOL Believe it on not I haven't had a chance to check the cinema blog sense Sankari and I chatted about the movie last Friday. I remember she said she was going to use the phrase Princess Cowgirl or something but that is all I remember. When I came to upload my card I today I got a little giggle... We used the same paper... Great minds think alike right?

This classic western is easy on the eyes that's for sure.. Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly can we say ATTRACTIVE!

Classic old movies also feature the good ole' Harry Morgan (Col Potter of M.A.S.H.) and Lloyd Bridges.

My inspiration came from the classic colors of a western with a Princess twist. I can help but see Grace as a Princess in what ever I watch... In the movie Amy( grace Kelly) is most defiantly not a princess but a simple quaker girl.. She is totally against all violence and doesn't want her new husband Will (Gary Cooper) to be the Marshal anymore. It take the whole movie to convince he that the wishes of his wife are the way to go.

Join in the fun and create your card inspired by this weeks movie..

HUGS

BROOKE

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A big thank you to everyone who played along with last week's movie challenge: Sleepy Hollow! WOW, your halloween tree creations were amazing and you all created such beautiful spooky creations!!! We loved Jenny Peterson's Halloween creation - it felt so much like Sleepy Hoollow - especially with the horse riding in the woods---spooky! just like the Headless Horseman riding around!! Congratulations Jenny on being our Audrey winner this week and we hope that you will be our guest designer for next week's challenge!!!

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Who's going to be our next guest designer? It could be you! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, 3D creation - that is inspired by the movie: HIGH NOON and uses the challenge requirement to create a WESTERN card inspired by the movie in your creation. You creation can be inspired by anything in the movie, from the themes in the movie, to the dialogue, costumes, character, music, lyrics, quotes, events in the movie, furniture, time period - anything at all that inspires your creative "light bulb" to go on!! Please share with us - where you got your inspiration from because we love reading about your creative process!!!

You can post your challenge entry anytime from now till Thursday September 16th at 8pm CST! Can't wait to see your beautiful creations!

Big hugs,

the Cinema Sisters

Sneak Peek Friday

Good Morning Everyone!

This has been a crazy busy week as we get into the school schedule, but it feels so nice to be into a routine again :) The crispness of fall is starting to creep in around here and we are pulling out our sweaters and turning the heat on!!! I can't wait to start baking some pies! To get your cinema peeks going - here is a little clip of the movie we are featuring tomorrow:

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More sneak peeks to come!!!

Can't wait to see your guesses :)

SO happy its friday!!!

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #94 - Sleepy Hollow

Welcome Everyone to our 94th Cinema Saturday challenge where this week we are marking the change of seasons as summer closes and fall leaves appear with featuring the movie from 1999: Sleepy Hollow (starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci). This Oscar winning movie (for Best Art Direction) captures the Legend of Sleepy Hollow with a Tim Burton feel to it - no one can take you into a different realm or put an alternate spin on reality quite like Tim Burton! You can read the whole plot summary here. The challenge requirement for this movie is to use a Halloween tree in your creation - Sleepy Hollow is full of woods - so we thought it would be fun to use the Halloween tree element in our challenge requirement today.

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie~ Sleepy Hallow.

I saw this movie last year on t.v. for the first time and my first thought was WOW Christina Richi is so pretty as a blonde. She really has grown up. This was one of her big breakout rolls as a young lady and not as teen/child.. And Johnny is well Johnny in this movie.. There is somethings to say about a Depp/Burton movie.. You know it's going to be a little twisted and dark. The color in this movie are mesmerizing and has that same deep or should we say "DEPP" undertone that we have grown to love in the Burton/Depp movies...

If you are going into this movie thinking you follow along the same lines as the Disney store from 1949 then think again.. This has so much for DEPPth. If I was to create another card for this movie I think I would make a card with very sublet color and use more grey tones.. So many option for this challenge.. Enjoy getting in the Halloween spirit enjoy the show.

HUGS

BROOKE

Sankari's Card inspired by the movie~ Sleepy Hallow

First of all - A HUGE thank you to everyone for their beautiful birthday wishes and cards - you guys completely surprised me and I can't even begin to thank you for making my birthday so special - thank you Brooke for your beautiful wishes, for organizing the little blog party yesterday and for being my sistah-girlfriend - I feel SO lucky to have friend like you!!! A big highfive to Nancy K. for guessing that today's movie might have a little Johnny Depp flavor to it :))) Ha! You know us toooo well! I am not a scary movie kinda girl, but am willing to watch anything that has Johnny Depp in it :) The main thing that I wanted to create in the card was a feeling of the mist, and dark woods of Sleepy Hollow where the Headless Horseman rides - I wish I could have figured out how to add wispy white mists without smearing the card. I stamped and embossed the trees on a metallic silver paper and the bottom and top part of the card use black shimmery chunky glitter paper:

I LOVE Johnny Depp in this movie - really - he is SO Tim Burtonesque and brings a whole other dimension to how he plays and portrays Ichabod Crane. And Kristinia Ricci (wow! she is so blonde!) really shows the depth of her acting skills. I hope that you enjoy creating a card to this movie! The crispness of fall is in the air and I am so excited to get out our sweaters and go for some hikes (but definitely NOT in woods like the ones from Sleepy Hollow - LOL!!)

Hope you guys play along this week!!!

Big hugs,

Sankari

Guest Designer: Virginia's Card inspired by the movie~ Sleepy Hollow

"The western woods in Sleepy Hollow are very intriguing and oddly mysterious. The movie opens with a scene of Ichabod Crane venturing into them, unaware of the unexplained and eerie events that are about to take place. Therefore, I chose to focus on the tree scene and the haunting, enchanting atmosphere of the woods. I used the Hero Arts Scroll tree stamp and embossed the image in white.

Then I distressed the card with two colors of inks and misted it with gold glimmer mist. I finished the card with a bow with raffia as I think it is fitting for a fall theme. I also added lace for a feminine touch. Women's clothing was so much finer in detail and with lace in the 1800s. I hope you enjoy making a Sleepy Hollow inspired project as much as I did. This card is perfect for a Fall/ thinking of you theme (if not for Halloween)."

Thank you so much Virginia for being out guest designer this week. Your creation from Napoleon Dynamite was awesome and your creation for this movie is so beautiful - LOVE your gorgeous tree and card has such lovely rich colors and is simply beautiful! Virginia has created a lot of beautiful cards for this challenge - please check her out on her blog for more details and pictures and inspiration!

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THANK YOU SOOOOOO much for everyone who played along with last week's movie challenge: ANNIE - WOW! There were so many beautiful cards that you guys created and we were so blown away by how you incorporated the movie, challenge requirement and feel of the movie into your card!. We loved Nancy K's Hard Knock Life Chore Chart! (how clever is that?!) and we loved Janet Katz's "The Sun will come out tomorrow" card - WOW! One card that caught our attention was Toni's beautiful birthday card - that little girl - was just SO Annie - and we could almost hear her sing through the card! Happy Belated Birthday and Congratulations Toni on being our Audrey winner this week and we hope that you will be our guest designer for next week's challenge!!!

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Who's going to be our next guest designer? It could be you! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, 3D creation - that is inspired by the movie: SLEEPY HOLLOW and uses the challenge requirement to USE A HALLOWEEN TREE in your creation. You creation can be inspired by anything in the movie, from the themes in the movie, to the dialogue, costumes, character, music, lyrics, quotes, events in the movie, furniture, time period - anything at all that inspires your creative "light bulb" to go on!! Please share with us - where you got your inspiration from because we love reading about your creative process!!!

You can post your challenge entry anytime from now till Thursday September 9th at 8pm CST! Can't wait to see your beautiful creations!

Big hugs,

the Cinema Sisters

Sneak Peek Friday

Welcome everyone to our Cinema Saturday Sneak Peek Friday!

Today is our Sweet Sankari's Birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to our

SUNNY SANKARI!

May you day be full of Love and Sunshine.

Sankari is one of the most genuine, loving, beautiful, talented, smart, open minded, witty, AMAZING, wife, mother, Daughter, friend, lover of the color green, dancer, doctor(seriously), Lover and Genius user of Liquid Pearls and biggest fan of Jonny Deep you will ever know. The list is truly endless she is that amazing.

Today we have 3 fun activities planned today to celebrate

Sankari's birthday..

First our Cinema Saturday Sneak Peek's.

If this is your first time here on Cinema Saturday please be sure to check here throughout the day for all 3 sneak peeks. Then make your best guess of what you think this weeks movie we will be creating to on Saturday. Then be sure to come back Saturday morning and

CREATE with us.

Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek #2

Second We are joining in a HAPPY SANKARI blog hop.. Make Sankari a Birthday Card and when you post it on you blog link to hers HERE and our Cinema blog.

(If you would like to snail mail it to her please leave me your e-mail in the comments)

Third add the card here on Cinema Saturday so we can show your card off.

(I will get the inlinkz added really soon)

Thanks so everyone for making this a special day..

HUGS

BROOKE