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Welcome to all our new players and all our returning players! We are just blown away by everyone's creativity and love seeing all your creations! Please check out all the wonderful creations inspired by our movie pick from last week: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon:

1. Deb
2. Lisa
3. Amy
4. Mandy
5. Jaimee
6. Chris
7. Julia
8. Julian
9. Chicken Coop Stamper
10. Nellie
11. Cindy
12. Libby
13. Paula
14. Christiane
15. Susan Dube

These cards are all amazing and wonderful! Thank you to each one who played along! This week we were captured by Jaimee's beautiful card Ever Grateful. Her card a very powerful usage of color but yet she only used limited color. Jaimee had such attention to detail inside the card as well Jaimee, we hope you will display your Audrey proudly on the sidebar and link back to us. Thank you so much Jaimee and Thank you so much to each of you for playing along and commenting and being part of our movie challenge family! We are ever grateful for all of you!!!

Hugs and hope that each of you have a wonderful Valentine's day!!
Sankari and Brooke

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Welcome to all our new players and guessers and to all of our returning players and guessers. You all make this cinema challenge blog so much fun! You are all continue to amaze us.. Each week it just gets harder and harder to pick form all the amazing entries.. We also love you all so much that doesn't help either.. An NO we don't pick the winner based on LOVE... We could never choose just one Audrey INCONCEIVABLE you would all get one. Here is the sampling of all the LOVE we received this week hope you all enjoyed playing along.. We Wuv you all.

Samantha

Julia

Erin R

Carol

Amy

Stephanie

Nelliemaeii

Jen

Tina

Lori

Jennie

Laurie

Jaimee

Cindy

Michelle

Ananya

Maria

Brandi
Mandy
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Paula and Debi added their cards a little later than the deadline to be eligible for the stamps set :( but we would like to thank them for their absolutely beautiful cards!
Please check out their lovely creations!!

Paula
Debi

We wanted to thank each of you for playing along - its so beautiful to meet other movie fans and hear about your favorite parts of the movie and the inspiration behind your cards/layout.

This week had a sketch component to be eligible for Melanie's stamps and so our Audrey goes to Erin R. Your love card is beautiful and the inconceivable sentiment inside was just lovely. Please email me your address so that we can get these stamps out to you right away!

Thank you all who played along and we can't wait to see all of your lovely creations from this week's challenge!!!

Lots of hugs,
Brooke and Sankari :)

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We are so happy to welcome so many new players this week! We are so happy that you found us and hope that you had fun doing this movie challenge This week - you guys really blew us away with all of your amazing creations for the Wizard of Oz. Seriously stunning!!! Please check out all the beautiful submissions here:

Gina
Amy
Samantha(1)
Jaimee
Kelly
Samantha (2)
Melanie
Ann
Kim Marie (all 3 views)
Carol (1)
Juliann
Cindy
Fleur de Lis
Nellie
Maria
Joy
Tracy
Lisa Brown
Jaspere
Libby
Carol (2)
Lori
Arielle
Anthonette
Leonie
Tina


We loved all the treat bags (or shoes :) and loved how you incorporated the metallic element into your cards,layouts and projects. We were really captured by Kelly's Dare to Dream Wizard of Oz Inspired Card. We loved the elegant design, crisp lines and the inspired sentiment from the WOZ's song dreams really do come true. Thank you so much Kelly, we hope you will proudly display the Audrey on your sidebar. Thank you also to ALL of you participated!!! We loved all of your projects and loved seeing all the different inspriations from the Wizard of Oz in your card!

You are all an inspriation to us!

May all your dreams come true and may you find rainbows in every corner :)
Hugs to all,
Sankari and Brooke :)

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Happy Saturday Morning Everyone!!!

Wow - we were so happy to see so many new faces and welcome back some longtime players to this week's Cinema Challenge which was Casablanca. We loved looking at all of your beautiful creations! Please make sure to check out the awesome entries from this week's Challenge:


Stacy of Stacy's Stamping Stage - Dream a little Card
Jaimee of a Creative Soul - Beautiful Friendship card
Amy of Tethered 2 Home - Gift Tag for French Wine
Carol - of Inkantations and Incarnations: We'll always have Paisley
Kerry of KB PaperCraft - Always on my Mind, Forever in my Heart
Cindy of Paper, Pad and Pictures - Casablanca Inspired Tile Card
Savitri of Scarpbit - Love and Be loved Card
Tracy of Zukesgirl - A Kiss is just a Kiss Card
Sam/antha :) of Ryemillan's Stamping and Scrapbooking - Friendship Card

Ann of Creative Antics - Play it Again Sam
Sherrri - Rosesi in my Heart: A love Note - Casablanca style..
Arielle of Snappy Stamper: A Note - Casablanca style

There were sooo many amazing entries this week - we really enjoyed looking at each of them and admiring all of your beautiful Casablanca inspired creations!! BEAUTIFUL!! Tina of Travelling Mama, really caught our attention with her beautifully detailed and stamped creation: Casablanca Inspired Mon Amie card. The details of the card were beautiful and the tilework is just beautiful - you can see it in many of the scenes in Casablanca. The sentiment Mon Amie (or my friend) is so fitting as well - as this movie is about love and beautiful friendships. Tina, we are so happy that you could play along with us this week - and hope that you display your Audrey on your sidebar on your blog linking back to us!!

We hope that you guys enjoyed playing along to Casablanca and also guessing last night! (Don't know how you guys can guess on the money everytime with such small sneak peeks!!!) We absolutely love all of you who play along with us. Vicki gave us an the Kreative Blogger last week that we wanted to pass on to each of you!

Consider all of you tagged!!! You guys are all so creative and you inspire us every single week! Thanks to all of our new players - we hope you play along in this week's challenge!!

And that challenge... will be posted around 10am CST :) (sorry for the delay guys!)

We hope you had fun - and can't wait to see what you come up for this week!! This movie really lets the imagination run free!

See you guys soon!!
Hugs to all,
Sankari and Brooke

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Good Saturday Morning Everyone,

We are always so excited to see all your Cinema Inspired Creations!!! This week's movie Mama Mia, inspired so many wonderful and fun creations! Please check out all of our wonderful entries from this week!

Amy - If you knew my Emma - Notebook!

Sherri - Girlfriend Notepads!

Tanya - Mama Mia colors inspired card!

Carol - Dot Dot Dot -- Bling Bling Bling!!

Anthonette - Let's Save our Money Money Money!!

We really loved all your beautiful creations - we were especially struck by Samantha's Mama Mia Inspired: Follow your Dreams card. There were so many wonderful little details and textures to her card - and the lovely hearts on the waves and sentiment captured the whole movie beautifully! Last week, the Audrey recipient would not only display the Audrey - but also get their card featured on PaperCraftPlanet!!! So Sam - we would love it if you would upload your card to PaperCraftPlanet with the tag (cinemasaturday - one word) so that everyone can enjoy and check it out!

Thank you to all those who played along in our challenge - we truly love all of your creations and comments and love coming over to visit your blog! For all those who are joining us - come on over and play along - its simple, fun and full of possibilites as to what you might create from the cinema pick of the week!!!

The cinema pick for this week is on its way!!!
So stay tuned!!!
Big hugs and cheers to all!!!,
Sankari and Brooke

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Good Morning Everyone,

This movie: An Affair to Remember, is truly a GEM of a movie! For those of you who haven't seen this movie and would love to snuggle up and watch a witty, romantic, classy and classic love story - please check this movie out!!! It might be hard to find - but one good place to check it out might be at your local library. According to the Wikipedia, the American Film Institute has rated this movie as one of the most romantic movies of all time!!!!

We would also like to thank our guest designers for this week: Samantha for her beautiful creation: Boat Loads of Love and Anthonette for her beautiful creation: You Are My Love Affair to Remember. Thank you so much ladies for providing us with such beautifully inspired works of love!!!

We also enjoyed reading the stories that you shared with us about this movie - that was so special! Loved reading about your favorite scenes and favorite lines :) it truly is such a witty and classy movie :)

This week's Audrey recipient goes to Ann of Creative Antics for her beautiful An Affair to Remember inspired card: Pink Champagne!! This simple and elegant card totally captures the moments that Carey Grant and Deborah Kerr (Nickie and Terry) start to fall in love. What a great moment to capture in this card!! We hope you will proudly display your Audrey on your side bar and link back to us!!! Thank you so much Ann for playing along this week - we love seeing all your beautiful creations!!!

Please also make sure and check out Amy's beautiful card Heart Struck and Christianne's beautiful silhouette inspired An Affair to Remember card. Thank you both so much for playing along!!!! We totally loved them!!!

Lovely cards, lovely stories and lovely movie!!!
Thank you so much ladies!!!
We are inspired by you!

Stay tuned for today's movie release in just a short while!!!!

Holiday hugs and New Year cheer!!!
Sankari and Brooke

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge # 11 - It's a Wonderful Life

We are so excited to present to you Frank Capra's 1946 Oscar nominated classic: "It's a Wonderful Life"  for this week's Cinema Saturday Challenge. And even though we tried to trick you showing you a colorized pic of this classic black and white movie - you guys still guessed it. This picture that was colorized was made for a contest to colorized black and white pictures. The link for where this picture came from is here.

This is such a wonderful  and inspiring movie about love, friendship and the power that each of us has on making the lives of each other better and richer. This film was rated as the NUMBER ONE most inspiring film by the American Film Institute - that is pretty amazing! Here are some fun facts about It's a Wonderful Life from Wikipedia:

- the role was originally written with Cary Grant in mind

- this is Donna Reed's first starring role - Ginger Rogers was offered this role, but turned it down!

- Vincent Price was considered for the role of Mr. Potter

- This Christmas classic was filmed during a heat wave!!

- Frank Capra invented a new way to give the illusion of snow - before that they painted cornflakes white and dropped them!

Check out more fun facts here!

Okay - onto the cards for this week's Cinema Saturday pick!

Here is Brooke's Card: 

This is the Link that inspired me:

Clarence gets his wings...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrzjGCi3gY

I just love it when everything finally makes sense to George... He really get his sense of self worth. We realizes how many people love and respect him.  All the people in the town including his family are willing to make a sacrifice to help him out.. So the letter from Clarence just sums it up for me:

A true friend won't leave you when times are hard.. They rise to lift you up... I challenge you all to find someone how could use a little holiday cheer and earn yourself some wings..

Merry Christmas 

Brooke

Here is Sankari's Card:

I have so many favorite parts of this movie: the gym scene where they are all dancing, George and Mary falling in love, George meeting Clarence, George realizing his impact on all those around him and how the community comes forth to rally around them - but my favorite part is ZuZu's line "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings." Just love it - because she is just so darn cute, and George holding her with his family near the Christmas tree saying that always makes me smile - you can watch the ending of this movie with this scene in it here:

Even after seeing this movie so many times growing up - I loved watching it again - man - it is such a good movie. Jimmy Stewart is awesome and Donna Reed - is just so beautiful! My parents and I used to watch this movie growing up around the Christmas season - they are visiting us right now - and so it was fun to watch this with them and remember my childhood. 

I love the message that each of us has such power in all that we do and say and to never feel like we haven't made a difference. I just want to thank all of you that I have met through this site for inspiring and encouraging me - you guys are just too sweet!! Thank you so much for coming over here and playing along in our challenges - we have so much fun doing these and hope you do too!! Its so nice to be part of such an amazing blogging community and meet such wonderful artistes as yourself!!!

Sending you all a big cup of holiday cheer!

Sankari :)

So are you ready to play along now!! We hope so!!! What do you have to do to play along??

Create a card or scrapbook layout or altered project that is inspired by the movie: It's a Wonderful Life (it can be inspired from the movie jacket, the characters, the dialogue, the music, the costumes, the themes --- ANYTHING reallY!!) and then link your creation to us by commenting on this post. If you are using SplitCoast please use the KeyWord: CSCC#9 and if using PaperCraftPlanet - please use the Key Word -cinema saturday (all in lowercase)

 Link your creation anytime from now until Thursday, December 25, 2008  at 9pm PST!

Some special announcemnets 

Our Audrey winner from Last week's Challenge: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is: Amy from Tethered 2 Home. Check out her beautiful card called: Flying with Joy -  inspired by the snitch from the Quidditch games at Hogworts.  Congrats Amy - we love all of your creations!!! Also, next week's sneak peek is going to be a little tougher, created with Amy in mind, since you have always been the one to guess the sneak peek! !!

Also!!!

You might have noticed that we didn't post an Audrey winner from Challenge #9 - there were so many beautiful entries - we couldn't decide between all of them. Two cards in particular caught our eye: Anthonette and Samantha. Since we couldn't choose between them - we have asked them both to be our guest designers for next week's challenge and they have accepted! Thank you Ladies! We can't wait to see your lovely creations! Check out their beautiful cards inspired by the Sound of Music:

 

Anthonette'card:  Music is Love Card

Samantha's card:  Sound of Music Thank You card

Hope that all of you have a chance to carve out some time to play along during the holidays!!! Thank you for playing along in our challenge and for all of your sweet comments!!!We wish you safe driving if you are on you are on the road traveling during this time and we wish you a most wonderful Christmas and Season's Greetings! You are all very dear and special to us! 

Wishing you the very best!

Happy Holidays!

Sankari and Brooke

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 :)

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Thank you too all of you played in last week's Cinema pick: "Memoirs of a Geisha". What an amazing collection of cards we received this week. Serioiusly - you guys really made some amazing cards - every single entry esd just beautiful and once again very hard to pick just one card to receive the "Audrey Award". This week we were blown away by some of you who made more than one card. You all ROCK!!!

Thank you all for your excitement each week as we sneak peek on Friday - to the lovely comments on our challenge and personal blogs. We are so proud of all the challenge members who support each other.. Thanks for loving and supporting each other. Hats off to you all.

This week "Audrey Award" goes to:

Samantha Post aka(Rymilan)

Not only did Samantha make this AMAZING Kimono paper folded card. She made 3 cards!!! All of her cards are amazing (you have to check out her fan card also) but we couldn't get this card out of our minds. The paper looks so much like a silk Kimono worn by the Geisha's. The art of Origami is one of the most beautiful paper crafts ever. You all have to jump over to her blog and check out here beautiful, clean, elegant and detailed cards.. (there not all in the same posts) Congrats Samantha! Don't forget to display you "Audrey Award" proudly on your blog with a link to our So we can share our challenge with others.

Thanks to all of you who played along this week - you guys just blow us away! We really love doing these challenges and especially doing them with all of YOU!!!!

Hugs,

Brooke & Sankari :)

Audrey Award #3

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Our featured Audrey recipient for this week's challenge Tracy's (aka Zukesgirl). We hope you will display your Audrey on your sidebar. Please click on the photo to come over to Tracy's site and see her FAB! card. This card was really thinking outside the box or "Tree" as we might say. WOW truly amazing and creative. We loved all the texture and movement. And to top it off the tree opens up!! This was the part from the movie, where Jack finds the trees for all the holidays and opens the tree into Christmas Land. What a great idea for a card! You just have to hop on over and check it out. 

It's so fun to see what all your creative minds come up with. What an amazing group of crafters we have. Check out these beautiful submissions for this week's entries:

Stacy

Amy

Ann

Sherri

Nellie

Tracy

Arielle 

We hope you all had a great time with "The Nightmare Before Christmas" We both did. Hat off to all our gals who have been creating with us on all our challenges and haven't even see the movies..  YOU ALL ROCK! We are bound to hit a favorite yet!

Happy Saturday!

Love,

Sankari & Brooke

p.s. we are looking forward to all your :

"It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's what you do with your dancin' shoes." Creations... 

We hope you enjoy the show.

And the Audrey goes to...

Good Morning Everyone,

We wanted to thank everyone who participated in last week's Breakfast at Tiffany's challenge! You all made some truly beautiful creations! We were totally blown away by the creativity, beauty and fabulousness of your cards and layout! They were Audrey-lious!!! 

We wanted to recognize all of your beautiful creations and honor all of you for participating last week. Please check out the beautiful entries of the lovely creations from our second challenge:

Amy: Girly Pearlys,

Stacy: Watercolored Pretties

Christiane: Lacy Glittery Tutorial

Ann: Fashion Fabulous

Sherri: Hat-abulous

Olivia: Hat-astic

Nellie: Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

Marie: It's all about the Bling

Tracy: One Cool Kitty

Becky: Tiffany Wishes

Daphne: Floral Bouquet Purse

Anthonette: Gorgeous Thank You

Our featured Audrey recipients for this week's challenge are Catherine and Chloe. We hope you will display your Audrey on your sidebar check out their beautiful creations: 

Catherine's Seriously Fabulous dress

Chloe's Flower Adorned Pearls

We hope you all had fun creating and enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany's and hope that you will join us for this week's movie pick!

Hugs to all!

Brooke and Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #2

YAY! Welcome everyone to our second challenge, where we are thrilled and excited to present to present to you: Breakfast at Tiffany's.  

Audrey Hepburn is such a legend and an icon and we are so excited to do this cinema challenge honoring her and her role as Holly Golightly in the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, which is originally a novel by Truman Capote. She was nominated for an Oscar in the category: Best Actress in a Leading Role in 1962 for this role and the movie went on to win 2 Oscars. According to Wikipedia: "Audrey Hepburn's portrayal of Holly Golightly as the naive, eccentric socialite is generally considered to be the actress's most memorable and identifiable role." (you can read the rest here).

There was so much to inspire us from this movie but we both drew inspiration from Audrey's dress from the opening scene, where she emerges from a taxi and strolls to the window at Tiffany's & Co. eating a pastry - isn't this dress just gorgeous! Look at all the lines and curves and pearls and diamonds! Love this opening scene! 

How could we not be inspired by all of these elements together? 

Here are our cards and you can find details of those cards on our blogs. 

Here is Brooke's Cinema Saturday Inspiration card: 

You can find more details on Brooke's Blog (click HERE)

Here are Sankari's Cinema Saturday Inspiration Cards: 

All details can be found on Sankari's blog (click HERE)

So are you ready to play?!!!  Create a card, layout, altered project anything and link back to this post anytime from now until Thursday at 9pm PST. Leave a comment on this post with a link to your blog post or gallery. If you are uploading to Splitcoast please use the keyword CSCC#2 (all one word). We can't wait to see what you have created!!!

And now we would like to present a special award that we are calling THE AUDREY for those submissions that wowed us from last week.  We wanted to present something kind of like an Oscar, but instead we created our own and we are calling her the Audrey :) 

We were really blown away by the creativity and beauty of all the submissions from last week's Pride & Prejudice Cinema Saturday pick and had a hard time choosing from amongst all the entries. 

Two creations that caught our eye was thi

s beautiful textured card created by Nellie and this beautiful gratitude journal created by 

Sherri. We hope ladies, that you will proudly display The Audrey on your blog sidebar with a 

link to Cinema Saturday. Thank you so much for playing along in our first challenge!!!

Creating this challenge site and being able to meet such amazingly beautiful artists has just been fantastic and we are excited for all the infinite creative possibilities with these cinema challenges :)

Need more inspiration? Here is a trailer from Breakfast at Tiffany's that you can watch here. 

Thanks so much for coming over for a visit!!

Can't wait see your beautiful creations!

See you at the movies!

Sankari and Brooke :)