Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #55 - Hocus Pocus

Credit: Elements of the challenge banner was created with Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun Digi kit from the Sweet Shoppe Designs.

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Welcome to our 55th challenge - where this week, we are going Halloween with the 1993 movie: Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Katy Najimy. This movie was released by Disney and although it did not do well in the box office, it became a cult classic to watch on Halloween! The story is about the Sanderson sisters who are witches and the curse that brings them back to life.

THe challenge requirement this week is pretty simple:

Make something Halloween-y!!!!

Brooke's Card Inspired by the movie: Hocus Pocus:

What a cute Halloween Movie "Hocus Pocus" is .. We have loved this movie forever... We took our oldest child to this movie 16 years.. he was not even a year.. We were babysitting a bunch a cute little friends and they all loved it... I LOVE Bette Midler she is soooo perfect for this movie she really knows how to go over the top with this one.. What a talented gal she is...

I have a little give away over on my blog this week so be sure to stop by and leave me a little message...

Thanks for joining us this week

and

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Hugs

BROOKE

Sankari's Creation for this week's Movie:

Hi Everyone, I am off to a wedding this weekend and left Iowa to travel all the way to Maryland and am SO excited to see my friends from highschool :) My usual Friday night Cinema card making did not work so well this week as I am away from home - but I am hoping to get a card made in the next couple of days - but in the meantime, I wait to see your Hocus Pocused Halloween creations!

Hugs to All,

Sankari :)

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Thank you all to who played along with us for the movie Finding Nemo!!! You guys sure make it hard to narrow it down - seriously - you all are amazing!!! One card that caught our attention was Regina's card: You're One of a Kind! What a unique layout and love the way you did the colors! We hope you enjoy your blog candy and that you join us next week as our guest designer along with Nancy. A HUGE thank you to all who played along with us!!!

SO are you ready to play along this week?! All you have to do is to create something Halloween-y inspired by the movie: Hocus Pocus and link back to us!

Please link to us by Thursday, November 5 at 9pm PST

(when did it already become November!?!)

We can't wait to see your awesome Halloween-y creations!!!

You always amaze us with your creativity!!!

Cheers!!!

Hugs to all,

Sankari and Brooke :)

Sneak Peek Friday

Hello ladies! A huge THANKS to Taylor for being our SUPER STAR this week and being soooo generous with you time, talent and stamps! And a HUGE thanks to Juli for being our guest designer... We love you both...

Here is the first sneak Peek.

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Sorry I have been missing to day.. My Mother -in-law is visiting and we have went to lunch and went quilt fabric shopping... We had a great time!

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#3

I think we are in for a late night... I haven't made my card.. We are making an Amy Butler "Birdie Sling Bad" Tonight... I miss sewing.. It's been so fun lately to get back into it...

#4

All most finished my bag... Yahoo.. I am soooo loving it.. Off to make my card... Hello it's midnight..LOL

See you all in the A.M.

HUGS

Brooke

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #54 - Finding Nemo and Yummy Blog Candy :)

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Welcome to all of our new players and guessers to our Cinema Saturday Challenge! Every week we pick a movie from which to draw inspiration from in creating a card, layout or altered creation. This week we are excited to feature the movie Finding Nemo for our Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge! (Did you like the sneak peeks and the sneak peek reveal!?!) Our dear Brooke has been very sick recently - so she is resting right now - please send her some love! We are also excited that our Audrey winner from last week Juli is joining us this week along with a very special guest designer: Taylor VanBruggen (yippeeee :)! I love working with Taylor as part of her Baker's Dozen Design Team and Brooke and I are thrilled that she is joining us this week and giving away some yummy blog candy (more about that at the end). Taylor's movie pick was for the movie Finding Nemo and the Challenge requirement this week is a color challenge that Taylor picked out: are the above four colors: navy blue, turquoise blue, an orangey prawn and white as a neutral! Finding Nemo won an Oscar in 2004 for Best Animated Feature! One of my favorite descriptions of the movie is its tagline: 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water. That's a lot of space to find one fish! Love it! And we hope you will love playing along with us! And to make it a little sweeter - there is blog candy involved!!!

BLOG CANDY did you say!??!??!!

Taylor is giving away YOUR choice of the newest holiday stamp sets that have just been released from Taylored Expressions as blog candy for this challenge!!! HOW yummy is that???!!! Thank You SO much Taylor!!!

Sankari's Card Inspired by the movie: Finding Nemo:

I am so excited to play along for this challenge - I love this movie but I was really stumped for what to make and then I thought about the different themes of the movie: father/son, friendship, finding courage, letting go etc. and the one theme that I loved was just the essence of the father and son relationship that through everything their love was for "always". Marlin's adventure to find his son Nemo is so amazing and inspirational - that no matter what the odds, you will do anything and overcome anything for love! I was inspired by the journey and so I created a card with little fishes jumping out of the ocean with the words "me and you - always" for the sentiment.

here is a closer peek of the fishes :)

All the papers, fishes, frame etc. is digital - you can check out my blog for more information :)

I had so much fun playing along. A huge thank you to Taylor for the yummy blog candy and for being our guest designer! Woot!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Taylor's Card Inspired by the movie: Finding Nemo:

Taylor has always been an inspiration to me with her awesome style and amazingly beautiful creations! This week she has created this most amazing card with her awesome clear favor circles to make a little virtual fish bowl! So awesome!!

I'm so excited to be the special guest designer for the Cinema Saturday Challenge today! When Sankari asked if I'd be interested I knew right away what movie I wanted to use for inspiration! I'm a sucker for animated movies and Finding Nemo is one of my absolute favorites. I just love that little fish!

This is simply such a beautiful card!!!

Please check out Taylor's blog for more details of her lovely creation!

Last week, our Audrey went to Juli for here sweet card that captured a father/son moment of Mrs. Doubtfire and this week are happy that Juli has joined us as our guest designer:

Juli's Card Inspired by the movie: Finding Nemo

Here is the inspiration from Juli: My first thought for "Finding Nemo"was the love of a father for his children, which reminded me of the "Mrs. Doubtfire" Challenge two weeks ago! But that image is so 'two weeks ago'! heehee My next thought was the same stamp set, but the image of the little boy building a sand castle. This image reminds me not only of the beach and the sea, but also of the 'home' Nemo leaves behind in search of adventure. Then I thought about a clown fish made out of punches. So how to incorporate the two ideas? Why a birthday card with a 'gift' attached - a clown fish jumbo clippie bookmark!

I went to the Disney "Finding Nemo" website and looked at gallery pictures there to try to re-create a clown fish for the clippie bookmark. I like the outcome, and it got thumbs up and smiles from my kids too! Thanks to Taylor for the color combo challenge - I always enjoy trying new color combinations, especially when they are still inside my comfort zone! THANK YOU Sankari and Brooke for awarding me the Audrey Award, and giving me the chance to be a guest designer this week! I look forward to seeing everyones creations...ENJOY!

Thank you so much Juli! You can check out more info on Juli's blog

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And a huge thanks to all of you who joined us last week to play along with Elizabeth: The Golden Age :) We loved peeking at all of your lovely creations!!! We truly appreciate you playing along with us and the best part is - seeing your interpretation of the movie :) We loved Nancy's lovely creation - the blue reminded us of her beautiful dress and the crowns were beautiful! We hope you will join us next week as our guest designer and hope you will display your Audrey on your blog! A huge thanks to everyone who played along with us! You guys ROCK!!!

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So are you ready to play along this week!!!!!! Well, all you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project etc that is inspired by the movie: Finding Nemo with the following colors:

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!

Please link to us by Thursday, October 23rd at 9pm PST

We can't wait to see your awesome creations!!! You always amaze us with your awesome creations!!!

Thank you Taylor for the yummy blog candy!!!

Happy Swimming!!!

Cheers!!!

Hugs to all,

Sankari and Brooke :)

Sneak Peek Reveal

This week's movie is: Finding Nemo!!!

Here are the sneak peeks from this week's movie :)I didn't want to sneak peek any water scenes so went with the scenes from the doctor's office :) hope you had fun playing along guessing :)

Sneak Peek Friday - Let the Guessing Begin :)

Good Morning Everyone, 

Its time for our Friday sneak peeks, where we show a snippet of the movie that we are featuring tomorrow and see if you can guess it :) (which, I know you will because you guys are simply a-m-a-z-i-n-g!!!) Brooke is the one who usually does the sneak peeks because she is awesome! but she isn't feeling very well (please stop by her blog and show her some love :) so I am stepping in :).

Tomorrow, we have two guest designers, our Audrey winner from last week and a special person who I had a chance to meet recently :) YAY! So to start of the sneak peek guessing, here is our first sneak peek:

Sneak Peek #1:

Sneak Peek#2:

Sneak Peek #3:

Here's the third peek! Can't wait to see what you think! We just finished lunch and are off to run errands - hope you are having a fabulous friday!!!

Will be back later this afternoon with another sneak peek!

keep those guesses coming!!!

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #53 - Elizabeth - the Golden Age

Welcome to our 53rd challenge where this week we are featuring the 2007 Oscar winning movie: Elizabeth the Golden Age with Oscar nominated actress Cate Blanchett. This is an AMAZING movie full of amazing color, amazing costumes, amazing cinematography about the rule of the Virgin Queen: Elizabeth. For this movie challenge - you can play with either this movie or its prequel: Elizabeth (another amazing movie with amazing cinematography!). According to Wikipedia, this movie: Elizabeth the Golden Age"won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and Cate Blanchett received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Blanchett was an Oscar nominee for Best Actress for Elizabeth as well." We hope you enjoy playing along with this challenge!

This week's challenge requirement is to use a

crown somewhere in your creation.

It can be a little crown, maybe a crown in your DP,

or bling or anything at all!

Get your royal on!

Sankari's Creation Inspired by the movie: Elizabeth the Golden Age

There was something so captivating about the first movie Elizabeth - there was something just lovely to watch with the amazing costumes (wow - the details are simply lovely) and the same in the movie Elizabeth the Golden Age. I just loved the cinematography and colors and the sets, costumes were like eye candy. I adore Cate Blanchett in these movies - she is an amazing actress - and the strength of character, emotion, vulnerability under the strength and beauty are simply lovely to watch. I am in LOVE with this dress/costume that Elizabeth wore and so i chose it for my card inspiration. You can kind of see the scoring that I did on the top to mimic the dress: (this picture comes from Grace Magazine)

I chose the sentiment: "Anything is Possible" because I felt that is how she ruled - she created possibilities and roles that were not thought possible.

I loved making this card because I was watching the movie as I made it and love making cards when everything feels like it comes together :)

For more details - check out my blog!

I hope you have a chance to play along with us this week!!!

Can't wait to see your creations!!

Hugs!

Sankari :)

Brooke's Creation Inspired by the movie: Elizabeth the Golden Age

For the challenge this week I decided to make a piece of jewelry inspired by the Queen. So instead of cutting scoring paper I was digging through my gems and findings then polishing silver.. I really enjoyed making this piece. I decided to include a little angle to watch over the queen as she make decisions for her country... It wouldn't be royal if it didn't include gems and precious metal.

Come visit me on my blog for a little family History and pictures of Queen Elizabeth..

Hugs

Brooke

Beverly's Creation Inspired by the movie: Elizabeth the Golden Age

Please help us welcome Beverly - who was our Audrey pick from last week for her diva lovely card for the movie challenge #51 All about Eve: Divas are not made they are born - this week she brings her lovely royal creation:

Thank you so much Beverly for being our guest designer this week - you can check out more details of her lovely card here!

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And a huge thanks to all of you who joined us last week to play along with Mrs. Doubtfire :) You guys are simply awesome!!! It was just so much fun peeking at your lovely creations (I apologize for not commenting on everyone's cards - last week was a little busy for me - but I hope to leave comments this weekend :) We truly appreciate you playing along with us and the best part is - seeing your interpretation of the movie :) We loved all the surprise elements of your cards - from books, to tags, to a mini kits - so awesome! Our attention was caught by Juli's simply sweet card of a father with his child - and about Robin Williams character's love for his children. Juli - we hope you will join us next week as our guest designer and hope you will display your Audrey on your blog! A huge thanks to everyone who played along with us! You guys ROCK!!!

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So are you ready to play along this week!!!!!! Well, all you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project etc that is inspired by the movie: Elizabeth the Golden Age (or even the prequel, Elizabeth) with some element of a crown in it (the crown can be a brad, in the designer paper, something small or something big - whatever you would like!) 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!

Please link to us by Thursday, October 15th at 9pm PST

We can't wait to see your ROYAL creations!!! You all are simply the best!!! We love seeing your weekly creations and hope that you are having fun while crafting!

Next week we have a very special guest designer joining us - along with a very fun movie!

Stay tuned and see you at the movies!!!!!

Cheers!!!

Hugs to all,

Sankari and Brooke :)

Sneak Peek Friday

Good Day to you all! Thank to all who wished us Happy Anniversary.. We are so happy to have you all create with us.. How lucky are we all to have a little place in the world to express our creativity with other fabulous people that share our same love..

Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek #2

Sneak Peek #3

See you all soon

Hugs

Brooke

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #52 Mrs Doubtfire

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

Happy World Card Making Day!!! And to celebrate this week we are featuring the 1993 movie: Mrs. Doubtfire (which has been a popular movie to guess during the Friday Night sneak peeks for so long - that we decided that we should do it!!!!). This Oscar winning movie (for best make up) is the inspiring love story of a father for his children and how he figures out ways to take care and be with them. It is a wonderful comedy and such an inspiring movie of love, family and laughter.

We posted the sneak Peek pictures on the last post.. Enjoy.. Don't forget to check them out.. Here

Challenge Requirement:

In honor of World Card Making Day - we thought that we could do something fun for a challenge requirement: Create a card with a pocket or tag or create a project etc. of something that can be opened up. This movie is full of surprises as Robin Williams changes from one disguise into another - and so we wanted to have that same element of surprise in our challenge requirement! So how you want to create a pocket, tag, etc. is up to you! We can't wait to see your surprise card elements!

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie Mrs. Doubtfire:

(What a fun surprise that my colors matched Sankari's banner..)

First of all.. HUGE HUGS to my Sunny Sankari... I remember getting an e-mail from the cutest girl ever saying she was going to call me.. I missed her first call :( My DH told me that a girl named Sankari called and I was a little giddy and nervous... We had chatted online and e-mail for a while but never on the phone... The SECOND I heard her voice there was no turning back I fell in love with her forever.. Sankari has become one of the dearest friends in the world.. We had such a instant connection. We rarely talk for less than an hour, and can talk for multiple hours no problem... Most of the time it's in the middle of the night...lol.. We will meet face to face, well person to person someday... I am tall and ALWAYS attract short friends... he,he... I can't wait to sit down with Sankari and her family and have a good Curry... You are to bestest in the mid- westest... I love you to death...

What a great movie... You root for Daniel(Mrs Doubtfire) the whole time.. But on the same hand you totally understand Miranda Hillard(Sally Fields) character and why she is feeling the way she does.. Unfortunately for some people they don't know what they had or how good they had it until they lose it.. In this case it's family... The transformation from man to nanny is sooo funny... Harvey Fierstein's voice and personality cracks me up... You have to love it when you are a man going to a man to be made over as a women..

Some of the lines are so stinkin' funny..

Funny lines:

"It was a run my fruiting" (when Mrs Doubtfire through fruit at Stu's head while at the pool.)

"My first day as a women and I am already having hot flashes"...( Boobs caught on fire while cooking)

Funny scenes:

I love it when Mrs Doubtfire is getting mugged and she/he beats the mugger up... How about when the dentures fall out into the glass.. Or Mrs D talks to Stu in the man voice when the family is out to dinner.

I had a ball watching this movie. It had been far to long.. I hope you all have a great time watching and creating to it...

I have loads of pictures on my blog... Come visit and please say hi..

Hugs

Brooke

Sankari's Card inspired by the movie Mrs. Doubtfire:

Awwww! I came to write my post and saw Brooke's sweetest message! Awww! I wuv you too! I still remember our first phone conversation - it was amazing that we talked for hours and still felt like we had only been talking for a couple of minutes. And B, I canNOT wait to meet someday! And I can't wait to meet all of you someday too!!! Isn't blogland magical!! :) I think my favorite part of making my Cinema cards is talking to Brooke - Friday night while we make our cards - well, I guess technically more like the wee hours of Saturday morning! lol! It's always so nice to know that there is someone else making a card in the wee hours of the morning! For today's Mrs. Doubtfire card, I wanted to make an apron card in honor of Mrs. Doubtfire's apron (although I didn't make it very prim and proper, :) I created two little pockets in the apron for a little tag message - one that reads: Magically Delicious (in honor of Robin Williams character Daniel's attempt to transform into Mrs. Doubtfire - and the other sentiment reads: Let's Get together (in honor of his determination to keep his family together - even as he and his wife figure out how life after divorce).

This movie is simply hilarious (seriously the last scenes in the movie had me snorting laughing!) and more than anything - it gives me a feeling of being grateful for the blessings that we have, the importance of laughter and leaves me inspired to always see the silver lining in every situation!

You can check out my blog for more details :)

We can't wait to see your fun surprise pocket cards!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

We are so excited that our Audrey recipient

from last week Barbara Mattson joins us

this week as a guest designer!

Barbara's Card inspired by the movie Mrs. Doubtfire:

You're a Blessing...in Disguise! In the movie he would do anything to be nearer to the children. By the end of the movie the kids realized no one else could fill his shoes. He may not have won back his wife but he did get his kids support. The card takes on the Home Made love. The tag pulls out to read "No one can fill your shoes".

Please check out Barbara's beautiful blog for more details!

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And a huge thanks to all that played last week - we are so psyched to see your beautiful creations!!! And a huge welcome and hugs to all the new players that joined us!!! One card that caught our attention was this lovely creation by Beverly called Diva's are born. Beverly, we would love it if you would display your Audrey on your blog and join us next week as our guest designer! Thank you again to all who played along!!! You guys are our inspiration!

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So are you ready to play along this week!!!!!! Well, all you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project etc that is inspired by the movie: Mrs. Doubtfire with some element of a pocket, or tag or something that opens up - 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!

Please link to us by Thursday, October 8th at 9pm PST

We can't wait to see your lovely creations!!! A huge thank you to all of you for playing along with us!!! You seriously are so sweet and wonderful - and we are always so excited when you play along and join us! Its you guys who have made this challenge so fun for us!!! You guys ROCK!

Cheers!!!

Hugs to all,

Sankari and Brooke :)

Sneak Peek Friday

Welcome to our 1st anniversary.... It feels like we have been a creative family for a lot longer than that... We are so glad you have joined us this weekend to help us celebrate...

Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek #2

Sneak Peek #3

See you all tomorrow..

Hugs

Brooke & Sankari