Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #73- Sense and Sensibility

Welcome Everyone to our 73rd movie challenge where this week we are featuring the movie Sense and Sensibility which was nominated for 7 Oscars and won for best screenplay adaptation by Emma Thompson, who also acts as Elinor Dashwood in the movie. This movie is simply a beautiful love story, not just of romance, but also the love of family and the love of sisterhood. If you haven't seen this movie yet, and you also love Jane Austen and period movies - you will absolutely love this movie!!! The challenge requirement for this movie is to create a CAS card (which stands for clean and simple because this movie has tones that are muted and simple and elegant lines - so have fun creating a card that is simple and clean and is inspired by the themes in this movie!! You can watch the trailer for the movie here:

And you can also watch it on Youtube in 14 different parts, just click on this link and it will lead you to the rest of the movie. We hope you enjoy this movie and the challenge requirement to make a CAS card which can be however you feel your creation is clean and simple and is Inspired by the movie! Here are our cards inspired by this movie:

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie: Sense and Sensibility

Ok those of you who know me know I LOVE period movies.... So I was over the moon to make a card about Sense and Sensibility. In this movie I probably relate to a mix of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.. I was the oldest of 4 girls, always did the right thing and was reliable and dependable I even had a few little trinkets that I would hold onto that belonged to one or two somebody's special.. But as I get older I find I have the same qualities but with the spunk on Marianne.. It just comes with age I guess..

I {HEART} the costume of this time period... The colors and wall papers are simple but elegant as well. When I saw this pattern paper I new it would be a perfect match for color and design.. I then though I needed a simple but elegant ribbon to represent some of the activities like hat haberdashery(hat making) and needle work ladies would do all day if they were privileged. Finished by a simple but elegant button that might be found on there clothing or shoes.

Don't forget to stop by and leave me some love.. I have a little surprise about some of the actors in this movie you might like to know about..

Hope you enjoy one of my all time favorite movies...

Hugs,

Brooke

Sankari's Card inspired by the movie: Sense and Sensibility

I don't know how many times I have watched this movie - it must be over 50 times - its just beautiful to watch it again and again. I love this version with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet and Hugh Grant the best. My card was inspired by the dresses that Elinor wore - I love the dark rich blues and muted earth tones that she wore and I was imagining the flower as something that they would wear in their hats.. The sentiment reads: "To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides" and is inspired by the scene where Edward declares his love for Elinor and the love that they both have felt for each other but have had to hide in their hearts due to different circumstances - finally has a chance to shine through - it is such a sweet moment and Emma Thompson's acting is so real in that moment - I get a wee bit teary eyed every time :) sigh...

I simply adore this movie, it just has so many sweet little love stories within it and I loved Alan Rickman as Col. Brandon - and the way he cares for Marianne just always touches my heart. I hope you will play along with us to this beautiful movie!

You can check out more details on my blog :)

Big 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: Sense & Sensibility! The inspiration can come from the costumes, the dialogue, the music, the themes, the characters - anything at all from the movie!! **** The challenge requirement for this movie is to create a CAS card (which stands for Clean and Simple) that is INSPIRED by the movie!

Please link to us by this Thursday, April 8th by 8PM Central Time! and we will announce the Audrey winner on Friday with sneak peeks for the next movie!

Can't wait to see what gorgeous works of art that you have created!

Big hugs!

the Cinema Sisters!

Audreys, Cinema Inspired creations and Sneak Peeks :)

Happy Friday Everyone!

Hope you had a great week and didn't have too many pranks played on you for April Fool's yesterday! I am sorry to not have invited Mr.Linky to join us this week - I had to take a bit of a break from blogging this week as it was Spring Break for my kids and I took being "internet-less" for a wee bit as a sign to take a tiny blogging break :) I put up Mr. Linky and added all of your fantastic creations to it and it was pure delight this morning to read all of your sweet comments, see your gorgeous projects and creations!!!

Thank you all for playing along with us - you made us so hungry with your delectable creations! It was so much fun to hop around and see your "Julie & Julia" inspired creations. Please check out these Cinema Inspired Creations below:

This week Maureen caught our attention with this beautiful recipe card! It is just so sweet and

lovely! I hope that you will check out her blog for more details of this sweet card! What a great idea on how to use recipe cards!

And no, you are not seeing double! I didn't have time to post the Audrey from last week, which goes to Carol for using the dress that Jennifer Garner had on in the movie "13 going on 30" for her card!.

It is such a clever idea loved the use of color and use of the geometric shapes :) Hannah's leg warmer card was so sweet, we loved Kathy's

"dream big" card and Shaz'sbirthday card inspired by the ads

Jennifer Garner created. We loved peeking at all of your fantastic fun creations of the 80's and loved the retro look (I somehow feel suddenly old to think that the 80's is all of the sudden a retro look!!! what?!) We can't even thank you enough for playing along with us each week and creating with us on this movie inspired card adventure :))) You guys are just the best!!!

Tomorrow we have a lovely movie and a fun challenge (which is a total challenge for me :) but I know will be refreshing to try :)))) We hope you will join us and play along tomorrow - but here is a sneak peek that our lovely Brooke has come up for all of you sleuths out there!

Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek #2

Sneak Peek #3

Big Hugs!!!

the Cinema Sisters

Challenge #72 - Julie and Julia

Welcome Everyone to our 73rd movie where this week we are featuring the Oscar nominated movie from 2009: Julie and Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. This story unfolds Julia Child's story of her passion for cooking through her recipes from her first book: The Joy of Cooking! The challenge requirement for this movie challenge is a really simple one: Anything having to do with cooking that is inspired by the movie!

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie: Julie and Julia

We are HUGE foodies at our house so I was excited to finally see this movie.. Julia Child is one of the first chefs I can remember watching on t.v.

What a project Julie Powell took on with her cooking blog... After a weekly Cob Salad lunch date with friends, Julie Powell was tired of feeling like a second class citizen. Julie wanted to find something she was really good and share her story.. She created a blog to document her journey cooking ALL the recipes in Julia Child's cook book. I think she bit off a little more that she could chew to say the least.. This adventure even jeopardized her marriage. She said that Julia gave her life purpose. Amy Adams did a sweet job portraying Julie Powell. It was so delightful to get a glimpse of Julia Child's live. She was so adorable.. I was disappointed in the end of the movie though I felt like the story didn't have a lot of closure. Defiantly worth the watch though.. I watched the movie on Netflicks instant download.

Stop by and say HI!

Enjoy the show

Brooke

Sankari's Card Inspired by the movie: Julie and Julia

I remember watching Julia Child's cooking show as a kid with my mom and it was amazing to watch Meryl Streep transform into Julia Child - she is seriously my favorite actress - just amazing! I loved the way the spliced the two Julia's lives together and although I do wish it had a bit more closure as well, it left me feeling inspired that I can cook! So I created this little recipe card holder in a nugget box of all my favorite dessert recipes. I was inspired by how they complied all the recipes and tried it out - so here are all of my tried and true recipes that are a quick make when you are in a pinch for time:

I am always running out of ideas for quick snacks and desserts that are healthy for the kids and that I can easily make for their snack day at school: so I printed out a few of my favorite quick recipes and altered this little nugget box with some rubons to not only house the recipe cards but to also be the holder while I am baking :) I love how quick and easy it was to make!

So inspired by the movie - I am making a big dinner tomorrow night - and you are all invited!! Will let you know the menu soon!

Can't wait to see the creations you have cooked up!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Amy's Card inspired by the movie: Julie and Julia

This week, Amy Park from Tethered2Home, joins us as our guest designer from her Audrey creation for the movie: Dear Frankie with this Seahorse card that tied in the map challenge requirement with one of the symbols in the movie! Check out this amazing creation for this week's movie!

I adored the movie 'Julie and Julia', which I saw on GNO. The three of us came out of that movie wanting to make Duck, Beef Bourguignon, and generally, just lick a pound of butter. For my creation this week, I made a Meander Recipe Book. The Instructions for the Meander book can be found on You Tube here. I thought that since my 10 year old daughter is finally asking about cooking (it wasn't her thing before) that I would start an easy recipe book with some of her favorites.

We would make it, & add to the book each week. We'll see how that goes, I have a feeling, she might just say, "let me know when you've finished the cooking". lol. Thanks for the fun inspiration this week!

Thank you Amy for being our guest designer and for this lovely treasure! Check out this and more at Amy's blog!

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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: Julie and Julia! The inspiration can come from the costumes, the dialogue, the music, the themes, the characters - anything at all from the movie!! **** The challenge requirement for this movie is to create something having to do with cooking that is inspired by the movie!

Please link to us by this Thursday, April 1st by 8PM Central Time! and we will announce the Audrey winner on Friday with sneak peeks for the next movie!

Can't wait to see what gorgeous creations you have cooked up!

Big hugs!

the Cinema Sisters!

Sneak Peeks, Audrey Winner and Cinema Inspired Creations

Good Morning Everyone!

Its Friday and we are so happy! The Audrey winner and Cinema Inspired creations are going to come later today but here is a little sneak peek to get you started!!! (Brooke is the master sneak peeker - but here is my attempt!!! lol!!) Will come back with another sneak peek soon!!

Sneak Peek#1

Sneak Peek #2

Big hugs,

The Cinema Sisters :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #71 - 13 Going On 30!

Welcome to our 71st challenge, where today we are featuring the fun film: 13 Going on 30 starring Jennifer Garner. This is a story of a 13 year old who is desparetly trying to fit in and wishes that she were older and on her birthday she gets her wish to be 30. And she finds that perhaps sometimes, what you wish for, might not be what you really want. This is a fun movie with lots of odes to 80's music from the likes of Pat Benatar, Vanilla Ice, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and more!). The challenge requirement this week is to create something that has some geometric shapes (like stars, circles, squares, trangles (you could have a lot of fun with your punches :) the 80's were full of fun loud geometric prints - so have fun! Please check out this awesome link for a ton of inspiration pictures from this movie! Here is the trailer that you can watch to get your mojo going:

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie: 13 Going on 30

The movie 13 going on 30 is really a sweet reminder that the grass is not always greener on the

other side. If I had a chance to go in to the future I would not take it.. I want to love everyone for who they are and not have any information good or bad to

chance the way I would treat them. I know that might sound corny but I have though about that

multiple times.

If I could go back in time and re-live a moment that would be another story.. Not that I would

change anything. Just enjoy the moment again. Matty played my Mark Rullalo is one of my

favorite things about this movie. It just proves sometimes we can't even see what's at the end

of our noses. He is so thoughtful and sweet. You can't help but love him.

If you want to read all the details about my card and the inspiration please join me on my blog

and read my NOVEL (sorry) about it..

Please say Hi :)

HUGS,

BROOKE

Sankari's Card inspired by the movie: 13 Going on 30

I remember watching this movie in the theater when it came out and I loved watching it because I grew up in the 80's - so all of the references, music, and little "jokes" were something that i totally got. One of my favorite parts of this movie was when she asked her mother if there was something that she wished she could do over again - like if she had made some mistake and wished she could re-do it. Her mother gave her such a beautiful answer I thought - which was that those moemnts give us an opportunity to figure out how to make things right. This movie I felt was about sometimes what we think we wish for might not always be what we really want and its about a chance to be true to ourselves.

My card is inspired by her friendship with her best friend Matt - whom she realizes, she has always loved but never given him a chance. Their childhood friendship is so sweet and he truly sees her for who she is - a wonderful, happy, caring and beautiful person. Sometimes, we can take for granted our friendships and our family because you know they will always be there for you - but it is so nice to make sure they know how much you appreciate them! This card is for one of my best friends and even though we have grown a bit far apart over space and time - she will always be one of my BFFs :)

Pop on over to my blog for more details!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

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So who's 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: 13 Going On 30! 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 for this movie -is to use some sort of geometric shapes (this could be from stars, to circles, triangles, octagons, etc).

Please link by to us by this Thursday March, 18th by 8PM Central Time and we will announce the Audrey winner on Friday with sneak peeks for the next movie!!!

Can't wait to see your 80's geometric funky creations!

Big hugs,

the Cinema Sisters :))

Cinema Inspirations, Audreys and Sneak Peek Friday

Happy Friday!

Thanks so all our player this week. We hope you all enjoyed the movie "Dear Frankie" and the challenge. We had such a great time making our cards for the movie. We were even surprised how close our cards look like each other.. It was as if someone had sent us the same supplies and this is what we both came up with. We loved seeing all of your mapped out creations of gorgeousness! So beautiful how each of you incorporated that into your cards so differently! Check out this week's inspired creations! Thank you to all who played along!

Our Audrey this week goes to Amy for her Seahorse card We absolutely were floored by Amy's

Seahorse creation this week! The seahorse motif is such a sweet symbol in this movie and what a clever idea to incorporate that with the map! Amy also showed how she did it in Illustrator! Thanks so much Amy for playing along and for creating such a clever and gorgeous card! And a huge thank you to all of you who played along - a big welcome to all our new players and to all of our returning players! It is so nice to see you all and visit with you in blogland!!

We hope you enjoy this week show.. But for now here is our first sneak Peek!

Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek#2

stay tuned for moreeeee!!!

HUGS

the

Cinema Sisters

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #70 Dear Frankie

Welcome to our Cinema challenge where this week we are featuring the movie: Dear Frankie! As much as we love the big blockbusters, we also love featuring movies that might not be that famous but are just amazing! If you haven't seen this movie - you MUST! It is just a gem of a movie! Seriously - this is one of the most heartwarming movies that we have both seen - you will fall in love with it! We don't want to give away too much, but the reason the challenge requirement is to use a little bit of a map is because Frankie (the little boy) keeps track of his father's voyages on a map. We can't express enough - how beautiful of a movie this is --- it is full of love stories (the love between a mother for her daughter, the fierce love of a mother for her child, the love that grows between two strangers and the love of a "father" for his son) - its just beautiful! We know you will love it! Here is a trailer of the movie for you to enjoy:

Hope you will play along with us!

Brooke's Card inspired by the movie~ Dear Frankie

I love foreign films. I really don't have a problem with accents distracting me either.. When we came across this amazing love story a few years ago... We totally fell in love with it... Mind you Gerard Butler was not the big star he now is in the U.S.. This move touches you in so many ways. The Love that a mother has for a child, whether it's a grown up child (mother & daughter) or a small child (mother & son). Learning to open your heart and make room for others can be so healing. Children can work miracles and Frankie is so trusting and loving...

My inspiration starters for this movie are 4 very important parts in the movie.. First the map and all the places Frankie marks showing where his da's ship is traveled to using little red flags. Second the Stamps collection Frankie and his da(mother) are sharing with each other.. Third the letters that Frankie and his da(mother) are writing to each other. Last the hearts are showing the love that is to be when you open your live to new love.

This movie is a MUST see. You will not be disappointed only lifted up by watching "Dear Frankie"

Stop by and say hi!

Hugs,

Brooke

Sankari's Card inspired by the movie~ Dear Frankie

The first thing that I want to say is that if you haven't seen this movie - you MUST see it! I can't express enough - how beautiful of a movie it is - so sweet. I remembered loving it the first time I saw it but honestly, after having children - it pulls at my heart strings even more - and I totally relate to how fiercely Lizzie protects her son Frankie and only wants the best for him. Seriously, even more in love with it :) For my card, I was inspired by the map that Frankie keeps of his father's voyages and how he tracks his adventures. When he finally meets his "father", he has such an instant connection to him - he doesn't want him to go... and from there I created the sentiment: I'd Follow You Anywhere":

I printed off a map of the Scottish seas/lochs and used that as my background and also punched out hearts with it and added a trail of buttons on the hearts. As Brooke said: This movie is a MUST see - its such a gem of movie - you will love it!

You can hop on over to my blog to read more details of this card :)

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

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So who's going to be our next guest designer? It could be you! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project, etc., that is inspired by the movie: Dear Frankie! 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 for this movie - is to create something with some bits of a map (you can use map paper, or digi paper, or map of the internet).

Please link by to us by this Thursday March, 18th by 8PM Central Time and we will announce the Audrey winner on Friday with sneak peeks for the next movie!!!

Can't wait to see your mapped out creations!

Big hugs,

the Cinema Sisters :))

Audreys and Sneak Peeks :)

Happy Friday Cinema Fans :)

Hope your work week is coming to a close soon and you are heading for a weekend of relaxation! We have a sweet movie picked out for tomorrow's movie challenge, but first we wanted to take a minute to give a shout out to all you who played along - thank you so much for creating such lovely collage creations - we just loved reading where you got your inspiration from - and loved the different techniques that you used to create your collage creations - from the One Sheet Wonder technique, to creating a collage with different quotes, or creating a collage from different embellies and stamps - they were all so wonderful!

Since our participation was a little low this week, we didn't want to have a cinema roundup (it just didn't seem very fair).

Our Adrey this week goes to Shaz for this lovely scrapbook page that she created for her father - using the collage requirement with the sweet pictures of her father - she really captured what a wonderful father he is and the sweet themes of family, fatherhood and love from the movie! Thanks so much Shaz, we hope that you will be our guest designer next week and a huge thanks to everyone who played along! Tomorrow's movie is just so heartwarming (oops, have I said too much? :) and here is a little sneak peek to get you started:

Sneak Peek #1

Sneak Peek #2

Sneak Peek #3

Be back soon with some more sneak peeks!

Hugs,

the Cinema Sisters :)))

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #69 - Dan in Real Life

Good Morning Everyone and Welcome to our 69th Challenge movie challenge which is Dan in Real Life! This movie is a heartwarming, very true to life story a kind of "drama-dy (that word was invented by Tori Wilds, who is sitting next to me at my copic class right now :) of the love of family and love. Simply so sweet - and we hope you like it! The challenge requirement this week is to use some thing collage-ish in your creation - because family sometimes is a collection of different people, journeys, emotion, relationships - we thought this would be a fun challenge requirement!

Sankari's Card inspired by Dan In Real Life:

I am at a Copic Class today and sadly, my last minute-ness didn't let me make a card - but I can't wait to get home and make one - love this movie and can't wait to see your creations!!

Brooke's card inspired by the movie: Dan in Real Life

Welcome to one of my favorite movies girlies... I actually wouldn't watch this movie for quite a long time... Because of Steve Carell.. I just going to say it.. I don't really care for the t.v. program "The Office" It's painful to watch... My Sweetheart ordered this movie on Netflicks and so I consented and YA!! I was in for a great surprise... This movie has a great case Juliette Binoche is so Beautiful. You will really enjoy this movie I promise.. It is so easy to relate to wether you are married or not, have kids/teens or even sibling.. This movie has great Family dynamic in this movie..

If you have ever dropped by my blog the soundtrack will sound very familiar.

My inspiration came from one of the funniest lines in the movie.

DAN~ This Corn is just like an Angel..

I also wanted to share the Love that Dan and all his family has for each other.. And how much they need and support each other... Even in moments of craziness.

Have fun with this movie...

HUGS

BROOKE

This week we have a wonderful guest designer: Laural-Lee, who joins us with this beautiful creation! Laural-Lee received the Audrey for the Movie Challenge: Tristan and Isolde with this beautiful gatefold card.

Laural-Lee's Card inspired by Dan In Real Life:

“Love is not a feeling, Mr. Burns. It's an ability.” There’s a point in the movie where Dan talks to Marie about this and Marie points out that Dan’s daughter is gifted because she has a strong ability to love Dan. That got my wheels turning. There are many days when I don’t feel very loving. In fact, there are days, when I think I’d rather be out digging ditches than at home with my three kids trying to ‘survive’. I argue with them (as calmly as I can of course :) because I love them and I’m trying to point them in the right direction. I listen to them (or at least try to) when they have something on their mind. I encourage them to keep practicing their reading or spelling or music lessons because I see how their accomplishments give them confidence. I persist and I dig deeper inside myself to find patience, kindness, and forgiveness because I love them. After that long thought, I remembered that it’s not only me. My hubby does the same.

He can be so patient with them in areas that I am not. He is able to teach them certain things that I don’t think to teach them. Since I’m human and not perfect, he’s takes over the loving and nurturing when I’m completely tapped out. It was with these fond thoughts of my dh that I decided to make him a Father’s Day card. He may not say the ‘L’ word often but the kids could never doubt his love for them through his actions.

On another side thought, this movie made me realize that I am blessed because I am able to love. It’s so hard to believe (and so sad) that there are people out there who are unable to love. While loving my children might not always give me warm fuzzies and goosebumps, it is reassuring and rewarding to see them learning how to love.

Thank you sooo much Laural-Lee for being our guest designer!! LOVE this gorgeous creation of yours!! Simply beautiful - and the sentiment is perfect!

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So who's going to be our next guest designer? It could be you! All you have to do is to create a card, layout, altered project, etc., that is inspired by the movie: Spider-Man! 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 for this movie - is to create something that is collage-ish! Maybe a grouping of diff. embellies or sentiments, or images... whatever you think!

Please link by to us by this Thursday March, 11th by 8PM Central Time and we will announce the Audrey winner on Friday with sneak peeks for the next movie!!!

Can't wait to see your collage creations!

Big hugs,

the Cinema Sisters :))

Sneak Peek Friday

Ok We still haven't forgotten LOL.

Sankari and I have been making cards/projects and on the computer the WHOLE DAY...

We recruited a few helper to judge the Audrey's this week.. We had a few guys help us out.. Don't you think that is appropriate sense it's a Spiderman movie..

And this weeks Audrey goes to:

Amy Park

Way to swing you way into the hearts of our guest judges!

Check out Amy's card here on her blog.

We had really great cards this week girlies..

Thanks for joining us...

See you in the A.M.

The Cinema Sisters

We are working on a few really great release project for a Blog Hop tonight..

So don't forget to check out our personal blogs this evening. We would love to have you HOP on by..

We will be back later tonight with the Audrey winner.. Don't worry..

We have a really great movie for you all tomorrow... If you just got a really HUGE load of fresh snow like we did here in UTAH (rude we had such a warm sunny day yesterday. We were even done with winter coats) then cuddle up next to you best snuggler and get ready for a new movie...

Sneak Peek#3

Sneak Peek #2

Sneak Peek #1

Stop by later for a few more sneak Peeks..

Have a great day..

HUGS

BROOKE