Here for Speed Scrap #1
 

Hi everyone our first ever speed scrap will be starting in an hour :hooray: I can’t wait are you all ready to scrap :scrapbooking:

I will be posting the instructions here in this thread so stay tuned :surf:

Here is the wonderful participation prize from Kellybell Designs that we are all playing for :thanks: Kelly

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...st_sampler.jpg

The speed scrap will start at
1pm CT
2pm ET
11am PT
7pm GMT

There will be 5 instructions in total to follow the first will be posted on the hour, the second at quarter past, third at half past, fourth at quarter to and the final on the close of the hour. Then you will have 4 hours to finish your layout and post to the gallery and relevant thread to claim your prize. If you join us late don’t worry that you missed the start you can still play :) just get follow the rules for your layout and get it uploaded before the deadline, which is as follows

5pm CT
6pm ET
3pm PT
11pm GMT

If you missed the entire speed scrap why not treat it as a weekly challenge we would still love to see your layouts :yes:

Have fun everyone :yeah:
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Instructions

1. We are celebrating May Day today in the UK, May has 3 letters in its name so I want you to use 3 photos and 3 papers at least one must be patterned. Remember your layout has to have a Disney theme :)

2. Overseeing all the May day celebrations is the May Queen. In honour of the May Queen select one of your photos to frame in some way.
http://mylondondiary.co.uk/2008/05/1...0517-d0080.jpg

3. It is tradition on May Day to dance around the May Pole to celebrate the end end of winter and the start of the fine weather. The dancers hold the ends of long ribbons to dance around the pole, weaving them into intricate and complicated patterns. Add as many different types of ribbons as you would like in your layout but cluster them together to represent the maypole ribbons being wound together.
http://peggyluwho.files.wordpress.co...ledancing2.jpg

4. Here in the UK it is thought that on May day young girls rushed out to wash their faces in the morning dew so add something sparkly to your layout.

5. The May Day celebrations welcome the arrival of the warmer weather and the time for planting seeds. New plants and flowers are blooming everywhere so add some plant life to your layout, flowers, leaves, petals you decide. These can be stamps, stickers, shaped buttons or brads or actual flowers/ leaves.

That’s all the instructions - you now have 4 hours to finish up, add title work if you haven't done so already, journaling and dates if you wish and shadows and anything else you feel your layout is lacking and then post to the gallery and the relevant forum thread.

Hope you enjoyed this speed scrap as much as me :)

I'm here counting down until 2pm EST:whistle:

I can't wait to get started. I just hope I can get it complete with picking up kids at 2 different schools and then taking them to swim lessons afterwards. But I have my laptop ready to go...

One question, is it 4 hours from start of the first instruction until layout has to be completed and posted, or 4 additional hours after the last instruction is given?

Oh, this looks so exciting! I'm so ready for this (just need to unzip some new iNSD goodies to play with). And thanks for that long finish time - this will take off so much of the pressure!

hi i'm here cant wait to try my first speed scrap

Hi Kelly and Robin :wave:

Glad you can be here.

Robin you have 4 hours total from first instruction to the end. So an hour of me giving instructions then 3 hours to finish up. I hope that gives you enough time it sounds like you have a busy afternoon ahead :)

Hi Gill and Laura thanks for joining us :)

I'm here :wave:

Surfing while I'm waiting but will keep popping in

i may have to jump in and out as DH will need feeding at some point

Hi Andrea :wave:

No probs Gill :)

How fun!!! I've been so excited for this!! :hooray: Wow....great PP!! :thanks:

Thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I have to leave to pick up DS at his school just after the 4th instruction, then head over to DD's school to pick her up and take both to swimming. But I have my laptop and the EHD all ready to go so hopefully I can get it mostly done in the first hour and finish/post while they're in their lesson.

I MUST HAVE THAT CUTE PP, SO I WILL GET THIS DONE! (That's what I keep telling myself. :D)

Hi Kelseyll :wave:

Wow thats a packed schedule don;t just hate it when life gets in the way of your scrapping :lol2: I keep thinking I should get a laptop so I can scrap on the go :scrapbooking:

I worked out a deal with my boss so I could join in this morning. Any tips for us newbie speed scrappers? What should I do to get ready, how do I warm up? :D

Wow you have an understanding boss :lol2:

Ok to warm up you should do some finger limbering up exercises so that you can move that mouse super quick :D just kidding.

This is just meant to be fun so no real pressure but you could be having a browse through your photos and deciding which ones you want to get scrapped and have a look and see which kits you have that work well with those. Think about a good page title for thos pictures and what journalling you will write if required :)

Ok i'm here and I have my expansion drive with all my scrapping stuff plugged in and ready to go. Really looking forward to this!! :)

Hi Ruthie glad you could join us :)

Only 15minutes to go :woohoo:

I'm here and so excited to start. :yeah: :scrapbooking:

Hi Cheryl glad you could make it :wave:

I'm here too...gonna give this a try for the first time :yes:

Cheryl

Thats great glad you could make it Cheryl :D

Woo-hoo! Sorry I can't play along here at work, but I'm still very excited about this!

my daughter will get off the bus in the middle of this too. so should i hope that she's actually willing to use the potty? or hope not so i can scrap? lol

she still needs help and we can't seem to go through the potty routine in less than 20 minutes.

well i searched though 2 boxes and found 3 cd's labeled disney vacation. to bad, the photos on there are not the photos that I remember and love. those i guess i have to go through each cd from a year that we went to disney to find :(

honestly though, i don't have any disney photos that are as beautiful as those i've seen here. my photos were 5-10 years old when they were scanned, and they were taken originally with a cheap camera. oh i love my digital camera's photos!

OK get ready we are about to start now going to post first instruction I'll be adding it to the first post and then posting it here :)

I'm here!!! I'm here!! How exciting. MS's first SPEED SCRAP!!!

That's actually how I got into digi scrapping. I got bored sitting in the car while DD (who's turning 3 next Monday) napped. So I started bringing my laptop out to the car with me. I missed scrapping and wanted to do something productive during those couple hours... and the rest is history. :D

Its so much fun glad you are able to check in from work :yeah:

I honestly don't know how I managed before I had my digital camera. I want to scrap photos from when DH and I first got together and I first met me stepdaughter but we barely have anything we just didnt really take photos back then.

Hi Britt :wave: so glad you could join us

Thanks for the tips! I got my pics picked out and found a couple kits. I also grabbed a slimfast for quick energy and did some jumping jacks to get my mind awake :lol2:

Yipee!!! I remembered!! Ready for the first-ever MS SS!!! :yeah:

would 3 photos of staying with friends & also visiting their boat, while we were at disney be disney ish enough?

i have photos on this cd that have disney characters in them but i want to scrap the others with either 1, 2, or 6 photos on the page when i use those photos. so i'd rather not use them for this particular challenge.

yeah, newbie being difficult lol

I never paper scrapped I always wanted too but never had the resoruces or the space I was so happy when I found digi scrapping just can't believe it took me this long to find my passion :D

3 photos...hmm the ones I really could do with scrapping seem to be the only ones I don't have a kit for ! lol.

Think I'm gonna need these 15 minutes just to decide on the pics :whistle:

Thats fine just go with what you feel - no pressure we just want you to have fun :)

way to go :thumbsup:

Just wanted to say 'hi'! :wave:

I'm here! Going to start looking through my pics now!

They don't all have to be different, so if you want to use the same photo 3 times or crop it differently thats fine too :D

:wave: hi ladies

This is so exciting I can not wait to see your layouts :hooray: