Weekly Challenge #116 (12/28/2011 - 1/10/2012)

[Jojo]

Welcome to the Weekly challenge which is one to celebrate! We’re celebrating a lot this time of the year. Right now we’re celebrating my first time as a challenge host!! (I was super excited about it!!) And like you know, I’m a CT girl for Patty and her store opens on the 30th of December. And off course we have the New Year celebrations! (which I’m going to spend in Disneyland Paris so you’re going to miss me for 4 days in this challenge (12/30 – 2/1). But I’ll do my best to get online when I can during those 4 days.) And because of all those celebrations, we have an extra week for this one! So to make a really good start in 2012, I inspired my instructions on all those celebrations!

The instructions

- Since it’s the beginning of the new year, and the opening of Patty’s store, I want you to use something new in your lay out! Something you just bought as a Holiday gift to yourself, or something you’ve had all that time in your stash, never used before! It can even be a technique you wanted to try for a long time! When you post your LO here, please make note of what was new for you.
- We’re going to the year 2012 so I want 12 different elements on your page. You can repeat some and add more, but at least 12 different ones (if the same element is in a kit in different colors, it’s a different element for me)! (It’s a hard one, I know)
- I want to see some sparkling or bling! It will stand for the fireworks we will watch when we say 2011 goodbye.
- I love to blend. So I want you to blend one picture in a method of your choice in your LO.
- Because we all want to cut down some bad habits in these periods or just change something in our daily routines to take a new start, I want you to do something you don’t do that often with your journaling/dating. I want you to do the exact opposite of what you do normally. If you journal a lot then try to make a page without any journaling or only a date. If you don’t date your pages normally, try to do it this time.
- And because our family gives the Christmas/holiday presents on New Year’s Eve (apart from this year because I’m off to Disney of course) I want you to give some presents too. Give love to at least 3 other participants of the challenge! We all like gifts and love! Post links to the 3 LO’s where you left your love together with your LO (you can add the links later of course)

Here’s my page with the instructions. But when I’m back from my trip (on 1/2/12) I will make a new one. I just need the pictures of New Year’s Eve this year for the LO that I have in mind to fit the challenge even better! But for now this is my first example:


and here's the example I got in mind earlier.


I didn’t had the time before to make a LO with “My toes are cold” from Britt-ish Designs, which I bought at black Friday. So that was my new product. And I journal most of the time, but I don’t date that often, so I dated my page this time.

When you’ve completed this challenge, I can provide you with a nice PP donated by Patty! This PP coordinates with the kit “Light up the sky” which she will release when her store opens!


Please, keep the usual rules in mind:
* Your LO needs to be Disney themed
* Don’t use a quick page to make your LO.
* Your LO needs to be posted with proper credits in the Weekly Challenges Gallery by midnight Tuesday, January 10th.
* Add your LO to the venue/attraction/character threads in the MouseScrappers forum.
* Come back to this thread and post your layout and leave a link to your LO in the gallery AND a link to where you posted your LO in the venue/attractions thread. And the links of the 3 places you left love.
I hope everything is clear for everyone. Otherwise, just shoot your questions and I’ll answer. But keep in mind that I won’t be able to answer that much between 12/30 and 1/2 ! Have fun with the challenge, and I wish everyone the best for 2012!

[Saar]

Great challenge Jolien. Thank you for hosting.
And that PP is awesome! Thank you Patty.

[tukogirl]

Fun Challenge! I think I might actually be able to play along this week, yay!!

[cmtscrap]

Fun challenge and cute prize. I should be able to do this one since I have taken the week off.

[Nanie Scrapper]

What a fun filled challenge and awesome pp prize! I hope I've covered everything. I used Bling Papers I've been saving for something special in my layout Lots of Elements and plenty of Bling which is my favorite thing in a layout!!! Blend... got it
I always Journal so for this challenge I changed it up and let Tinkerbell add the Date for me



Also posted in Forums here:
http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...?t=2931&page=5

[renatasluis]

nice pp, maby i have time when i am back from disney with new pictures

[tw1717 - EEYORE FAN]

Here is mine:


Kit was new to me, and I had never really blended a photo before that I liked...

[jemmls4]

I used a blending technique I learned in an online class for the large photo...it really helped because regular editing made the people too dark or the sky too white. There are sparkles on the charm under the twine but it's kind of hard to see them.

I am all over the map with dates and/or journaling, but I haven't journaled around the edge before as I did here.




Love left here...

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...hp?photo=22465

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...hp?photo=22459

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...hp?photo=22421

[withnuts]

The new thing in my layout is this amazing kit that was a Facebook freebie from Kellybell Designs. I just LOVE it! It also provided the bling for the layout. I blended a photo of fireworks into the background. There are 12 different elements there, but they may be difficult to make out. I don't usually add a date to my layouts.



Here are the places I left love:

http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...hp?photo=22459
http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...hp?photo=22449
http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...hp?photo=22421

I also posted in the forum here:

http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...2014#post92014

[Wahoomrm]

Thanks for the challenge, Jolien. I hope your Disney trip was great!
Normally my titles are pretty bland, so I wanted to try something different. I used 2 techniques in my title. The first was using a clipping mask from one of the papers to form the word "Dumbo". The 2nd technique was using a horizontal type mask for the various "Fantasyland" words.
Your last instruction was to leave love. There were 3 layouts for this challenge so far and I've left comments here:
http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...hp?photo=22230
http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...hp?photo=22232
http://www.mousescrappers.com/photos...hp?photo=22233

Here's my layout:


Forum: http://www.mousescrappers.com/forums...1123#post91123