our first challenge

[eagles]

i got some idea's from another site.

make a scrapbook page using a brown background. themed whatever you choose.

at least one each of the following elements must be included:

ribbon

button

frame



challenge will be open from jul 19 for 1 week, ending jul 26.

does everyone have these items? or do we have to buy them? is this okay to start with? or would anyone like to change this?

 

[Disneyfalcon]

I love it! That's a great first challenge.
I think 7 days is good. Thursday to Thursday. But I can do whatever.

 

[eagles]

LOL i just realized i don't have any buttons i like, i have only a couple, and they are not right.

i guess i might have to go shopping! hehehe

(like i need another reason)

 

[ljs1691]

Brown printed or brown solid background? What size are we using or does it matter?

I'm going shopping tomorrow after lunch so I'll be picking some things up since I have no buttons.

 

[eagles]

for our first challenge, no it must not be solid, patterned or textured, if just fine, but brown must be the main color.


and i must admit, this is harder than i thought it would be for me anyway. i think i have an idea of something, but i have changed now at least 3 times. lol

i think for me the hardest part is going to be incorporating the ribbon, i have never worked with ribbon, even with traditional.

 

[mouselvrmom]

I'm having a hard time with the ribbons and buttons, too. I've never used them before. But I'm almost done with my page! I was so excited that I started working right away. But, darn it, I forgot we had to have a frame! Back to my page! :lol:

 

[Coree]

I love this idea and I'm going to try and participate. I'm in party-planning mode for my daughter's second birthday so we'll see whether this one works or not. If not, I'll be on board for others in the future!

 

[eagles]

I'm having a hard time with the ribbons and buttons, too. I've never used them before. But I'm almost done with my page! I was so excited that I started working right away. But, darn it, I forgot we had to have a frame! Back to my page! :lol:

well i think i have the frame with a pic, but can't work the ribbon in there. and i am not sure my background is really brown! LOL it looks oranging (sp).

 

[mouselvrmom]

well i think i have the frame with a pic, but can't work the ribbon in there. and i am not sure my background is really brown! LOL it looks oranging (sp).

You're doing digital, right? It must be hard getting ribbon in digital- unless you have a ribbon function or something? Are you able to just download all of your backgrounds and other elements you use on the page? I guess I just don't get how you have all of that neat stuff on the page. :lol:

 

[eagles]

You're doing digital, right? It must be hard getting ribbon in digital- unless you have a ribbon function or something? Are you able to just download all of your backgrounds and other elements you use on the page? I guess I just don't get how you have all of that neat stuff on the page. :lol:

i have been shopping just like going to the store, except i shop online. i buy scrapbook kits, again, except mine are digital.

there are ribbons, some are already curled, but for the page i am trying to work on, curling would not look right. so i have just a strip that will lay flat.

all the digital scrapbook kits come with exactly the same things you would get from a paper scrapbook kit. papers, frames, elements, some have words or letters.

digital scrapbook is almost just like traditional paper, except i don't use paper, i use a mouse and computer screen and photo editing program. everything i do on here i could do in traditional (if i had all those kits in paper).

but right now i have another problem! my mouse just died! so this would be like your scissors just fell apart. LOL

i hope that all made some sort of sense.

 

[mouselvrmom]

That does make sense! Thanks for the little tutorial. Now I see how it can be just as expensive as regular scrapbooking! So can you use the different things, like ribbons etc that you get in a kit over and over again, though? That would make it a little bit more economical.

 

[eagles]

That does make sense! Thanks for the little tutorial. Now I see how it can be just as expensive as regular scrapbooking! So can you use the different things, like ribbons etc that you get in a kit over and over again, though? That would make it a little bit more economical.

oh yes! that is a magor plus, i can use them over and over again.


(cough cough ahemmm i haven't yet, i keep buying new ones :lol: )

 

[eagles]

well my mouse did not die, it was just resting, needed a new battery. hehe

i finished my layout! for me, that was hard. putting all those things into one layout really had me going. and i think using a brown background was difficult also.

so for me, this WAS a challenge.

should we post as we finish? or do we wait til thursday at the end of challenge?

 

[Disneyfalcon]

I was wondering the same thing. You started it eagles so you can decide!

I haven't even started. I'm still trying to finish a few contest entries that are due on the 31st. Hopefully I'll still have time to do this one. If not I'll definitely be in for the next one!

 

[eagles]

ok since we all might not beable to post on the last day of a challenge, then i say post as we finish.

so here is mine. its simplistic, but was difficult for me.

 

[Disneyfalcon]

Wow! I really like that eagles!

 

[eagles]

try this again

 

[eagles]

Wow! I really like that eagles!

you can see it? i deleted it. hmmm. it keeps coming out huge here. i am trying to resize it to fit here. haven't had problems with other ones. any ideas?

 

[eagles]

i'll try one more time. hope it works.

 

[Disneyfalcon]

I could see it the first time! But it's gone there now. Either way, I like it!