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Everyday I see few more new entries for the “Scrap Your Favorite Movie” challenge (Challenge01). Scrapbloggers are so creative! As of today, we have nearly 50 entries for the first community created challenge. WAY TO GO!!! So I wanted to inspire you to get in on the fun. The Scrapblog Team and I will be judging the challenge on July 19th. You don’t want to pass up the chance to win!

Here are a few that have really caught my eye so far. Enjoy!

Almost Famous by Ilyana

August Rush by Roban

Girl Interrupted by Anna-Viktoria

We are always looking for more ways to have fun here at Scrapblog and recently, some of you have been chatting on the forum about creating some challenges. Little_m asked me to add a special section to the forum called “Challenges” and there you can post challenges, chat about what you are working on and generally get inspired.

The first challenge posted has been titled “Scrap Your Favorite Movie.” You can get all the details by checking out the thread Challenge 01.

Personally, I enjoy going to the movies, I think the challenge for me would be to keep my brain from wandering to thoughts of popcorn, dancing candy and reclining seats. As I got totally lost in my movie daydreams I remembered that I recently saw a scrapblog about just that - the movies!

Joe B’s at the drive-in

HOWEVER, this challenge is NOT about GOING to the movies, it’s a challenge to create a scrapblog about your favorite movie. Little_m kicks off this challenge in her usual, uber-creative style. Check out her favorite movie, The Swan.

Hey everyone! I’m Rhonna Farrer. Thanks for joining us this week at Scrapblog for a fun challenge! Have you ever noticed that life gets so busy that it’s hard to enjoy what you are doing. It’s hard to enjoy the NOW?

I challenge you to: enjoy the pRocess! In your life NOW!

Scrap your life NOW! Stop & ’smell the roses’…focus on the things in your life right NOW that you enjoy!
With Scrapblog it’s so easy to crank out several beautiful pages.

So, how should you begin?
1. Get all your photos in order. Are you going to scrap your family? friends? roomates? significant other? pet? What is going on in your life NOW?
2. Pick a color scheme & visual theme. Something that will enhance your story. Something that will remind you of your life now..fave colors; fave designs, etc.
3. Create an entire album/book of your life NOW.
what are you doing now?
school?
age?
likes/dislikes?
family?
job?
pets?
With my new 3 themes, it’s going to be so fun to use the quick scrapping techniques scrapblog gives us to create a whole album of my life NOW (remember to tag your scrapblogs “NOW 2008″ so we can find them!)>>>
can’t wait to see what your albums turn out like! Remember….enjoy the pRocess!

Stop by my page here on Scrapblog and see what I’ve been creating!

Rhonna

We are extremely excited to announce that talented artist, designer and scrapbooker, Kristina Contes has created some fun, funky and oh so cute backgrounds and sticker elements for Scrapblog. Her content can be found in the builder under one giant theme called “Kristina Contes” you can see the sample layouts in the theme gallery. The Kristina Contes collection is made up of 3 themes. A friendly little “Forest Creature” theme, a totally cute “Little Monsters” theme and a retro “Kitchy” theme. All the backgrounds and sticker embellishments are hand created by Kristina, she also added some to-die-for frame stamps. She has created over 75 sticker embellishments and 14 background papers so you can get really creative.

Not only is Kristina a talented artist, she also co-authored a book called “We Dare You: Scrapbook Challenges About Real Life.” This week, Kristina and Scrapblog are going to “dare you” to think outside the typical scrapblog or scrapbook layout and open your mind to creating something different. We will be adding a new “dare” everyday for the remainder of the week. Just tag your scrapblog “Dare” and the number (like today’s challenge will be “Dare32″) so we can find it. At the end of the month, Kristina will chose her favorite “dare” scrapblog and we have an exciting prize package for the winner.

Today Kristina is daring you to:

Dare 32
Hey…what’s your sign?
It’s a great pick up line…
And admit it, astrology is intriguing.
So scrap your sign people.

Have fun and push your creativity! Here’s My take on Kristina’s challenge:
Rebecca

When you create a scrapblog, you express experiences with family and friends, you convey thoughts, ideas and recipes, you show how you spend your seasons and holidays and you show events spent in good company. Each scrapblog is a gift of creativity, of expression, of emotion, of information, of gratitude, of love. When you invite your your family, friends and the scrapblog community to view your albums, you are giving them a gift: the gift of memory, the gift of sharing, the gift of friendship, the gift of a craft, made by you for them. And your viewers give you something in return, namely, the time they spend reviewing and contemplating your scrapblogs.

“Laugh and the whole world laughs with you”

The Laughter07 Scrapblog Challenge was well underway when the holiday season and general year-end busy-ness got in the way. Now that the holidays are over, school has started and our big website update has been coompleted, we thought we’d get to the challenge results. In addition to these Laughter07 scrapblogs, here are some more that caught our eye. Which ones do you like? We’ll communicate results next week!

We’ll be running more challenges and are trying to figure out a way to select the best scrapblogs. There should be some type of polling or voting system! We may also have found a sponsor for the next challenge who may provide a prize for the winner. We’re trying to work out the details of how we’d go about this and of how the winner should be selected. Your ideas are welcome!

“First snowman”, by Ninamor

“First Snow Day”, by momtodex, who blogs at My Little Man’s Life:

“SMILES”, by JosieMarie

“bffs”, by zestyzoey

“Xmas”, by pinkydaze

“autumn”, by amber forgey

Have a great weekend!