Closer To Fine Winner and Challenge #169 "Hanging By A Moment..."

The design team has voted and we have a winner of our "Closer to Fine" challenge!

Congratulations goes to Malinda with this beautiful layout!!!
Congratulations Malinda!!! Your layout will now hang in the STM Hall of Fame!!!

We also have a winner of our March prize! Everyone who entered one of our challenges in March was entered in this random drawing. If you entered both of our challenges, your name went in the hat twice! The winner of the March prize is......

Stephanie B!

Congratulations Stephanie! You win the $15 gift certificate to Scrapbook.com, which was generously donated by our very own Linda Phinney!

Stephanie, please email me at michellelapoint@yahoo.com, and I will get you in touch with Linda, who will provide your awesome prize to you!!!

Thank you Linda, for being our March sponsor!!!

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Now, I'd like to introduce our new sponsor for the month of April - our very own Jennifer Campbell! Jennifer has donated this beautiful Stampin' Up stamp set for one lucky participant...

It's called "Forest Friends." Isn't it adorable???!!! If you participate in one or both of our April challenges, your name will go into the hat to win this randomly drawn prize, which will be announced at the end of the month. If you participate in both challenges, your name will go into the hat twice!




and now.....

ON TO OUR NEXT CHALLENGE.....

This week we have an alternative hit for you - "Hanging By A Moment," by Lifehouse. This song, from their debut album, won the band a Billboard #1 Single of the Year award in 2001; and we hope you will find it as inspiring as we do! Click on the widget in the sidebar to read the lyrics.

Here now, are the design team's creations for "Hanging By A Moment..."

Guest Designer Anne...

"I made this page for Chrissy's album documenting her involvement with a political rally. The photo flips up and I wrote down her Facebook status from the day."

Patricia...

Sharon (Fritchey)...

Yvonne...

Bina...

Julie...

Frauke...

Michelle...

Linda...

Now it's Your Turn!
What inspires you about this song? Show us in a scrapbook layout, art journal page, or anything else you are inspired to create!

To be eligible to win this challenge and have your creation hang in the STM Hall of Fame, remember to link us up to your layout using Mr. Linky below by midnight central time Wednesday, April 13th. The clock in the right sidebar shows central time to help you if you need to convert time zones.




We can't wait to see what you create!

Closer to Fine Slideshow...

Thank you so much to everyone who created something for our challenge this time around! They are all looking awesome! The design team is busy voting, but in the meantime - check out the beautiful slideshow for "Closer to Fine..."

There was one layout that we werent able to include in the slideshow - the settings on the photo are set to not allow downloading. But we will include it in the voting - you can view it here: MAKNJ's layout

As always, if you don't see your layout in the slideshow, and it was linked to Mr. Linky by the deadline of midnite on Monday, March 28th - please email me at michellelapoint@yahoo.com. We would never leave anyone out on purpose!

We will be back on April 1st with the winner and our new challenge!

See you then!

Piece of My Heart Winner & Our New Challenge #185 "Who Says..."

The design team has voted and we have a winner.........




Congratulations to JEANET! who created this beautiful layout...
Jeanet your layout will now hang permanently in the Scrapping The Music Hall of Fame!

Thank you so much to everyone who played along this week! We sincerely loved each of your layouts! And remember - you will all be entered into the drawing for the January STM Prize!

and now........

ON TO THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE!!!

This week we have an uplifting song for you that was chosen by our DT member Jennifer. It's "Who Says" by Selena Gomez! You can read the lyrics by clicking on the lyrics tab at the top of the page.

Check out the video for "Who Says!"...


We hope you find this song as inspiring as we did! Check out the design team layouts for "Who Says..."

Michelle

I love the line in the song that says "It's like a work of art that never gets to see the light." It makes me think of so many women I've known (including me in the past) who can't see their own beauty because of someone pushing them down. That inspired me to make this art journal page to celebrate the beauty that is in all of us!!!

Linda

Giovanni's in Morro Bay, CA has the shells of a giant clam mounted outside their restaurant,

setting up a perfect "Kodak moment" for a"practically perfect" person,

my friend Als!!!

(p.s. They have the freshest oysters on the half shell, too!!!)



Patricia
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I was fortunate to just recently get these photos of my brother and sisters from visiting my Aunt. None of us had ever seen these photo of the four us before. Reflecting on our family life and so much we have all been through made me select the words "not perfect" from this week's song.



Sharon

I used the lyric "who says your not beautiful?" from this week's song, "Who Says," because I want my daughters to know that they are ALWAYS beautiful in every single way! (as we all are!!)

Frauke

I used the same words as Sharon did because I want my daughter to know that I think she's pretty and beautiful and perfect and worth it !!!



Bina

This sweet dog is our guest in the moment and we think she is really beautiful.

Now it's Your Turn!
What inspires you about this song? Show us in a scrapbook layout, art journal page, or anything else you are inspired to create!

To be eligible to win this challenge and have your creation hang in the STM Hall of Fame, remember to link us up to your layout using Mr. Linky below by midnight central time this Sunday, January 16th. The clock in the right sidebar shows central time to help you if you need to convert time zones.

We can't wait to see what you create!

Chances Are Winner and Challenge #168 "Closer To Fine..."

Hey there everyone! The design team has voted and we have a winner.....

Congratulations goes to.....

AMY L with this beautiful layout...!!!

Congratulations Amy!!! Your layout will now hang in the STM Hall of Fame!

Thank you to everyone who submitted layouts for this challenge. Don't forget -everyone who participates in one or both of our challenges in March, gets entered into a random drawing at the end of the month, for this prize........

A $15 gift certificate to Scrapbook.com!
Thank you so much to our very own Linda Phinney for providing this prize for March!!!

And now...........
on to our next challenge!!!!!

This week we have song for you that's both great for singing along to, and full of meaning - it's "Closer to Fine," by the Indigo Girls! We all had such a great time using this song as inspiration; and took it a variety of different directions as you will see. We hope you will find it inspiring too!

Check out our design team creations for "Closer to Fine..."

Guest designer Anne...

Michelle...

Patricia...

Sharon(Fritchey)...

Bina...

Jenn...

"And the best thing you've ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously.
It's only life after all."

How true... one of my new favorite quotes from a song!

Frauke...

I chose the same words as Jenn for inspiration. My journaling is based on a quote from a book called "The flying classroom" by Erich Kaestner.

Yvonne...

Now it's Your Turn!
What inspires you about this song? Show us in a scrapbook layout, art journal page, or anything else you are inspired to create!

To be eligible to win this challenge and have your layout hang in the STM Hall of Fame, remember to link us up to your layout using Mr. Linky below. by midnight central time Monday, March 28th. The clock in the right sidebar shows central time to help you if you need to convert time zones.

We can't wait to see what you create!

Chances Are Slideshow...

Thank you so much for all of the beautiful layouts! The design team is busy voting, but in the meantime, check out the slideshow for "Chances Are..."

As always, if you don't see your layout in the slideshow, and it was linked to Mr. Linky by the deadline of midnite on Sunday, March 13th - please email me at michellelapoint@yahoo.com. We would never leave anyone out on purpose!

We will be back on tomorrow (March 15th) with the winner and our new challenge! See you then!!!

Wide Open Spaces and March RAK Winners, New Guest Designer AND Challenge #167: Chances Are...

It's the beginning of March and OMG we have tons of news for you! This post is going to be HUGE!!!

First...The design team has voted and we have a winner for our "Wide Open Spaces" challenge!

Congratulations goes to DAPHNE with this beautiful layout!!!

Congratulations Daphne! Your layout will now hang in the STM Hall of Fame! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted layouts - they were all beautiful!!!

Next - I'm happy to announce the winner of our March RAK! Just as a reminder, everyone who participated in either of our February challenges was eligible to win this randomly-picked prize; and if you participated in both challenges, your name went in the hat twice!

Drumroll please........

The winner of the March RAK - the awesome prize package of Nikki Sivils Scrapbooking goodies is........

KRISTEN CARTER

Congratulations Kristen!!! Please email us at michellelapoint@yahoo.com and we will get your prize right out to you! Thank you so much to Nikki Sivils for being our February sponsor!

We'd like to thank Kelli Phillips for being our Guest Designer in January and February. Kelli (aka Rhayne), you were an inspiration!!! Thank you so much!!!


And now, it is with great pleasure that I announce our Guest Designer for March and April!!!

Please welcome Anne Gaffney-Iehl!!!!!

Hi! I’m Anne and I work FT in the Human Services field. I’m married with a blended family of 6 girls (23 to 16) and 1 puppy. When I’m not having a panic attack about it, I am so honored to be a guest designer at STM. I started scrapping 7 or 8 years ago with Creative Memories stickers. I’ve been involved with blogs and challenges for a little over a year – STM was the very first blog challenge I played along with. I am now totally addicted to sketches and design team reveals. Left to my own devices all my pages start looking the same! I don’t know that I have a style – eclectic I guess. I try to match a style to the person’s album that I am working on; or if it’s for me it depends on the emotion of the page/event. For example, the page I created for the current challenge/DD-2’s album is a totally different look than a similar page I made for DD-1’s album. Different colors and different looks to suit different tastes and personalities.

To see more of Anne's work, check out her blog at: Anne's 12 x 12 Step Program. Welcome Anne! We are so glad to have you with us for March and April!!!


And now, ON TO OUR NEXT CHALLENGE!!!!!

It's time once again for a movie-inspired song! This time around we are paying tribute to the inspiring movie "The Blind Side," by featuring the theme song - "Chances Are" by Five for Fighting! We found this beautiful song had so many possibilities for scrapping (as evidenced by the variety of different directions our design team took it!) and we hope you feel the same way!

Here we go with the design team layouts for "Chances Are..."

Guest Designer Anne...




Patricia...

My husband's Mother past away about 2 and a half weeks ago. His Mom had remarried after his Dad died. Clarence can never replace my husband's Dad, but he is still family now that both of his parents are gone and he is our daughter's only surviving Grandparent.

Sharon (Fritchey)...

I am truly one of the lucky ones to have known my big sister, Cathy.



Bina...

It was that picture, that fits for me perfect with the line "filled with shells and sand."

Jenn...

"Is there a better bet than love?"

Frauke...

My inspiration were the words "nothing lasts forever". I had to think of the pictures of my dear grandson immediately. One moment kids are angry or crying and the next moment they laugh out loud, don´t they ? That´s what my journaling says.

Julie...

Linda...

I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out!!! My beloved Los Tiburones have made it to the Stanley Cup Playoffs every year since I started watching ice hockey, but they never manage to make it all the way through to the final round and win the cup! It takes a little luck, but it definitely takes speed, skill, grace & mayhem!!! LOL!!! How fitting that “Five for Fighting” refers to the 5 minute penalty a player gets for participating in an altercation… They’re droppin’ the gloves!!!

Yvonne...

Jeanet...

Some old pics of me with my mom and my big sister,

my brother wasn't even born then. Chances are

waiting to be taken.....

Now it's Your Turn!

To be eligible to win this challenge and have your layout hang in the STM Hall of Fame, remember to link us up to your layout using Mr. Linky below. by midnight central time Sunday, March 13th. The clock in the right sidebar shows central time to help you if you need to convert time zones.

We can't wait to see what you create!