Contest Layouts

I'm participating in the Funk It Up contest at Scrapforums. I entered this contest last year and was happy to make into the final 10. This year they aren't doing elimination rounds so it's a lot less stressful but the talent in the digital world is OUTSTANDING and far better than last year's entrants. So, I'm not feeling overly confident this year. But, it's still fun and it pushes me to create layouts that I probably wouldn't make otherwise. Round one started us off with a lyric challenge. We had to use at least one complete line of lyrics from Nickelback's Photograph song. This led me to create a tribute to my friend Ivan who sadly passed away when I was a sophmore in high school. For this I used Janna Billman's Sticky Album and filled it with items that I have in my real life scrapbook. And I wrote a letter to Ivan which helped give me the closure that I needed after not having an opportunity to properly say goodbye to him before his death.

For the second round of the contest we had to use the words "someday I'm going to" somewhere on our page. Honestly, I just wasn't grooving on this challenge and kept drawing a complete blank. So thankfully Jenevieve saved the day by wearing this crazy concoction of clothes which inspired a last minute layout. :)

The bonus challenge for round 2 was to create something using green as the main color. So I scrapped this cute pic of little Mason. Can't resist that smile!!!!

I'm about to start working on my round 3 layout. This week we have to use the words, "What I know for sure" on the page. Not 100% certain what I'm going to scrap but I have an idea that I'm going to try. Wish me luck because I know I need to step it up if I'm going to stand a chance in this competition.