Challenge Theme: Connections
A few months ago I was looking through a package of old photos my Uncle had sent to me. They were photos of my grandfather, a man I didn’t have a chance to meet as he passed away years before I was born. The pictures are few and very small, but still an incredible documentation of the year he served in the Canadian Military during WWII, an experience I was told he didn’t speak much about during his lifetime. Within these pictures I found one that I immediately recognized, a tiny photo my grandfather had taken during the time he was stationed in Europe. It was of Edinburgh castle, a photo he was probably moved to take knowing that he was standing in the city his new wife’s family had lived in before they immigrated to Canada. In my own collection of photos from a recent trip to Scotland I had taken almost the very same picture. Though I never had a chance to meet my grandfather, it was pretty cool to know that at two very different moments in history we both stood in nearly the same spot and taken a photo of a place that had a special meaning within our family.
Here's mine (click on the layout to go to my gallery to read the journaling)!:
Your Challenge:
Your challenge this week is to go through your photos and find TWO that represent the theme of "connections":
1) Draw a connection between the past and the present: Someone you know today (it could be you) may share a personality trait, skill, physical feature, experience or event that connects you/them to someone from the past. Use two photos - one from the past and one from the present - in your layout (feel free to add more photos).
2) Draw a connection within the present: Two people you know today (it could be you) who share a personality trait, skill, physical feature, experience, event or even a unique bond. Use two photos - both from the present - in your layout (feel free to add more photos).Create at least one layout using this theme of "connections" using any of my products!
***To help inspire I’ve created this freebie for you!***
***Click here to download freebie***(this link will take you to my shoppe & you can download this freebie right off the page - scroll down a little - with no need to add it to your cart!) :)
It’s an add-on to my newly released kit Just a Good Old Fashioned Heritage Scrapbooking Kit which you can pick up this week for 40% off (that’s a full kit for only $2.99 )!!
Your layout doesn’t have to be a heritage layout, but for those of you looking to catch up on your heritage scrapping or those of you interested in giving this style of scrapping a try, this is your chance!
Take a look at these inspiring layouts made by our very own CherryOs!
***So let's get to the BEST PART lol!!!***
Here’s What you Can Win!!
The Something Old Prize: a $25 gift code to my shoppe will be awarded randomly to the artist of a heritage layout (one of the two photos used in your layout must be "retro")
The Something New Prize: a $25 gift code to my shoppe will be awarded randomly to the artist of a modern layout (all photos used in your layout were taken recently or within the last few years)
The Whole Lotta Something Prize: a $25 gift code to my shoppe will be awarded randomly to the artist who submits the most layouts to this challenge!
***Everyone who participates in this challenge will receive a gift code for $2 to my shoppe (one coupon per customer)!!***
The Rules:
Layouts must contain 100% Oscraps products with at least 50% of the layout created from items from Joanne Brisebois Designs
All layouts should be labeled "JOANNE BRISEBOIS SPOTLIGHT" and posted in my gallery here at Oscraps - only layouts posted in this gallery will be eligible for prizes!
Post a link to your layout in this Spotlight thread AND indicate which prize your layout is vying for - "Something Old" (you layout includes at least one retro photo) or "Something New" (all the photos on your layout are taken within the last few years).
Layouts must be newly created for this challenge.
Feel free to submit as many layouts as you like! The more you enter, the greater your chances will be to win one of the three amazing prizes I am giving away (one prize per customer).
With one week left until Father's Day this is a great chance to get those heritage photos you've been meaning to preserve scrapped! Maybe even get a mini gift album together! I'll be on the hunt this week for any layouts made with a "Father's Day" theme in this challenge to award some random bonus PRIZES (same rules apply)!!!
Happy Scrapping!!
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