Taking a little break......

Hello Everyone!
Happy New Year - we hope that you rang in the new year with merriment and joy and that it continues through the 2011! We both enjoyed the holiday break with our families and decided that we are going to take a break from the Cinema Challenges for awhile. We absolutely love this challenge and we love all of you and your creations - but we just felt like we needed a break. We didn't want to end this challenge quite yet - but just needed a few months to just enjoy being with family and not have too much on our blogging plate. We hope you understand and will come back to play with us later on during this year :)

Sending each of you lots of love and more love!
The Cinema Sisters

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge Winners

Hi Everyone,

First of all a HUGE thank you to all who played along with us - we loved seeing all of your amazing creations and reading about where you got your inspiration from! Also a big apology not to posting this earlier - the holidays have descended and amidst traveling, birthdays and christmas shopping - life has definitely turned it up a notch!

We had so many wonderful creations that are inspired by our 100th movie challenge: Pride & Prejudice These 4 creations caught our attention with their beauty and how they connected their creations to different aspects of the movie:

We absolutely LOVED and were just in absolute awe of Vladuska's amazing creation - WOW! She created such a beautiful book cover for her original Pride & Prejudice book from 1969 that is inspired by the feel of Jane Austen. Where do we even start? From the very beginning of her post, her project just captures Pride and Prejudice and brings it to life. All the details and 3D feel of this bookcover, makes you feel like you can walk through those stone gates and float into Jane Austen-land! Since our sponsors don't ship to Slovenia - we will be contacting you to send you something else for this gorgeous work of art!

1. The winner of the Taylored Expressions prize goes to this lovely card from Amy C has such amazing details! The handmade flowers, the embossed metal, the pearls, the hatpins: all reminded us of all the scenes where the women would be sitting around doing their embroidery, needlework and crafting. The layout of her card made us think of an empire waisted dress that the women wore in this time period and the soft colors and textures and lovely sentiment, all captured a timeless Jane Austen feel.  You can read more about all the gorgeous details of her lovely card here:

2. The winner of the Verve Stamps prize goes to this gorgeous card that Maureen created for the challenge - and the sentiment is just beautiful! We both want to say it as often as possible to our own DHs everyday (with a British accent of course!) Maureen's style is so clean and elegant and they she framed the quote as the focal image with all the gorgeous embellishments and stitching is simply beautiful!!! The soft pinks and gorgeous papers and patterns are simply perfect! You can check out more details of how she made this delightful creation here:

3.  The winner of the JustRite Stamps prize goesWe both just loved Leslie's take on this movie challenge - as soon as we saw the sentiment: "Don't judge me by my relatives" - we both burst out giggling!!! How true! For this movie, Elizabeth and Jane (the two older sisters) have to face so much from society because of the shameless behavior of their relatives (parents and sisters). Even in his first proposal to Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy says: "The relative situation of our families is such that any alliance between us must be regarded as a highly reprehensible connection." So romantic right?! Her use of the lace requirement in the handkerchief made us have one of those "why didn't I think of that!" - so clever!!! You can check out more details and read from where she got her inspiration from over here:

4. The winner of the Gina K. Designs prize goes to this gorgeous card created by Danni C., which showcases the importance of music in this movie and how it really sets the tone of this movie - it makes us thinks of multiple things that centers around music. Music was a sign of accomplishment for the ladies in this era - whether it was sung or played - the mastery of music indicated a certain class and rank. There are so many pivotal scenes in this movie that revolve around music, the most memorable of which is Mr. Darcy's love-fire look at Elizabeth as she is at the piano We loved the way that the music papers were distressed and the gorgeous heart and small bouquet of flowers  was just the perfect finishing detail. Please check out where Danni got her inspiration from in the movie and all the lovely details of her card over here (and also to see that smoldering look of Mr. Darcy on her blog ;) 

Thank you again to all who played along - you guys just constantly inspire and amaze us and we loved looking at all of your creations and reading from where you drew your inspiration from this movie! 

Thank you for making our 100th Challenge as exciting as our very first challenge, where we started off this blog with the very same movie that started this blog challenge adventure: Pride & Prejudice!

Big hugs and love to all!

the Cinema Sisters :)

OK ladies you totally overwhelmed us with beauty... We are combing through all the cards for the "100"th time. We are checking to make sure that all the winner have met ALL the criteria's for our challenge. Don't forget we have prizes involved this time so pressure's on...

WE LOVE YOU ALL AND FEEL SOOOOO HONORED THAT YOU JOINED US FOR OUR "100"th CHALLENGE CELEBRATION.

See you all soon...

HUGS

the Cinema Sisters.

Deadline Extended

HI Cinema Fans!!!

We hope you are enjoying creating your Pride and Prejudice Cards! We wanted to extend the deadline till tomorrow afternoon for entering your challenge creations - there are a lot of awesome PRIZES and you don't want a chance to miss out!!!

All you have to do is pick a theme from the movie that inspired you, add lace and voila - you could win some of the amazing prizes from our wonderful sponsors!!! So go ahead and get crafty!!! We don't want you to miss out!!!

Stay tuned for the list of challenge winners (there will be 4 - one for each of the prizes) Feel free to enter more than once!!!

See you at the movies!!
Hugs,
the CInema Sisters

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #100 - Pride & Prejudice

Welcome Everyone to our 100th Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - where this week we are picking the movie that YOU voted on: Jane Austen's classic novel turned cinema magic: Pride & Prejudice! There are a couple of different versions of Pride & Prejudice (but most die-hard fans will claim that there really is only one version: the 1995 Pride & Prejudice BBC production featuring on Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle!) Our Cinema Saturday Challenges were born over 2 years ago, when we spoke on the phone and discovered our love of all things Jane Austen and how fun it would be to do a challenge where we could create cards and projects inspired by the movies - our very first challenge was Pride & Prejudice! It is so fun to re-visit this movie and come full circle with it being our 100th movie! For our challenge requirement this week - we thought it would be very "proper" to have a hint of lace in your movie creations (or more than just a hint if you would like :) We are so excited to see what you have created and to celebrate our 100th challenge we also have some wonderful prizes from some amazing companies to celebrate our 100th birthday!

Prizes, did someone say prizes...???! ;)

These wonderful companies are sponsoring our 100th challenge and we are so grateful for the sponsorship! All together that's over a $100 of prizes!!! Thank you!!!


1. Verve Stamps: $30.00 gift certificate to the store!
2. Gina K. Designs: a stamp set of choice from Gina K. Designs
3. Taylored Expressions: Tweet Hearts stamp set from Taylored Expressions
4. JustRite Stamps: one of the brand new cling stamp sets from JustRite stamps


Since there are prizes involved, we also thought there should be some rules

1. Please do not use any other challenges with this 100th cinema challenge because  (***** unless it is a layout using one of our sponsor's sketch).
2. Please use inspiration from the movie Pride & Prejudice in creating your card.
3. Please use the challenge requirement: A Hint of Lace in Your creations :)
4. Please tell us from where in the movie you got your inspiration for your creation. We always love hearing how you all get your inspiration - and how you translate that into paper . *** We ask to know where you got your inspiration from so we can award prizes equally.
5. You can enter as many times as you would like - we will pick 4 winners for the 4 prizes (We felt we wanted to give lots of people lots of chances to win, rather than just one grand prize winner).
6. You will have two weeks to create your challenge entrie(s) - this is to make sure that everyone has enough time to create something that they love!!!
7. This 100th Cinema Challenge will close on Thursday, November 18th at midnight EST. Winners will be revealed on Saturday November 20th :)

Brooke's Project Inspired By the Movie ~Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice..

If you can imagine with me you might even agree that Ms Bennett(Elizabeth) would have most defiantly keep the letters she had received from Mr Darcy. She would have savored every work whether she agreed with them or not. She would have analyzed the penmanship and tried to make out what kind of a gentleman he really was... I think she would have keep them with her when she traveled as well. She would have made a special box to keep them in fashioned out of some of the trimmings that she and her sisters would have had on hand to make bonnets and bows...

(more pictures on my blog)

I would like to think that the secret piece of lace was from a dress that she might have been wearing and maybe even been noticed in my Mr Darcy... My cohort and I also agreed after her visit to Pemberly that she would have kept this picture in her keepsake box as well. She would have had to draw her picture but we will share one of our favorites from our trip to Pemberly... My helper also quoted "And to think... Of all this I might have been mistress"

Please stop by my blog to read about our sweet beginnings of the Cinema Saturday Challenge...

And see who joined me in the creative process this week..HERE

Hope you have an amazing journey creating your Pride and Prejudice projects...