Viva Las Orchard Winner!!!

Hello again friends, it's been a while since I posted due to being under the weather a lot lately. But I have been a scrapping machine lately...I went through a dry spell with no mojo for scrapping what so ever but for some reason it just all of a sudden came back *with a vengeance* too! It happened the other week during Scrap Orchard's Viva Las Orchard Birthday Bash. I participated in All the chats and All the challenges and now I have a dozen more layouts to share with you all, including one that made it on the GSO blog at Me So Scrappy! Thank You Leah (a.k.a. paperboutique)!
Ok, in order of their appearance to the S.O. gallery here are my new layouts..
For the First challenge we had to scrap a page using the title of an Elvis song as either the title of our page or in the journaling. I chose the song Because of Love and used it in the journaling AND as the title of my page!

**Credits for Because of Love**
My Words Only Vol 2 by Captivated Visions
My Project Mega by Captivated Visions
What's Your Story Add On by Captivated Visions
Dry Brush alpha by Faith True Originals
The second challenge was a font challenge called Bright Lights Big City. We had to download the font Budmo Jiggler and then scrap a layout using that font somewhere on our page.

**Credits for I WIN!**
Viva Las Vegas Mega Collab by the S.O. Design Team
The 3rd challenge was "Roll the Dice MIS (Make It Snappy=Speed Scrap) with Rachel of Captivated Visions. We were given a certain number instructions during a chat and had 1 hour ONLY to complete and upload our layouts.

**Credits for Sweetheart**
Birthday Bash Grab Bag by Captivated Visions, Designs by Kat, Nanie's Designs and Tracie Stroud.
Challenge 4 was Under the Vegas Sign. We had to use the famous Welcome to Las Vegas sign as inspiration for our layout. I chose to scrap about my sister Heidi and her husband Josh because they were married in Las Vegas just last year!

**Credits for Vegas Wedding**
Viva Las Vegas Mega
All That Glitters (#5) was a chat and crop with a photography challenge. We had to take a photo of something - anything shiny! I took a photo of my wedding bands.

Yeah so not much bling on this set but we were young and broke and honestly the rings don't mean as much as the "I Do" does to us. They do shine better when they are clean! LOL.
**Photo was taken by me using my Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS10K**
Challenge 6 was the Full House challenge in which we had to scrap a layout showing one of our favorite spots in our homes. Also we had to use 1 of the papers 2 times and 1 of the elements 3 times.

**Credits for My Room**
Everything Changes by Captivated Visions
Cut Out template by Scrapping With Liz
(I used the turquoise paper for my background & the arrow. I used one of the flowers 3 times.)
Challenge number 7 was the Vegas Strip Challenge. This is where we had to RE-scrap an older layout. We didn't have to use the same kit but we had to use the same photo(s). I did use the same kit for my challenge layouts.
The OLD page

and here's the NEW page.

**Credits for Halloween 2010**
Spookalicious by Ziggle Designs and Lil Spooks template by SuzyQ Scraps
Challenge number 8 was another Make It Snappy challenge.

**Credits for Happy Birthday To You**
Hip Hip Hooray kit & Add Ons
Every Day Stuffs alphas in black
Happy Snappy Flair alpha in black
Crazee Kinda Love alpha
ALL products are by Captivated Visions.
Next up was the Texas Hold 'Em challenge by Stephanie (Just use the given template to scrap about anything you want.)

**Credits for 2010 Year In Review_March**
Texas Hold 'Em Free'bee' template by Nanie's Designs
Laura Banasiak - Borders Vol.1
A Year In Review by Captivated Visions & SuzyQ Scraps
The Next challenge was the hardest for me by far, LOL. The No Limits Challenge is where we had to "Scrap Outside of Our Comfort Zone". So what's the ONE type of page that I rarely IF EVER scrap?!? Scene pages using extractions!! So that's what I did for my No Limit Challenge...

**Credits for Moon and Stars**
Magical Mischief by Irene Alexeeva
Next we had the Four of a Kind challenge where we had to use 4 of everything we used!

**Credits for I Want To Be There**
Viva Las Vegas Mega
Cut Out Masks by Scrapping With Liz
(4 papers, 4 "bar" type elements, 4 "casino" type elements, 4 word strips and 4 cut out circles).
The Final challenge was the Black Jack challenge in which your layout had to be comprised of a TOTAL of 21 items, whether it was pics,ellies,papers,alphas etc.

**Credits for Happy 3rd B-day Scrap Orchard**
Birthday Bash Bag by Captivated Visions, Designs by Kat, Nanie's Designs and Tracie Stroud.
Recyclables 1 by Scrapping With Liz (template)
8 papers
3 candles
1 "photo"
1 journal block
4 alphas in the title
1 font
1 word strip
1 stitched flower
1 button with bow
TOTAL= 21 items on my page

WOW, that's a lot of challenges and layouts to scrap in just ONE weekend! It was very fun and WELL WORTH it considering I was one of the winners of the Digiscrapapalooza Swag Bag which was the Grand Prize that everyone was playing for!! What's inside the Swag Bag you ask?? Well it's everything that the Digiscrap-apalooza attendees received when they got to the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas!!
Comprised of:
* A Scrap Orchard Tote bag,
* Digiscrapapalooza T-shirt (sizes subject to availability),
* 1GB Convention Thumb Drive loaded with all the convention materials and over $100 in Scrap Orchard coupons,
* A Scrap Orchard Pen
* A Scrap Orchard Mouse Pad
* and other fun goodies!!

I was one of four winners!! Talk about Excited!!!! I can't wait to get my goodies and then get my shop on!!