Speed Scrap--National Scrapbook Day 050209

So as many of you know I have really wanted to do a speed scrap for awhile now and it just has never worked out. Well today was National Scrapbook Day and I was determined to participate in one! I did the one at Stuff to Scrap.

Here's how it works--you get 7 directions in 1 hour....a new direction every 10 minutes and then you have 1 extra hour to complete the LO.

Here are the directions:
Step 1: Choose 2 photos of the same person for the same person, same event.
STEP 2: Select 3 papers-1 pattern, 2 plain. Set the pattern as your BG and mat one photo with a plain paper
STEP 3: Using both plain papers, place them over the BG with out resizing too much. They should cover most of the BG.
STEP 4: Blend your 2nd photo on to your LO somewhere
STEP 5: Cut some sort of shape out of one of your papers
STEP 6: Embellish with 1 ribbon, one type of fastener and one other elements. (The element and fastener can be used as many tiems as you want, but not recolored)
STEP 7: Add a title and date and drop shadows.

The hardest part for me was which kit to use. And it was a good thing I learned how to do the blending last week or else I would have never been able to finish it!!!

I used the Island Dream kit by Beacon Scraps.

This was so much fun...a little stressful at first, but tons of fun and I hope to join in on another one very soon! :-)