this is for the finals of "This Scrapper's Got Talent" competition.

our directions were in two parts:
use one kit only
double page layout
3 photos all must either be extraction, blended photo, or selective coloring
use 6 papers, 2 solid, 2 pattern, 2 our choice.
make some kind of shape with one of the papers, other than a circle, square or rectangle.
m y first part:

Once you finish this half you had to submit it and were not allowed to move anything.

2nd part was to including 15 elements from the kit we used. One most be a fastener of some kind, one had to be a frame and one had to be duplicated 5 times. all other elements may be duplicated or used singly.

notebook journaling:
if only life was as easy and fun as some of my favorite board games.

board game spaces say in order:
Go
parents get divorced
grammar school
death of Grandma Passafaro
high school
death of Grandpa Perosi
win white posters (a competition in my HS)
1st apartment
go to beauty school
Place at the International Beauty Competition
death of Grandpa Passafaro
Get Married
Work in Salons (covered by my arm)
Get Divorced
Go to Massage School
hurt back
become partners with your brother
create NJ-Singles.com
death of Grandma Perosi
Get Married
have a son
miscarriage
UNKNOWN - with an arrow pointed to it saying You are here

KIT
Family Game Night by The Kitty Kat and Sexy and Hot Mama Scrapper
the board game path was created with a pattered paper

elements:
1. arrow
2. clip (my fastener requirement)
3. flourish (duplicated 5 times requirement)
4. ribbon
5. spinner
6. old maid cards
7. pencil
8. notebook
9. brown board game w/ birds *located in upper left*
10. cards (under main board game on left and right)
11. frame (frame requirement - placed on the last board game space)
12. red chips (duplicated)
13. black chips (duplicated)
14. bingo card
15. set of 5 dice (note they were one element, I just arranged them differently to fall out of my hand)

photo extraction of my arms, my husband is one game piece and my son is the other game piece.