Mad March Competition - Final Round

Here's my entry for Round 6 of the Mad March Competition at Design House Digital:

The challenges are over, but the competition won't wrap up until the end of the week.  ** The winner is being decided by votes here. ** Limit one vote per person, per day through Friday, April 6th (does require free account at DHD).

For Round 6, our layouts had to meet the following requirements:

1. Use 15 different kits, but…
2. Use kits from exactly 6 different designers

Karen Funk - Photo Frame Clusters v2, For the Boys patterned papers, Genuinely You elements; Audrey Neal - Daily Birdie font, Family Tree patterned papers; Fei Fei's Stuff - Of the Essence - Add On kit; Miss Mint - Traffic Jam, Twinkle Toes & Daditude kits; Robyn Meierotto - Kraft Day Fun elements, In Stitches - Bright Basics, Today word art, Clearly alpha, I Love Boys elements; Jen Allyson - Picket Fences kit.

3. Use a blending mode - trio of arrowheads located at bottom of journaling on right hand page.

4. Use an advertisement as the starting point for your page - BHG's Chill & Grill - "tossed" look of photos with white borders. (see image to right)
5. Use a title of a book as your page title - "Honk Honk! Beep Beep!" by Daniel Kirk (children's book)
6. Use orange as an accent color - stitching and ticket.
7. Duplicate a photo, but use different crops of that photo - trio of b&w photos.
8. Alter an element - altered color of ticket to orange.
9. Do an extraction - my son's head in trio of b&w photos.
10. Use the words “Mad”, “March”, and “Memories” in your journaling, but not as one phrase

Following a visit to see MawMaw and PawPaw, we took you to Burlington City Park. It was a gorgeous March afternoon - perfect for outdoor fun.

The last time we came, you weren’t quite a year old. Now that you’re a ‘big’ two and a half, you can finally ride the kiddie rides. We had 5 tickets so after a ride on each, we let you choose which 2 to ride again. This was great until we were out of tickets - then you were a bit mad you couldn’t ride the planes again. Next time!

Memories of you laughing and eagerly running from ride to ride will always come to mind when I think of this day.

11. Do a two-page layout, but… - Check
12. One page’s background must be a photo - Check
13. Weave an element behind and in front of something else - orange stitching at trio of arrowheads on lower left corner on left page.
14. Create a shape (using custom shape tools) and use it in three different ways - arrowheads. Used as masking for patterned papers on left page, as 'K' in title and as brush next to journaling.
15. Incorporate a strong diagonal line into your design - on right hand page, arrangement of photos/title and white space.