Candy Jar Challenge 6

One of my goals for myself this year was to take part in more digital scrapbooking challenges. I quite often found myslef downloading mini kits and templates with the intention to take part in certain challenges and then not getting around to it. To be honest I felt like this was bad for a lot of reasons but mainly because
1. I was spending time downloading things,
2. Those downloads were then taking up valuable space on my harddrive,
3. They were being forgotten about,
4. I was spending too much time trying to find something to be inspired by when I already had some really cool inspiration right there on my machine just waiting to be used,
5. I felt like I was doing wrong by the designers. They had taken the time to make this stuff and host a challenge and I had never gotten around to letting them see their work in use. I used to host challenges when I was on the CT for dedicated2digital. I would spend time creating something I thought would inspire people and then see one or two people take the time to participate and it honestly used to depress me that I was making all that effort and no-one wanted to take part. I never got why no-one could be bothered to make a layout for a cool prize. I was only on the one CT at this point I spent the majority of my time on UKScrappers and I never knew how vast the digital scrapbooking industry was. You learn a lot in 2 years lol. This year I thought that if it appeals enough to me to take the time and effort to download, unzip, tag in acdsee, I need to make the time to actually scrap with it. I want the designers to know that I appreciate the time they are taking and I want to do more with my own scrapping time than just download, unzip and tag files. This year I want to try and start justifying why I have so much stash lol. So on that note the first challenge that I have requested the mini kit for, downloaded and actually scrapped with is for the 6th Candy Jar challenge at Digital Candy hosted by Angela Niehaus. The Candy Jar challenge requires you to use all of the items provided in the "candy jar" this time there was three papers, a fibre, a brad, a blank journal strip, a torn flower, a frame and a flower doodle. You can use anything else you want as well. Completing it earns you 20 Candy Points. Here's the layout I made. (I have no idea why it has come out slightly distorted it's never done that before on here oh well if you want to see it as it should look you can always go look at it in the gallery at Digital Candy here will have to check my blog settings and see if I have knocked anything or maybe it's just because I am posting on Mark's Craptop lol)

Credits: Layered template by Chrissy W (Mini Me Brag Book Template 7), Candy Jar 6 by Angela Niehaus and Beachcomber Alpha Brushes by Mary Ann Wise. Fonts are DJB Lorraine bold by Darcy Baldwin and Vrinda.

Enabling: Mini Me Brag Book by Chrissy W available here, Beachcomber Alpha Brushes by Mary Ann Wise available here. You can pick up the Candy Jar 6 by registering at Digital Candy going to the Candy Jar Challenge thread (linked above) and then sending a private message to Angela for the download link. This challenge runs until January 24th.