BOGO Bonus - Australian Opals!

[Elisabeth]

So this round, take a look at Australian Opals 1 (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=6331) and Australian Opals 2 (http://store.digitalscrapbookplace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=6332) and see if you likey!

DSP member Bethliz put me up to this and I'm so glad she did! She showed me the rather disappointing digital opal kits elsewhere and then some nice brighter examples of real opals, so I hope I've come close to what she was thinking of.

Choose EITHER Australian Opals 1 OR 2 to purchase and upload a layout using it by Sunday, September 2, to get the posting bonus add on pack, shown here (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=209320&cat=744).

Post your layout in the Elisabeth's Extras Gallery (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=2645) if it's not doing double duty with another ongoing challenge. But definitely post a link to it below in this thread so I don't miss you when sending out the add on pack bonus!

I can't wait to see these all bright and shiny layouts! Thanks everyone!

[mels_world1]

What a fantastic job you have done with these kits.... Now the hard job which one to use.

[bethliz]

Oh Z thanks for the mention...blush...blush...you have really outdone yourself...that posting bonus is just awesome...your opals are if possible better and better than the originals...now to finish my playing with them!!...i just love mixing the beautiful colours with vintage type black and white pics...just lovely...Cheers Liz and yep i hope that everybody likes these kits..i do!!

[sammdc]

oooooooooooooooo Z I love them and they perfect I am going to grab them both as I cant decide which one I like better

[bsneely]

Me too, They are both so pretty I will probably NEED to buy both!! LOL!!

[Donut]

Oh they are gorgeous Z! I love the bright colours with the black, and Bethliz has just given me an idea for a vintage layout with these!

[jestep]

wow oh wow

[bethliz]

Here is one i did with a pic of my mum and dads wedding...sadly though they have been divorced for some time...but this captures them at a happy time....thus i labeled it Mum and Dad a New Beggining...i mucked around with the elements and made a title out of the word love because of course that is what weddings are all about...Cheers Liz
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=209370&cat=500&ppuser=39420

[Elisabeth]

What an awesome title you made - how clever!

Thanks for saying such nice things about the kits everyone! I noticed some sales so I better go get that posting bonus zipped, lol!

[bethliz]

oh well here is another...my poor kitty looks rather psychedelic here....she could be high on something...i just don't know what...too much cat nip i suppose...i love her opal eyes....LOL...thanks again Z!!..Cheers Liz

Pschedelic Kitty

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=209509&cat=2645

[sammdc]

here is one I did http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=209549&cat=766

[jestep]

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=209613&cat=2645 Here is mine.

[sssnoo]

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=209687&cat=500&ppuser=66074

Here is one I am double dipping for Gimme More - I have another LO planned for these great opal kits - stay tuned.

Thanks ELizabeth.

[carlalee]

Hi there - I'm to your challenges. Those opals kits are just too fabulous to pass by. When is the posting deadline? TY -c-

[Elisabeth]

It's Sunday, September 2nd for this challenge - thanks for joining in!

[ilv2cruise]

Here's my Loves A Garden (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210079&cat=2645)

[Elisabeth]

Okay, I've started sending out the bonus - I know I've sold more kits than layouts have been posted, so let's see them! Thanks everyone!

[Song Catcher]

Thank you Elizabeth for these beautiful kits. Please forgive the altering of the frame from AO1 but I just love those color opals and I had so much fun learning how to use the warp tool. Of course I messed up the drop shadow in the process but I'm still a learning newbie! Here is the link to my layout:

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210116&nocache=1

[bethliz]

Oh Z that posting bonus is absolutely beautiful...here is another layout of my handsome dad!! Thanks for looking!! Cheers Liz

Dad

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210118&cat=500&ppuser=39420

[SusanG]

Here's the LO I did with Australian Opals 2 and a few of my dh's photographs of today's Lunar eclipse. He wishes for longer lenses now but I reminded him that this type of event won't happen again in our lifetime. I think I convinced him to save the money, LOL.
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210182

[caraffle]

I love the colors of this kits. I created 2 pages to go together in my album....Scrapping the same subject year after year, I love to be able to introduce new elements. Thanks Elizabeth

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210364&cat=all&limit=last1
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210363&nocache=1

[Donut]

Heres my first with these kits,
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210376&cat=2645

[KY Bumpkin]

Fun kits Z!! Here's my LO!

Back To School (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210397&nocache=1)

[ebears]

This is the first time I have joined in this challenge.
Here is my lo - SPRING (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210449&nocache=1)

[~sarah~]

Here is mine and what beautiful kits :)

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210487&cat=2645

[felynn]

I love this kit. Its so beautiful;

Pat and Laura (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210490&cat=2645)

[Elisabeth]

I'm caught up sending out the bonus! I know more kits are out there though, so keep 'em coming, and let me know if I missed anyone!

[moog25]

Here is my layout using the gorgeous "Australian Opals" kit. The photo I used was labeled "Technicolor Greta", and that was my inspiration for this one. I did some layering at different blend modes and layered and rotated the opals for the corner elements.Here's "Technicolor Tresses":
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210524&cat=2645

[mels_world1]

Here's mine

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210545&cat=2645

[ebears]

thanks for the bonus Elizabeth - I started out using the white opal paper but went back to this gorgeous pink paper. I messed with the hue $ saturation to get the paper toning with the tulip photos I took today. I have had fun with this kit.

Here is Tulip Spring Time (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210590&nocache=1).

I went and had a look at my opal jewellry last night. You white opal is spot on with my white opal bracelet. My husband brought it back from the opal mines at Cooper Peedy while on a business trip.

[Elisabeth]

Just a note to self; bonus sent out to here. Wow, I'm really truly enjoying all the layouts with your fab photos to go with the brights! Thanks for the note on the comparison to the real opals, Joan! I have a couple of opal necklaces but they're "floating" opals (in some fluid in glass teardrops) and I didn't even get them out to go by. All the rings I've ever had growing up were too thick with white and hardly useful to copy. And I've never had any of the spectacular ones Bethliz showed me that were so bright!

[bsneely]

Here's my layout using Australian Opals 1 and 2. I couldn't choose which one to use so I used both :)

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210808&cat=2645

These opal kits are just stunning, Elisabeth!!!

[sandygb]

OMG....both of the Australian Opal kits are simply AWESOME!!! I had so much fun with this page and I have to say, I am pleased with the result. Hope you like it Z...

Colorful Wallflower (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=210957&cat=2645)

[carlalee]

These two kits were far too beautiful to pass by! Here's my Australian Opals 1 & 2:
http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=211125&cat=2645
TFL -c-

[dawn-in-nz]

:cry: :cry: PSE froze up on me just as I was about to finish my LO but I had forgotten to save my layers :cry: :cry: although I had saved a jpg early on - I've uploaded that so as to get in before the deadline - hope you'll give me a bit of extra time to finish it off please Elisabeth?

[Elisabeth]

No problem, Dawn - I saw what you've gotten done! I hope the outcome suits when you're REfinished!

Next BOGO challenge is for a kit that isn't in the store yet, but it has rich lustrous fall colors of turquoise, bronze, and gold. Think WARM though; it has a flame in it! Coming soon!

[dawn-in-nz]

Oh thank you, I've finished it now. It turned out totally different and I used a different photo also! It's actually a scraplift for a Sunday Scrappers challenge.
Looking forward to seeing the new one :yes:

Here it is, put your sunglasses on people - Ordinary Moments (http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=211149&cat=500&ppuser=26832)

[Elisabeth]

Since you edited your layout, I had to edit my comment, or it would have been way out of place, lol!

Thanks Dawn and everyone!

[sssnoo]

http://www.digitalscrapbookplace.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=212478&cat=2645

Z - I didn't have time to finish this during the Opal chalenge - but promised yo I would do it - thanks for these great kits Elizabeth.

sssnoo