ADSR5

ADSR5 Grand Prize Winners!!!

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I’ll be in touch shortly to get you your prize info! Congrats to all!

For those of you that can not see the video, the winners are:

2nd Runner Up – Team 63 – Scrapzone Mamas

1st Runner Up – Team 70 – Real Housewives of Seattle

Grand Prize Drawing Winner – Team 52 – Scrappin’ Mommas

ADSR5 Update March 9, 2010

Challenge 10 is up! You can find it here.

ADSR5 Update March 7, 2010

Challenge 9 is up! You can find it here.

ADSR5 Update March 5, 2010

The Grand Prizes!

Donations are flooding in from some of the most talented designers in the industry and some of the biggest stores around.

We’ll be updating this list as we finalize the donations. But, this will get you started.

eNKay Designs is offering all NEW non-CU items for a month (approximate value $20)

Moonchyld Creations is offering 50% off an entire order.

Inside the ScrapArtist Studio is offering a shared prize of a 1-year subscription to Inside the ScrapArtist Studio ($50 value!). A year of access to tutorials, tips and tricks and CU downloads. All exclusive to members only!

A mega kit from Denim and Daisies ($5 value).

$10 gift certificate to Pixel Perfect Designs.

$10 gift certificate to Little Red Scraps.

$5 gift certificate to Inspiredbydominic Designs.

$10 gift certificate to JennCK Designs.

$6 gift certificate to Fish Bowl Designs.

$15 gift certificate to Jennifer Fox | Designs.

$10 gift certificate to Scrapping Simply.

$20 gift certificate to Jeanne Marie’s Scraps.

$10 gift certificate to Lilleyscrap Designs.

$15 gift certificate to Designs in Digital.

$15 gift certificate to Captivated Visions.

$15 gift certificate to the onsite Log Your Memory store.

About Log Your Memory …

Log Your Memory is an online community of scrapbookers interested in capturing their “real” life on their pages. This is done primarily through the use of our one-of-a-kind Memory Logbook, which is a combination journal, sketchbook, idea book, calendar and planner created especially for busy scrapbookers. Other books and products are also added regularly to our on-site store.

A favorite feature of the Logbook is the set of 52 weekly challenges, which Logbook owners are enjoying working through together through active participation in our newly redesigned Community Forum & Layout Gallery. We also have many other challenges and contests, including our weekly Logbook Challenge Chat series for Book Club members. A great deal of inspiration is also offered through our weekly Story Board featuring outstanding examples of real life scrapbooking found throughout the Web, as well as regular blog posts, insight & freebies from our monthly guest designers, and daily interaction with our Creative Team, the Calendar Girls.

Stop by and take a peek at http://logyourmemory.com/forum. We have lots of very friendly scrapbookers who would love to show you around!

$10 gift certificate to Amanda Thorderson Designs.

$5 gift certificate to Azur Scraps.

50% off coupon for every racer to Rustic Charm Creations.

$10 gift certificate to Albums to Remember.

$15 gift certificate to Amanda Carlson’s Store.

$10 gift certificate to Anna Forrest Designs.

$15 gift certificate to Mad Genius Designs.

$20 gift certificate to the grand prize winners, $10 for the first runners up and $5 to the second runners up to A Moment  in Scrap.

$10 gift certificate to Bubblescrap Designs.

$10 gift certificate to Sara Ellis’ store.

$20 gift certificate to Miss Tiina Designs

$8 gift certificate to JW DigiScraps

ADSR5 Update March 2, 2010

Here is the link to Challenge 8!

Challenge 8 is brought to you by Elemental Scraps.

Elemental Scraps is so excited to once again be a part of ADSR.  We love watching the industry come together and work in unison toward a common goal.

We pride ourselves on our quality products and our fabulous community.  If you visit our forums, you’ll find we have one of the most generous challenge systems around – you can earn up to a 50% discount toward your next purchase!  We also award every participant with a free mini kit, even if they only do one challenge.  If you’re ever lacking inspiration, stop by and see us.  We’ve got challenges of every variety, and fun fabulous people to chat with while you do them.  From template challenges, to font challenges, to speed scraps, we have got them all.

Of course, we also have a slew of extremely talented designers filling the store with must-have goodness every Monday.  Each Monday brings it’s own special flair, be it Dollar Day, Color Play, Free with Purchase week, and so on.

Subscribe to our newsletter today at: http://elementalscraps.com/newsletter.html so you don’t miss a thing!  You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter!

ADSR5 Update February 28, 2010

Challenge seven is up!! You can find it here.

Challenge 7 is brought to you by the talented designers at Scrap Orchard.

ADSR5 Update: February 23, 2010

Challenge six is up!! You can find it here.

Challenge 6 is brought to you by Scrappity-Doo-Dah

ADSR5 Update: February 21, 2010

Challenge five is up!! You can find it here.

Challenge 5 is brought to you by Pretty Scrappy.

Pretty Scrappy will be turning 2 in March and there are a lot of fun activities planned. We are an open site, and love having an active and friendly community. Each month we have several challenges running with the ability to win coupons or a kits. Pretty Scrappy is a great place to be, Come join us!

Be sure to check out this link for specials and coupons just for ADSR racers!

ADSR5 Update: February 15, 2010

Challenge four is up!! You can find it here.

Challenge 4 is brought to you by the wonder Digitals.

DigitalScrapbookPages.com was started on August 1, 2004, by husband and wife team Rick and Stacey Mann, and then the store, Digitals, was added two months later. Five plus years of dedication and team effort has resulted in the friendly, high quality, customer-oriented site we are today.

Our site features a store with over 7,000 quality downloads including a huge CU section, S4H/S4O, hybrid, free daily downloads and samplers from our team of talented designers. We also have an open galleria, an active forum, crops, contests, many monthly challenges, and lots of nice people!

If you haven’t visited us before, or haven’t been by in a while, we invite you to come be a part of the fun!

ADSR5 Update: February 13, 2010

Challenge three is up!! You can find it here.

Challenge 3 is brought to you by the fabulous folks at Scrappers Online.

Scrappers Online is a new scrapping community with a focus on friendship and learning.  Open and inclusive, they have boards for digital, paper and hybrid scrapping, as well as stamping.  But their emphasis is tutorials.  Their goal is to become *the* site where everyone goes to learn, and as such are always adding links to new tutorials out on the web, or creating their own. They offer regular challenges that not only prompts you to create something but also helps you learn a new technique along the way.

They just launched the new forum software where the forums integrate with your open galley and your personalized blog too! You can journal about your scrapping journey right on the site and inspire other scrappers along with getting inspired from your fellow scrappers at the same time. If you love to write articles about hybrid projects or the new technique you just learned, they have an area just for you where you can share you knowledge with everyone else!

ADSR5 Update: February 11, 2010

Challenge 2 is brought to you by the Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild, lovingly known to us as DSAG. If this is your first experience with DSAG, you’ll want to spend a little more time checking them out after you’ve completed your challenge. As a sister site to NDISB, we can’t say enough good things about this site. But don’t take our word for it, check them out for yourselves!

The Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild is dedicated to teaching and inspiring people in the craft of digital scrapbook design. Membership to the Guild entitles members to a monthly Guild kit and a subscription to our monthly on-line magazine The Artisan Notebook ™. In affiliation with Natural Designs in Scrapbooking we offer a complete curriculum of design and program classes that teach how to use photo editing programs (Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Paint Shop Pro) to create digital scrapbook layouts. Additionally we have an extensive curriculum of design classes that help students grow in their artistic expression.

If you’ve never read an edition of the Artisan Notebook, you’re in for a treat. Each edition is not just a magazine, it’s a work of art itself!

ADSR5 Update: February 8, 2010

Challenge 2 can be found here.

Theresa is a kind and wonderful leader!

Because of the site implosion, and losing our database of all of our loyal customers and newsletter subscribers, we have lost touch with many in the digi-scrapping world. As a result, some had missed the ADSR5 registration, because they didn’t know that it was taking place. They did not receive word from us.

So… Theresa has offered to re-open registration. But… you must register this week, and complete the first week challenges by Sunday, just like everybody else. If you can do these things, you may join the ADSR5!

If any racers know anyone that wanted to participate, but missed the registration, this is their chance. We will not likely do this ever again, but due to our site meltdown, and resultant database loss, T felt that this was the right thing to do. (Now you know why I married her! ) (Too sappy? Remember, Valentine’s day is coming up! )

We will accept all registrants that read the rules and submit a proper registration, and they must complete challenges one and two by midnight EST Sunday, Feb. 14.

Hurry!

The first challenge has been spotted. You can find it here.

Registration has closed and the first challenge is right around the corner. We tallied 200 teams exactly for Season 5 of the ADSR. You no doubt have also noticed the sleek new ADSR5 graphic that tops this page. Many thanks to Audrey~Phil4v4 for ADSR5 graphics creation.

The challenge hosts for ADSR5 are listed below, and can also be found in the ADSR5 forum.

• Aimee Asher
• Digitals
• Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild
• Elemental Scraps
• Inspiration Lane
• Natural Designs in Scrapbooking
• Oscraps
• Polka Dot Plum
• Pretty Scrappy
• Scrap Orchard
• Scrappers Online
• Scrappity Do Dah

All ADSR5 Updates can be seen by clicking on ADSR under “Find Articles by Category” in the right hand column.

We have added some new information that you may wish to see in the ADSR5 Forum. While not rules, there is some helpful guidance for you. Check it out!

SEASON 5 RULES:

At Natural Designs in Scrapbooking (NDISB), we’ve come up with a cool internet digital scrapping game that will mirror the excitement of the TV reality show “The Amazing Race.” Teams of two will traverse the digital scrapbooking world, site by site, completing challenges and collecting prizes along the way. Everyone who completes the week’s challenges in the allotted time frame will move on to the next week, where they can collect even MORE prizes! And at the end of the race, everyone who has travelled around the digital scrapbooking world and completed each and every challenge will be entered into a drawing for the GRAND prize! Welcome to the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race – Season 5!

REGISTRATION:

Team registration begins on Friday, January 15, 2010. The deadline to register is midnight Pacific Standard Time Sunday, January 31, 2010. So the first thing you have to do is find yourself a partner! Once you’ve done that, please send ONE email per team to RaceHost at ndisb dot com with the following required information:

1. Your Team Name:
2. Racer 1 Name:
   Racer 1 Email:
   Racer 1 NDISB Forum Display name*:
3. Racer 2 Name:
   Racer 2 Email:
   Racer 2 NDISB Forum Display name*:

*Participation in the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race requires registration in the Natural Designs Forum. Our forum uses a double verification registration to minimize spam. After you register, you will still need to be verified by a real live person to make sure that you are not a spammer. We generally get to this once a day, so please be patient.

If you wish you may also create a team blinkie for your forum signature and/or  link to your team’s blog, if you have one.

OFFICIAL GALLERY:

The official ADSR5 Gallery is a gallery within the NDISB Gallery.

Each challenge will have its own sub-gallery at NDISB. The Challenge Galleries will be titled ADSR5.1, ADSR5.2, etc., to correspond with the challenge number. You will upload your challenge layouts to the corresponding challenge gallery. By default, they will also show in your member profile. You may also upload any other layouts you wish directly to albums that you create in the Members Gallery.

GRAND PRIZE:

We will have a Grand Prize winning team as well as two runners up. The Grand Prize pool will be split with 50% going to the Grand Prize team and 25% each to the two runners up teams. All teams completing all ADSR5 challenges by the deadline will be eligible for the Grand Prize drawing. NDISB Designers and NDISB Creative Team members, as well as their teammates, are not eligible for the Grand Prize drawing.

THE CHALLENGES:

There will be two challenges each week over the course of the six week race. There will be a total of twelve challenges.

FIRST CHALLENGE:

The first challenge will be posted on Sunday, February 7, 2010. A link to the challenge will be posted on the ADSR5 page at NDISB as soon as it is received by the Race Host. Each participating site will host a single challenge, but the rotation, dates and challenges are a secret until they are officially posted.

SUBSEQUENT CHALLENGES:

Challenge Two will be posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2010. Subsequent challenges will be posted by midnight Pacific Standard Time each following Sunday and Tuesday. Both weekly challenges must be uploaded to the Natural Designs ADSR5 Gallery by midnight Eastern Standard Time the following Sunday to qualify to continue in the Race. Each participating site will host a single challenge, but the rotation, dates and challenges are a secret until they are officially posted. The links to the challenges will be posted at NDISB as soon as possible. You can also “stalk” the known sites and keep your eyes peeled for challenges before they are posted at NDISB. Challenge sites will be posted on the ADSR5 page at NDISB.

QUALIFICATION:

A challenge is considered complete when:

1. The challenge(s) have been completed according to the challenge rules,
2. The challenge(s) are uploaded to the appropriate NDISB ADSR5 gallery subcategory, and
3. Each racer has posted a link to their official layout in this forum. Each team will have their own thread, based on their team number. As you post your layouts to the NDISB Gallery, please post a new reply in your thread with the link to those galleries. And each partner may post to the thread as they post their layout. BUT – BOTH LAYOUTS NEED TO BE UPLOADED BEFORE THE DEADLINE! To eliminate confusion, we will post a clock on the ADSR5 page of NDISB with the current time in New York.

Everyone who has completed Week One will qualify to continue racing during Week Two, and the fun begins all over again. THERE IS NO JUDGING, AND THE ONLY WAY TO BE ELIMINATED IS TO FAIL TO COMPLETE THE WEEK’S CHALLENGES.

CHALLENGE VERIFICATION AND CLARIFICATION:

Each challenge layout will be verified for completion by NDISB, or the site that issues the challenge. Uploaded layouts may not be verified until the Saturday or Sunday of the deadline weekend no matter when uploaded to NDISB. If verification is not completed until the deadline Sunday, and a layout needs to be modified to meet the guidelines of the challenge, an extension to midnight Eastern Standard Time on Monday will be offered to modify the layout to meet the challenge guidelines. Grand Prize eligibility will be maintained if the correctly modified layout is submitted prior to the extension deadline.

Requests for challenge clarification should be made to the site that issues the challenge, not to NDISB. Any requests for clarification received by NDISB will be forwarded to the issuing site.

CHALLENGE PRIZES:

Each time you complete a challenge you will receive a prize from the host site. You may receive a direct link for the prize, or you may receive a coupon code. Prizes and delivery of said prizes are at the discretion of the site host only. The Race Host has no control over what the prizes will be or how the site host will choose to deliver them. You will never be required to sign up for newsletters, or purchase anything in order to participate in the Race. You may, however, be required to register in a site’s store in order to redeem a coupon.

There will be a hidden forum for posting of prize codes, download links, etc. When you register, you will need to send your NDISB Forum Display name so we can add you to the hidden forum.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your application to participate in The Amazing Digi Scrapping Race constitutes an agreement that any prizes or codes obtained in the course of the Race are NOT to be distributed by any means. Terms of use in each prize MUST be honored by all Racers. Failure to comply will result in dismissal from the Race and your application for future Races will be denied. Digital piracy will not be tolerated.

CONTINUING ON SOLO:

If for some reason during the course of the Race your teammate cannot continue, you have two options:

1. Continue the race solo, completing the challenges alone and collecting the weekly prizes, but you are then ineligible for the Grand Prize drawing, or
2. Find another racer who has also been displaced, but has not yet been disqualified. In this way, you are both still eligible for the Grand Prize drawing. For example, Team A has player 1 drop out due to unexpected illness and Team B has player 2 drop out due to computer hard drive crash. The remaining players from Teams A and B can form Team C and continue to race and be fully eligible.

So are you ready? If so, get those applications to me starting Friday, January 15. The deadline to register is midnight Pacific Standard Time Sunday, January 31, 2010. Then start toning up and working on your endurance…you’re going to need all the scrapping strength and mojo you can get if you want to win!