Under Surveillance - Case File No. 24

[Debbi Tehrani]

Tell Your Story. It's our tagline, and here at CSI, it's one of our missions to get our members to delve deeper into journaling--to document the meaningful bits and pieces that make up our lives. We would like to shine a special spotlight each week on a member who did an exceptional job telling their story.

Then by Sindi J

Sindi's unique design caught our attention in the gallery. We were intrigued by the juxtaposition of the modern graphic elements with the heritage photos. The symbolism of her design became evident when we read her thoughtful reflections on this special photograph. 

Each week, five layouts that caught our eye will be chosen to feature as our "Most Wanted." With so many amazing layouts in the gallery, it was incredibly hard to narrow the "lineup" down to five, but here they are, in no particular order. (Please click on the title beneath the layout to take you to the layout in the gallery where you can leave the creators some comments.) 

 

A Vision of Loveliness by Belinda Spencer

 

Vision by Tracee Provis

 

Shine by Ayeeda

 

Change or Perish by Anupama Choudary

 

My Princess by Lou Collins

And just because there were too many fantastic layouts in the gallery, here are a few more that caught our eye. 

Everything Attractions by Andrea Fogleman

Date by Moongirl

The Bucket by Vivian H

Boutique Beautiful by Ali Parris

Lovely by Debbie Standard

Ball Night by Sarah Groen

Magical Present by Patty Selah

Hair Braided by Claudia Zubrinic

Dream to Dance by Rachelle Sigurdson

A la Naturale by Lindy G

Colors of Zeffy by Zeffy

All That Jazz by Violette

Mother's Day Tea by Jenn Kennedy

[Debbi Tehrani]

Congratulations, ladies! Gorgeous work! Be sure to find your badges here.

[Debbi Tehrani]

You may have noticed that we have more than 5 Watch List layouts. I included the following in my newsletter, but just in case you didn't read it...

As CSI evolves, we try to think of ways to make our little challenge better and better.

Every week, members of the design team nominate layouts for Star Witness, Most Wanted, and Watch List, and then I tally the results. Often, the votes are very close, and layouts don't make it on the front page by possibly a tally or two, so the wonderful artists of those layouts never get to know they were even in the running.

I thought it would be fun to put on the Watch List all of the layouts that got votes from the design team. There will still only be 5 Most Wanted because the Ning gallery only allows room for 5 featured layouts, so those will still be reserved for the five layouts with the most tallies.

We hope that allowing for more layouts to be highlighted on our front page and in the Under Surveillance archive will be an exciting new change for you!

Because this will take me extra time to add all the html code (unfortunately, I can't just copy and paste the layouts), I have decided to put the badges in the Under Surveillance forum (pinned at the top) rather than send out individual letters to the people who received the badges.

[Sindi J.]

I am so honored to be among this group! Thanks so much for choosing my layout. Aw shucks....

[Adrienne Ford]

A Gallery FULL of beautiful stand out work! Well done to ALL!

[Paula Flávia Pagotto Simionato]

How nice a lot of people here this time...nice changes too.

Congratulations ladies.

[Paula Lopmac]

Congratulations to all of you! I absolutely loved this challenge colours, and each one of you just did an amazing job with them! Congrats again! :)

[Lou Collins]

So thrilled to be chosen to be featured on my first play along, and amongst so many talented ladies....thank you so much!

[Violette]

I'm so exited to be on the watch list the first time I take part in the challenge! I'm very honoured to see my page amongst these of so talented ladies. Thank you!

[Carolina Ghelfi]

Amazing pieces of work this week! congratulation to all!!!! :)