Happy August everyone! It’s Polly Karen here bringing you a look at all of the new challenges for this month. Based on our percentage system, you can earn three levels of coupons for the store just by participating in our challenges. In addition to the coupon, if you complete all 7 challenges within the month of August, you will be entered in a drawing to win a one month guest spot on the Lilypad Creative Team! This month we are once again offering TWO guest spots. The discounts available are as follows: 2 challenges = 10% off, 4 challenges = 20% off and 6 challenges = 30% off. Now let’s take a look at the new challenges:
1. BYOC Challenge – August’s BYOC Challenge was posted on the 1st along with all the other challenges since the first Friday of the month fell on the 1st day of this month. This challenge, hosted by Dana, is to use 90% of the products on your page from the current BYOC collection and from at least 3 designers. Here is a layout created by Dana with this month’s BYOC collection:
2. Scraplift Challenge – Amanda (gracielou) is hosting this month’s Scraplift Challenge and she had the brilliant idea to scraplift one of the new Pollys. So browse their galleries which are listed in the forum and select a page to scraplift. Amanda picked a page by Jenn McCabe and created her own lifted version:
by Jenn McCabe:
Amanda’s lifted version:
3. Journaling Challenge – Heather (talktoheather) is host for this month’s Journaling Challenge. Heather wants you to journal about a quote from someone you love. Here is a gorgeous sample page created by Heather:
4. Product Challenge – August’s Product Challenge is hosted by Julie (mrs2a50) and she has selected Photo Frames as the product to use this month. She also had listed several great ideas for products in that category in the forum. Here is a layout Julie created with Photo Frames:
5. Template Challenge – This month, the free template is once again supplied by the generous Amy Martin (see below). Renee (renee82) is hosting this month’s template challenge and has created a great sample page to get you started:
Renee’s sample:
6. One Word Challenge – Amanda (MandaKay) is hosting the One Word Challenge for August. Amanda picked the word “reflection” for this month’s challenge. Simply create a layout with that word in mind and let it inspire you. Here is Amanda’s “reflection” page:
7. Random Challenge – Finally, the Random Challenge for August is hosted by Heather (HeatherB). For this challenge Heather wants you to create a layout using a large photo as the background for your page. Here is a perfect example of this technique created by Heather:
Challenge Galleries: (post your pages to these galleries)
There is your look at a glance of the new batch of challenges for August. Simple create your pages and post them to the appropriate galleries as listed above and then be sure to also post them to the appropriate thread in the challenge forum. See the thread HERE for further challenge guidelines and see the August Challenge Pad HERE to get started! Don’t forget to post all of your completed layouts in the Challenge Layouts thread so we can be sure to get you the proper coupon at the end of the month. I’ll be back near the end of the month to shine the spotlight on some of the pages created for these challenges! I can’t wait to see what you come up with! Happy scrapping!
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