Hello everyone! This is Polly Karen here bringing you a quick overview of the new monthly challenges that were just posted to the forum on the 1st of the 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 December, 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. Random Challenge – Julie (mrs2a50) is hosting December’s Random Challenge and has decided to challenge you to use products from at least 4 different designers and at least 4 different kits. Here is a gorgeous sample page she created:
2. Template Challenge – Renee (renee82) is hosting this month’s template challenge and the free template for December is provided by the awesome Allison Pennington. Click on the image below to get this gorgeous template and then check out Renee’s fabulous page using the template below that.
3. Scraplift Challenge – December’s Scraplift challenge is hosted by Heather (talktoheather) and she has selected the ever talented ChantalK’s gallery to scraplift from. Simply go to ChantalK’s Gallery and pick a page that inspires you a create your own scraplifted layout. Heather created this fun page from one of Chantal’s:
4. One Word Challenge – Heather (HeatherB) is hosting this month’s One Word Challenge. She wants you to create a page about a “_______ Day”, i.e. Christmas Day, A Summer Day, Happy Day, etc. Here is a fabulous sample page created by Heather about a “Snow Day”:
5. Journaling Challenge – Amanda (gracielou) is hosting December’s Journaling Challenge and wants you to scrap about a Christmas list. It can be your Christmas List or maybe your kid’s Christmas list. Amanda created a super cute layout with her kids’ wishes:
6. Product Challenge – Dana is hosting this month’s Product Challenge and has picked out templates (hooray) as the product to play with this month. You simply need to create a layout using a template of your choice, but Dana also wants you to rotate the template by 90, -90 or 180° for a fun twist. Here is a sweet layout created by Dana to get you started:
7. BYOC Challenge – Last but certainly not least is the BYOC Challenge. December’s BYOC Challenge will be posted to the forum on Friday, December 5th when all the new BYOC Products for December will be released in the store. This challenge, hosted by Amanda (MandaKay), is to use 90% of the products on your page from the current BYOC collection and from at least 3 designers.
Challenge Galleries: (post your pages to these galleries)
This is a peek at all of the new challenges for December. Now you can go create your own layouts inspired by these challenge and then post them to the appropriate galleries as listed above. 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 December 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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