Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here bringing you the monthly overview of the 7 new challenges for July. This month we are mixing up our challenges again. Next month we will be back to the same challenges as last month… Or will we? This month, we are adding a few more new challenges such as an Inspiration challenge and a Fill-It-Up Challenge.
As a reminder, based on our percentage system, you can earn three levels of coupons for the store just by participating in our monthly challenges. In addition to the coupon, if you complete all 7 challenges within the month of July, you will be entered in a drawing to win a one month guest spot on the Lilypad Creative Team! 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. One Word Challenge – Amanda (gracielou) is hosting this month’s One Word Challenge. Amanda has picked the word “Create” as the word to inspire you for July. Here is a gorgeous hybrid page created by Amanda for this challenge:
2. Journaling Challenge – This month’s Journaling Challenge is hosted by Heather (talktoheather) and she wants you to create a layout about a magical moment and include some journaling about that moment. Here is a page created by Heather to get you started:
3. Inspiration Challenge – This challenge is one of our new challenges for the month of July. Ashley (ashleywb) is hosting this fun new challenge and wants you to create a layout inspired by this quote: “Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life” -Brian Andreas. Here is a fantastic layout created by Ashley that perfectly captures the feeling of that quote:
4. Product Challenge – July’s Product Challenge is hosted by Julie (mrs2a50) and she has picked one of her favorite products, word art, for you to play with this month. Simply create a layout that uses word art and post it to the Product Challenge Gallery listed below. Here is a layout created by Julie using word art:
5. Random Challenge – Renee (renee82) is hosting the Random Challenge for July and is challenging you to create a layout using a song lyric somewhere on your page. Renee create this super cute lyric inspired layout:
6. Fill-It-Up Challenge – Heather (HeatherB) is hosting this month’s new Fill-It-Up Challenge. This is the opposite of last month’s new White Space Challenge and is the perfect opportunity to fill up your page with paper, pictures and elements! Throw it all on there! Heather is the master of creating this type of page while managing to keep everything from looking like chaos! Here is a perfect example from her:
7. BYOC Challenge – Last, but certainly not least is the BYOC Challenge. July’s BYOC Challenge will be posted to the forum tomorrow, Friday, July 3rd when all the new BYOC Products for July 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)
There you have your at-a-glance look at all of the new challenges for July. Now you can go create your own layouts inspired by these challenges 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 July 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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