Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here back to show off a new batch of monthly challenges. Each month we have 8 brand new challenges that are posted in the forum Challenge Pad on the 1st (the BYOC Challenge is posted on the 1st Friday of the month.) You can use the challenges simply to inspire you to keep creating new layouts OR you can also earn yourself a fabulous coupon for your next shopping trip in the Lilypad Store. (2 challenges = 10%, 4 challenges = 20% and 6 challenges = 30%). Those who complete at least 7 challenges will be entered in a drawing for a $50 gift certificate! Isn’t that an awesome prize?!?! You’ll get lots of great memories captured in your scrapbooks AND you could win a fat gift certificate prize!!! Pretty great, right?! So let’s take a look at this month’s new batch of challenges!
1. Random Challenge – Lori (lcpereyra) is starting us off this month with hosting the Random Challenge. Lori wants you to pull out your washi tape and use it on a layout this month. Here’s a sample layout she created with her own washi stash:
2. Style Challenge – The Style Challenge for March is hosted by Jenn (jk703) and she wants you to create a layout using a graphic style for your page design. That means using clean lines, multiple images and a big title. Here’s a gorgeous double page spread that Jenn created with this style (double pager is not required):
3. Journaling Challenge – Heather (HeatherB) is hosting the Journaling Challenge for March and she wants you to create a layout using questions and answers from an interview for your journaling. Heather also created a double page layout for her sample (again, double pager is not required) with interviews from both of her boys:
4. Scraplift Challenge – March’s scraplift challenge is hosted by Julie (mrs2a50). Julie has selected our four brand new Pollys (winners from the MOC6) as the scrappers to scraplift this month. Simply look through their galleries and pick a layout you love and then create a scraplifted version inspired by it. Here are the four new Polly’s galleries:
Christa (cfile)
Em (justagirl)
Anne Mieke (MiekSter)
Tracie (tkradtke)
Julie picked a layout from the gallery of MiekSter and then created the following scraplifted layout:
5. Photography Challenge – The Photography Challenge for this month is being hosted by Ashley (ashleywb) and she would like you to focus on composition of your photos this month using Leading Lines. Simply take a photo that uses a leading line (great samples in the challenge thread) and then create a layout using your photo. Here is a layout that Ashley created with her leading line photo:
6. Template Challenge – One of our fabulous new Pollys, Christa (cfile), is hosting the Template Challenge for March. The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Dawn Inskip and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Christa created:
7. Inspiration Challenge – The Inspiration Challenge for March is being hosted by another one of our awesome new Pollys, Em (Justagirl). Em would like to inspire you to create a layout using a Bunting. She created a Pinterest board with lots of great inspiration to get you started too along with her gorgeous sample layout:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Cynthia (MrsPeel) tomorrow, Friday March 2nd, when the new BYOC collection for March will be released in the store. This challenge 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)
Yay! Another fabulous month and another set of inspiring challenges by our Pollys. Once you create your own layouts inspired by these challenges, be sure to 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 March 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 my 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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