Hello everyone! Polly Karen here! It’s October and I’m here to show off the 8 monthly challenges that the Challenge Polly’s have created for this month. 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%). This month we have one change. 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 GC prize!!! Woo-hoo! So let’s take a look at this month’s new batch of challenges!
1. Inspiration Challenge – First up for the month of October is the Inspiration Challenge. This challenge is being hosted by Jenn (jk703) and she is challenging you to create a layout with blending of two or more colors in your background. Here is a gorgeous samply layout created by Jenn:
2. Template Challenge – Cynthia (MrsPeel) is hosting October’s Template Challenge. The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Jaimee of Just Jaimee and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample created by Cynthia:
3. Style Challenge – The Style Challenge for this month is hosted by Natasha (bcnatty) and she wants you to create a page and use a large photo (at least half the page). Here is a gorgeous layout she created with an adorable full background photo:
4. Scraplift Challenge – October’s scraplift challenge is hosted by Ashley (ashleywb). She is giving you the freedom to pick any layout from the Lilypad Gallery that you love and then create a scraplifted version inspired by it. Ashley picked this page from the gallery and then created the following scraplifted layout:
5. Random Challenge – The Random Challenge for October is being hosted by our fabulous Guest Polly Elisa (EHStudios). Her challenge for you this month is in celebration of her 7 year anniversary of joining the Lilypad… so she is doing a recipe challenge with a bunch of 7s:
– 7 words or 7 sentences
– 7 different papers or 7 paper shapes
– 7 photos or 1 photo repeated 7 times
– 7 elements (minimalist) or 7 distinct groups of elements (cluster fun)
– 7 different designers (store collabs are ok!) or 7 kits by 1 designer
– the number 7 or 7 numbers somewhere on the page (dates count!)
– Add a title! (this can count with your 7 words or for an element if needed, & doesn’t count against those)
Here is a layout Elisa created from her recipe:
6. Photography Challenge – Heather (talktoheather) is hosting the Photography Challenge for October. Heather would like you to scrap at least two photos on your page that tell a story. You can use more if you would like to, but use at least two photos. Here is an adorable layout Heather created:
7. Journaling Challenge – Lori (lcpereyra) is hosting the October Journaling Challenge. The challenge is to create a layout that includes journaling about some of your favorite things. Here is a gorgeous sample layout created by Lori:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Heather (HeatherB) on Friday October 6th, when the new BYOC collection for October 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)
Wow! Another month and another fabulous batch of challenges created by our Pollys and Guest 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 October 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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