June Challenges
Hello everyone and happy spring! It’s Polly Karen here. I’m here with a look at the new batch of monthly challenges. This year we added one more challenge each month to give you more opportunities for creating pages! Now instead of 7 monthly challenges, we’ve added an eighth challenge. You do not have to complete all 8 challenges in order to have a change to win a guest spot on the creative team either, we added another one for those who have requested more challenges and you still only have to complete 7 of them to be considered for a guest spot on the creative team! You can choose one to skip if you want! So, mostly everything remains the same. You complete challenges in order to earn a coupon of your next purchase in the store (2 challenges = 10%, 4 challenges = 20% and 6 challenges = 30%) AND everyone who completes at least 7 challenges will be considered for a one month guest spot on the creative team (The Pollys). So let’s take a look at this month’s new batch of challenges!
1. Style Challenge – Julie (mrs2a50) is hosting June’s Style Challenge and she is challenging you to create an element cluster on a layout this month. Here is a layout Julie created with a gorgeous cluster:
2. Template Challenge – June’s template challenge is hosted by Renee (renee82) and the free template has been provided by the generous Scrapping with Liz. All you have to do to play along is download the free template and complete a layout using it. Here’s a look at the template followed by a layout created by Renee:
3. Scraplift Challenge – The Scraplift Challenge for June is hosted by Heather (HeatherB) and she is challenging you to scraplift a page from any of the Polly’s galleries. You can find the list of Pollywogs here. Simple pick a layout that inspires you and create a new page based on that layout. Here is a layout from Cynthia’s gallery followed by Heather’s scraplifted version:
4. Photography Challenge – Lori (lcpereyra) is hosting this month’s Photography Challenge. Lori wants you to focus on photos with negative space. She has some stunning examples in the forum to get you started. Here is a sample layout Lori created using her own negative space photo:
5. Inspiration Challenge – June’s Inspiration Challenge is hosted by Kimberlee (scrapsandsass) and she has create a super fun mood board to inspire you this month. All you have to do is draw inspiration from her mood board and then create a layout based on that inspiration. Here is a peek at Kimberlee’s awesome mood board:
6. Random Challenge – The Random Challenge for June is hosted by Ashley (ashleywb) and she is challenging you to create a layout with complimentary colors (colors on opposite sides of the color wheel). Ashley created this gorgeous layout using the complimentary colors blue and orange:
7. Journaling Challenge – Heather (talktoheather) is host of June’s Journaling Challenge. Heather’s challenge is to include journaling on your layout about a time that took your breath away. Here is a fun sample layout that she created:
8. BYOC Challenge – Last, but certainly not least is the BYOC Challenge. June’s BYOC Challenge will be posted to the forum on tomorrow, Friday, June 3rd when all the new BYOC Products for June 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)
Another month and another 8 great new challenges to keep you busy scrapping. 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 June 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!
