April Challenges
Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen back again with a look at our new batch of monthly challenges for April. Each month we have 8 brand new challenges that are posted in the forum Challenge Pad on the 1st day of the month. (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. Inspiration Challenge – The first challenge up for April is the Inspiration Challenge hosted by Kayla (keepscrappin) and she is challenging you to create a layout with at least 3 different doodles on your layout. Check out the Doodle section in the store and have fun with them. Here’s a great doodled page created by Kayla:
2. Journaling Challenge – The Journaling Challenge for April is being hosted by Jenn (jk703). Jenn is challenging you to create a layout that uses 1 of 5 provided prompts and then journal at least 5 sentences based on whichever prompt you pick from her list. Jenn picked prompt #1 from the list and created this great layout:
3. Style Challenge – The Style Challenge for this month is being hosted by Natasha (bcnatty) and she has a fun challenge for you. Natasha wants you to create a layout with three distinct parts, either 3 rows or 3 columns. They can overlap a bit, but must still be 3 distinct parts. Natasha went above and beyond even created two layouts; 1 with 3 rows and 1 with 3 columns:
4. Random Challenge – The next challenge up for April is the Random Challenge hosted by Lori (lcpereyra) and her challenge to you is to include at least 3 tags on your layout, with at least 3 embellishments on each tag. Here’s a great sample layout that Lori created:
5. Scraplift Challenge – The next challenge for this month is the Scraplift Challenge hosted by Heather (HeatherB). Heather has selected our current Guest Pollys to scraplift this month. Simply pick one layout from one of their galleries and then create your own scraplifted version. Here is the list of Guest Polly’s: Anja (@frutselke)
Candy (@ctmm4)
Dawn (@Aussiegirl)
Jennifer (@littlekiwi)
Kelly (@KayTeaPea)
Susie (@Pachimac)
Trina (@tjscraps)
Here is a look at the layout Heather picked from Kelly’s Gallery followed by her scraplifted version:
6. Photography Challenge – The Photography Challenge for April is hosted by Courtney (bestcee) and she is challenging you to capture a photo of “Architecture” and then create a layout featuring that photo (or photos). Here’s a sample layout that Courtney created:
7. Template Challenge – Next up is the Template Challenge hosted by Christa (cfile). The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Designed by Soco and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Christa created using it:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Ashley (ashleywb) Friday, April 7th when the BYOC Collection for April will be released in the store. The challenge will be to use 90% of the products on your page from this month’s BYOC collection and from at least 3 designers.
There is your peek at this month’s brand new batch of challenges. 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 April 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!
