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. BYOC Challenge – It’s a rather rare occasion that we have all 8 monthly challenges posted on the same day, but this month, the first Friday of the month is also on the first day of the month, so let’s start off with our BYOC Challenge for April. This challenge is hosted by Christa (cfile) and the challenge is to use 90% of the products on your page from this month’s BYOC collection and from at least 3 designers. Here is a great sample layout that Christa made:
2. Inspiration Challenge – The Inspiration Challenge for April is being hosted by Jen (AKA JenEm) and she would like you to create a layout that is inspired by the artwork on a record album cover (like a record music album). Here’s a peek at a album cover by Joni Mitchel that Jen used as her inspiration followed by the layout she created:
3. Scraplift Challenge – The next challenge for this month is the Scraplift Challenge hosted by Ashley (ashleywb). Ashley chose the inspiration packed March Froggy Favorites Gallery for you to scraplift from this month. Simply pick one layout from March Froggy Favorites Gallery and then create your own scraplifted version. Here is a layout that Ashley picked followed by her scraplifted version:
4. Random Challenge – The Random Challenge for April is being hosted by Lori (lcpereyra) and she would like to challenge you to create a layout using a fun Bingo card. Just pick one row (vertical, horizontal or diagonal) and use those five items to create your own layout. Here’s a peek at the Bingo card followed by Lori’s layout:
5. Style Challenge – The next challenge for April is the Style Challenge hosted by Stefanie (Eyeore). Stefanie is challenging you to create a layout with a split background created with two distinct pieces of paper that split the background. Are are not one, but two fabulous examples that Stefanie created:
6. Photography Challenge – The Photography Challenge for this month is hosted by Courtney (bestcee) and she is challenging you to use two photos on your layout. The two photos should be on the same subject. One photo should be a close up version and the other should be of the same subject, but stepped back. Here’s a sample layout that Courtney created with her two photos of daffodils:
7. Template Challenge – Next up is the Template Challenge hosted by Heather (HeatherB). 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 Heather created using it:
8. Journaling Challenge – The final challenge for the month of April is the Journaling challenge which is hosted by Natasha (bcnatty). Natasha would like you to create a layout that uses a list of at least 7 items for your journaling. Here’s an amazing layout Natasha created about her son’s taste in music:
Challenge Galleries: (post your pages to these galleries)
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!
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