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**CLOSED** JANUARY 2: FEATURE MONOGRAM

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bellbird

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Happy New Year, Everyone!
We're heading in to the next chapter today by focusing on a significant letter of your choice
and making it a dominant feature in your layout design. Your page will be built around a large, single letter monogram.​

For this challenge, the letter can be a font or alpha but must cover at least a third of your page.
It will also need to be integral to your page design and needs to have elements or (parts of) photos both over and under it, like the letter layer is a middle layer of a sandwich on your page.
The letter you have chosen should still be recognisable as a letter after adding to it.
For this challenge, simply using the letter as a clipping mask for a paper, photo or applying a style is not enough.


Here are some example pages I've made as inspiration that use different methods to feature different monogram letters:

  • For this first page, I started with a large typed font letter B with a paper clipped to it for subtle pattern. That in itself does not count. To sandwich it, I have used orangey paint behind the letter and flowers overlapping the bottom part of the B, but also by masking the photo, it looks like the blue balloon is 'under' the B, while my son and the red balloon are 'over' the letter, incorporating it into the photo and cluster.
    • monogram-Bphoto-joyce-jaimmeNovBYOC-800px.jpg
  • For this more artsy example page, I've used Pixel Giraffe stamps and a letter F from Kim Jensen that features a see-through vellum panel to show the stamps under the letter that also peek out the sides, as well as using the flamingo photos over the edge of the letter to sandwich it.
    • monogramF-KimJ-PGD-Joyce-800px.jpg
  • And I started this final page with a fancy capital G in a font. It has stickers over and under it as well as the extracted photos over it. It is the sticker sandwiching here that is important for the challenge. The flower cut outs are directly on the letter layer itself, not over or under so do not count considering the challenge requirements.
    • Monogram-G-LM-FallowVale-ProjMouse-EssFlwrs-800px.jpg
Here are my tips for you, like a checklist, for today's challenge:
  • Start with your letter, whichever you choose, in any font or alpha you choose, just ensure it fills at least a third of your page.
  • Build your layout around the letter.
  • You can use cut-outs or clipping masks to alter the letter itself but make sure to add layers both over and under it, overlapping your letter to sandwich it on the layout.
  • Make sure your letter is still recognisable as a letter.
  • Photos and other text or word art are optional but remember there needs to be product like elements and/or papers on the page, not just a font and photos in line with the general MOC rules.
Looking forward to seeing your pages! ​


***Here is our general MOC layout and posting reminder:

Your page must be a new page in order to count for the Month of Challenges. Your page must be posted in three places:
  1. Uploaded to the TLP Gallery (not an outside hosting site).
  2. Posted in your page thread you created in the MOC Layouts Folder. You should have one post per completed challenge page. If you complete all 31 challenges, your thread should contain 31 posts. Please do not comment in the participants’ page threads so we can keep them clean.
  3. Posted in this thread. People can comment here if they wish.
***Please use the Copy GALLERY BB code found on the right side of the gallery when posting your pages to the MOC Layouts Folder thread and to this challenge thread. *** 100% THIS!!! Just copy and paste that code in the red circled box into your reply for easy linking so we can go straight to your page with just a click!
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Your page must contain Lilypad product (pages with photos and font only do not count). Product from other stores will not be allowed for MOC; your pages must contain 100% Lilypad product (current or retired product from designers or guest designers presently selling at The Lilypad).
 
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Clarification:
bellbird said:
For this challenge, the letter can be a font or alpha but must cover at least a third of your page.
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The letter needs to be at least a third of the size of the PAGE, not a third the length or height of the page.
In this challenge, bigger is better. The letter should take up a lot of space. I will be messaging people if their letter isn't big enough to fit this requirement



bellbird said:
[] Your page will be built around a large, single letter monogram.[/]
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A monogram is not a word. It is a letter that represents something. (think monogram necklaces that just have an initial or a couples last name first initial that you might have on a wedding invitation or embroidered on bathtowels). In my samples, the letter stands alone. The letter can be the start of a word but the first letter needs to dominate the page (fill at least a third of the page area) and be so much larger than the rest of the word.
 
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