Happy New Year everyone! With the new year we have a TON of new challenges for you! There will be no post holiday let down around here, no way! We have 7 brand new monthly challenges that you can complete in order to earn a nice coupon off your next purchase in the Store. (2 challenges complete = 10%, 4 challenges complete = 20% and 6 challenges complete = 30%) If you complete all 7 challenges, in addition to your coupon, you will be entered in a drawing to win 1 of 2 one month guest spots on the Creative Team (to be a Polly). Now, if that isn’t enough of a challenge for you we also are just starting the 2nd annual Month of Challenges (MOC). There will be a new challenge posted every day in January. Everyone who completes all 31 challenges by February 2nd will receive a $20 gift certificate to the store. Nice! Each daily challenge will have one individual winner who will win a $3 gift certificate. The biggest prize from the Month of Challenges is that one person will be picked from all of those who complete all 31 challenges, and they will win a permanent spot on the Creative Team! Wowza! There is a lot going on! We also have Polly Picks Challenges, Trend Watch Challenges and Art Journaling challenges all with their own prizes too. So, if you are in the mood to kick your scrapping into high gear, we have all kinds of motivation to get you started. Here is a look at the 7 new monthly challenges:
1. BYOC Challenge – The challenge is to use 90% of the products on your page from this month’s BYOC collection AND use products from at least 3 designers. This should be an easy one since the BYOC collections are designed with a common color palette they are perfect for mix and matching! Here is a sample layout created by this month’s host Amanda (MandaKay):
2. One Word Challenge – Renee (renee82) is hosting January’s One Word Challenge and she has picked “The Good Stuff” as the phase to kick start you for this challenge. Here is a sample page to get you started by Renee:
3. Random Challenge – Heather (talktoheather) is the host for this month’s Random Challenge. This challenge is all about the number 14 in honor of our new year 2014. Heather wants you to use exactly 14 of any one item on your page. She used 14 buttons on her sample page here:
4. Template Challenge – Amy Martin has provided a fabulous free template for this month’s template challenge. You can find it in the store by clicking on the image below. The challenge is simply to use this template to create your own layout. You can use it as is or flip it or rotate it, however it inspires you.
5. Product Challenge – The January Product Challenge is hosted by Heather (HeatherB) and she has selected patterned papers as the product to play with this month. She wants to see at least 3 patterned papers on your layout. He is a page created by Heather:
6. Journaling Challenge – Julie (mrs2a50) is hosting this month’s Journaling Challenge. Julie wants you to reflect back on 2013 and journal about something (things) that happened last year or recap the whole year. Here is a sample page created by Julie:
7. Scraplift Challenge – Amanda (gracielou) is host for the Scraplift Challenge this month. Amanda has wisely selected the fabulous Melissa (mlewis) as the scrapper to lift in January. You can find Melissa’s gallery HERE. Amanda choose the following page to scraplift:
by Melissa:
and Amanda’s lifted version:
Challenge Galleries: (post your pages to these galleries)
There is your look at the 7 new challenges for January. If you have any further questions please check out the January Challenge Forum and the Challenge Guidelines. Remember to grab a spot in the Challenge Layouts Thread and post all of your completed challenge pages in that thread so we are sure to get you the correct coupon at the end of the month. Happy scrapping!
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