Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen back again to give you a quick overview of all the new challenges for July. 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. Random Challenge – The first challenge up for July is the Random Challenge hosted by Lori (lcpereyra). Lori would like you to spend some time playing with digital fasteners like staples, washi tape, and stitching. Her challenge to you is to use at least one of each of the following on your layout: 1 staple, 1 bit of washi tape and 1 stitching element. You can use more if you’d like. Here’s a sample layout that Lori created with her digital fasteners:
2. Template Challenge – Next up is the Template Challenge hosted by Natasha (bcnatty). The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Rachel Jefferies and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Natasha created using it:
3. Journaling Challenge – The Journaling Challenge for July is hosted by Jenn (jk703). Jenn would like you to choose a name that you go by, whether your given name or a nick name and create a layout with journaling about that name. You must include at least 7 sentences about your name for your journaling. Here’s a gorgeous sample layout that Jenn created:
4. Inspiration Challenge – Ashley (ashleywb) is hosting the Inspiration Challenge for this month. Ashley would like you to gather inspiration from an American painter name Jesse Mockrin who is known for lifting scenes from old master’s painting and cropping them to focus of specific body parts. Below you can see some examples of her art, followed by a layout Ashley created:
5. Style Challenge – The next challenge for this month is the Style Challenge, hosted by Jenn (jenn mccabe). Jenn is challenging you to incorporate symmetry or mirror images into your layout. Here are some great examples of symmetry in art, followed by the layout Jenn created incorporating symmetry:
6. Photography Challenge – The Photography Challenge for July is being hosted by Farrah (FarrahJobling) and she would like you to combine a photo with words. She is challenging you to take a photo and add an unusual word with it’s definition on top of your photo. Here are a bunch of great examples that Farrah put together to get you started:
7. Scraplift Challenge – The first challenge for the month of June is the scraplift challenge and is being hosted by Christa (cfile). Heather has selected our THREE guest Pollys for you to scraplift. Your challenge is to pick just one layout in either Anne-Marie’s (A-M) or Olga’s (zinzilah) or Ferdy’s (Ferdy) gallery and then create your own scraplifted version. Here is a layout that Christa chose followed by her scraplifted version:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Heather (HeatherB) on tomorrow, Friday, July 2nd when the BYOC Collection for July 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.
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 July 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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