Hello everyone! Polly Karen here! It’s July and I’m here to show off the 8 monthly challenges that the Challenge Polly’s have created for this month. Each month we have 8 brand new challenges that are posted in the forum Challenge Pad on the 1st (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%). This month we have one change. 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 GC prize!!! Woo-hoo! So let’s take a look at this month’s new batch of challenges!
1. Inspiration Challenge – July’s Inspiration Challenge is hosted by Julie (mrs2a50) and she is challenging you to create a layout about your every day moments. Here is a perfect example layout created by Julie:
2. Template Challenge – Renee (renee82) is hosting July’s Template Challenge. The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Liz of Paislee Press and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample created by Renee:
3. Scraplift Challenge – July’s scraplift challenge, hosted by Heather (talktoheather) is to find a layout in Cheryl’s (gonewiththewind’s gallery that you love and then create a layout inspired by her page. Heather picked this page from Cheryl’s gallery and then created the following scraplifted layout:
4. Photography Challenge – Heather (HeatherB) is hosting this month’s Photography Challenge and she wants you to create a layout using at least 2 photos pieced together to create a bigger photo, like creating a panaramic with individual overlapping photos: Here’s a cool sample layout created by Heather:
5. Journaling Challenge – Lori (lcpereyra) is hosting July’s Journaling Challenge and with the busy days of summer, she is challenging you to captured the “currently” of your life right now. Lori created this great layout to inspire you:
6. Style Challenge – I (Karen) am super excited to get to host another challenge this month. Since summer is travel season for a lot of people, I wanted to catch up on my own travel photos and I usually do that with pocket style pages. So this month I’m challenge you to create any pocket style page. Here is one of my pages from a recent camping trip:
7. Random Challenge – Ashley (ashleywb) is hosting the Random Challenge for July. Ashley would like you to create a layout with at least 5 layers behind your photo (or photos). Here is an awesome sample layout she created:
8. BYOC Challenge – Last but not least we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by our MOC Guest Polly Stephanie (Eyeore) on Friday July 7th, when the new BYOC collection for July will be released in the store. This challenge is to use 90% of the products on your page from the current BYOC collection and from at least 3 designers.
Challenge Galleries: (post your pages to these galleries)
I really love writing up these posts each month and seeing the creative ideas our Polly’s come up with each month!! 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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