Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen back again with a look at our new batch of monthly challenges for March. 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. Style Challenge – The first challenge up for March is the Style Challenge hosted by Stefanie (Eyeore) and she is challenging you to create a layout that features circles in some way on your layout. Here’s a great sample layout that Stefanie created to get you started:
2. Random Challenge – The Random Challenge for March is hosted by Jenn (jk703) and gives you a bit of a choice in your layout. Jenn would like you to choose to scrap about either the End of Winter OR tthe Start of Spring. Jenn also listed a set of words for each season to inspire your layout. You can find those words in the forum thread. Here’s a layout the Lisa (Jenn’s computer is dead) created for this challenge:
3. Template Challenge – Next up is the Template Challenge hosted by Christa (cfile). 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 Christa created using it:
4. Scraplift Challenge – The next challenge for this month is the Scraplift Challenge by Natasha (bcnatty). Natasha chose one of our longtime members, Carrrie (Carrie1977) as the artist to scraplift this month. Simply pick one layout from the Carries’s (Carrie1977’s) Gallery and then create your own scraplifted version. Here is a layout that Natasha picked followed by her scraplifted version:
5. Inspiration Challenge – The Inspiration Challenge for March is being hosted by Cynthia (MrsPeel) and Cynthia is challenging you to create a layout inspired by 6 different layout that she picked. She want you to find something from at least 3 of these layouts that inspires you and create your layout layout from that inspiration. Here’s a look at the 6 layouts she picked:
6. Journaling Challenge – The Journaling Challenge for this month, hosted by Heather (HeatherB) is to create a layout that includes journaling with 10 words or less! This will make the non-journalers among us happy! Ha ha! Here’s a great example layout that Heather created:
7. Photography Challenge – The next challenge for March is the Photography Challenge hosted by Lori (lcpereyra). Lori would like you to take a photograph of something that brings you a moment of peace and then create a layout using that photo. Here’s a gorgeous layout that Lori created from her photo of being outside in nature which brings her peace:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Ashley (ashleywb) on Friday, March 4th, when the BYOC Collection for March 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 March 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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