Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here back to show off a brand new batch of monthly challenges. 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%). 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. Photography Challenge – The first challenge up for this month is our Photography Challenge hosted by Lori (lcpereyra) and she wants to challenge you to create a layout that shows off the changing of the seasons. Lori made this gorgeous layout showing the beautiful colors that come with the chaning into fall:
2. Scraplift Challenge – The Scraplift Challenge for September is hosted by our guest Polly Jan (QuiltyMom) and she has selected Kat’s Gallery to scraplift from this month. Simply go to Kat’s Gallery and select a page that you love and then create your own layout inspired by it. Jan chose this gorgeous page by Kat and then made a scraplifted version:
3. Journaling Challenge – The Journaling Challenge for November is hosted by Heather (HeatherB) and she wants to see you scrap a layout with journaling in the form of a list. She would like to see a list with at least 5 points and you can also have additional journaling if you’d like. Here is a great sample page that Heather created:
4. Template Challenge – Ashley (ashleywb), is hosting the Template Challenge for November. The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Liz of Scrapping with Liz and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Ashley created:
5. Style Challenge – This month’s Style Challenge is hosted by the fabulous Em (Justagirl) and she is bringing you a style she calls Level Up. Em wants to see a layout with a panoramic photo or a series of photos that span the top of your layout. Then to create a balanced and structured look, also add two other elements such as a title and a journaling block that span the same horizontal space. Is is a gorgeously designed layout by Em to get you started:
6. Inspiration Challenge – Our fabulous Polly Anne is jumping in to host this month’s Inspiration Challenge and has a fabulous clean white spaced Ad to serve as inspiration. Here’s a look at the ad, followed by Anne’s great layout inspired by it:
7. Random Challenge – Julie (mrs2a50) is hosting the Random Challenge for November. This month has her thinking about being thankful and would like to see your layouts about something that makes you thankful or grateful. Here’s a gorgeous page made by Julie:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Christa (cfile) tomorrow, Friday, November 2nd, when the new BYOC collection for November 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)
There you have an at-a-glance overview of 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 November 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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