Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen back again to give you a quick overview of all the new challenges for November. 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. Scraplift Challenge – This month’s Scraplift Challenge is hosted by Christa (cfile) and she chose the very talented Polly Jenn’s (AKA jk703) Gallery to scraplift from in October. Simply go to Jenn’s Gallery and find one layout you love and then create your own scraplifted version. Christa found a super fun layout and then scraplifted it:
Jenn’s LO:
Christa’s version:
2. Inspiration Challenge – The Inspiration Challenge for November is hosted by Lori (AKA lcpereyra) and she would like to inspire you with one of her favorites quotes: “Every day may not by good, but there is good in every day”. This quote seems very appropriate right now and Lori would like to challenge you to create a layout about something good in your day. Here’s a great example layout that she created:
3. Random Challenge – This month’s Random Challenge is being hosted by Ashley (AKA ashleywb) and she is taking the guess work out of your page by giving you a recipe to follow. Your page must include the following: A solid background paper, 1 or 2 photos, up to 3 patterned papers, 1 word are OR 1 title, up to 5 elements and journaling in optional. Here’s a great layout Ashley created from her own recipe:
4. Template Challenge – Natasha (bcnatty) is hosting the Template Challenge for November. The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Paula Kesselring and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Natasha created:
5. Photography Challenge – This month’s Photography Challenge is hosted by Jenn McCabe who always inspires me with her photography skills. This month Jenn would like you to take a photo of something patriotic that you are grateful for. Jenn created the following layout that brought tears to my eyes with both the fabulous photo of her son and the heartbreaking journaling she included:
6. Journaling Challenge – The Journaling Challenge for November is being hosted by Heather (AKA Heather B) and she is challenging you to create a layout with journaling that includes the 5 “Ws” (Who, What, When Where and Why). Here’s a layout that Heather created including her 5 Ws:
7. Style Challenge – Em (Justagirl) is hosting the Style Challenge for November. Em would like you to practice your mixing abilities and create a layout that uses a minimum of THREE Autumn inspired patterned papers. Here is a gorgeous sample layout that Em created:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Jenn (jk703) on Friday, November 6th when the BYOC Collection for November 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 quick 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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