Hello everyone! It’s a new month and that means a whole new batch of challenges here at The Lilypad. It’s Polly Karen here and I’m to give you a quick overview of all the new challenges for October. 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 October is the Style Challenge. Ashley (ashleywb) is hosting this challenge and had the creative idea to create a minimalist page using bold color. You may NOT use a white background {gasp} and you may use a MAXIMUM of 5 elements on your page. Here is a gorgeous sample layout that Ashley created:
2. Journaling Challenge – Next up we have Lori (lcpereyra) hosting the Journaling Challenge. Lori is challenging you to use the 5 w’s for your journaling; Who, What, Where, When and Why. Here is a gorgeous layout that Lori created (and that makes me really miss summer!):
3. Inspiration Challenge – This month’s Inspiration Challenge is so aptly named and is hosted by Em (Justagirl) who had the perfect idea to host a challenge all about Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is also the whole month of October. Em wants you to create a layout that includes a Pink Bow, Pink Ribbon/Ric Rac or a Strip/Band of Pink Paper. You could even take it a step further and create a predominately pink page as long as you also include the pink bow, ribbon, ric-rac or strip of pink paper. To take her amazing challenge a step further, Em is going to donate $1 AUD to the National Breast Cancer Foundation in Australia for every layout that is created for this month’s Inspiration Challenge and Laura, the most generous owner of The Lilypad has agreed to match Em’s donation! You have extra inspiration to complete this great challenge! Here is Em’s lovely pink layout, followed by a little more awareness all about Breast Cancer! Get those mammograms scheduled ladies!
4. Random Challenge – Heather (HeatherB) is hosting October’s Random Challenge and she wants this challenge to be all about Date Elements. She showed a great list of ideas for products in the forum and there is also a special Date Element Category in the store. Simply use one of these types of items to showcase the date on your layout. Here is a layout Heather created using a date element:
5. Photography Challenge – This month’s Photography Challenge is hosted by the amazing photographer Polly Rae (bcgal00). Rae is challenging you to take one or more outdoor photos that shows the weather in your area. Rae created the following gorgeous layout about the start of autumn in her area:
6. Scraplift Challenge – This month’s Scraplift Challenge is hosted by Natasha (bcnatty) and she chose the amazing Polly Amanda (amandaresende) as the scrapper to scraplift in October. Simply go to Amanda’s gallery and find one layout you love and then create your own scraplifted version. Natasha found a great layout by Amanda and then scraplifted it:
Amanda’s:
Natasha’s scraplifted version:
7. Template Challenge – Next up is the template challenge. Jenn (jk703) is hosting the Template Challenge for October. The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Elif of Sahin Designs and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Jenn created:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Christa (cfile) on Friday, October 4th when October’s BYOC Collection will be released in the store. The challenge will be to use 90% of the products on your page from October’s BYOC collection and from at least 3 designers.
Challenge Galleries: (post your pages to these galleries)
There is your 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 October 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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