October Challenges
Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen back again to give you a quick overview of all the new challenges for September. 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. Template Challenge – Christa (cfile) is hosting the Template Challenge for October. The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Allison Pennington and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Christa created:
2. Inspiration Challenge – This month’s Inspiration Challenge is hosted by Ashley (ashleywb) and she would like you to be inspired by a lovely mood board this month (shown below). You may draw inspiration from the colors, the perspective of the photos, the natural elements, the quote (starting over sounds good about now!), etc. Here’s a look at the mood board and a wonderful layout Ashley created:
3. Journaling Challenge – Em (Justagirl) is hosting this month’s Journaling Challenge. Em is challenging you to create a layout that includes 50 words or more about what brings you joy. Here is a super adorable layout she made about the bond between her husband and their son:
4. Random Challenge – October’s Random Challenge is hosted by Heather (HeatherB) who would like you to at a little interest to a block of text on your page by adding a mix of fonts and colors within your text. Heather would like to see at least 3 fonts and at least 3 colors in your journaling. Here’s a great sample page she made for inspiration:
5. Style Challenge – The Style Challenge for this month is being hosted by Jenn McCabe. Jenn would like you to play with the Tone on Tone style. This means using different tones, shades or tints of one color. In Jenn’s gorgeous sample layout she used many tones and shades of teal:
6. Photography Challenge – The Photography Challenge for October is hosted by Jenn (jk703). Jenn is challenging you to create a layout that features a photo that captures an antonym word pair. For instance backward/forward, big/small, dangerous/safe, early/late, happy/sad, fade/brighten, etc. Your word pair can be any set of antonyms you choose. Jenn chose Giant/Tiny for her word pair that is clearly on display in her gorgeous photo:
7. Scraplift Challenge – This month’s Scraplift Challenge is hosted by Natasha (bcnatty) and she chose the very talented Thuria’s Gallery to scraplift from in October. Simply go to Thuria’s Gallery and find one layout you love and then create your own scraplifted version. Natasha found a great layout and then scraplifted it:
Thuria’s layout:
Natasha’s scraplifted version:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Lori (lcpereyra) tomorrow, Friday, October 2nd when the BYOC Collection for October 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 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!
