Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen back again with a look at our new batch of monthly 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. Scraplift Challenge – The first challenge for this month is the Scraplift Challenge hosted by Christa (cfile). Christa chose the our brand new Polly Monica (AKA umyesh) for you to scraplift from this month. Simply pick one layout from Monica’s Gallery and then create your own scraplifted version. Here is a layout that Christa picked followed by her scraplifted version:
2. Journaling Challenge – The Journaling Challenge for September is hosted by Natasha (bcnatty) and she is challenging you to create a layout with at least 10 sentences of journaling about a vacation that you have taken. Here is a stunning layout she created about a vacation she just took:
3. Template Challenge – The next challenge up for September is the Template Challenge hosted by Heather (HeatherB). The challenge is to use the free template supplied by NBK Designs and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Heather created using it:
4. Photography Challenge – The Photography Challenge for this month is hosted by Jen (JenEm) and she would like you to capture a photo inspired by the word “Change.” You could photography a change of season outside, or you could capture a time of transition that occurs as many send kids back to school, just for a few ideas. Here is a gorgeous layout created by Jen:
5. Inspiration Challenge – Stefanie (Eyeore) is hosting the Inspiration Challenge for September and would like you to create a layout with inspiration drawn from at least of the sample layouts she included in here forum thread HERE. Simply pick one thing that inspires you from each of three layouts and combine those features together on your new layout. Here’s a great sample layout created by Stefanie:
6. Random Challenge – The Random Challenge for this month is being hosted by Kayla (keepscrappin) and she would like you to incorporated vellum creatively on your layout. Kayla clipped a patterned paper to the vellum cut out layer in her template to highlight her gorgeous photo:
7. Style Challenge – The next challenge for September is the Style Challenge hosted by Courtney (bestcee) and she is challenge you to create a double page layout. I personally love double page layouts, especially since I always take too many pictures and have a hard time narrowing down which pictures to use. On a double page spread, you can have LOTS of pictures. Ha ha! Here’s a sample two page layout created by Courtney:
8. BYOC Challenge – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Lori (lcpereyra) tomorrow, Friday, September 2nd, when the BYOC Collection for September 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 September 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!
Christa says
Great post Karen!!!