September Challenges
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. Style Challenge – The first challenge up for September is the Style Challenge hosted by Christa (cfile). Christa is challenging you to create a layout that is divided into quadrants and then fill just two of those quadrants with elements and photos. The other quadrants can only have journaling and a title (or they can be blank). Here’s an image of the different ways a page can be divided into quadrants, followed by Christa’s sample layout.
2. Random Challenge – The next challenge for this month is hosted by Heather (HeatherB) and she would like you to create a layout with a minimum of 5 labels and/or tags on the page. Here’s a look at Heather’s sample layout:
3. Scraplift Challenge – Kayla (keepscrappin) is hosting the Scraplift Challenge for September and she has to decided to have a round of double scraplifting this month. Simply go to the Scraplift Challenge Gallery and find a layout that you love and then create a new scraplifted version of it. That’s a scraplift of a scraplift, hence the double scraplift. Here is a look at a layout that Kayla picked from the scraplift gallery, followed by her scraplifted version:
4. Template Challenge – The Template Challenge for September is being hosted by Jenn (jk703). All you have to do to play along is download the free template made by Paula Kesselring and then create a layout using that fun template. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample layout that Jenn made using it:
5. Journaling Challenge – This month’s journaling challenge is hosted by Courtney (bestcee) and she would like you to create a layout that includes journaling about a major world or country event in your life and your experience in relation to that event. Here’s a sample layout Courtney created for this challenge:
6. Inspiration Challenge – The next challenge for September is the Inspiration Challenge which is being hosted by Ashley (ashleywb). Ashley would like to draw inspiration from typography this month, specifically on arranging type in fun and eye catching ways. Ashley has shown some great examples of interesting typography in the forum thread and then created that following create layout with her take on arranging typography:
7. BYOC Challenge – Next up we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will is hosted by Natasha (bcnatty) and the challenge is to use 90% of the products on your page from this month’s BYOC collection and from at least 3 designers. Here’s a great sample layout created by Natasha with this month’s BYOC:
8. Photography Challenge – Last but not least, we have the Photography Challenge for September hosted by Lori (lcpereyra). Lori is challenging you to select you subject and the practice taking a lot of photos of that one subject. She suggests exploring different angles, depths of field, compositions and framing. Then select at least three photos of your subject and create and layout with them. Here’s a sample layout created by Lori:
There is your quick 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!
