Hello everyone! It’s Polly Karen here back to show off a brand new batch of monthly challenges. Each month we have 8 brand new challenges that are posted in the forum Challenge Pad on the 1st (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. Photography Challenge – Jenn (jk703) is getting us started this month with her Photography Challenge. She wants you to create a layout using a selfie. This would be a great opportunity to get yourself on your of your pages! Here’s a gorgeous early morning selfie Jenn took with her cute dog:
2. Template Challenge – Christa (cfile), is hosting the Template Challenge for September. The challenge is to use the free template supplied by Sara Gleason and create a layout using it. Here’s a look at the free template followed by a sample that Christa created:
3. Journaling Challenge – Our Guest Polly Jess (jesskab) is hosting this month’s Journaling Challenge and she wants to hear your stories about school! Create a layout and capture journaling about a school memory, either yours or someone else’s. Here’s a great sample page created by Jess:
4. Scraplift Challenge – The Scraplift Challenge for September is hosted by Heather (HeatherB) and she has selected our guest Polly Jess’s (jesskab) Gallery to scraplift from this month. Simply go to Jess’s (jesskab) Gallery and select a page that you love and then create your own layout inspired by it. Heather chose this gorgeous page by Jess and then made a scraplifted version:
5. Inspiration Challenge – The Inspiration Challenge for September is hosted by Em (Justagirl) and she wants you to create a layout featuring a single number or a single letter and make that number or letter stand out on your page. Here is a gorgeous example created by Em:
6. Style Challenge – Lori (lcpereyra) is hosting this month’s Style Challenge and she wants you to create a layout that is bright, colorful and fun. Lori is calling this style playful and can include doodles, watercolors, silly or witty word art and/or happy elements. Here’s Lori’s gorgeous “playful” layout:
7. Random Challenge – The Random Challenge for September is hosted by Ashley (ashleywb) and she wants to see you create a page about a first. The only requirements she has for you is that you must use the word “first” or “1st” somewhere on the page. Here is Ashley’s sample layout about her daughter’s first soccer tournament with a new team:
8. BYOC – Finally we have the BYOC Challenge. This challenge will be hosted and posted by Natasha (bcnatty) Friday, September 7th, when the new BYOC collection for September will be released in the store. This challenge is to use 90% of the products on your page from the current BYOC collection and from at least 3 designers.
Challenge Galleries: (post your pages to these galleries)
There you have an 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 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!
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