Hey Chicklets!!
Yikes! October is here and the end of 2010 is in sight! It's a super busy time of year with all of the upcoming holidays, but all of the extra events means you'll have lots more photos to scrap too! It's the perfect time of year to use Sweet Rewards to stock up on your favorite goodies, so check out the amazing inspiration we have for you below and get started creating your portfolio for the month NOW!
For ease of reference, we've created a printable checklist of this month's portfolio. Click the link below to download and print!
As always, you MUST use primarily Sweet Shoppe products to complete your challenge layouts.
October 2010: Sweet Shoppe Scrapper's Portfolio
One Point Tasks - 20 Primary Points Possible
1 - Lift a layout by
Cintia Tavares, our
Treat of the Month for October, and get to know her better in this month's special feature.
2 - An 'event'ful layout - scrap a birthday party, field trip, vacation or holiday you haven't gotten around to scrapping yet.
3 - Scrap Your Day - the more photos the better!
4 - All shades of purple are very hot for fall. Scrap a layout using purple as the main color.
5 - The season's are changing. What do you look forward to in fall or spring?
6 - October looks like... Take a photo looking out your front door or a window, standing on your driveway or front porch or even what your kids are wearing to school and scrap it! You'll see this challenge again and again throughout 2010, so choose a spot or subject which will illustrate the passage of time or seasons changing in an easy to capture photo.
7 - Check out this fabulously fun and graphic
ad from Luka Lindemann Rosinski and use it as inspiration to scrap a page!
8 - October is Family History Month - create a layout that features your family tree in photos!
9 - Use bullet points to journal a list.
10 - Think pink! in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
11 - Be inspired by swedish designer
Josef Frank and create a page with a BOLD fun
background!
12 - There's an ad for that - scrap a layout featuring one of Apple's ad
slogans!
13 - Count Your Buttons Day is October 21st. Create a page that has at least 10 buttons on it!
14 - Use halloween colors to scrap a holiday-free layout! Take a look at this fabulous inspiration from
designerbrittney.
15 - Scrap your favorite candy - yum!
16 - Faceless Photos - scrap those baby toes, grandma's hands, your feet in your favorite pair of shoes! Get creative!
17 - October 2nd is Name Your Car Day. If your car had a name what would it be? Scrap a layout that features a photo of your car and what you named it!
18 - Create a layout which features a
six-word memoir.
19 - National Grouch Day is October 15th. Scrap about what makes you grouchy. Or scrap your grouchy kiddos.
20 - Animals! Animals! Animals! - Scrap about your pet, your favorite animal, or about the day you went to the zoo, aquarium or took a ride on an elephant or camel on holiday!
Two Point Tasks - 20 Primary Points Possible
21 - Use the thought provoking inspiration at
Baby Love Letters to choose a topic and create a layout which includes a letter to your child, a loved one or even yourself. (let us know which love letter prompt you were inspired by in your portfolio point tracker post too)
22 - Journal First - open up your Word processing program and write about something, anything. Now create a page based on what you wrote.
23 - Scrap a photo from YOUR childhood.
24 - Just the Facts - journal the who/what/when/where/why on your page.
25 - Something Old/Something New - scrap two layouts, one of something old that you cherish, the other of something new you cherish.
26 - Use one of
Ikea's Room Ideas as inspiration to scrap a layout.
27 - October is the tenth month - create a page with a Top Ten list on it!
28 - Paper2Digi -
Nicole Samuels
29 - Scrap a
Cliche'!
30 - World Card Making Day is October 2nd. Create a hybrid card to celebrate!
Five Point Tasks - 10 Primary Points Possible
31 - Live. Laugh. Love. Scrap it in three layouts!
32 - Book of Me 2010 - this year SSD is encouraging you to create a Book of Me Album! So often we focus on scrapping everyone else in our lives, but we're challenging you to record more of who YOU are on a regular basis throughout the year too. Pick 3 of the 5 topics below and scrap 3 layouts to earn 5 points:
32a - I want to be remembered for...
32b - I collect...
32c - My favorite comfort foods are...
32d - I'm addicted to my...
32e - My favorite guilty pleasure is...
Ten Point Task - 10 Primary Points Possible
33 - Hybrid Sweet Treats - Candy season is here and there are sooo many amazing treat projects that are perfect for the upcoming holidays. Your challenge is to create a set of 6 goodie bags, boxes, or other sweet giveaways for family, friends or co-workers. Don't skip this challenge because you're afraid of hybrid - you can do it! Here's some amazing inspiration...
Halloween Goodie Bag by Andrea Gourley
Treat Bags & Boxes by Juli Fish
Spooky Sweets by Heather Nichols
Flex Tip - Be Creative! If the challenge is asking for a TOP 10 of your favorite TV shows, feel free to scrap your husband's or child's favorite shows instead! If it's asking a question, feel free to ask the question of a loved one and scrap a page for them instead. The only time this wouldn't apply is to your Book of Me album which should be a stunning tribute to YOU!
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DON'T FORGET! As you complete layouts for our challenges, you'll be tracking them yourself in one post that you'll update throughout the month.
For October, all layouts and points need to be posted by 11:59pm EST at the end of the day on November 1st. If you're joining us for the first time this month, have a look at the amazing portfolio tracker threads from throughout the year to see how it's done!
1) Post to claim your tracker spot for the month.
2) When you finish a layout for a challenge, upload it to the gallery and right click to get the image information for your layout.
3) Return to your tracker spot you claimed in this thread, and click edit to add the image of your layout to your portfolio. You'll want to add your layout in order of the numbered list above and include that number and the points earned above your image.
4) At the very end of your portfolio, please keep a running tally of the total points earned to date.
PLEASE NOTE: Portfolio points may NOT be carried over into the following month as each month begins anew with a fresh set of inspiring challenges! Additionally, you may NOT use the same layout for more than one numbered task - each task requires a new layout.
**REWARDS NOTE** Rewards for October will be redeemable Nov 15-19 (3rd week of the month instead of 2nd)
Please don't post chatter or comments in this thread as we'd like to keep it clean and easy to check at the end of the month. If you want to give praise to your favorite prompts or layouts, feel free to chatter as much as you like in our General Info & Chatter Forum. Thanks!!
Hoping to get your inspiration in bloom,
Robin