Sweet Shoppe Challenge Bingo: January 2016

[Robin Carlton]

Happy New Year Sweet Shoppers!

Bingo is back for 2016, and we're so excited to share that it's had a facelift for the upcoming year! I have a wonderful team behind me here at SSD and our challenge system is a total team effort! This year's challenges will all be curated by SugarBabe Juli from suggestions made by our entire team, our gorgeous monthly tracker cards all created by SugarBabe Loni and our fabulous challenge fairy who will make sure you get your Sweet Rewards at the end of each month is SugarBabe Lydia! Of course, there's Libby who is truly my right arm around here, and she'll be doing the Featured Designer and Blackout prize drawings each month too!

Our challenge system is mostly the same for the upcoming year, we've just put a little more heart into making each card special! You'll find repeating challenges each month if you're into themed albums or monthly pages and lots more, so read on for all of the details on 2016's Sweet Shoppe Challenge Bingo...

The Low-Down

To play along, check out this month's Bingo card and start planning your strategy for earning the discount you want. Our Bingo challenges are designed to be fairly simple, straightforward and open to interpretation for the most part, so have fun with them! Like always, challenges in quotes indicate a word or phrase which should appear as shown on your layout. Otherwise, remember that as long as you try to scrap in the spirit of the challenge as it's posted, you'll be just fine, but let us know if you have any questions!

This month's Bingo card was created using Glisten & Glide by Digilicious Design!

Sweet Rewards

Traditional Bingo: To earn a 20% discount, you'll need to scrap 5 challenges in a row in any direction. The center space may be used to choose another challenge of your choice from the card for a total of 5 layouts...



Pattern Bingo: To earn a 30% discount, you'll need to scrap 9 layouts in one of the following patterns again using the center space to choose a challenge of your choice from elsewhere on the card.

New for 2016: Alternatively, you can scrap any two horizontal or vertical lines, or a combination of one of each, to earn your pattern bingo discount! (Thanks for the suggestion Rachel!) Please Note: The rules for the center space still apply!




Blackout: To earn a 40% discount and be entered to win a $50 gift certificate to the shoppe, you'll need to get blackout and fill in your entire card (we'll let you have the center space free this time)...



Tracking & Earning Discounts

To track your challenges this year, click here to download your own personal bingo card. Once you've completed a challenge, resize your layout to 160 x 160px (which fits perfectly in a bingo square) and put it on the corresponding spot of the challenge on your bingo card!

Save your completed card and post it to this thread by midnight on February 1st, 2016, and our lovely challenge fairy, Lydia, will automatically send you your Sweet Rewards of 20, 30 or 40% off depending on the pattern on your card the second full M-F of every month!

The Nitty Gritty

You must use Sweet Shoppe products for the bulk of your page. Outside templates, minor accents, etc. are perfectly ok as long as at a glance the page is obviously created with products from our shoppe and designers!

Challenges MUST remain where they appear on the card. You MAY NOT scrap 9 layouts of your choice and simply put them in the corresponding pattern to earn a discount.

Obviously due to the size of the layouts on the tracker card, it would be difficult for us to check each challenge in detail to make sure it matches with the challenge, but we know we can count on our amazing community to play by the rules.

More Sweet Stuff

As if all of this weren't sweet enough, I'm excited to share that EVERYONE who posts a bingo card in a month with at least one line complete will be entered to win their choice of a kit from this month's Featured Designers Meg, Rachel & Alice! At least 4 lucky winners will be chosen from the field of challenge participants to win these sweet treats which is just awesome!

On that note, I'm going to let you get to work!! If you have any questions, please post them in our 2016 Challenge Bingo FAQ thread so that this tracker thread is easy to view at the end of the month!

Don't forget to keep your eyes open for our Bingo with the Babes threads for weekly challenge inspiration and the opportunity to share some of your favorite challenge layouts in more detail throughout the month!

Happy New Year from all of us at Sweet Shoppe Designs! For friends new and old, we are just thrilled to have you as a part of our creative community!

Robin

[rach3975]

Great new card design, and I'm SO EXCITED to see the new rules about horizontal and vertical lines! Thank you! My spot

Wow-I can't even remember the last time I completed a Bingo, even though I started a card most months. Thanks for the challenges!

[anelia]

Super cool card! Yay, Sarah!!! That's a sweet surprise

EDIT: Blackout again this month!

[rdjrneace]

My spot - I had hoped to complete a blackout but life interferred

[gwalters]

Here's my spot!

This was my first time at Bingo! Had a great time - wanted to fill in the whole card, but just fell short.

[LoriJ]

Here is mine!

[Erica]

Bagsy my spot. Last year wasn't good for me strapping wise - or anything wise really. I only managed to scrap two months. This year I'm determined to keep focusing on the positive things in my life that make me happy so lets go!

[JennNtheBoys]

This was a tough card for me... but thankfully I did find my scrappy mojo, so hopefully February will be better for me getting things done

[flsz_23]

Here's mine! Didn't manage to complete as much as I liked.

[Natalie C]

Looking forward to getting more done this year. Love the facelift!!

[JillW]

Hopping on board for January.

[wimpychompers]

I love the new card design, so pretty!

[Rikki]

Ready to play for the first time.
I hope I did it right...

[icindi]

When I downloaded Feb Bingo card today I noticed you wanted to see a larger image. Here:

[zinzilah]

dropped a ball last month, but booking this spot, hoping to make it this time.
My best plans for finishing all the layouts were not to see the light of day, as there was a conspiracy against me at home. All the members of the family! decided to have Mummy time in turns - 4 weeks in a month, one sick person per week. Yugh. The good news, I have forbidden any more illnesses for 2016 - let's hope they listen.

[shunnstergirl]

[seniorgal]

Here's mine:

[sthompsonfot]

WOOHOO, my first BINGO challenge here at Sweet Shoppe Designs!! I finished 30 pages in 16 days for this challenge while only using 8 kits to do all of them!! I'm pretty impressed with myself over that! Now here's hoping for that $50 GC so that next month I can use some other kits!
I'm pretty sure I kept within "The spirit of the challenge" all the way around! LOL

[Fioontje]

Blackout!

[annet83]

Can't believe it, but I finished the blackout!

[jak]

Yay, finished... now I can get on with all the other things I'm behind with!

[EHStudios]

Here's my blacked out Bingo Tracker!!



This is my first time playing Bingo here! LOVED this take on doing challenges! It's extremely motivating & inspiring!

Thanks for the burst of creative ideas!

All layouts are in my gallery here as well. Hopefully I did this right!

[clucaswvu04]

This is my first challenge/BINGO - so I hope I'm posting this right but it was a great challenge especially since I needed to do a ton of catching up for 2015! It was a great way to keep myself from getting in a rut! Thanks for the challenge and inspiration.

[Disneysheryl]

Here is my bingo card. I may try to get blackout by the end of the month, but I'm posting this now before the site goes down, just in case. This is my first time doing Bingo and it was a lot of fun. Looking forward to trying again next month! Still not able to link picture to the gallery - link below card.



https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com...o-card&cat=500

[pewtertm]

So excited to be finished with time to spare!

[mimisgirl]

Alrighty - finished mine up, thanks

[Bunty1983]

Hope this posts ok, first time doing a bingo challenge!

[elwaechter]

Here's mine. Got a pattern this time!

[mrsashbaugh]

Happy to have a blackout!

[renatasluis]

[Valgal]

I didn't have enough time or photos for a full blackout this month

[Saar]

Mine:

[hosanhelwa]

Uploaded the card to photobucket for now, just to make sure I don't miss the deadline!

[Suzs]

I am giving the off site uploading a try so I don't forget to upload this (as that would be a typical move on my part! lol)

[eve11ne]

reminder to self :
i need to upload mine too!

[nicolej_00]

[~Mary]

My first time, too. It was fun! I'll definitely be back for February. I had an extra...was trying to do the whole thing. I left it on there, hope that is okay.

[Elsieanne]

[flyingbinker]

I have been so lax in my scrapping during the last six months. This year's goal is to participate in the challenges and get caught up! Here's my January card:

[Heather91]

So many blackouts! That's awesome!
Here's mine for January! Blackout as well.

and it is here

[angiepangie]

I still need to upload some layouts, but I'm happy to have two lines done! Now that summer holidays are over I might be able to work towards a blackout in February.

[nietis]

Not a black out, but I am glad I managed to scrap so many layouts within a week so that I can grab a 30% off discount

[Libby Pritchett]

Winners are posted here!

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com...ad.php?t=83625

[Lyd]

Hey gals!! I just finished sending out the Sweet Rewards coupons for January's challenges--go check your PMs!!

There were so many of you who earned discounts this month. It's possible that I have missed someone or made a mistake somewhere, so please let me know if something doesn't seem right.

You guys did awesome this month!!! Enjoy your rewards!

[mrsashbaugh]

Got mine! Yay!

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[anelia]

Got mine, thanks Lydia!

[Bunty1983]

Originally Posted by Lyd

Hey gals!! I just finished sending out the Sweet Rewards coupons for January's challenges--go check your PMs!!

There were so many of you who earned discounts this month. It's possible that I have missed someone or made a mistake somewhere, so please let me know if something doesn't seem right.

You guys did awesome this month!!! Enjoy your rewards!

Hi,

I have checked my pms but nothing there, Am I looking in the right place?

Thanks

[littlekiwi]

Originally Posted by Bunty1983

Hope this posts ok, first time doing a bingo challenge!

Just saw your post above, I think to get the pattern you needed to do one more square in lieu of the centre square. Blackout (40%) is the only one that I believe has the centre square blank.

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[Lyd]

Originally Posted by Bunty1983

Hi,



I have checked my pms but nothing there, Am I looking in the right place?



Thanks

Look for a PM from me a little later this morning. You did earn a coupon, so I will send it in just a little bit! So sorry to have missed you!!


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[EHStudios]

Thank you so much for the coupon! Did a bit of shopping today & started on my February card!