Sweet Shoppe Community - January 2021: Passport To Hope

Hello-Hello Sweet Chickas! Thank heavens it's a brand-spankin' NEW YEAR!! I don't know about you, but man, I am beyond ready to put 2020 and all of its chaos and ugliness soso verrrrrrry faaaaar behind me! I sincerely hope that 2021 brings the world loads of hope, beauty, healing, and love.

For our returning participants, you'll notice a few changes to this year's round of Passport challenges! We’ve got new Featured Designer freebies PLUS two new rotational prompts that will both change each month - So Sketchy! and Dealers Choice!! Be sure to check out the January Passport FAQ thread for more details on those.

As always, I encourage you to think outside the box, get a little experimental, and ultimately, be adventurous! Don't forget, no matter what the monthly theme may be, there are loads of wonderful ways to incorporate your own personal inspiration. So don't be intimidated - jump into the fun, get creative and scrap pages that capture YOUR memories!

So without further ado, I'm thrilled to introduce you to January's Passport to Hope...
Featuring Loving Myself: Authenticity Collection by Tracie Stroud and First Day Jitters Alphas by LJS Designs
https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/p...1_passport.jpg

Here's a quick look at this month's challenges... please visit the January Passport FAQ for full details.

#1: One Little Word : Anticipate
#2: Product : Hopeful Themes/Titles
#3: Featured : Erica, Bobbie & Amber
#4: Inspired By : Love to Collect Wallpaper
#5: Dealers Choice : Pocket Page
#6. Leaving Love : Leave love on 15 layouts in the gallery
#7: Photography : Alternate Views
#8: So Sketchy : Monthly Inspiration!
#9: Seasonal : Opposite Day
#10: Typography : Only Hope Font
#11. Wild Card : Scrap Anything You'd Like
#12. Composition : Trios
#13. Journal : Looking Forward
#14. Currently : Hoping for....
#15. List : Top 10
#16. Pop Culture : New Year's Resolutions
#17. Details : Paint
#18. Scraplift : Hosted on the Blog

The Rules Are Simple:

Right Click > Save As our Passport to Change image above. It will be your challenge tracker for the month!

Visit our January Passport FAQ, and look over the detailed list of ALL of this month's challenges.

Pages should be created using MOSTLY Sweet Shoppe products. Meaning that they are OBVIOUSLY made with our products - small touches / outside templates are absolutely fine. Scrap whatever challenge you like, and add a 97 x 97 px image to the corresponding challenge above. The keywords on the scrumptious image above all correspond to a challenge in the FAQ, so the "color" challenge, goes in the color spot, and so on.

Reply to this thread by Midnight EST, January 30th, with an image of your completed passport to earn your sweet stuff! Be sure to include any comments, gallery love lists, etc. in your post if the challenge asks for them.

PLEASE NOTE: we would LOVE if you would upload your FULL SIZE passport image to an outside image host like Imgur, Dropbox, Google Photos, etc. so that we can see your 1150px wide passport in its full glory!

Tell Us About The Sweet Stuff:

Like Bingo... the more you scrap, the sweeter your rewards and the better chance you have to win sweet stuff too!

Unlike Bingo... there are no patterns to follow to earn your rewards! You can collect stamps in your passport in ANY order, anywhere you like, to reach our monthly reward tiers...

6 challenges complete = 20% Sweet Rewards
12 challenges complete = 30% Sweet Rewards
ALL 18 challenges complete = 40% Sweet Rewards + a chance to win a $50 gift certificate to the shoppe!

** Note: Sweet Rewards are sent out during the second FULL M-F week of the following month **

In addition to our monthly grand prize winner, we'll also choose...

3 lucky scrappers to win a sweet treat of their choice from this month's Featured Designers: Erica, Bobbie & Amber!

In addition, One fabulous Out of the Box layout posted in this month's Passport Inspiration Portal, that we think took a challenge in a fun and particularly inspiring direction, will win a $10 gift certificate too! So start thinking outside the box and get creative with our monthly prompts to make pages you love!

As you can see, there are lots of ways to sweeten your stash each and every month here at SSD, so we think our Passport to Sweet Stuff Challenge system is an appropriate name, and we sincerely hope you love the current system as much as we do!

So here's to creating loads of memorable moments this month... now it's time to get scrappin!!