Challenges are officially back Sweet Shoppers! Are you ready to get started?
When we started planning this year's trip down memory lane, it was almost a no-brainer to kick things off with a classic, Sweet Shoppe Challenge Bingo! Bingo was probably the longest running challenge system we've ever done here at SSD starting in Jan of 2015 and running through the end of 2018! That's 4 years of Bingo challenges, and I think after playing along over the next month, you'll agree that this fun and easy going system was popular for a reason! Let's get started...
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! I would encourage you to not overthink these. Remember, as long as you try to scrap in the spirit of the challenge, you'll be just fine, but let us know if you have any questions.
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.
Alternatively, you can scrap any two horizontal or vertical lines, or a combination of one of each, to earn your pattern bingo discount!
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 grab your own personal bingo card. Use right click > save image as to save a copy of this month's card to your computer. Once you've completed a challenge, resize your layout to 170 x 170px (which fits perfectly in a bingo square) and put it on the corresponding spot of the challenge on your bingo card!
Save your completed FULL-SIZE card and post it to this thread by midnight ET on March 1st, 2025. If you've earned Sweet Rewards, our lovely challenge fairy, Vanessa, will automatically send you a coupon for 20, 30 or 40% off to use during our Sweet Rewards redemption period, March 9th - 22nd, 2025.
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! Retired products from existing designers are a-ok! Products from designers who have retired from SSD are not.
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
On that note, I'm going to let you get to work on this month's Bingo card... we can't wait to see what you create!
Happy scrapping :wub:
Robin
When we started planning this year's trip down memory lane, it was almost a no-brainer to kick things off with a classic, Sweet Shoppe Challenge Bingo! Bingo was probably the longest running challenge system we've ever done here at SSD starting in Jan of 2015 and running through the end of 2018! That's 4 years of Bingo challenges, and I think after playing along over the next month, you'll agree that this fun and easy going system was popular for a reason! Let's get started...
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! I would encourage you to not overthink these. Remember, as long as you try to scrap in the spirit of the challenge, you'll be just fine, but let us know if you have any questions.
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.
Alternatively, you can scrap any two horizontal or vertical lines, or a combination of one of each, to earn your pattern bingo discount!
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 grab your own personal bingo card. Use right click > save image as to save a copy of this month's card to your computer. Once you've completed a challenge, resize your layout to 170 x 170px (which fits perfectly in a bingo square) and put it on the corresponding spot of the challenge on your bingo card!
Save your completed FULL-SIZE card and post it to this thread by midnight ET on March 1st, 2025. If you've earned Sweet Rewards, our lovely challenge fairy, Vanessa, will automatically send you a coupon for 20, 30 or 40% off to use during our Sweet Rewards redemption period, March 9th - 22nd, 2025.
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! Retired products from existing designers are a-ok! Products from designers who have retired from SSD are not.
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
- EVERYONE who posts a bingo card with at least one line completed will be entered into a drawing to win their choice of a kit or a mini bundle up to $10 in value! Vanessa will choose 4 lucky winners from all eligible entries the first week in March, so be sure to scrap along for your chance to win a little something sweet!
- SugarBabe Sherly is hosting this month's Bingo with the Babes thread where she's showing off our Babe's incredible takes on this month's challenges and giving you the opportunity to share some of your favorite challenge layouts in more detail throughout the month too! Sherly's thread includes a quick text list of this month's challenges if you find that helpful.
- If you love leaving love in the gallery, SugarBabe Sarah is hosting a thread where you can track all of the pages you've left love on to complete challenge #15 on this month's Bingo card!
- If you plan on scrapping along with us each month this year, don't forget to track ALL of this year's monthly challenges in our Countdown to 20 tracker thread for your chance to win an epic bonus prize for helping us celebrate almost 20 years doing what we love.
On that note, I'm going to let you get to work on this month's Bingo card... we can't wait to see what you create!
Happy scrapping :wub:
Robin
