Hey Chicklets!!
A brand new month is here, and we are soo excited by this month's portfolio inspiration. We hope you are creating some of your favorite pages as a result of playing along with us each month. I know you're eager to get started, so let's get to it...
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.
March 2010: Sweet Shoppe Scrapper's Portfolio
One Point Tasks - 20 Primary Points Possible
1 - Lift a layout by
Rubia Padilha, our Treat of the Month for March, and get to know her better in this month's special feature.
2 - One Fish, Two Fish - Dr. Seuss was born in March! To celebrate, create a layout inspired by your favorite Dr. Seuss classic.
3 - The Academy Awards are March 7th. Create a layout inspired by or paying tribute to your favorite movie of the last year.
4 - In honor of his birthday on March 30th, use Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting, Starry Night, as color inspiration to create a layout.
5 - Use the amazing graphic design at
Fabien Barral as inspiration to add some flare to a page of your own.
6 - It's a doodley sort of day because we're celebrating La's birthday on March 26th! Create a doodleiffic page.
7 - Create a layout that features journaling using Text on a Path or fake it by running your journaling around the edges of your photo or page by turning single lines of text in 90 degree angles.
8 - Use the adorable site
Kate & Birdie as inspiration to create a clean and graphic layout based on their web design.
9 - March 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.
10 - Coloriffic! The Luck O' The Irish is all around us this month. Create a monochromatic layout featuring the color GREEN!
11 - Whatcha reading?
12 - How do you "March" to the beat of your own drum? What makes you "you-nique."
13 - LUCKY - Scrap It!
14 - Edge-y - Pick ONE edge of the page and scrap along it and ONLY it.
15 -
This +
This +
This = You decide
16 - In honor of the 2010 US Census, take stock of your stuff. How many kids, pets, cars, shoes, sets of sheets, etc. do you have? Be quirky and have fun with this one!
17 - March 5th is Stop The Clocks Day - what would you do if you could freeze time.
18 - National Quilting Day is March 20th! Check out the colorful & whimsical quilting projects at
Quilty Cat and recreate something that inspires you on a layout.
19 - Albert Einstein's birthday is this month so scrap something nerdy or genius!
20 - March Madness: What makes you mad? What are you mad about? Scrap it, journal it and be creative, there's more than one way to interpret "mad".
Two Point Tasks - 20 Primary Points Possible
21 - March is American Red Cross Month. Create a layout about how YOU give back to the community and people in need.
22 - Step away from the computer and get your hands dirty because it's National Craft Month. Create something with your hands, document the process and scrap it!
23 - Alexander Graham Bell patented and made the first telephone call this month in 1876. Create a layout about how the telephone has impacted your life. Do you love it? Hate it? Gotten wonderful news on it? Sad news?
24 - In honor of National Women's History Month, create a layout about a woman who has deeply impacted your life for better or worse.
25 - As March is the 3rd month of the year, it's the perfect time to learn about the
Rule of Thirds. Study up and use the rule to create a layout that follows this simple and effective design technique.
26 - Leprechaun Invasion - those crafty little fellows are known to reek havoc this time of year! Scrap your leprechaun's shenanigans. Don't know what to do....leave a trail of "gold coins" and/or green footprints. Turn food green for the day. Move your furniture around....be silly and have fun!
27 - March is "in like a lion out like a lamb." How are you a lion or lamb in your own life? What are some things you'll fight to the death about and some things that you couldn't care less about?
28 - In honor of Robert Frost's birthday on March 26, use this portion of his poem "The Road Not Taken" to tell the story of a time in your life when this happened to you...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
29 - Ali Edwards pretty much ROCKS! Use this
fun project as inspiration for a hybrid project of your own or for a backdrop on a digital page.
30 -
The Napkin Dad is not only a really fun place to poke around, there are a lot of life lessons to be taken from his fun & funky drawings too. Taking a page (or a napkin) from his book, scrap one life lesson you think is especially important.
Five Point Tasks - 10 Primary Points Possible
31 - Past, Present, Future: Home - scrap a trio of layouts which represent your memories of home in the past, present & future.
31a - Your childhood home
31b - Your current home
31c - Your dream home
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 - 10 pictures of me doing different things...
32b - My favorite snack...
32c - Things that make me laugh...
32d - Betcha don't know that I...
32e - If I had a superpower, it would be...
Ten Point Task - 10 Primary Points Possible
33 - Album in a Tin - This month we want you to create a mini album in an altered tin! Your album can be on any topic you like and you can use a store bought tin with album inside or you can make your own using altoid tins and your own handmade ATC cards or accordion album. (1 Album in an Altered Tin Required) Don't skip this challenge because you're afraid of hybrid - you can do it! Here's some amazing inspiration...
Altoids Tin Album by Jess Gordon
Custom Altered Altoids Tin & Albums by nycole
Mini Scrapbook Tin by Bella Rose Creations
Album in a Lunchbox by Jen Tapler
Flex Tip #1 - 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 March, all layouts and points need to be posted by 11:59pm EST at the end of the day on April 1st. If you're joining us for the first time this month, have a look at the amazing portfolio tracker thread from January & February 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.
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!!
LUCKY to have you here,
Robin