April 2019: Passport FAQ

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f you have any questions regarding THIS month's Passport challenges, please post them here.

We have a wonderful team and community here at SSD....
so someone is sure to get back to you ASAP with answers to anything and everything related to our Passport Challenge System!

Here is a list of this month's challenge prompts for easy reference:

#1. One Little Word : Choose your favorite from the following -- Environment / Conservation / Grow / Breathe

#2. Product : Spring!
Scrap with ANY product in the Shop By Season > Spring section in the shoppe

#3. Featured : Wendy or Kelly
Our featured designer articles have been expanded since we started our alphabet inspired series, and are showcased on the blog each time a new designer goes into the spotlight. Your challenge is to use any solo product from one of our featured designers this month PLUS discover something from either Wendy or Kelly's interviews this month to use as inspiration for a layout, be sure to tell us what inspired you in your gallery comments!

The following are a few ideas on how you may glean inspiration from a FD interview... Using this interview with Meg [featured in December] ... You might be inspired by the red and white cookie jars in her kitchen to scrap a red & white layout. Maybe you'd like to include the quote she shared “The Best Thing About Memories Is Making Them” on your page, maybe you were inspired by the letter “G” to scrap your own OLW starting with the letter G... or perhaps you might simply want to lift one of the layouts created by the Babes to show off the FD freebie. It’s totally up to YOU to decide how you'd want to be loosely inspired by one of our FD blog posts.

#4. Inspired By : Iceland
Few places on earth celebrate and engulf you in nature the way Iceland does. Use InspiredByIceland.com to inspire your next page.

#5. List : Bullet Points
Include a bullet point list somewhere on your next layout!

#6. Leaving Love :
Leave love on 15 layouts in the gallery and then post the link to each in your tracker thread.
Create your own place marker by using your favorite layout you've left love for during the month to "hold" that spot on your card ♥
Right click on a page in the gallery and save... follow by resizing this saved image to 97 X 97 before adding it to your Passport tracker image.

#7. Photography : Outdoor Selfie
Get out there in nature and capture yourself in a photo! Blue skies, flowers and grass all make fantastic selfie backdrops, so snap something pretty & scrap it!

#8. Quote : Use the following quote on your page.
“The Earth Laughs in Flowers” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Seasonal : National Gardening Day
To celebrate National Gardening Day on April 14th, photograph and scrap your garden, yard, balcony, houseplants or anything you feel represents your little piece of nature.

#10. Typography : Use a Floral or Wooden Alphabet
You can use any wood style alpha from the shop... and any alphabet can be dressed up with little flower / leaf elements to give it a "floral" feel.





#11. Wild Card : Scrap anything you'd like for this challenge ♥

#12. Composition : Repetition
Nature repeats itself again and again, in slightly new and exciting ways from blades of grass to grains of sand to flowers in a meadow. Use repetition in your next layout, making subtle changes from one element or photo to the next! See the following examples for ideas...

Tronesia uses the same photo in both of her layouts cropping and zooming them differently each time she uses it.



Reba uses the same photo over and over again with a different filter on each photo.


Kendall uses Go Go Go repeatedly shrinking it each time.


I've used the circle heart, corrugated hearts, tiny yellow flowers repeatedly, but have changed them slightly each time by shrinking & rotating them.


#13. Journal : Nature n. the innate or essential qualities or character of a person or animal.
Using this definition of the word nature, journal about the nature of yourself or a person close to you.

#14. Currently : Playing..
This can be interpreted broadly Music, Audio Books, Games [Board, Cards, Electronic], Outdoor Antics... Be creative and have fun!

#15. Color : Scrap with this month’s color swatch.
It should be obvious that the page you've created was inspired by the colors featured in the swatch image posted below.
** You don’t necessarily have to use all of the colors shown [use 2, or 3, or all 5] **


#16. Rewind / Flashback : TOTM - Kellie Turner
Way back in 2009 Kellie Turner aka joelsgirl was our Treat of the Month, and her layouts and scrap style from 10 years ago have withstood the test of time!
Check out her 2009 feature, and put a 2019 spin on a scraplift of one of her featured pages!

#17. Scrap Stash : Garden Mix
Use greenery, branches and flowers from at least THREE kits you already own to add some nature to your next page!

#18. Scraplift :
On the first Sunday of each month, Sugarbabe Kim E. will host an inspiring Scraplift Challenge on the SSD Blog.
You have the entire month to play along and complete your page.

To keep in mind while you're scrapping...
These prompts are written and created with fairly broad themes/concepts in mind and I think that personal interpretation is key. You can certainly approach a prompt literally, or I encourage you to think about it in a different way ... take a creative approach on ways to apply prompts so that they'll work for you and your family.