February 2020: Passport FAQ

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If 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 : Zeal
You can use this word as/in your title work, within your journaling, or simply let it inspire the direction of your layout.

#2. Product : Templates
Create a page using one of your favorite templates from SSD.

#3. Featured : Meagan & Misty
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 Meagan or Misty'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 : Sweet Shoppe’s 14th Birthday Party Game-A-Day
Scrap along with any of this month’s PGAD layout challenges!

#5. List : How Do I Love Thee... Let Me Count[List] the Ways
Include a list to highlight all of your favorite things about someone close to you.

#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 : Silhouettes
Use this simple tutorial to create your own stunning silhouette photographs and then scrap them.


#8. Quote : That's What They Said...
Capture a favorite quote/saying from someone close to you and scrap about it.
You can also creatively incorporate quotes into your page using journal cards or including the quote within your journaling.

#9. Seasonal : Leap Year
2020 is a Leap Year! So take this opportunity to either leap back 4 years to document a favorite memory, leap forward 4 years and scrap about your long term goals, or simply scrap about how you plan to celebrate this year's festivities.

#10. Typography : Handy Ink Font
Download and use this font on one of your layouts this month.

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

#12. Composition : By Thirds
Divide your page into thirds. Keep your journaling in the first third, your photos in the second third and your elements/clusters in the last third. Some minor overlap is ok, but your layout should obviously be split into thirds using the guidelines.

#13. Journal : What are you truly passionate about?

#14. Currently : Obsessing About...

#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. Pop Culture : Award Shows
This time of the year is always overflowing with an abundance of award shows. So with that in mind, create a page to celebrate the achievements and success stories within your own family.

#17. Details : Textures
Create a page that focuses on the use of texture found on papers, emphasize the visual appeal of texture via clustering or some combination of the two.

#18. Scraplift : Hosted on the Blog
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.