Sunday, January 8, 2012

Weekly Challenges & Speed Scraps

While this warm weather in the beginning of January is very odd, I'm loving that I was able to go to the zoo today with my boys & my aunt! But snow soon would be nice as I want to show them how to make snowmen. Until the snow starts here are the weekly challenges!

First up is the Word of the Week Challenge which runs from Sunday, January 8th to Saturday, January 14th. This week's word is Humor. Totally on board with this one as I need a lot of humor to deal with twin boys! Post your layouts in this week's WOW thread by Saturday night to earn your points. Remember that to earn the bonus points, you need to complete each week's challenge, you can find the WOW rules & point tracking thread right here.

Next is the Challenge of the Week which runs from Sunday, January 8th to Saturday, January 14th. This week's we are challenged to do a Mash-Up. This is where you take two layouts & scrap them into one layout, go to this week's COW thread to find out what layouts you'll need to combine & post your layouts by Saturday night to earn your points. Remember that to earn the bonus points, you need to complete each week's challenge, you can find the COW rules & point tracking thread right here.

This week's Featured Designer Challenge is brought to you Adriana of Adriana's Cafe & will run from Monday, January 9th to Sunday, January 15th. Here's some fun information about Adriana & for participating in the challenges you'll be able to win coupons to her store!. Even better, Adriana has put her whole store on sale for 30% off until Sunday so if you don't have any of her fabulous products yet, now you've got a great excuse to pick one up!


To complete this challenge, you simply need to create a layout using any current kits that are for sale in Adriana's store [retired kits will not count]. Please refrain from combining kits/parts from other designers for this challenge, but if you would like to use more than one kit by Adriana on your layout that would be fine. Hurry & get those layouts done to earn the participation prize!

Since Adriana's challenge starts tomorrow, you've still got a few more hours to submit a layout for the current week's challenge hosted by Amy of 3 Li'l Monsters Designs & earn the participation prize!

Here are the Speed Scraps for this week. The week's first speed scrap will be January 9th at 12 PM PT / 1 PM MT / 2 PM CT / 3 PM ET & will be hosted by Amanda of A-Manda Creation. Come join Amanda & other forum members in the chat room or follow along in the speed scrap thread for a fun filled speed scrap! The prize will be a coupon to Amanda's store for $2.49!

Our other speed scrap will be Tuesday, January 10th at at 5 PM PT / 6 PM MT / 7 PM CT / 8 PM ET & will be hosted by Heidi & Lori of Scraps N' Pieces. Come join Heidi & Lori & other forum members in the chat room or follow along in the speed scrap thread.


The Fine Print: You'll earn points on almost all of the challenges & when you reach 500 points, you'll receive a $5.00 gift card to the Stuff to Scrap store to purchase anything that catches your fancy. Points roll over from month to month & do not expire! Please remember that to earn any extra bonus points, you must state in your challenge post that you've used 90% or more current STS products or you will not earn the bonus points. There is no double dipping with challenges, i.e. you cannot use a layout made for a speed scrap for one of the monthly challenges or use one layout for two challenges. The only exception is a double page layout where each side is for a different challenge. The use of quick pages for challenge layouts are not allowed, all layouts must be made from scratch or with a template. You are most welcome to make a post in the January Challenge Round-up thread to keep track of all the challenges & points you've earned. As always, any layouts featured in this post are linked to the gallery for easy love leaving.

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