October LOAW #3 Challenge

Below you'll find October's LOAW challenge #3. If you entered challenge #1 on the Message Board, we have your entry! Don't forget to complete challenges #1 and #2 here. Post your project in the gallery and copy a link to the comments below. You can enter anytime in October!

We're excited to feature these weekly challenges from the SC community! If you are interested in hosting the weekly challenges for the month of November, please reach out in the comment section below!

This week, our member Penny (username penny) is challenging you to create a project with the theme "Overlooked, Overdue, Overused." Check in each week as one of our members inspires you with a challenge. Be sure to follow Penny here at SC to see more of her work and keep up with her!

The theme of this challenge is "Overlooked, Overdue, Overused." Incorporate the following elements into your project: 1) an overlooked supply, tool, or technique; 2) an overdue project—perhaps one you've been putting off; 3) a supply, technique, or phrase that either YOU tend to overuse or you see it a lot from others. As an alternative, you could use the word itself (overlooked, overdue, and/or overused) in your title or journaling.

For my card, I went back to the Spaulding Bowl card kit stamps from Copper Mountain (happy sigh). I always forget how much I love it, and I had totally overlooked that it had a "thank you" stamp because I'm always using it for late birthdays! I had also overlooked these Studio Calico clock transparencies. I don't even know when I got them. I'm sending a way overdue thank you card, so there's that. And the enamel dots and grid paper are on my "overused" list. But I'm not planning to stop.

I hope you find some time and inspiration to play along! Post your project in the gallery and then link to it in the comments here, telling us which things are overlooked, overdue, and overused.

Now it’s your turn to create a project based on Penny's challenge! Share your new project for the challenge in the SC gallery, then link up your project in the comments of this post by October 31st. Penny will draw a winner to win a $10 gift card to the Studio Calico Shop!

Guidelines for LOAW participants : The LOAW (layout-a-week) challenge came about from members challenging and encouraging one another to use their kits. Because it began before SC offered card and Project Life® kits, the challenge was for layouts, hence LOAW. Since scrapbook, card and PL kits are a part of SC's subscriptions, those types of projects are now included in LOAW. That means you can submit a LO, card, PL spread, minibook, or art journal page to a LOAW challenge. If you have trouble interpreting the challenge for the type of crafter you are, ask the host (person posting the challenge) for suggestions. Sometimes ideas we come up with make perfect sense in our minds, but don't translate as easily as we expect to another type of paper crafting. Each person may submit one unique project per challenge, i.e. you cannot submit the same project for two LOAWs. It's okay to combine LOAW with another challenge, though, such as a sketch or technique challenge. The project you submit should be one that is created in response to the LOAW challenge, which means no posting of older projects no matter how perfectly they fit the challenge. Any project submitted to the challenge should be made in the month of the challenge. Deadline for submissions is the last day of the month. Once the month changes on the SC site, it's too late to post for a chance to win. (I wanted to make note of this because I am a procrastinator and I'm sure there are a few more like me out there doing everything at the last minute.) When submitting a project for LOAW, please include a picture of your project and a link to it in the SC gallery on the challenge thread. Also, if the challenge asks for additional information, e.g. explain your inspiration, please include that in your submission post. SC generously offers a $10 GC to one participant. It's actually a promotion code good for 30 days. The winner's name is pulled from all of the entries. So if you enter one challenge, you have one chance of winning; two entries, two chances; etc. Hope you take a chance and take on one or more of the LOAW challenges each month.