October LOAW #4 Challenge

We're excited to feature these weekly challenges from the SC community!  Below you'll find October's LOAW challenge #4. If you entered challenge #1 on the Message Board, we have your entry! Don't forget to complete challenges #1 and #2  here and challenge #3 here. Post your project in the gallery and copy a link to the comments below. You can enter anytime in October!

This week, our member Penny (username penny) is challenging you to create a project with the theme "It's a Wrap." 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 the October LOAW Challenge #4 is "It's a Wrap." I've wrapped the main part of my husband's birthday card with twine (which I do a lot). You could wrap something in twine, ribbon, paper strips, etc. Or wrap something in an envelope. You could use the word "wrap" on your project or an image of something that IS wrapped, like a present. Or a mummy. I'd be really impressed if you used "rap" instead of "wrap." But I'm not quite that cool. In many ways, "It's a wrap" expresses how I'm feeling about lots of things. You can interpret it how you need to for your own project. Be sure to post it in the gallery and add a link in the comments here. And as always, thanks for playing!

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.