March LOAW #1 Challenge
We're excited to feature these weekly challenges from the SC community! Below you'll find March's LOAW challenge #1 from our Creative Team gallery. Post your project in the gallery and copy a link to the comments below. You can enter anytime in March! Check in each week as we share a new challenge with you.
We are looking for LOAW hosts for 2018! If you're interested in hosting the weekly challenges, please reach out using the Contact Us form!
Challenge #1
Add some whimsy to your page! Whimsical elements can add such a fun look to your pages. On this page, Pam added dimension to her to a cloud by placing foam adhesive behind it. She added some raindrops with a pen to finish the look.
Now it’s your turn to create a project based on this week'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 March 31st. We 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.
I love Pam's pocket page spread here! The purple really makes me happy. I did a notebook spread and kept finding whimsical stickers to add: flowers from Maggie Holmes and the little cameras from Pretty Little Studio. I just chose those because the colors matched. One didn't have a heart in the middle, so I got a Slick Writer and drew one in.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210593-luau
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I think potty people with speech bubbles are whimsical!
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210609-journal-entry-jan-2018-in-review
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https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210660-hurra
Loved this challenge and ended up making this card with some whimsical pink splashes:-)
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I have had these in my stash for sometime. Fairgrounds was quite a whimsical kit. https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210668-magic
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I made an Easter card using whimsical stamped images and phrases and soft colors. I used some silver puffy hearts I've had in my stash with ombre shades of gray to keep it more on the masculine side but added pops of pink and green to give it that spring time feel.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210679-happy-happy-easter-honeybunny
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Here's my take on this whimsical challenge https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210724-two-of-a-kind
Thank you for a fun challenge!
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Here's my whimsical card - these doggies were so fun to color!
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210766-love-you-just-the-way-you-are-card
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I added some ribbon to my layout to add a whimsy touch:
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210796-moments-together
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I love this little panda with the hula-hoop for my touch of whimsy!
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210870-beautiful-dreamer
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A bit of this and a bit of that on this page: https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210684-pl-birthday-boy
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Clouds, butterflies and bunnies = whimsical. https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210914-loaw-1-whimsical-love
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I used a mermaid; nuff said.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210942-whimsical-mermaid-card
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Thanks for the challenge! Got out my gesso for this.
https://studiocalico.com/galleries/210984-adoption-day
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