March LOAW #2 Challenge

We're excited to feature these weekly challenges from the SC community! Below you'll find March's LOAW challenge #2 from our Creative Team gallery. You can find challenge #1 here. 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 #2

Make words or letters the focus of your layout! Kelly Noel covered the whole background of her layout, Names, with the large chipboard alphas from the "Bookmarked" Kit. Using product in excess is a guaranteed way to make a bold statement. Repeat a word or use lots of letters on your page. 

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.

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8 comments

  1. CeliseMcL says…
    03/08/2018

    I used the March Stampset to create a background in my Travelers Notebook.
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210726-march

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  2. penny says…
    03/09/2018

    I used all the kraft butterflies in my stash on one card - definitely excessive. https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210747-butterfly-birthday

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  3. Brinkleyboy says…
    03/12/2018

    I repeated the title down the left side of my layout for this challenge. I also repeatedly created Lego bricks for my background on the other half of the page.
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210793-legoland

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  4. TerryB says…
    03/14/2018

    I used some large chipboard for our initials.
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210836-tjp

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  5. Shannon_Yates says…
    03/18/2018

    Loved that LOVE paper from the Candyland scrapbook kit; perfect for my sweet little grandson!! https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210913-loaw-2-repetition

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  6. JaneD says…
    03/19/2018

    Here's my take on the challenge
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210939-letters-and-Words
    I have used some old vinyl letter stickers, the SC stamp set "Word search", modeling paste and a stencil with Writing and a lot of journaling about my love/hat relationship with letters and Words.

    Thanks for the challenge, great way to use up all those old letters in my stash!

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  7. Kristi_ says…
    03/20/2018

    I used the alpha paper from the Homespun release:
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210947-hogs-and-kisses-xo-card

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  8. Rockermorsan says…
    03/25/2018

    Some big, handcut letters on this fun winter layout: https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/211011-break

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