March LOAW #3 Challenge

We're excited to feature these weekly challenges from the SC community! Below you'll find March's LOAW challenge #3 from our Creative Team gallery. You can find challenge #1  here and challenge #2 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 #3

Make a statement without patterned paper! Guest designer Laura Wosnik used the Yes & No stamp set on her layout to create a custom background and prompt her journaling. For this challenge, try using stamps or other embellishments on your layout without using patterned paper. 

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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9 comments

  1. penny says…
    03/15/2018

    That was hard! I discovered even my Traveler's Notebook has grid paper pages. So I covered it up!
    https://studiocalico.com/galleries/210869-celebrate-dad

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  2. Brinkleyboy says…
    03/16/2018

    I used stamps, copic markers and a die to color and cut out my embellishment, washi tape and a puffy glittered sticker to make my layout without using any patterned paper to complete this challenge. Who says red and green are only for Christmas?
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210884-it-s-about-time

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  3. CristinaC says…
    03/17/2018
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  4. Shannon_Yates says…
    03/18/2018

    Loved th is challenge -- thanks much! Used 2 SC stamps to stamp background. https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210917-march-loaw-3-custom-background

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  5. JaneD says…
    03/19/2018

    Here's ny take on the challenge
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210941-a-man-and-his-dog

    Thanks for the challenge!

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  6. TerryB says…
    03/20/2018

    I used embellishments from the Bookmarked Document kit, but now I'm wondering if it's cheating because they have pattern on them!
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/210957-here

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    1. CeliseMcL says…
      03/25/2018

      Patterned paper can sometimes be journal cards, but can journal cards ever be considered patterned paper? I don't know. I used one too!

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  7. Kristi_ says…
    03/21/2018
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  8. CeliseMcL says…
    03/25/2018

    I used a combo of stamps, journaling and a journal card in my travelers Notebook.
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/211015-the-weather

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