April LOAW #1 Challenge

We're excited to feature these weekly challenges from the SC community! Below you'll find April's LOAW challenge #1. Post your project in the gallery and copy a link to the comments below. You can enter anytime in April! Check in each week as one of our members shares 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

This week, our member Mel (username meldarcy) is challenging you to go big. Be sure to follow Mel here at SC to see more of her work and keep up with her!

Hi, everyone, can you believe it's April already?!?! Hope you have had a lovely Easter weekend! For the first challenge this month, I'm challenging you to go big: scrap a large photo; use a large title; scrap in a larger size than your normal. I love using larger items occasionally through my albums to give contrast and mix it up a bit.

I can't wait to see your creations!!

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 January 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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10 comments

  1. CeliseMcL says…
    04/04/2018

    thank you @Meldarcy for volunteering. I miss seeing your creativity. I have June LOAW, hope you will participate.
    I often do a single page spread in my TN, so for this challenge, I went with two pages. https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/211234-goodbye-march

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    1. meldarcy says…
      04/12/2018

      Love this. So bold and eye-catching!

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  2. JaneD says…
    04/06/2018

    Here's my take on the challenge. Most of my layouts are 9x12 or even 8x8, but for this one I've made a 12x12 layout with a big photo.
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/211263-ready-set-go

    Thank you for the challenge!

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    1. meldarcy says…
      04/12/2018

      Love this layout!! You've showcased your photo wonderfully!!

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  3. TerryB says…
    04/07/2018

    Glad to see you back with more challenges @Meldarcy
    Your "goals" challenge really inspired me to make a list of my creative goals this year and so far I'm keeping up!
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/211289-march-2018

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    1. meldarcy says…
      04/12/2018

      What a great layout!! Love how you have got so many pictures into your spread without making it too busy!!

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  4. veilman says…
    04/08/2018

    I loved using the big letters for "go big". Thanks for the challenge!

    https://studiocalico.com/galleries/211307-stay-light

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    1. meldarcy says…
      04/12/2018

      I love this layout!! Wasn't the Bookmarked kit fun!?!

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  5. penny says…
    04/09/2018

    I found these huge donut stickers in my stash (from A Beautiful Mess clearance), so I covered the big dots on this Bella Blvd paper with those donuts and some 3D ones that came from a really old American Girl sticker set. And I used them all!
    https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/211311-after-party

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    1. meldarcy says…
      04/12/2018

      Those donuts are amazing!! Love this!!

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