Hey there my scrap challenge loving friends! Sorry I missed you yesterday, had to go to work, but I’m here today to give you your challenge spotlight! But first we need a winner from last week. Dun….dun….du …..dum  crinkletoast! She was our only comment from last week, sometimes I feel like I’m talking to myself. 🙁 Anyhow for you I have the same prize as last week. the mommy/daddy overlays. Perfect for this past mother’s day & coming father’s day!

This weeks spotlight challenge is Julie’s May Word Lover’s Challenge The word for the month is of course anything about Mothers! This is a fabulous idea for a page. Who doesn’t need to pay a little digi scrap love to their mothers? or perhaps express what you love about being a mother?

Here’s a beautiful example from one of our Gingersnaps:

by missdamsel

Here’s one I made like 2 years ago and it reminded me that I need to make another one with my new baby girl! Maybe I’ll be doing this challenge this week too!

by Harmonystar

 Pretty easy right? So go make one for Julie’s May Word Lovers Challenge! Then come back here and post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar). CT & those who have already done the challenge are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Thanks to those who participted in last weeks challenge spotlight. The winner is: photom!  Here’ your prize: look for it in your GS inbox.

Well it’s May already! Can you believe it? Me neither!   A new month means new challenges. The weekend put us all back a little bit (me included) but make sure to keep checking back at Gingerscraps for all the new challenges!

This week we are going to spotlight Jillian’s Music to my Ears Challenge. This is a fun challenge where Jillian picks a song and you use any part of that song in your Layout. This month the song is Three Little Birds by Bob Marley Jillian has the lyrics posted for you to choose from!

I’d give ya an example, but being the beginning of the month, no one has done it yet. So YOU could be the first! Head over to Jillian’s Music to my Ears Challenge and post your LO!

While you’re at it, want to win a freebie? If you post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar). CT & those who have already done the challenge are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Only 1 entry from last weeks challenge. Did that whole “Q” thing throw ya off? Well it didn’t crinkletoast! Your LO turned out great! here’s your prize:

Okey dokey, we are in the last week of April! Ready for the spotlight challenge? I’ve come back around to the photo editing challenge. Remember, every month I teach you a fun new way to edit your photos to enhance those Layouts.  This months technique is called Old School . It’s a fun new trend to take a new picture and make it look old and damaged. Check out the tutorial! Here’s the one I did:

original

old school

Here’s another one:

by Harmonystar

 Here’s a couple more done by some of our Gingersnaps:

by missdamsel

by aevans96

 Seriously! How cool are those?!? Want to try it yourself? Go check out my Old School photo editing technique.

Want to win a freebie! If you post the link to your edit in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar). CT & those who have already done the challenge are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Hello again Gingerscrap Followers! Today I have a winner from the last spotlight challenge. We only had one person comment so this weeks winner is.  .  .  . photom! Check your GS inbox for the link to this kit.

Super! Well today’s Spotlight Challenge is Sara’s A-Z Challenge this month is the Letter Q Yup I’m throwing out what most would consider a tricky letter. But lets back up and tell you how this works. The A-Z challenge is to help you with those Alpha books. I have one for my little boy’s first year and hope to start one for my little girl soon. You can see my whole alpha book here. But if you’d like to participate in the challenge, you don’t have to make a whole Alpha book. You just need a page that has the letter Q on it! See that’s not so hard is it? Here’s my Q page:

by Harmonystar

Looks fun huh? Go ahead and make your Q page and post it in the Q challenge .  As well as winning the R goodies you can also win a prize by posting the link to your LO in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar). CT & those who have already done the challenge are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Well yay I finally get to  give away a prize! I’d like to give these bunnies away (april and all) to *drumroll please*  Kricketd! Check your inbox at GingerScraps for these cuties.

Today’s challenge spotlight is Jillian’s April Cinematastic Challenge In this challenge Jillian will give you a movie that will be your inspiration, as well as a link to some great quotes from that movie that you can use for your LO.

This months movie is “The Invention of Lying”

None of our gingersnaps have done this challenge yet but BarbK has a great feel for the theme so here’s her LO:

by BarbK

 Hee. Isn’t that great? I think it’s hilarious!

Do you have a picture that would go great witha quote or theme from that movie? You should make a LO for the April Cinematastic challenge. And if you’d like just for the fun of it you can check out Jillian’s past Cinematastic Challenges.

If by chance you do! You may win a freebie! If you post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar). CT & those who have already done the challenge are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Again no comments from last weeks spotlight.  I’ve gotta assume you’re all busy with scrapping survivor, surely you aren’t all ignoring this blog completely right? I mean I’m offering free stuff here! Tell your friends!

So moving right along. . . today I’m spotlighting a challenge that is new to Gingerscraps this year. The 365/52 challenge. What on earth? You may be asking, well if you’ve been frequenting the digital scrapbooking forums you’ll have heard of this, but if not, here’s what it’s all about.

The purpose is for scrapping your everyday life. You or your kids may wonder what life was like back when they were toddlers, or in first grade. You may just enjoy taking the time to appreciate every day.

Here’s how the challenge at Gingerscraps works: (Written by Ginger)

*1. Finish 1 LO every week.

• 365 scrappers- your LO will be 7 pictures. A picture EVERY day of the week.
• 52 scrappers- your LO will be one pic or more a week in one LO.

*2. To get the freebie add-on your LO MUST be at least 30% GingerBread Ladies products. (all new GingerBread Ladies- and Miss Erin included)

*3. Post your LO in the GingerScraps 365/52 Gallery AND the thread for the month. Every 2 weeks there will be a thread with the dates of the weeks that are due.

*4. LO’s DUE – 5pm pacific time on Sundays

*5. The Free goodies!!- Every other week I will have a new fun add-on for you! As long as you have done your 2 LO’s you will get the add on for free! Julie  will PM you with a coupon code to get the add-on for free. If you didn’t get yours done in time- the add-ons will be for sale for $2.00 each in the store

I will be having a few guests GingerBread Ladies bringing you some goodies as well! So you will be having lots of fun- and getting lots of treats!!

At the end of the year you will have a HUGE mega kit! AND your precious memories all ready to be printed in a book! So come on ladies! Get busy and… Scrap Your Life!!

**Anyone can join at ANYTIME!!**
Even if you missed the first few weeks – or even months… just start anytime and post the LO for the weeks we are in and you will get that weeks add on. If you fall behind- dont worry- just pick up where you fell off the track.. and keep on goin!!

Did you catch the part about FREEBIES every other week? Oh yeah that’s good stuff! In case you’re wondering, these freebies are sometimes seasonal minis (like Valentine’s or Easter) Or they will be things specific to 365 LOs (like dates & months) & generic helpful things (like paper & ribbons)  Usually you don’t get to see the freebie until you earn it, but because I am the guest designer providing your freebies for April I will let you see the first one you can get:

Oh you know you want that right?

In addition to these great freebies, Julie makes all our lives easier by providing us a template we may use each week.

I tell ya Julie is amazing and I’d never be able to do this challenge without her!

Here’s a few example of some 365/52 Layouts just in case you were wondering what they could look like:

by Julie

By Harmonystar

by Trina513 - I'd just like to note that I love Trina's style for this and I'm SO going to copy it for next year.

Don’t they look fun! Go check out the 365/52 challenge right now!

Wait before you go, you may want to know how you can get yet another FREEBIE! If you post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar). CT & those who have already done the challenge are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Well hello Gignerscrap blog goers, but where are you? I had no comments from last weeks challenge spotlight 🙁 there fore the prize goes unclaimed. Have you all just been too busy with Scrapping Survivor? That I would understand. But if you do get a little free time try out the March Color Challenge!

How does a color challenge work? Well Laura (or this time Barb) will give you a color pallet and you then make your Layout with those colors. Easy huh? Here’s Marches colors:

This colors are actually what we used for the February Grab bag but the kit isn’t required, just the pretty colors!

Here’s a few Layouts from some GingerSnaps.

by blessedby3qtz

by FanceeFlair

Pretty Colors huh? Try it out yourself at the March Color Challenge!

Hey there my challenge going friends! No I did NOT forget about you last week, I was simply out of town closing on the sale of my house FINALLY whew that’s a load off, anyhow now I’m back and happy to see some compatition in number of comments from last spotlight challenge. Threw those in the random number generator and came out with #4. That means tanni will be awarded this lovely prize in her GS inbox:

Spotlight time! This week we are going to spotlight My (Rachel’s) March Inspiration Challenge.  For the inspiration challenge, I give you a picture or an idea and you get inspiration from that to make your LO. Be it the colors or the shapes, or the objects, or just the feel you get from it that’s fine, however it inspires YOU!

This month’s inspiration is this beautiful piece of artwork made out of beer cans:

Here’s a couple examples of how this inspired some of our Gingersnaps:

by Adrianablessedby3qtz

How does that artwork inspire you? Make you’re own LO  for the March Inspiration Challenge!

Now for some fun! If you post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar). CT & those who have already done the challenge are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Sorry about last week. things were crazy, but even with the extra week, I still only got one comment from the last challenge spotlight. SO crinkletoast won again! C’mon people give her a little competition! Though I doubt she minds here’s what she won!

Spotlight time! This week we are going to spotlight Jodi’s Scraplift Challenge! What’s a scraplift you maybe wondering? You simply find a LO by someone else and copy the format of it, changing it however you like. I’ll tell you what I do this ALL the TIME! I’m not nearly as creative as people think I am. I love getting inspiration from all the other talented scrappers out there! Here’s an example from Jodi’s challenge:

 Steph lifted this LO

Don't know who this LO is by.

And she came up with this one:

I only got 1 comment from last weeks challenge spotlight. Bad news for the rest of ya, but great news to crinkletoast! You win my I’ve been framed 1 set. check your Gingerscraps inbox for the link.

Ready for the spotlight? Julie’s Feb. Word Lovers! This is for you word art lovers like myself.  And of course the month of February is dedicated to LOVE! So show those Layouts with Love word art!

Here’s a couple examples from some of our Gingersnaps:

by azjakes

by sladd79054

 there’s so many more, but you can just go look for yourself.  Now for some fun! If you post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar). CT & those who have already done the challenge are elligable. Let me see those comments!

And of course you can always check out Julie’s  past Word Lovers challenges.