Post by grammadee on Apr 1, 2024 4:03:40 GMT
The Q-2 challenges are:
SPECIAL CHALLENGES FOR QUARTER TWO 2024:
DOUBLE StUFF WEEKENDS: Friday through Monday, each of the Double Stuff weekends, we can earn DOUBLE POINTS for whatever we do. There *may* be special prompts for the May and June DSW's, but for April we will be playing with the newly minted challenges.
DOUBLE StUFF WEEKENDS: Friday through Monday, each of the Double Stuff weekends, we can earn DOUBLE POINTS for whatever we do. There *may* be special prompts for the May and June DSW's, but for April we will be playing with the newly minted challenges.
April 5th through 8th
May 3rd through 6th
June 7th through 10th.
REGULAR CHALLENGES FOR Q-2
**NEW** CHATTY CATHY POINTS! Earn points two different ways for chatting with fellow PEAS
(1) Share the LOVE. Earn ONE point for every FIVE comments you post expressing love for creations by other Peas that are shared here. (That includes creations shared in the 2Peas Gallery, in the Q-2 Sharing thread on the GS board, the Year long card sharing thread on the Cardmaking board, or shared in any of the challenge or prompt threads.
(2) Team building chat. Earn ONE point for each day you post at least one comment in your Team chat thread. Start a conversation, ask or answer a question, share a joke, ask for help, or do some cheerleading. BONUS: Take an extra 25 points if you comment every day for any 20 days in a row.
WEEKLY challenge
W-1: Sketchy Saturdays. Complete any of the posted Sketchy Saturday challenges for 5 points. Complete ANY THREE of them for a 20 point bonus. Meet TEN Sketchy Saturday Challenges during Quarter TWO for a BONUS of 100 points!
W-1: Sketchy Saturdays. Complete any of the posted Sketchy Saturday challenges for 5 points. Complete ANY THREE of them for a 20 point bonus. Meet TEN Sketchy Saturday Challenges during Quarter TWO for a BONUS of 100 points!
MONTHLY challenges
M-1: Donna Challenge. donna was a Pea who passed away much too soon. We all remember her desire to complete her family scrapbooks at the end. To honour her, we credit photos, scrapped, pages completed and meeting scrapbooking goals. For the Donna challenge, earn
One point per photo scrapped.
Ten points per page created with each monthly theme. Bonus of 25 points for meeting all three themes.
M-1: Donna Challenge. donna was a Pea who passed away much too soon. We all remember her desire to complete her family scrapbooks at the end. To honour her, we credit photos, scrapped, pages completed and meeting scrapbooking goals. For the Donna challenge, earn
One point per photo scrapped.
Ten points per page created with each monthly theme. Bonus of 25 points for meeting all three themes.
M-2: Paid by the HOUR Challenge.
Whether you craft with paper or cloth, glue and photos or mixed media, yarn or ink: earn TEN points for every hour spent crafting. Double your points per hour if you are crafting with another person, whether in person or on line. When you finish a project of ten hours or more, give yourself a BONUS of ONE HUNDRED POINTS!
Earn TEN points for every hour you spend organizing your crafting supplies or cleaning/reorganizing your craft space
Whether you craft with paper or cloth, glue and photos or mixed media, yarn or ink: earn TEN points for every hour spent crafting. Double your points per hour if you are crafting with another person, whether in person or on line. When you finish a project of ten hours or more, give yourself a BONUS of ONE HUNDRED POINTS!
Earn TEN points for every hour you spend organizing your crafting supplies or cleaning/reorganizing your craft space
M-3: Card Challenges
• Sheetload of Cards Challenge posted by azcrafty . One point per card + TEN points for completing the set. Plus a BONUS of TEN points for meeting each month’s special challenge.
• Twelve Card Challenge: TWENTY points bonus per dozen cards created in any one month.
• Sheetload of Cards Challenge posted by azcrafty . One point per card + TEN points for completing the set. Plus a BONUS of TEN points for meeting each month’s special challenge.
• Twelve Card Challenge: TWENTY points bonus per dozen cards created in any one month.
M-4: Pokey Peas Challenge posted by nylene . Points explained in the challenge
QUARTER TWO CHALLENGES:
PRODUCTS
P-1 Heavy metal. Use metal in some way on your project--a brad, an eyelet, a metal charm, a flair...
P-2 Wooden it be nice? Use some wood veneer, whether naked or dressed up.
P-3 Just SCRAP it! Use all scraps on your project (excluding card or layout base)
P-4 Say it with stamps. Use one or more word stamps on your project
P-5 Stamp an image: use one or more image stamps on your project
P-6 Spell--or count--it out: use alpha numeric stamps on your project
P-7 Vellum - use vellum on your project
P-8 Entwined. Use twine on your project.
P-9 Tie it on with ribbon (can be a bow, knot or just an embellie)
P-10 Make it sparkle with gems or sequins
P-11 Get out that washi tape and slap it on!
P-12 Little bottles: Nuvo drops (any version there of), stickles, you get the idea!
P-13 use some paste, mousse, etc
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P-14 Subtle shine: use Wink of Stella pen, shimmer spray, pearl powders, etc to add subtle shine
P-15 Divide & conquer. Use a divided page protector
P-16 Tiny tiles: use tile letters
P-17 Older than dirt: use an item that's older than 10 years (not including tools or basic supplies, stamps or dies)
P-18 I've been FRAMED: use a pre-made frame
P-19 Pop it up- Use pop dots or foam squares to give things dimension
P-20 Hot off the Press - Use a newly released item
P-21 Enamel dots
SHAPES/ICONS
S/I-1 Eggs-actly. Use an egg shape or oval on your project.
S/I-2 Wheels, Baby, Wheels! Use some sort of shape with at least one wheel: wheelbarrows or unicycles all the way to 18 wheelers.
S/I-3 Hearts
S/I-4 Hexagons
S/I-5 Scrappin with my gnomies... Let's see a gnome somewhere on your project.
S/I-6 You've Got Mail - use an envelope on your page
S/I-7 Bouquet - use flowers on your project
S/I-8 camera
S/I- 9 Fruit
S/I-10 Woodland creature
S/I-10 Woodland creature
S/I-11 Bugs (bees, butterflies, ant, worms etc)
S/I-12 Use a person-less piece of clothing (hat, swim suit, sock, flip flop etc) on your page
S/I-13 Stars, either a starry night, patriotic theme, or boys in general.
S/I-14 Smooth curves, use either a circle or oval on your project.
S/I-15 Quads: 4-sided shape for the fourth month eg. square or rectangle
S/I-16 Quints: 5-sided shape for the fifth month eg. pentagon
S/I-17 Playing TAG: use tags
S/I-18 A banner day: make a banner - can use a pre-made banner sticker/die cut, or create your own.
S/I-18 A banner day: make a banner - can use a pre-made banner sticker/die cut, or create your own.
S/I-19 Money money money! include money symbol on your project (icon used to denote dollars, cents, pounds, etc)
S/I-20 Music to my eyes: notes, clefs, record, cassette tape, etc
COLOURS/MOODBOARDS
C/M-1 Show me the spring greens
C/M-2 monochromatic (can use a neutral)
C/M-3 red/white/blue
C/M-4 Life's a Picnic! use gingham
C/M-5 Pastelpalooza: use three pastels colors on a page
C/M-6 Pretty in Pink - Create a primarily pink project
C/M-7 April colour combo: Use this colour palette: Aqua Purple Red Indigo Lemon
C/M-8 May colour combo: Magenta Azure Yellow
C/M-9 June colour combo: Jade Ultramarine Navy Ecru
C/M-10 blues + teal/aqua + purples
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C/M-11 grey (like some people's spring skies, sigh)
C/M-12 Birth stone for April (diamond) - create a project with white as the predominant color & add some shimmer or glitter
C/M-13 Birth stone for May (emerald) - use emerald green as the predominant color
C/M-14 Birth stone for June (pearl/moonstone/alexandrite) create a project using a pearly white moon or pink/purple sunset
C/M-15 Holiday switcharoo! Switch up the colours you use to scrap a holiday to those of a different holiday. So if you would 'normally" use red & green for Christmas, then go for Easter pastelles. Or switch out ANY holiday's traditional colours with another one's.
C/M-16 Tone on Tone. Create a project with at least three colours. Add embellishments that fall into the colour family of each or those colours. (So pink embellies on red or pink, light blue or navy on medium blue, etc) OR take on the whole rainbow! Have fun.
C/M-17 Dress for the HOME team! Use team colours for a sports LO or card, or use your home country's FLAG colours on any project.
C/M-18 Role Reversal - Pink/Purple for boys or blue/green for girls
TECHNIQUES
T-1 Punch it! Use a border punch on your project.
T-2 Rip it up! Tear some paper
T-3 Fussy Cussin' Time to fussy cut something for your project.
T-4 Doodle-Do - Use doodles on your page or card
T-5 Colour something with markers, or pencils, or any other medium.
T-6 fake stitching
T-7 stencil your background
T-8 Ink it- ink the edges of your paper
T-9 Use your water colors in any way that fits your mood.
T-10 Misty time, still have spring showers so get those mists out.
T-11 Die cuts, the more the merrier--layered ones are fun too!
T-12 Do something NEW! Try a brand new to you technique. (Get a new toy recently? I did and am loving playing with it--a BetterPress)
T-13 Splatter a little color on your project (use any method that creates an irregular pattern of small dots)
T-14 Random Scraplift - Use an online random number generator, and enter the minimum number 1 and the maximum number 110. Run the number generator, then go to that number page in our Two Peas Flickr gallery, or a gallery on another site. Choose one of the layouts on that page to scraplift.
T-15 A little crafty engineering... Turn one crafty supply into something different. As simple as making an A out of a V, but maybe a geo tag out of a raindrop, a puppy face out of a heart?
T-16 - Alter card stock. Start with colored cardstock but make it a different color (with ink, markers, etc)
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T-17 use a bone folder or stylus to score lines or emboss a design
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T-18 piece together a layered die cut, electronic or manual
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T-19 stamp something on patterned papers and paper piece it together (eg. like Jennifer McGuire shows here link)
T-20 Change it UP! Change a colour - either colour something on your project, or CHANGE a colour of an existing item (like overcolouring letter stickers with your copics)
T-21 Nothing to faux here: stitch by machine or hand
T-21 Nothing to faux here: stitch by machine or hand
T-22 Dot it - Add dots to something to make it polka dot
WORDS/ Titles
W/T-1 Name that month. Use the word April, May or June on a page or card.
W/T-2 Tellin' the whole story: Use at least 100 words
W/T-3 Look, Ma: no photo! Do a journalling only layout (no photo)
W/T-4 Journal on journal strips.
W/T-5 Put your card sentiment on a strip.
W/T-6 Use a quote about spring on your page or card.
W/T-7 No words: make a card with no sentiment or a layout with no title
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W/T-8 multi lingual: use a word from another language in your sentiment/title
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W/T-9 use a made-up word in your sentiment/title
W/T-10 One word: make a 1 word title
W/T 11 Five or more: make a title of 5 or more words
W/T 12 Fontify: use at least 3 different fonts/types of letters in your title.
W/T 13 Go to type: print out your journaling by computer/typewriter/label maker
W/T 11 Five or more: make a title of 5 or more words
W/T 12 Fontify: use at least 3 different fonts/types of letters in your title.
W/T 13 Go to type: print out your journaling by computer/typewriter/label maker
W/T-14 Say it with a song - use song lyrics
THEMES
Th-1 Congrats to the grad. Create a card for the graduate, or a page about a graduation.
Th-2 Get outdoors! Scrap an outdoor activity, or include an outdoor scene on your card.
Th-3 April showers (rain/storms)
Th-4 May Flowers - gardens/plants
Th-5 June is for weddings - make a wedding or anniversary card or scrap something wedding/anniversary/couple related
Th-6 Not the Best day - scrap about a not-so good experience/event/day or make a get well or sympathy card
Th-7 Feed Me! - Do a layout about food eg. a favourite recipe or dinner at your favourite restaurant
Th-8 Mosh Pit - Do a layout about a concert or play that you went to
Th-9 Birthday
Th-10 Travel
Th-11 Mother's/Father's Day
Th-12 All in the family - Create a layout about a family get-together
Th-13 Play ball - create a sports-themed layout or card
Th-14 Ghost of Christmas past - make progress on a DD that is still unfinished or other Christmas projects.
Th-15 I Love My Pet - Scrap you're pets.
Th-15 I Love My Pet - Scrap you're pets.
Th-16 Remember those who are grieving, make a sympathy card.
Th-17 Cheer someone up, send a thinking of you, hello, or get well soon card.
Th-18 April Fool - do a page about a time you pranked someone, or were pranked yourself
Th-19 Remembrance - create a layout about a memory or story of a loved one who is no longer with you
Th-20 Home is where the heart is - create a layout about an outing or activity unique to your home town
Th-21 Th1 - "At the park" - playground, amusement park, theme park
Th-22 Taxes - In honor (ha!) of U.S. tax day (April 15th), use a money theme in your project
Th-23 There's a song in my heart - music themed
Th-24 Disney - characters, movies, theme parks, etc
Th-25 Game Boy. Video games - and their characters, movies, mercy, etc
NUMBERS/SIZES:
N/S-1 Go halvesies. Divide the background of your page or card front into halves. Focus your title/ greeting and focal/photo(s) on one of those halves.
N/S-2 use the number 4, 5, or 6 on your page
N/S-3 Divide your project into thirds.
N/S-5 - use 5 die cuts/stickers on one project
N/S-6 Lots of layers! Include at least six layers on your project (some could be stenciled or stamped)
N/S- 7 use 7 die cuts/stickers on one project
N/S-8 Go BIG or go home! Include a photo or focal image that covers at least 1/4 to 1/2 of the surface area on your page or card.
N/S-9 use 9 die cuts/stickers on one project
N/S-10 Counting BIG! Use a LARGE number on your card or page. The SIZE of the number should make it a feature element on your project.
N/S-11 Pick THREE: use 3 different MANUFACTURERS on 1 project. American Crafts umbrella all counts as 1
N/S-12 Group shot - Photos in your layout include multiple people
N/S-13 Generations - use a photo with at least 3 generations
N/S- 14 Cram em in - at least 5 photos on your lo
N/S-15 Little Pictures - all pictures smaller than 4x4
N/S-16 Keep on going - Spread an element over 2 pages
RECIPES *one point per item, plus bonus of five points for including them all on one project*
Re-1 Spell SPRING Include at least one item starting with S (maybe Simple Stories brand?), one starting with P (a photo corner perhaps?), something with R, with I, with N and with G.
Re-2 Spring Has Sprung! Choose any four of the following to put on your page:
1. Use gesso or white paint for the melting snow
2. Use the colour green to signify new growth
3. Use the colour pink for cherry blossoms
4. Use a sun or sun rays to signify the dawn of a new season
5. Use flowers for spring blooms
6. Use a bird or a bee or a butterfly
1. Use gesso or white paint for the melting snow
2. Use the colour green to signify new growth
3. Use the colour pink for cherry blossoms
4. Use a sun or sun rays to signify the dawn of a new season
5. Use flowers for spring blooms
6. Use a bird or a bee or a butterfly
Re-3 "It's just a cluster": create a cluster that includes at least: 1 sticker, 1 die cut/pre-made ephemera piece, 1 word strip, 1 "dot", 1 piece of pp (could be punched or fussy cut or just a square, as long as it originated in a piece of patterned paper)
OTHER
O-1 The ghost of challenges past... Take on a 29-4-29 challenge from this past February.
O-2 Cyber challenge hunting: complete a challenge from somewhere else
O-3 Give them away! Donate cards
O-4 Share the wealth. Donate scrappy supplies
O-5 Finish a class or kit.
O-6 Did it - Meet a challenge that you posted
O-7 Rak-it - Rak or gift a friend some crafty goodies
O-8 Snail mail - mail a card or gift a layout to a friend
O-9 Open it - use an unopened product/tool from your supplies
O-10 Retro Sketches: Choose a sketch from SKETCHtember of 2020 and use it for a project.
O-11 Stay Current - scrap photos from the current month
O-12 do your own thing - start with a sketch but change it up
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O-13 use a sketch you printed out a long time ago
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O-14 get inspired - make along with a video
O-15 Toss it - throw out those yellowed embellishments or that dried up glue or any other crafty item that is just cluttering your space
O-16 Refinish a page - Go back and change or add something to a layout or card that you already completed
O-17 Hard Copy - Print your photos
Therefore I am going to add some of them again for Q2 (except the New Year specific challenges), because I didn't get to use them. Apologies to those who use the word doc and have already done these challenges in Q1, you're going to have to do them again!
I copied it from one of the challenges from The Lilypad this month. It requires access to the Two Peas gallery in Flickr, or you can use the gallery at another site such as 
If I've duplicated 
