July team Challenges **CLOSED**

#3 Doodle doodle doo! Doodle on your LO for 1 point. Doodle on multiple embellishments for an extra 5 points.

#8 Brand-spankin’ new! Use a new product the day you purchase it, or get it in the mail. Take it straight from the package, and get it onto your page! (Make sure you sniff it, and rub it first, though. ) Take 1 point for just opening the package and 1 point for every single piece you use. 1 12x12 piece of paper counts as one, even if you cut it up and use it multiple times. Each single sticker counts as 1 point.

#10 random - pick a photo at random, without looking, from your phone/digital storage or physical storage & scrap it ( for cards other projects you can use a random stamp set or image you pick without looking )

#12 Be a borrower ( one of my favorite books ) use a borrowed tool on your project or hand me down supply

#21 Food if you use a picture, sticker or stamp referencing food. Even those punny things like olive you berry much.

#23 I love the 4th of July! So create a layout OR card celebrating America's Independence. If you are outside of the USA, use red/white/blue on your layout. This challenge is worth 4 points 😁

#25 BACK IT UP!
Back up your photos somewhere. Copy them to an external drive, get them off your phone onto your computer, back them up to a cloud service, whatever you need to do to protect them.
This one is REALLY important so I'm giving you 10 points for doing it plus a BONUS 10 points if you have a system in place already to do it automatically. If you don't have a system already in place but you commit to something this month and going forward you can also take the bonus.

#28 Name Game - Use embellishments that start with the letters in your name (either real name or 2 Peas username). One point for each embellishment using a letter in your name. eg. M (mat) E (envelope) G (green) A (alpha sticker) N (Nuvo dot) = 5 points

#29 Circles - Use background elements, embellishments or photos that are circles

#30 Stars - Use background elements, embellishments or photos that are star shaped

#31 Zodiac - The two zodiac signs associated with July are Cancer (The Crab) and Leo (The Lion). Include some kind of embellishment or photo or story that relates to either of these symbols on your card or layout. Bonus 5 points if your birthday is in July and you do a layout about your star sign and what it says about you.

#32 Birthstone - The birthstone for July is RUBY. Take a point if you include elements or papers that are predominantly red. Bonus point if your birthday is in June, and bonus 5 points if your LO is about YOU!

#33 Journaling - Journal in a shape, on a path, around a photo or even around the whole page

#34 Photo Stretch - Use one big photo stretched across the page, or several smaller photos in a photo block that runs along the page.

#35 Waves - Use wavy or curvy background shapes or patterned paper on your card or layout

#36 Surf's Up! - Do a layout about surfing or other water activities

#37 Wire - Use some kind of wire on your card or layout eg. Wire words, paper clip, wire embellishments (can be plastic wire).

#39 Other Crafts - This challenge is for sewing, knitting, or any other type of crafting, other than cards/layouts/PL. Are you working on school room decor, home decor, flower arrangements? This is the place to be.
The points for this challenge are 1 hour of sew/craft time = 10 point
Plus
if you spend 1-3 hours on your project, take an extra 5 point for the finished item.
If you spend 4-6 hours on your project, take an extra 10 points for the finished item.
If you spend 7+ hours on your project, take an extra 15 points for the finished item.
Give yourself an additional 2 point for working toward learning a new craft, new technique (can be scrapbook/card making related), etc. Motivation to learn new things is always good.

#40 Get Sketchy – Use any past sketchy Saturday or past Sketchtember sketch for inspiration. 1 point

#42 Happy Birthday – I didn’t get any of my birthday layouts finished last month. Let’s see if I can get some done this month. Create a birthday layout for 1 point. Create a card, present or décor for birthdays and claim 2 points.
Use 3 or more papers for 1 point
Use 6 embellishments (same or different on your page for 1 point
Use a banner on your project for 1 point
Use a pocket card or journaling card for 1 point
Make a cluster of at least 3 items for 1 point (mixed media can be a layer)
If you do 2 of the above, give yourself an extra 2 points.
If you do 3 of the above, give yourself an extra 3 points.
If you do 4 of the above, give yourself an extra 4 points.
#46 Home is Where the Heart Is: I recently moved and am still in the working on the new home phase of life – so scrapbook a page about home décor, home renovations, purchasing, the search for your new home, the sale of your home, etc. for 1 point. Use a something with a home on it for 1 point, something with tools for 1 point, something with floor plans for 1 point, and a heart for 1 point. Possible 5 points total here.

#51 Unused Product Challenge: Do you have new product that you want to use? Or product that you’ve never used. Then this challenge is for you. For every new scrapbook item you use on a project, give yourself a point.

#56 Christmas in July. Over on Facebook in the Scrappy Like a Fox group they are doing Christmas in July. Take a point for every Christmas layout or card you make.

#58 everyday life and the end of history fallacy: I want to write a proper post about this logical fallacy I just learned about but, in short, we tend to believe that things won't change much in the future, even though looking back we see that things have changed a lot!

So my challenge is to scrap/document something that is so much part of your everyday life you've never thought to scrapbook it because you assume you'll always do it this way.
-Bonus point if you can find something from the past that relates to what you've just documented that shows how wrong this thought is. For example, scrapbook about listening to music or using a laptop now, and then a flashback that shows you using an iPod or a CDROM drive.
-Another bonus point if it's a scrap/craft related story.

#61- Designer love-Use papers only from one designer - I LOVE Shimelle and have all of her collections. I need to start using those papers! You can mix and match collections from your favorite designer.
1 point per paper used
2 extra points if you used embellishments from your favorite designer
5 extra points if you use three collections on your LO

#63 Dot...dot...Goose??? Use enamel dots, pop dots, puffy dots...if they are circular embellishments that look like DOTS, use them up! 1 point for each set of 3 of the SAME product...so 3 enamel dots=1, 6 enamel dots=2 points; 3 pop dots=1, 3 puffy dots=1, etc.