This week’s PPC follows our Off to School theme.  Your challenge is to snap a photo related to school.  It can be of a child who is Off to School, school supplies, school buildings, or something iconic like my apple.

Photo Prompt Challenge Rules:

1. Upload your photo to our challenge gallery and link it to the forum.
2. Earn 1 Petal Point for completing four challenges.
3. A randomly selected photo earns a bonus point.

Here is your Off to School Freebie for today.  New Guest CT member, Blanulak created these darling brag book pages for your treasured photos.

You can Download it HERE.

Happy Snapping.

Hiya Weedsters!

Kelly (kenandbelly) here today with a scraplift challenge for you!  This week, I’m challenging you to find inspiration from Cristina’s recent LO.  I adore how she echoed the shape of the sailboats in the photo with the little triangles of paper.

I’m hoping to see visual echoes in your photos because I think they’re really a lovely touch.  I’m sure you can find inspiration from some other aspect of this LO as well– say, the colors, theme, composition, whatnot.

To get you started, here’s my take on this scraplift:

Remember, to earn a Petal Point for this challenge you need to:

1. Use 80% WW Goodies
2. Upload your pages to the challenge page of the WW Gallery
3. Post a link to your page in the WW Challenge Forum thread with by Sunday, Sept 5th, Midnight E.S.T.

Here’s a quick refresher of the Petal Points system here at Weeds and Wildflowers.

Have fun with this challenge!

Digital photographers have such an advantage when trying to capture a story visually compared to those using film cameras.  Back in the “old days”, when film cameras were the only way to take photos, we did not snap away as we do today.  Not only did you have to consider the cost of the film, but developing those pictures was another big expense.  Furthermore, the old cameras were not quite as fast, so they were not able to keep up with the action.

For your challenge this week, I would like you to share a story with us visually through a series of photos.  My story “tells” of a sunny day a few weeks ago when my husband helped my grandson shoot the basketball.  I could tell you about the wonderful experience both guys had, but the photos really say it all.  Such joy.

Just for participating, you can earn a petal point.  I will also choose my favorite story. The “storyteller” will receive an extra petal point.

To earn the petal point: create a page where you share a story with us visually through a series of photos (at least 3).
1. Create a layout using 80% WW Products
2. Upload your page to the WW Challenge Gallery
3. Post at the WW Challenge Forum thread with a link to your page by Monday, August 30.

I’m looking forward to seeing your stories.

 Iowan

It is Monday and Challenge Time here at Weeds and Wildflowers.  And I have a Fun template to share with you today for our challenge.

Download this template:

Have fun with this template, flip it, rotate it, add more to it, do whatever you want with it. Then share your layout with us and you will earn a pedal point.

Here is some inspiration from our Creative Team:

from Carol

From Crissy

From me

BUT in order to earn a petal point, you must:

1. Use 80% WW Goodies
2. Upload your pages to the WW Challenge Gallery
3. Post at the WW Challenge Forum thread with a link to your page by Sunday, August 15th

So you ask?  What are Petal Points?

Can’t wait to see your layouts!

Every couple of years, my daughter Nicole goes with my husband, Dave, and me to a far-flung locale.  2008 gave us the luck o’ the Irish.  Every day there, we saw amazing sites, stopped at every set of ruins, pondered each castle….  By the end of the 14 day-trip, our attitude changed slightly.  Each set of ruins was no longer quite as impressive - there were just too many!  Some ruins were amazing to be sure, though.  Each castle now marked a significant battle in Irish history, but who can keep them straight?  The sites started to run together when I went to make my trip scrapbook.  I didn’t want that to happen again.

So, here we are in 2010 - the year of Egypt.  I knew we were going to see awe-inspiring sites - and a lot of ruins.  I had intended to try to keep track of what everything is for future memories, when my daughter showed me her travel journal.  In addition to listing the sites, she took notes of the more interesting things that passed on the trip to add that special sparkle to the journaling later on.   Her notes included anything tips from the tour guides and memories of dinners - all so we won’t forget!

So, who could forget camel rides? Probably no one.  However, notes helped me remember that my camel’s name was Buttercup!

Who could forget the temples at Abu Simbel? Although this was probably my favorite site, the two temples at Abu Abel Simbel look quite a bit alike; Nicole’s notes help me tell them apart.

Who could forgetthe outstanding mezza we enjoyed, at a restaurant floating on the Nile? According to her notes, the restaurant is Le Deck.

Your mission is to create a vacation page.  I hope you took good notes, because I want to see lots of journaling or detailed captioning on your pages.

Hot tip: Do you have lots of pictures to fit on a page?  How about using the wonderful templates Gina makes each month for the 365 series. They make scrapping so easy.  All you have to do is place your pictures into the templates-easy peasy!! Here is an example from 9764 - Sweet & Simple LIFE Templates - JANUARY - 7 photo.

Just for participating, you can earn a petal point.  To earn the petal point:
1. Create a layout using 80% WW Products
2. Upload your page to the WW Challenge Gallery
3. Post at the WW Challenge Forum thread with a link to your page by Monday, August 9.

I can’t wait to see those vacation pix!

 Iowan

Hi, everyone!  We’re wrapping up our sale and celebration today!  We’ve given out a bunch of quickpages, and we want to let you know that we’d love to see how you use them!  So the layout challenge today is to use one of the Sweet & Simple Life Quickpage Freebies that you have collected.

You can simply add in a picture and a bit of journalling, or you can get really creative … turn them, flip them, just take pieces of them and make a whole new creation.  I’d love to see how original you can get with them!  There were 5 given out this celebration, but also check your stash - probably about 5 or 6 were given out in March during our 3rd Anniversary celebration (those links are no longer active), and those of you who participated in the Spring Guest CT contest also have a whole album of Sweet & Simple Life pages at your disposal.

Here are the details:

• Scrap a layout using one or more of our Sweet & Simple Life quickpages that have been passed out this year.
• Any additional elements/papers added to your creation must be 80% WW products.
• Upload your creation to our Gallery
• Post a copy of the image in the Use-Those-Quickpages Challenge Thread
• Deadline is Sunday night, July 25th, midnight EST (1 week).

I will choose one random participant to receive a $5 coupon to the shoppe!  As this challenge is part of our Summer/Designer Birthday celebration, it will not be in the Petal Points system.

And here is one more Quickpage freebie for you, made by our lovely Kelly

Hello Weedsters! Paula here for your Monday challenge.

Your challenge is to scrap a day in your life. Take a photo every couple of hours that you are awake and then scrap them in a layout.

Here is what I created:

You can earn a Petal Point for participating in this challenge. In order to earn it you have to:

1. Use at least 80% of W&W Goodies
2. Upload you page to the W&W Challenge Gallery
3. Post it in the W&W Challenge Forum with a link to your page by 11:59pm EST Sunday, July 25th

Have fun, get creative, and happy scrappin’!

Hi fans!  I have happy to say that I am the lucky won here.  I get to announce our 4 recent challenge winners for extra petal points.

Our template challenge winner IS . . . .

LynnZant - Congratulations!  Here is the winning layout:

How CUTE is this!  I LOVE the colors and fantastic use of the template.

Our next winner and the winner our our Garden Makeover goes to  . . . . .

clmisener - Congratulations on your beautiful changes. Change CAN be good sometimes and in this case the beauty shows:

Before

After

The winner of our “ME” challenge goes to . . . . . .

Sunflowersbaby - Congratulations!

Here is the winning layout:

I love all the photos!  And perfectly placed and the pink paper gives it that added touch.

And our final winner and the winner of our scraplift challenge goes to  . . . . .

suzq629 - Congratulations!

Here is the winning layout:

Cute photos and the Pink, I love pink.

Another Congratulations to all of you and a big thank you to all that participated in our challenges.  Keep those layout coming and YOU may be the next winner.

Hello everyone!

It has been a long time since the last Recipe Challenge so I thought about setting one today. My recipe is a bit unusual though. I’m not giving you a list of ingredients, I’m giving you only one instruction:

Do NOT use any paper

nor a simple white/black/color layer to imitate the paper. Get creative - anything can serve as a background - pictures, elements, journaling strips … Please do not enlarge a single element to mimic the paper, it would spoil the fun! There is a plenty of material in the Weeds&Wildflowers products to play with!

Here are my layouts for your inspiration:

made with various W&W Design Alphas, and

made entirely with Spreading Cheer Kit, using only the elements to make a new “paper”.

And here is a great layout by Tiff! She used the Creative Borders paper strips to frame the funny frowning pictures of the little boy.

You can earn a petal point for participating in this challenge. In order to earn it you have to:

1. Use at least 80% of W&W Goodies
2. Upload you page to the W&W Challenge Gallery
3. Post it in the W&W Challenge Forum with a link to your page by Sunday, July 18th

Have fun, I can’t wait to see your layouts!

The 365 Project is a great tool to document your year but it has the added benefit of improving your photography skills since you are snapping every day.  In my 2009 Life 365 book I used a photography quote on each monthly summary as a reminder of this added benefit. 

For this week’s challenge, we will use a few “photography” quotes as an inspiration.  So pick up those cameras, find the subject matter that gets your creative juices going, and click away.  You will create another memory that your family and friends will cherish forever.

Download your word art HERE.

Here is a fabulous page that Marketa P did with the word art. What a perfect page for this quote.

Just for participating, you can earn a petal point.  To earn the petal point:
1. Create a layout using 80% WW Products
2. Upload your page to the WW Challenge Gallery
3. Post at the WW Challenge Forum thread with a link to your page by Monday, July 12.

Click, click, can’t wait to see your pages!!

Iowan