Give me space challenge is now up!

Welcome to this month’s “Give Me Space” Challenge!

As always, I AM thrilled to have you all join us here! Meeting new members and seeing everyone try something new is always fascinating to watch unfold – thank you for being here!

This month’s challenge:
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March Requirements:

Please use the following kit in your design:

Check out the forum to see how you can get this kit for free!

Items in your layout:

- Please design whatever you feel is a “white space” or “minimalist” layout using the kit above. You MAY use a template from another designer.

- The ONLY requirement is that you use my “Lucky Clover” Kit.

- Your layout needs to be 80% of the kit above

- You CAN enter more than one design!

* IMPORTANT: IF you download the kit, it is required that you submit at least ONE layout in our awesome gallery here at PDW!

Have fun and make it YOURS! I can’t wait to see your designs! Please take a moment to share this challenge and invite your friends to join in…they must download the kit as an individual to join – please don’t share. Thank you!

PLEASE NOTE: Plain Digital Wrapper also has a “Point Program” when you participate in our Challenges. Please go here to read how to earn a FREE $5.00 Gift Card:

PDW Wrapper

Have fun and simply make it yours!

Here are a few amazing layout that have been submitted:

Come join us for some fun!

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Journal Me This Challenge is up!

As I said several times this year already, WOW! It is going by so quickly.

Hopefully you are ready to scrap some memories and save some stories for future generations to read!
Use at least one of these Queue’s to get you started, journal a memory, good or bad, or of anything you choose.
1. Since March is National Craft Month I intend to celebrate it by…{Since March is National Craft Month I intend to celebrate it by scrapping at least 4 layouts for my family book.}
2. March is a month of ____________ for me because….{ March is a month of madness for me because our school has a week long spring break and the kids all complain that they are bored for a straight week.}
3. The first quarter of the year has gone by and I feel like…{The first quarter of the year has gone by and I feel like I don’t know where it went or what I accomplished so far.}

You can use pictures or not…the main focus is on the journaling and stories that are being preserved…It can be worded for your kids or for the public…ie: {first person or second} If I am journaling on my kids pages I tend to write in first person, so that the journaling as they read it, comes from me. So I don’t worry about using names like “Me on the front porch in June” instead of putting “Claudette on the front porch in June.”

Before you begin here are a few simple guidelines that must be met:
1) Use at least one item from a Plain Digital Wrapper designer
(can be any item including designer samplers/freebies)
2) Be a new layout created for the challenge
3) Only be entered in one challenge category

Don’t forget to post it in the gallery and place a link here so we can show some love!
You will recieve one wrapper for completing the challenge and a bonus wrapper for using all PDW products! Once you completed it also post to the wrapping up points thread so you don’t get missed!
This challenge will run from March 1-31st.
If you have ANY questions, please feel free to ask.

Here is mine:

Be sure to come play!

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The March Piece Wrapping Challenge is up!
The rules are simple – - grab the mini - – and use EVERY piece in it to make a layout. You can add more if you like – but you must use all of the mini kit provided. This month there are 5 papers, and 13 elements. Think you can do it? Be sure to post your layout back here ( and also post it in the gallery so we can comment and ohhh and ahh at it!)

http://www.plaindigitalwrapper.com/shoppe/product.php?productid=7229&cat=0&page=1

Grab the coupon in the forum, under Piece Wrapping Challenge.

Here is mine:

Check out some of the amazing layouts that have already been posted:

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Journal Me This

O-to the-M-to the G! Where did our year go? I am so at a loss for time these days! Hopefully we can get a few more pages scrapped before the world ends or the new year begins…which ever happens…hahaha!
Use at least one of these Queue’s to get you started, journal a memory, good or bad, or of anything you choose.
1. As the leaves change this season I have changed…{As the leaves change this season I have changed my way of looking at lots of things. Some people look great at first glance but then turn out the be awful once you know them, and some people appear to not be nice and then turn out to be great. I have learned not to judge a book by it’s cover.}
2. Crisp fall air makes we want to…{Crisp fall air makes me want to get outside and play in the leaves, make hot chocolate, make some chili, and bake some cookies with my kids.}
3. This year I am thankful for…{This year I am thankful for my kids and my grandbabies. Our newest grandbaby-Brooklynn joined us in June this year and we found out that Jacovie was a part of our family.}
4. Traditionally we celebrate…..{Traditionally we celebrate Thanksgiving two different times each year due to having so many in each family that we have one dinner at our house for my family and one dinner at his grannie’s house for his family.}
You can use pictures or not…the main focus is on the journaling and stories that are being preserved…It can be worded for your kids or for the public…ie: {first person or second} If I am journaling on my kids pages I tend to write in first person, so that the journaling as they read it, comes from me. So I don’t worry about using names like “Me on the front porch in June” instead of putting “Claudette on the front porch in June.”
Before you begin here are a few simple guidelines that must be met:
1) Use at least one item from a Plain Digital Wrapper designer
(can be any item including designer samplers/freebies)
2) Be a new layout created for the challenge
3) Only be entered in one challenge category
Don’t forget to post it in the gallery and place a link here so we can show some love!
This challenge will run from November 1-30th.

***Additional challenge****For those that can say they have scrapped at least one page for the Journal Me This Challenge every month this year there will be a bonus gift!****{You can go back and complete the ones you missed to catch up before the end of December!}

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Give Me Space Challenge

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to this month’s “Give Me Space” Challenge! I AM thrilled to have you here! Last month you all rocked it and we had a lot of new members join us – thank you! I hope to see even more this month!

So many have asked how I do my “white space” layouts… it’s really simple but takes getting a little comfortable working with a lot less and really making your photos *pop!*

I was your typical clusterer. Yup, that’s a word in the scrap world LOL and when I began to work with a minimalist designer, that’s when I learned how it’s done…really by accident and just playing with a LOT less!
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I found this quote on “white space” and I hope it helps you understand it even more:

“White space is about letting what you have to show and say stand on its own. It’s about the drama of a good photo shining in all its glory. It’s about giving the eye a much needed rest. It’s about purity of intent. It’s a calm in the storm of visual life.” ~ Cathy Zielske
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Here are a few examples of my own White Space gallery to perhaps give you some creative ideas as to how white space is done:

Alexis-Designs White Space Gallery

This month’s challenge:
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November’s Requirements:

I’ve created my first template for this challenge – I hope you like it! Here is the preview and link:

Head on in to the forum to see how you can get this!

Items in your layout:

- You must use the template above in your layout. Please feel free to move it around, remove elements, etc. Make it your own!

- Please feel free to use any kit, but it’s always awesome if you use PDW’s designs!

* IMPORTANT: IF you download the template, please submit at least ONE layout in our awesome gallery here at PDW!

There will be a prize this month – so be in it, to win it! hehe

Have fun and OWN it – I can’t wait to see your designs!

PLEASE NOTE: Plain Digital Wrapper also has a new “Point Program” when you participate in our Challenges. Please go here to read how to earn a FREE $5.00 Gift Card:

PDW Wrapper

Have fun and simply make it yours!

Please be sure to post your layout here in the thread AND in the “Give Me Space” area in the gallery so we can keep track and leave some love

Here are some of the bautiful layouts we are seeing:

by Demma

by mrscwooddell

by Sandie03

by kandiced

by Yez2psp

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