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Scrapbookers: Enter the Scrap Factor Contest!

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First up: something you should consider this weekend. Enter the Scrap Factor contest. Scrap Factor is happening over at UKScrappers, but you don’t have to be from the UK to enter. The grand prize is £500! (If you don’t speak pounds, that’s 800 American dollars once you convert it.) That’s enough to buy a fancy new camera or a fancy electronic die-cutter and the ultimate in sets of fancy Copic markers. Or you could just buy every piece of patterned paper you liked and then go shoe shopping. Heck, you could remodel a room! So yes, a very nice prize to win.

Scrap Factor is a bit like the X-Factor, one of those televised talent show series in which the audience vote every week. For Scrap Factor, things start with an ‘audition’ in which you choose five layouts to represent your scrapping style. They can be 12×12, 8.5×11 or a mix. And you enter in your choice of category: Paper, Digital and Hybrid. Hybrid pages should be paper layouts with at least one digital element included – like printing digital designs onto paper to use as accents or adding digital text to your photographs before printing.

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In choosing your five layouts for your audition, you need to include a few things: one page about yourself, one page with no photos and one double-page layout. You’re free to scrap in any style, with any products, any themes, as long as you’ve met those three requirements somewhere in your five layouts, you’re all set.

Your five layouts don’t have to be created just for the contest – you can choose them from your albums if you wish! They just can’t have been published (print magazine or book, online magazine, online course materials, etc) and if they are on your blog or in an online gallery, you’re asked to remove them until the audition phase finishes.

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Once you’ve chosen your layouts, you’ll need to upload them to enter. You need to be a member of UKScrappers with at least 10 posts OR 30 days of membership. That means you can certainly join UKS this week – from anywhere – and just find ten conversations to join in and you’re set! Of course, existing members are certainly welcome, whether you’ve been a regular chatter for ages or actually haven’t said that much recently. So log into UKScrappers, make ten posts if you’re new, then head to the gallery. Just above the first row of gallery pages, there’s a link at the right to upload a project. There you go! Upload your five layouts and choose the Scrap Factor Auditions from the drop-down menu. When you title your layouts, declare your category with the page title – so PAPER – A Day at the Seaside, for example. That’s all there is to entering! The deadline for uploading your entries is Noon (UK time), Friday the 8th of April.

From the auditions, fifteen scrappers will go through to the next stage. Five paper scrappers, five digital scrappers and five hybrid scrappers. Each group has a mentor – Mary Anne is mentoring the paper group, Dolly is mentoring the digi group and hybrid girls, I’m your mentor! We’re not judges and we’re not there to tell you what to do – just to be a sounding board. You can ask us questions, show us something and get feedback. We’re there to help and cheer!

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Those fifteen finalists will then go through a series of week-long scrapping challenges with the members of UKScrappers voting, just like talent shows on television. It’s generally one layout per week to create throughout the contest, and we say good-bye to one scrapper each week until we’re down to the final three. The final three have a special final round, of course! And the grand prize winner gets £500 plus a variety of sponsored prizes and the two runners-up receive £100 and a selection of sponsored prizes. So cash and stash for three scrappers at the end of it all! For the rules of the contest, you can see this post at UKS.

Entries close next Friday, the 8th of April, and we’d love for you to join in the fun! I’d especially love some hybrid entries so I can have a full team – at the moment we are outnumbered by paper and digi girls! But seriously – no matter which category you enter – UKS has thrown some great contests in the past and I know this one will be fabulous too. In fact, I made these three layouts as part of a UKS contest several years ago and I absolutely loved how it stretched my creativity. I hope you’ll consider entering!

In other news, I am working on the travel Q&A, yay! And there’s a giveaway post here this evening, so stop back for a comment-to-win chance!

Have a lovely and craft-filled weekend!

xlovesx

02 April 2011



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3 Comments for Scrapbookers: Enter the Scrap Factor Contest!

  1. Zahra Says:

    Looks great Shimelle – is pregnancy brain blocking out the March 4×6 love or am I being too eager?! :D

  2. sarah Says:

    The Contest sounds great, just wanted to say that the Q & A idea is great, I’ve put my Q on your “We’re Home” post.

  3. Julie Jeavons Says:

    Oh my Shimelle, haven’t things changed. There’s hardly any pp in those old LOs and I didn’t spot a single butterfly!!!!!!

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