First Blog Challenge

Time for something new! My creative team and I thought that it would be fun to start offering a weekly challenge so you all could get a chance to win a free download of my latest kit. I had a new release today, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to have our very first challenge. Since this challenge has begun on a Wednesday it will end Tuesday night of next week and then another challenge will be offered next Wednesday. Me and the ladies of my creative team will take turns hosting these great challenges for you. I will begin it all with a template challenge. Easy, I know.

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This is the template for this week's challenge. Basically you follow the template as much as possible, but be creative with it. You can flip it and add all the embellishments you want. Also, for this layout I need for you to document a moment in which you felt proud, either for yourself or someone else. Not to hard, is it? Also, once you completed a layout you need to leave a comment at the bottom of this blog entry with a link so that we can all look at it. The link should be to your own personal gallery in flickr or photobucket, etc, or it can be a link at the ScrapMatters Gallery or Digi Shop Talk.

Here is what I came up with. My brother went through basic training last year during his summer break. Came out an army man.

Last year I also release my most popular freebie to date. It was called In the Army Now. It was in honor of my brother's basic training. This year he went off to AIT so that's another graduation ceremony that I have to go to. Well, in this year I have grown as a designer and decided to update the freebie. I offer this kit to you. It is called Young Private. There are much more elements in the actual kit than pictured in the preview.

Download 1 ***Corrected Link***

Download 2

For those of you who downloaded my last freebie, you already know this. But for you guys who did not participate last week, here is a review. If you download any of my freebies and leave me a comment here on this blog, you will be entered into a drawing to win a free download of my latest kit to be released. Also, it would be helpful if you left an email link, or at least remembered to check back in two days to see who wins the download. Since there are actually two separate downloads to this freebie, I will randomly pick two lucky winners to my latest kit, Go Fly A Kite. Here's a look.

Goodness, I have a lot of things going on today. So let's review. Template challenge, leave a link to your layout in my comments section. One lucky winner could win a free download to my latest kit. Download Freebie. Leave a comment. Two more will win a free download. So for today's activities, three people have a chance to win a free download of Go Fly A Kite. Not too confusing I hope. For the challenge participants you have until Tuesday, July 29 to leave a link. For Freebie Getters you have until Friday, July 25th to leave a comment.

We'll that's all for today. Everyone enjoy!