August Blog Template Challenge & Winners Announced

Hello, how are you today? I have a LOT to share with you so grab yourself a beverage and sit back. As you know, I have a new template challenge to reveal, but before I reveal that to you I have not one but TWO winners to announce from last month! So, here we go….

In July I challenged you to use a template that would scrap a series of photos of the same topic and little to no journaling. We had 13 eligible entries and I listed them in the order they were submitted. I used Random(dot)org to choose a winner and it chose…..

#7 – Patrice and here is her submission….



Congrats Patrice – you will be receiving a $10 coupon to Scrapping With Liz soon! I have to say I enjoyed the creativity put in to some of these layouts….great work everyone.

Now, I also did a blog post later in July where I spotlighted Liz and several of her creative team members. They each shared their favorite Liz product and I asked you to share yours. If you left a comment you were eligible to be in the drawing for a $5 coupon to Scrapping With Liz. We had 37 comments!!!! Again, I listed the names in order by date of submission and had my trusty Random(dot)org guy choose a winner. The lucky winner is……..

#19 – Christelle (and wouldn’t you know it, we had 2 people by this name enter but this was the 2nd Christelle). Congrats to you as well!!

Here we go with the August challenge. This challenge came from another challenge I had to do this week so I cannot claim this to be original, lol. I am participating in Biggest Loser: Orchard Style at Scrap Orchard. I am in my 2nd round and if I may make a shameless plug for hoo-rah’s, I have lost 19 lbs in about 11 weeks so far. It really is about lifestyle changes. Each week, each person & team is given a specific challenge to meet. If you meet the challenge you get the designated points. If your entire team completes the challenge the team as a whole earns additional points. It is great motivation! This week’s challenge was to share a healthy recipe to earn 10 points. If you scrapped the recipe on a recipe card you earned an additional 10 points. Hello? I knew the perfect template pack to scrap a recipe card, hahaha! And that, my friends, is how this month’s challenge came to be.

Here is the template pack I chose this month’s template from:

4x6 Recipe Card Templates


This is the template you will be using to create a completed recipe card with one of your favorite recipes:


*Download is Expired

Here is the card I created for a recipe called Black Bean Salad (yummo):



Here is my printed out version below. I decided to add a back page to the card for nutritional information.





Sorry for the poor photos but my camera is outside in the car so I used my XOOM.

Now, on to the RULES OF THE CHALLENGE…..
1. Download the free template HERE *download is expired
2. Create a recipe card with a complete recipe. You do NOT have to print it.
3. Once you have your card completed, upload to Liz’s gallery at Scrap Orchard HERE or to a place of your choice “AND”
4. Come back to this blog post and leave a comment with the link to your layout by August 31, 2011
5. Winner will receive a $10 coupon to Scrapping With Liz and will be announced on the first Sunday in September here on the blog.

Whew!!!! I told you there was a lot to cover. I bet you are ready for a refill on that beverage before you get to downloading the template and working on your recipe card. Can't wait to see all the delish recipes!!

xoxo
Helen