JUNE BLOG CHALLENGE

Hi everyone! Welcome to the June Blog Challenge!
Can you believe we are half way through the year?! I am having a hard time wrapping my head around that concept! I hope the first half of the year had you taking lots of fabulous photos. Is there one really great photo you adore? If so, I want you to pull it out for this challenge.
Before we get into the nitty gritty of our new monthly challenge, let's find out who's entry for the May Template Challenge was the lucky winner. You can take a peek at all the amazing entries  here.

And the winner is.... Ms. Lorry!!!

Congratulations Lorry aka lorryfach!!! You have a PM on your TLP account.
All other participants also received their 25% discount coupons via their Lilypad gallery accounts. Please make sure you check your messages everyone and if your coupon didn't come through send an e-mail to pinkreptiledesigns at gmail dot com!
Here's Lorry's beautiful page:

For this month's challenge, let's take a look at the latest post from the Trendspotting series, Out of the Box Photos. I want you to take that really great, amazing "you are so darn proud" photo and make it really shine on your page! (You can use more than 1 photo if you wish.)  
Pick one of the ten designs found in that article and use it as inspiration for your page. Please tell us which piece (by number) you used and how you were inspired. I absolutely can not wait to see these "photo statement" pages!

Check out these jaw dropping, inspiring pages by the Pink Ladies:

First up is a gorgeous page by Shivani, which uses the cut out design of #5 as her inspiration. Love how she changed it up a bit and put the pattern papers underneath the cut outs. Such a fun, dynamic page!

This stunner by Emma, was inspired by #9 and #10. Emma loved the cut out image in picture 9 so she extracted the subjects from the main photo and instead of adding a white border she added a stroked effect to a copied layer of her photo cut out and offset it. She then extended the image by adding the background in b&w on a separate layer similar to picture 10. The end result is most definitely a page where the photo shines!

Shivani was inspired to create another amazing page, this time using #4 and #10. Her use of the triangles on her page is stunning and I love the subtle way the photo is masked and blended, outside the triangle frame, and onto her background. This page is simply gorgeous.

Christa's composition is also made up of triangles, but they come together to form a diamond in the center of her page. Inspired by #6, this series of four photos takes center stage on her page. Love that one is a color photo and all the others are B&W. So beautiful!

Cynthia creates a page with depth and whimsy and the awesome photo absolutely demands attention. Her inspiration came from #9 and she used a very cool, dynamic diagonal pp on the extra cut out. Her creativity is endless ... love all the swiggles and bits around the cut out, creating movement and depth, love the WA and paint on the bottom edge, giving her cut out a foundation and those speech bubbles with the journaling are just a fabulous way to tell the story!

Ellen makes magic with her photos of the streets of NYC. She was inspired by #2 and #10. I love her version of #2 with the Pink Reptile Designs torn frames as her layers. And not only did run filters and cool effects on her background image, as shown in example #10, she also ran cool effects on each individual photo in the frames. Her page is vibrant, colorful and exciting ... just like the feel and atmosphere of NYC streets themselves. Awesome!

Jenn's page uses #10 as inspiration. She used a PRD frame on the main part of the lighthouse image and turned the outer portion into a sketch. She also erased a lot of the outer image. 

I hope you are inspired to create a page that makes your photos shine!

Make sure you use at least 75% of Pink Reptile Design products on your page. Once completed, just upload your page to one or all of your galleries and post a link to your layout in the comments section of this post before the next challenge goes live on June 15.

FREEBIES
Off course there's always a little something for free under the FB Free Gift Tab at the  and to be found HERE on the blog. :)

ONE lucky winner will receive a 10 dollar coupon to the PRD store, but really everyone is a winner, as all other participants receive a 25% discount coupon to the Pink Reptile Designs TLP store. So all the more reason to join in on the fun, right?!

Wishing you tons of fun and Happy Scrappin'!