In conjunction with the March 2011 issue of the Artisan Notebook we are issuing these fun, creative challenges. These challenges are intended to inspire you in your scrapbook artistry and give you fun new ideas for very special scrapbook pages. We hope you will take up one or more of these challenges and share your inspiration with others who visit our site. Please feel free to post your layouts in our challenge gallery.

Inspiration Station Challenge:

In the March issue of the Artisan Notebook ™ our Inspiration Station article featured layouts that use black and white photos with colorful kits or colorful layouts with black and white kits. Here is a peek at just a few of those featured layouts:

Created by Armina

by Debb Cozzi

Your challenge is to use the inspiration of these layouts to create a layout that contrasts the idea of color-filled photos or kits with black and white photos or kits.

Scraplift Challenge:

In every issue of the Artisan Notebook we include a feature titled, “Scraplift Tag.” With this feature a member of our tag-team selects an exceptional layout to scraplift. Then, each member of the team creates a layout based on the selected layout and explains some of the design principles or ideas they used in creating their own layouts. Here is a peek at the layout our team scraplifted this month:

Created by Scrappy Smile

Our challenge to you is to lift some aspect of this layout to create your own, unique layout.

Recipe for Design Challenge:

In each issue of the Artisan Notebook ™ our featured article, “Recipe for Design” puts together a specific design recipe that our “design chefs” use to create wonderfully creative and inspirational layouts. Here is a look at this month’s recipe:

And just one of the wonderful layouts one of our design chefs cooked up:

by Claire Skeps (aka shades of bliss)

Our challenge to you is to use this recipe to create your own layout.

Just Write Challenge:

In each issue of the Artisan Notebook ™ our featured article “Just Write” provides a journaling prompt for our just write team to create their own inspired layouts. Here is this month’s prompt:

And here is just one of the wonderful layouts created using this prompt:

by Danyale Lewis (gette3)

Our challenge is to use this prompt to create your own color-inspired layout.

Making Headlines Challenge:

Each month in the Artisan Notebook ™ our “Making Headlines” feature takes a look at different ways to create unique and distictive titles for our scrapbook layouts. This month our copy editors we given this title challenge:

Here is a look at just one of the wonderful layouts created by our copy editors for this challenge (this layout is also the featured layout on the cover of the March issue of the magazine.)

by Melanie Ritchie aka mellybird

Our challenge to you is to use this prompt to create your own unique colorful title.

Pigment of Your Imagination Challenge:

In each issue of the Artisan Notebook ™ our featured article “Pigment of Your Imagination” looks at unique ways to use color in your layouts. This is a look at the way they featured color in the March issue:

Here is just one of the layouts used based on this idea:

by Bec aka pSyren

Our challenge to you is to create a layout about yourself using the color of your birthstone.

For detailed information about any of these features and for the design principles used to create these layouts be sure and pick up the March issue of the Artisan Notebook ™.