*** Scripture Challenge Guidelines ***

[Rina Kroes]

Rina and fabulous Muses are SO excited to restart a fresh new round of Scripture Challenges right here at SBE! We hope that you will be inspired, motivated and encouraged by delving into God’s Word, and look forward to seeing your creations.

Starting on Sunday February 3rd, a new Scripture Challenge will run EVERY WEEK as follows:

PART ONE: THE CHALLENGE
1. Every Sunday morning you will receive your challenge HERE in the Scriptures Challenge forum thread (under "Weekly Challenges").
2. Each month the challenge will have a specific theme, with weekly scriptures and posting gifts related to that theme. For example, with February being the traditional month for Valentine’s Day our theme will be centered on the theme of “love” from a Biblical perspective.
3. You will be given a link in the forum thread to download the FREE scripture word art created by Rina.
4. Use that week’s word art and ANY SBE product (including store items, newsletter gifts or past challenge gifts) to create your submission, which can be whatever your heart calls you to create: a special layout, a bookmark, greeting card, calendar page, memory verse card, etc.
5. To be fair to all participants and challenges hostesses, we would prefer that you not combine the various SBE challenges but create a unique submission for each individual challenge.

PART TWO: SHOW US WHAT YOU DID
6. Once you have completed your creation, upload it to the Scripture Challenge Gallery at SBE (which can be found HERE). Remember to give credit in the description fields to the SBE designer(s) whose products you used.
7. Once your layout is posted in the gallery, hurry on back to the weekly thread and post a LINK to your layout. We want to make sure we don’t miss your creation and it also lets us know that you have completed the challenge so that we can send you your posting bonus.
8. You will have a whole week in which to complete your challenge. Deadlines will be midnight EST on Saturdays for both layout posting and forum link.
9. We encourage you to take the time to peruse the gallery for other Scripture Challenge submissions and leave some love for the other members taking part – your praise and encouragement goes a long way!

PART THREE: THE REWARD
10. For every challenge that you complete you will receive a fabulous 12x12 quick page created by Rina’s talented Muses as a posting gift. These unique pages are specifically designed around the theme for the month and will be a wonderful way to build up a very special scrapbook album as you go along.
11. We will send you the link to download your posting gift via PM (private message) within 48 hours after the challenge deadline for the week is over.
12. Very important: make sure that you have enabled private messaging in your Control Panel (go to your User CP and check that option under “Edit Options”), so that you will be notified of when that gift has been sent to you.
13. You will have one week in which to download your posting gift before the link is taken down and replaced by the link for the next week’s gift.
14. After each month's challenges are completed Rina's scripture word art will be available to SBE customers in the store. You can find previous collections of "Scripture Scraps" for sale HERE.

We hope that you will enjoy taking this journey with us and look forward to seeing your creations!

[marshakaye]

So happy to see you back Rina, and I've really missed this challenge. Thanks so much for starting it up again! Here is my layout for this scripture:
http://www.sbelements.com/gallery/sh...hp?photo=43169

Sorry, looks like I posted in the wrong place

[Rina Kroes]

We just LOVE to spoil our participants with a special thank-you gift for taking part in the challenges! As mentioned in the Guidelines above, these are done via PM (private message) here in the SBE forum. However, there are a number of participants whose Private Messaging has not been activated yet, so we have been unable to send you your gift for participating. If you have newly (re)registered and not yet done so yet, we would recommend all participants check their User Control Panel to ensure that the following functions have been checked - we would really LOVE for you to receive your gifts for posting!
Please let us know when you have enable your Private Messaging so that we can get your gifts out to you.

[Sallie K]

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[ArtfulPioneer]

Hi Rina, I'm new here- but have been following your work for awhile. I have a ? about the Scripture Challenges. Is is SBE kits/elements only? Each site is different so I thought I'd better ask.
Thanks for starting these up, and thanks for answering.
singin His praises... -artfulpioneer