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for Challenge #190 and previous challenges
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WELCOME to Challenge #191 - Let the Troubles Begin!
This Challenge runs from
Monday, May 12th thru Sunday, May 25th
"Double Trouble's 7th Anniversary"
says, "National Brown Bag-It Day and Double Trouble's 7th Anniversary are both celebrated on May 25th. We have appreciated your participation in our challenges over the past seven years, so we are having our second annual Celebratory Raffle Event to show our appreciation. Let me finish my bagged lunch, and we will begin the raffle.
"It's time to pull out the brown paper bag with Raffle tickets and give the bag a shake. Then it's your turn to pick a Ticket and create a project using the theme on ticket. Remember, each project may only be submitted to one of the Raffle Categories.
1. Anniversary or Wedding (Yellow Ticket)
2. Father's Day or Masculine (Blue Ticket)3. Birthday or Baby (Pink Ticket)
4. Graduation (Green Ticket)
You can stop here...
Or
play along with Thing 3's optional twist and/or consider Thing 2's optional dare to earn additional chances in our random drawing.
play along with Thing 3's optional twist and/or consider Thing 2's optional dare to earn additional chances in our random drawing.
says, "I am celebrating National Brown Bag-It Day with Trouble Maker and have decided to use my brown paper bag for one of the Celebratory Raffle Choices.
"My optional twist is to use Kraft paper, Kraft-colored cardstock, a brown paper bag, or any product made from Kraft-like paper in your project. Kraft can be used in any of these categories and is a perfect accompaniment to many combinations of colors and/or patterns."
Optional Twist: If you have included Kraft or Kraft-type paper in your project, you will earn another chance in our random drawing.
"My optional twist is to use Kraft paper, Kraft-colored cardstock, a brown paper bag, or any product made from Kraft-like paper in your project. Kraft can be used in any of these categories and is a perfect accompaniment to many combinations of colors and/or patterns."
Optional Twist: If you have included Kraft or Kraft-type paper in your project, you will earn another chance in our random drawing.
says, "AND DON'T FORGET... Our Sister Challenge, Try A Sketch on Tuesday #670, joins us in celebrating our Double Trouble Seventh Anniversary. Click on my clipart to the left to see the sneak peek of their sketch. Combine this sketch with our Double Trouble 'Celebratory Event Raffle' and you will be awarded TWO additional chances in our random drawing.
"Please note TSOT starts on May 13th, so this sneak peek gives you the day before to create; but remember... to prevent backlinking, your project should not be posted, published, or entered before May 13th in Try a Sketch On Tuesday HERE."
Special Notes: If you use the TSOT sketch, include TSOT's name next to the DTC link in your post. You are now eligible for any extra chances in our random drawing. TSOT has a great sketch that you could use in any of the Raffle Categories. Wouldn't it be cool to see your projects using the same inspirational sketch, especially for each?
For inspiration... here are our Things:
Pink: Birthday
Blue: Masculine
along with inspiration from the Sneetches:
Yellow: Anniversary or Wedding
Pink: Birthday
Green: Graduation
RANDON DRAW PRIZES - Besides the Top Three selections from the total of all cards, there will be one randomly drawn winner in each Raffle Category.
Increase your chances for a prize by creating multiple projects for your favorite Raffle Category, or create projects in more than one category. Just be sure you post each project as a separate entry. For each raffle, you can create up to four projects.
TSOT also has a Special random drawing for their sketch challenge to celebrate Double Trouble's Seventh Anniversary.