Challenge Info

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Welcome to Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges!

CHALLENGE INFO and RULES

INFO

• Our challenges are monthly and start on the 1st Friday and end on the last Friday of each month.
• Each challenge has a choice of FOUR theme categories each month:

1. Anything Flies projects - what we call Anything Goes
2. Creative Design Team theme - play along with our CDT theme if you prefer the challenge of a different theme each month
3. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #1 - Make Dragonfly themed projects to be eligible to win both the main prize and our coveted Dragonfly Award badge
4. Dragonfly Award Challenge twist #2 - Include Dragonflies in clever ways on either your Anything Flies projects or your Creative Design Team themed projects to also be eligible to win both the main prize and our coveted Dragonfly Award badge

DRAGONFLY AWARD CHALLENGE TWISTS

• Every month we also challenge you to take on our two Dragonfly Award Challenge Twists!
• We want to see your projects with a specific Dragonfly theme or you can include Dragonflies on either your Anything Flies or Creative Design Team themed projects.
• Those who choose to rise to the Dragonfly Award challenge twists in the most unique way wins our coveted Dragonfly Award badge.
• Please put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists!
• Your Dragonfly Award projects are also eligible to win the main Sponsored Prize so you could be a double winner!

WINNERS and PRIZES

• A minimum of 5 entries by different people are needed for the prize to be awarded!
• Sponsored Challenges - the main Prize Winner wins the Sponsored Prize.
• Non- sponsored Challenges are "just for fun".
• All four theme categories are eligible to win the Sponsored Prize!
• The main Prize Winner, Dragonfly Award Winner and Top 3 Winners get Paper Dragonfly badges.
• The main Prize Winner is invited to guest DT for an upcoming Challenge using the prize they won.
• Dragonfly Award Winner and Top 3 Winners are also invited to guest DT for an upcoming Challenge with an Anything Flies or Dragonfly themed project. 
• Winner Posts can be easily found via our Winners page.

RULES

• All paper crafts, mixed media and altered art using stamps, digis, dies etc and cute to creepy projects are welcome - let your creativity fly at Paper Dragonfly!
• Enter projects inspired by any of our FOUR theme categories.
• Dragonfly Award Twist entries - put “DA” after your name in your entry description to indicate you’ve entered the challenge twists. 
• You must mention and link to the current Paper Dragonfly challenge in your post to be eligible to play and win the prize. 
• You may enter a max of 5 projects per month.
• No limit on how many other challenges you can combine with Paper Dragonfly!
• Your linky entry must be a permalink to your project post. 
• Entries must be blogged or shared on or after the start date of the challenge - older postings and projects are not eligible - no backlinking!
• It is OK to use another online forum such as Flickr and Instagram if you do not have a blog, we will do our best to comment on sites that require membership.
• Turn off blog comment verification to help us comment on entries. 
• Help promote us by including our current challenge badge in your posts.
• Help promote us by displaying our Paper Dragonfly Creative Challenges badge in your sidebar.
• We'd appreciate it if you'd follow the Paper Dragonfly Challenge Blog and leave a comment on the challenge post when you play in our challenges.

Have a wonderful crafty day!

Cat 🐱