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Welcome to this installment of the Soap Making Forum's Challenges. For January, we are doing a soap inspired by a book!
PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THIS FIRST (and ALL Rules)-
General Rules:
1. To be eligible to vote, members must add their names on the sign up list - regardless of whether or not an entry is submitted, although full participation in the Challenge is highly encouraged for all who sign up (see General Rules below).
2. This month’s voting will be password locked. Passwords will be sent (via SMF Conversations) to all registered participants ONLY. So please check your messages when the voting begins.
3. No posting your entry photos until the entry thread is made. Non-entry photos are very welcome!
4. You are allowed to change your entry photo up until the entry thread closes. So if you decide after you post your entry you want another try, and you like the second better, you can change it up until the deadline.
SMF Challenge General Rules
· To enter you must have a minimum of 50 posts and been a member for a month (sorry but no exceptions on this)
· In the spirit of advancing our soapmaking skills, all members who sign-up for an SMF Challenge, do so with the expectation that they will make every attempt to make the Challenge soap, as well as post their experience in the Challenge. By doing so, each participate has a better knowledge of the process when voting. We do understand that sometimes things come up in our lives and throw our plans out of whack, however signing up with no intent to participate and only to vote is discouraged.
· Please add your name to the sign up list if you wish to participate (however, you don’t have to enter a soap at the end if you don’t feel happy with what you have produced), but please do post your experiences in the main Challenge thread and be prepared to be encouraged to continue trying.
· The challenge thread should be used to upload pictures of any of your challenge attempts where you can ask for advice and discuss the technique with other members, and provide helpful hints you learned along the way.
· Constructive criticism is welcomed, but please try to keep your comments polite.
· Competition entries must be uploaded to the separate entry thread before the closing date. The Entry thread will open on January 24, 2020 (Please follow the challenge specific rules as to what you need to enter)
· After the closing date January 29 at 11:59 pm CST the winning entry will be chosen using survey monkey (Voting will be open from January 30 to January 31) and the winner announced on February 1, 2020. There is no prize attached to this challenge.
· If you fail to make the challenge deadline, you are still welcome to upload your soap onto the thread, but your entry will not be eligible for voting. We still love to see anything you have produced.
· Even though there is no prize, this is still a competition. If your entry is deemed not to fulfill the general rules or the rules specific to the challenge in any way, then you will be given the opportunity to amend your entry. If this is not possible then your entry will not be included in the voting.
· All the challenge mods reserve the right to have the final say on whether a soap is eligible for voting.
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The January 2020 SMF Challenge is a soap inspired by a book.
Rules for this month’s challenge:
Your soap may be any design or colors that represent a book that you read. Books made into movies are acceptable, I know not everyone reads
You may use any shape, embeds or design techniques that you prefer and does not need to be lye based soap. Your soap may be based on the book cover, a character or location in the book, or even a book theme. For example, the book I’m currently reading has a dancer as one of the main characters, so I could make a soap with a dancer embedded in the soap.
See examples below.
Harry Potter inspired:
Game of Thrones inspired:
(I love the technique used to represent fire and ice.)
Alice in Wonderland inspired:
You may enter a group of soaps in one photo, or choose a minimum of two soaps for your entry photo, but choose one entry photo, please.
When you enter your soap on the entry thread (which will be posted on January 24) please feel free to include a description of your creative process, the name of the book/book-made-into-movie and why you chose it.
Entry photo:
At least one photo of the soap, as well as a photo of the book that inspired it (you can get these from the internet if you don’t own the book). If your soap is inspired by a character or location, a picture representation of that character/location is acceptable.
Thank you for participating and please sign up using the sign-up sheet below.
Enjoy!
Next post is Sign up post:
PLEASE BE SURE TO READ THIS FIRST (and ALL Rules)-
General Rules:
1. To be eligible to vote, members must add their names on the sign up list - regardless of whether or not an entry is submitted, although full participation in the Challenge is highly encouraged for all who sign up (see General Rules below).
2. This month’s voting will be password locked. Passwords will be sent (via SMF Conversations) to all registered participants ONLY. So please check your messages when the voting begins.
3. No posting your entry photos until the entry thread is made. Non-entry photos are very welcome!
4. You are allowed to change your entry photo up until the entry thread closes. So if you decide after you post your entry you want another try, and you like the second better, you can change it up until the deadline.
SMF Challenge General Rules
· To enter you must have a minimum of 50 posts and been a member for a month (sorry but no exceptions on this)
· In the spirit of advancing our soapmaking skills, all members who sign-up for an SMF Challenge, do so with the expectation that they will make every attempt to make the Challenge soap, as well as post their experience in the Challenge. By doing so, each participate has a better knowledge of the process when voting. We do understand that sometimes things come up in our lives and throw our plans out of whack, however signing up with no intent to participate and only to vote is discouraged.
· Please add your name to the sign up list if you wish to participate (however, you don’t have to enter a soap at the end if you don’t feel happy with what you have produced), but please do post your experiences in the main Challenge thread and be prepared to be encouraged to continue trying.
· The challenge thread should be used to upload pictures of any of your challenge attempts where you can ask for advice and discuss the technique with other members, and provide helpful hints you learned along the way.
· Constructive criticism is welcomed, but please try to keep your comments polite.
· Competition entries must be uploaded to the separate entry thread before the closing date. The Entry thread will open on January 24, 2020 (Please follow the challenge specific rules as to what you need to enter)
· After the closing date January 29 at 11:59 pm CST the winning entry will be chosen using survey monkey (Voting will be open from January 30 to January 31) and the winner announced on February 1, 2020. There is no prize attached to this challenge.
· If you fail to make the challenge deadline, you are still welcome to upload your soap onto the thread, but your entry will not be eligible for voting. We still love to see anything you have produced.
· Even though there is no prize, this is still a competition. If your entry is deemed not to fulfill the general rules or the rules specific to the challenge in any way, then you will be given the opportunity to amend your entry. If this is not possible then your entry will not be included in the voting.
· All the challenge mods reserve the right to have the final say on whether a soap is eligible for voting.
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The January 2020 SMF Challenge is a soap inspired by a book.
Rules for this month’s challenge:
Your soap may be any design or colors that represent a book that you read. Books made into movies are acceptable, I know not everyone reads
You may use any shape, embeds or design techniques that you prefer and does not need to be lye based soap. Your soap may be based on the book cover, a character or location in the book, or even a book theme. For example, the book I’m currently reading has a dancer as one of the main characters, so I could make a soap with a dancer embedded in the soap.See examples below.
Harry Potter inspired:
Game of Thrones inspired:
(I love the technique used to represent fire and ice.)
Alice in Wonderland inspired:
You may enter a group of soaps in one photo, or choose a minimum of two soaps for your entry photo, but choose one entry photo, please.
When you enter your soap on the entry thread (which will be posted on January 24) please feel free to include a description of your creative process, the name of the book/book-made-into-movie and why you chose it.
Entry photo:
At least one photo of the soap, as well as a photo of the book that inspired it (you can get these from the internet if you don’t own the book). If your soap is inspired by a character or location, a picture representation of that character/location is acceptable.
Thank you for participating and please sign up using the sign-up sheet below.
Enjoy!
Next post is Sign up post:
