Year Long Contest

	Contest period will run from January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003.
	Entry Fee: 1 scrapping related item with a value of at least $3.00 but not more than $10.00. Only 1 item is required during the entire contest period.
	Entry deadline: The contest administrator must receive your entry fee before April 1, 2003 for you to be eligible to win the grand prize in this contest. This entry fee will also make the participant eligible to win the prizes that will be awarded by the monthly sponsors. Those who send in their prize award after the April 1 deadline will not be eligible to win one of the grand prize awards but she will be eligible to win the sponsor’s prizes in the monthly contests for the remainder of the contest period. The participant’s entry fee will still be used for the prize awards at the end of the year.
	Prizes: Will be determined by the participants, as their Entry Fees will be awarded at the end of the contest period.
	Winners: There will be 3 ‘official’ winners of this contest. They will be the 3 participants who complete the most completed scrapbook pages during the contest period.
	Counting: Participants will begin counting the number of completed pages beginning with the first day of the month that the contest administrator received the entry fee. IE: If your entry fee is received on February 20, you may go back and count the pages you have completed since February 1. Pages completed in January are not to be counted, as you were not officially participating during the month of January.
	“Completed Pages”: Your page is considered ‘completed’ if you have nothing else you wish to add to the layout. THIS INCLUDES JOURNALING! I know that sometimes we think we will go back and journal a little something later but if you are going to do that, you must wait to count the page until you have finished the journaling. A rule of thumb would be that if you are ready to slip it into a page protector, (if you use them), then you have a completed page.

Please note: You are counting completed pages and not completed layouts. A 2-page layout counts for 2 completed pages. Also, you will need to complete two 5x7 or 7x7 pages to equal 1 page counted for contest purposes.

Monthly Contests:
There will be a monthly incentive contest held each month. The sponsor(s) of that month will determine the prize that they wish to award as well as the type of contest that they wish to sponsor. To be eligible to win the sponsor’s prize, you must have sent in your Entry Fee to the contest administrator.
Everyone is invited to join in the monthly contests but those not eligible to win the sponsor’s prize will be entered into a separate drawing for a smaller award that will be determined by the contest administrator.

BONUS PRIZES!
There will be bonus prizes awarded as participants reach milestones on their scrapping journey. You will receive a prize for every 50 pages you complete during the year.

Set A Goal
Set a reasonable goal for yourself for 2003. It should be something that is challenging, to encourage you to reach for that goal, but not so high as to be unattainable. Email this information to the contest administrator or post it to the newsgroup.