The Countdown to 20 - Official 2025 Tracker

Robin Carlton

Owner & Candy Keeper
Staff member
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Happy 2025 Sweet Shoppers!

As we kick off our 19th Birthday celebration, it's hard not to look toward our 20th year in the industry. Can you believe we've been doing this, THIS long?! It almost takes my breath away! We are so incredibly proud of the (almost) two decades we've been making your memories sweeter!

Over the years, we've brought you a TON of different challenge systems in an effort to help you get your photos and memories scrapped in fun and meaningful ways, so we thought what better way to countdown to our 20th Birthday than to take a look back at some of our favorite challenge systems from over the years!

From Bingo challenges, to weekend getaways, to Summer Scrap-A-Thon and beyond... we are so excited to spend the next 12 months taking a trip down memory lane with a different challenge system each month in 2025!

Like always, we'll be giving away fun prizes every month, and our challenges wouldn't be our challenges without the opportunity to earn Sweet Rewards each month too! Each challenge system brings with it new surprises and opportunities to make the most of your scrapping each month, so be sure to check our intro posts for each system to find out what's on the line in terms of prizes and rewards!

We're also giving you the opportunity to celebrate your fellow scrapper each month in our brand new Sweet Shoutouts threads coming February 1st. Love what you see in the gallery? Give your favorite scrappers a shout-out and show them a little love! You never know when our challenge fairy will reward you for making our community a sweet place to be!

And like last year... if you can play along with 10 out of 12 months of our challenges over the next year, you'll be entered into a drawing to win $100 bonus prize too!

Speaking of which... I'm so excited to share that Lea aka Leablahblah is the lucky winner of our 2024 grand prize drawing. Lea scrapped along with ALL 12 months of challenges we did last year which is absolutely incredible!

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If you think YOU have the stamina to scrap each month over the coming year, grab a spot in this thread, bookmark your post and then come back to update your post each month with a link to your participation in each of our monthly challenges this year. This thread will serve as a tracker and your official entry into our 2025 grand prize drawing! Easy peasy.

I say it all the time, but we couldn't do what we do without each of you, so we're incredibly grateful that you spend your time with us here at Sweet Shoppe Designs. Your support means the world to our small business and we're beyond fortunate to be able to do what we love for so many years.

From all of us... Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Here's to our 19th birthday and many more to come!

As I say each weekend... keep making those sweet memories and scrap MORE!

Robin
 
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Your tracker post should look something like this...

Feb 2025 - Bingo Challenges
Mar 2025 - Coming Soon
Apr 2025 - TBD
 
Definitely going to try to keep up this year...need to get more involved with this sweet community!!
 
Yay! Lea! Congratulations. Well deserved. :wub:

So excited for the coming year! :wub:


Just for fun:
Feb 2025 - Bingo Challenges
Mar 2025 - Coming Soon
Apr 2025 - TBD
 
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Felicitations Lea!!!! Such an achievement!:)

Hope to scrap more this coming year but feel excited by the new challenges!

I grab my spot here:

February 2025 - Bingo Challenges
March 2025 - Think Outside The Box
April 2025 - Scrapper's Portfolio
May 2025 - Passport to Hobbies
June 2025 - SAT -The Waiting Room
July 2025 - SAT - Weekend Getaway
August 2025 - SAT - Summer Shadowbox
September 2025 - Scrap With The Sugarbabes
October 2025 - Pinterest Portfolio Challenges
November 2025 - This or that Challenges
December 2025 - SugarBabe Sketch Spectacular
January 2026 -Shoutout & Spin!
 
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Congrats Lea on winning last year's mega prize! Enjoy the shopping. :)

And SSD: congrats on being the sweetest spot in town for so long.
Can't wait to see what you'll get back from the challenges vault this year.
I'm in and hope to be able to scrap every month. :)

February: Bingo
March: Think Outside The Box
April: Scrapper's Portfolio
May: Passport to Hobbies
June: SAT - The Waiting Room
July: Weekend Getaway
August: Summer Shadowbox
September: Scrap With The Sugarbabes
October: Pinterest Portfolio
November: This or That
December: Sugarbabe Sketch Spectacular
January: Shoutout & Spin
 
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Congrats, Lea!

I'll commit to making an effort, lol ;) Hopefully I can squeeze some time for challenges along with my big project life catch-up plan.

February 2025- BINGO
March 2025-
April 2025-
 
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My spot

Congrats on the gift card girl!!!

Thank you sweet shoppe for all that you do behind the scenes to keep our scrapping needs met and our challenges exciting. I absolutely love this idea and cannot wait to see what each month comes with. I have absolutely nothing to scrap about and the challenges are the inspiration I need and the motivation I need. It is truly a mental therapy for me and I don't know where I would be without it right now.

The entire Community is an amazing group to be a part of and I am so happy that y'all are still here and still my home.
 
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So exciting!!

This is my spot! :)

February:
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Wow!! Thank you so much! I can’t believe it!! I’m beyond excited to be a part of the SSD community and love scrapping with so many talented artists here! Thank you Robin, thank you designers, thank you SugarBabes and thank you fellow scrappers!

Now let’s get ready to scrap for the next 12 months cuz I can never have enough!

Feb 2025 - Bingo Challenges
Mar 2025 - Think Outside The Box
Apr 2025 - Scrapper's Portfolio
May 2025 - Passport to Hobbies
June 2025 - Summer Scrap-A-Thon Waiting Room
July 2025 - Summer Scrap-a-thon Weekend Getaway
Aug 2025 - Summer Shadowbox
Sep 2025 - Scrap with the SugarBabes
Oct 2025 - Pinterest Portfolio Challenges
Nov 2025 - This or That challenges
Dec 2025 - SugarBabe Sketch Spectacular
Jan 2026 - Countdown to 20 - Shoutout & Spin!
 
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I am going to attempt to do these each month... no guarantee that I will get to all of them every month but will try.
Feb - Bingo - completed 5 challenges to earned 20% coupon
March - Think Outside the box - completed 3 challenges to earned 25% coupon
April - Scrapper's Portfolio - completed 6 challenges for 15 points to earned 25% coupon
May - Passport to Hobbies - completed 8 challenges to earned 25% coupon
June - Summer Scrap-A-Thon Waiting Room - did all the challenges & games
July - Summer Scrap-A-Thon Weekend Getaway - did all the challenges
Aug - Summer Scrap-A-Thon Shadowbox - completed 24 challenges and earned mega collection & addons
Sept - Scrap With the SugarBabes - completed 8 challenges and earned a 40% coupon
Oct - Pinterest Portfolio - completed 10 challenges and earned a 25% coupon
Nov - This or That - completed 6 challenges
Dec - SugarBabe Sketch Spectacular - completed 4 challenges
Jan - Shoutout & Spin - completed 6 layouts
 
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Congrats Lea!!

Just for fun:
Feb 2025 - Bingo Challenges
Mar 2025 - Coming Soon
Apr 2025 - TBD
 
oookay... let's try it....

My spot (Sheldon says it best)...

February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
 
2025 - I completed the entire year! Thank you so much for all the challenges! Looking forward to 2026!
I completed all 12 MONTHS!!

Feb 2025 - Bingo
March 2025 - Think Outside the Box
April 2025 - Scrapper's Portfolio
May 2025 - Passport to Hobbies
June 2025 - Summer Scrapathon Wating Room
July 2025 - Summer Scrap-A-Thon: July
Aug 2025 - Summer Scrap-A-Thon: August
Sept 2025 - Scrap with the SugarBabes
Oct 2025 - Pinterest Portfolio
Nov 2025 - This or That
Dec 2025 - SugarBabe Sketch Spectacular
Jan 2026 - Shoutout and Spin
 
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Happy 19th Sweet Sweet Sweet Shoppe! And congrats Lea! I won the December GC and it has been the MOST fun spending my prize. You are going to love every second!
 
February: BINGO
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February: BINGO
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