{October} Blog Hop and Inspiration Challenge!

... and we're back! Thanks so much for being patient with us as we were unable to host a September Inspiration challenge due to some big changes in our personal lives.  Rebecca is still on her honeymoon and will rejoin us for the November challenge, so for this month I (Sarah) am hosting all by myself... hopefully I don't forget anything important!

First, here is the inspiration photo for this month's challenge:

 Here is what I was inspired to create:

Our wonderful guest designers have put together some amazing projects based on the inspiration photo.  Please visit each of their blogs to see their projects then come back to the Polkadot Door to vote for your favorite and post your own entry.  We have some great prizes this month!

Lindsay
DeeDee
Amanda
Debby 
Aki
Nicole
Smitha
Sabrina
Joanne
Marivic
Tammy
Diana
Mazlina

This month's Challenge winner will receive a $20 gift certificate from Berry71bleu Boutique!

• Create a project based upon this month's inspiration.  It can be anything - a card, layout, altered item... Post a photo of your creation to your blog or online gallery (use code PDD) and link it here using the Mr. Linky widget at the end of this post.  Please provide a direct link to your post.

• You may enter as many times as you like, but you're asked to provide a newly designed project. We ask that you combine this challenge with no more than 3 other challenges.

• We will choose one winner who will receive the prize provided by the sponsor and be invited to participate as a guest designer for our November Blog Hop and Inspirational Challenge. In addition,we will also invite the creators of a number of our favorite submissions to join the November Guest Design team and play for November's GDT prize and the title of Featured Designer!

• Submissions will close at midnight on October 17th.  

• We will announce the October challenge winner and November guest design team members on Oct 19th.

  

One blog hop commenter will receive a prize pack from  

Um Wow Studios

• After visiting all the stops on the blog hop, come back here and leave us a comment telling us which GDT member's project was your favorite (and make sure that you are a follower!) We'll randomly select one lucky commenter to receive the UmWowStudio prize pack.  

• NEW THIS MONTH - Help us spread the word about the Polkadot Door Inspirational Challenge and Blog Hop.  Post about the challenge on facebook, twitter & online forums, or grab our badge and post it to your blog, to earn extra entries for the prize draw.  Just leave an additional comment letting us know what you did to spread the word (and leave a link if applicable). 
• We will announce the winner of the prize pack on October 15.

The Guest Design Team member with the most votes will receive a papercrafting kit from Scrappy Doodads and will be named October's Featured Designer

• Remember to leave us a comment on this post casting your vote for your favorite GDT project.

• We will announce this month's Featured Designer on October 15.