General Rules
Your pages for each challenge must be new pages in order to qualify for credit. You cannot use SCRAP♥ Bingo layouts for GDSO 5.0 layout completion. All GDSO 5.0 layouts must be posted in our GDSO gallery here: The Great Digi Scrap Off https://pickleberrypop.com/forum/media/categories/the-great-digi-scrap-off.1158/ with proper credit given. See our PDF guide!

Weekly Technical and Showstopper Challenges
The Technical and Showstopper challenges must use at least 75% current/active product in the PBP Shop in order to qualify for credit. If you can link to it in our shop, you can use it. Technical and Showstopper Challenges CANNOT be completed using the Use it All Mini Kit, Template or Mystery Box that is given with Signature Challenges.

Each week's three challenges must be completed by the deadline in order to qualify for the weekly participation prize and to be considered for our weekly Star Scrapper Award.

Our Grand Prize will be awarded to one scrapper who completes all 15 challenges by the last week’s deadline. This means even if you don’t finish each week on time, you can still catch up to earn the remaining prizes and qualify for the Grand Prize!

Please start a post in the GDSO Challenge Tracking thread
Keep your post up-to-date with links to the layouts that you’ve completed and uploaded to the GDSO gallery. Please make sure you are linking to your page IN THE GDSO GALLERY, not the thread post in the challenge.

Final deadline for all layouts is April 4 @11:59pm ET. At that time the tracking thread will be locked, the final weekly prizes will be sent, and winners will be contacted by April 7.

Thanks for this challenge. It didn't take much thinking at all to make this layout! I knew exactly what to make it about! It seems like every time we get a new neighbor some training is needed. These new neighbors are taking a lot longer than usual to get the message! (Yes, they've blocked the mailboxes multiple times with each of the things listed!)

AlyciaIN said:

Thanks for this challenge. It didn't take much thinking at all to make this layout! I knew exactly what to make it about! It seems like every time we get a new neighbor some training is needed. These new neighbors are taking a lot longer than usual to get the message! (Yes, they've blocked the mailboxes multiple times with each of the things listed!)

Week 4 Showstopper-Makes Me Mad

• AlyciaIN
• Mar 22, 2025
• 3
• neighbors not today

Created with [URL='https://pickleberrypop.com/shop/Not-Today-Bundle-by-Cindy-Ritter.html']Cindy...

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Omg! Right? You'd think that people should already know this! Great layout!

AlycialN's Mailbox layout inspires me. I have a mailbox story of my own!

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our power situation can very quickly lead me to being mad... and having no power two days before Christmas was just such a day.

Thank you for the inspiration, AlycialN, and thank you for the challenge, Cindy!

Here is mine - lots of crazy drivers lately! I used one word strip from a kit by Fayette that is no longer in the store. I made the second word strip and the stamp is the bird on the pole and the grunge on the street. Thanks for the challenge!

Week4 Showstopper-Makes Me Mad

Cindy - I love this Challenge and your collection was perfect for my layout, colors & theme!

Word strips are in the mddle. Stamp/paint in title.

here is mine:

Thanks for the challenge Cindy. Wasn't sure what picture would portray what makes me angry so went with something that definately makes me happy

CUP OF CARE BY CINDY RITTER

Just had to use your Not Today Kit, Cindy.

Had to think really hard to come up with something that makes me mad.... and then I remembered when....

Thanks Cindy, for this Show Stopper challenge. This one was initially a bit of a struggle for me because I have tooooooo many things that annoy me these days! So, I really had to give some thought to the direction in which I would take this. The original definition of "mad" stemmed from the Old English word "gemædde," meaning "out of one's mind" and later evolved to include meanings like "crazy," "insane," and "furious". Today most people use the words mad and angry interchangeably. If I went with the more colloquial term…I would have ended up with a pretty “dark” layout. So, I chose to put a fun little twist on the challenge by using the “old” version. I hope that’s ok!

Thank you Cindy for a great challenge. It helped rid me of some of the frustration I have been dealing with after the loss of my husband recently. Grief alone is unbelievably difficult but having to deal with the red tape and inefficiency of so many different agencies and departments is so debilitating.