I know for a little while you've heard me teasing everyone about a February contest. Well, guess what? It's February 1st- and time for the big contest info reveal!

The Fantastic February contest is based around a theme, "Love is in the Air." Since it is February and February is the month to celebrate Valentine's Day- I thought this might be something fun to do. I'm not one for doing lots of Valentine's day or lovey layouts myself so I thought it would be fun to not only challenge everyone else but myself as well! So, a lot of the challenges, the games, the classes and everything else you'll find going on in the Fantastic February forum will be based around this theme.

Participation in the contest is completely up to you. Play along as little or as much as you want. The more you play along, the more chance you will have to earn entries into what I like to call the Fantastic February Prize Pool Drawing (from here on out, I'll just call it the FFPPD). The prize pool will consist of gift certificates to the boutique, tons of mini kits, mini-albums, acrylic albums, stamps sets (with inks) cardstock packs, cards kits, Essentials, Extras and Trimmings monthly kits- and someone can even win a Pièce de Résistance kit!

"How do I earn entries?" you might be asking yourself. Well, that's easy! We'll have challenges, games, classes and other fun surprises to keep you amused all month long! Just simply follow the instructions that are listed in each individual thread.

How challenges will work:
Colleen will continue to issue her weekly challenges, as she normally does, each Monday. You will need to follow the rules that she sets in her challenges in order to earn your entry. All challenges that she issues during the time of the contest are eligible. Each challenge will have a due date. All challenges uploaded to the Gallerie and linked into the challenge thread by the due date will be eligible. At the end of the month, if you've completed all of her challenges, you should have completed 16 total challenges. But guess what? If you complete all 16 challenges, I'll double your entries into the FFPPD.

Each week, I will issue some sort of a scrappy challenge. Each challenge will have a due date. All challenges uploaded to the Gallerie and linked into the challenge thread by the due date will be eligible to earn an entry into the FFPPD! I may also issue some MUCH easier and silly challenges along the way too- just for some easy entries.

How games will work:
Each week (or more often) either me or Colleen or Michele may issue a game. Simply complete the game according to the directions of the game thread. Entry number for games will vary. It could be anything from 1-5!

How classes will work:
We will be offering some fun and informative classes throughout the month of February. Participation can earn you anywhere from 1-5 entries into the FFPPD!

How What is it? will work:
Each day, Michele will post a picture of something in a thread in the What is it? forum. All you'll have to do is guess what you think the picture is of and send her a PM with your guess. You MAY NOT post your answers in the day's question thread. Why give away your answers, right? Each correct guess will earn you an entry into the FFPPD.

So, I think that covers everything... but I may update this post if I notice something I forgot, so check back often! If you have any questions at all regarding anything about this contest, please post them here for me, in this thread. One of us (me, Michele or Colleen) will answer just as soon as we can...

Yahoo...this sounds funnnnnnnnnnnnn

Oh, can't wait. All kinds of fun stuff!

i'm excited this has started!!!

I am going to try my hardest to play along some. lol

Sounds AWESOME!

You always come up with the best ideas for contests, Sandi!

wow! love the great variety of games, challenges and classes! cant wait to get started!

This is going to be fun! Can't wait to get started!

Keep an eye out for new challenges tommorow...or maybe even later today for a head start!!

Love this! Can't wait for the first challenge!

Sounds like a fun contest, and lots of neat prizes too...................

Wow, that sounds like a big huge monthlong party to me!

sounds awesome Sandi! I can't wait to play along!

What a blast! I can't wait to participate in all the fun!

Woo-Hoo...sounds like a great contest with lots of fun prizes!!! can't wait for all the festivities...off to check everything else out now.

...ohhhh wooohhh!!! You have come up with tons of fun things.....thisis going to be one fun month...;-)))

FUN FUN FUN!!

You can bet I'll be playing along as much as I am able!!!

I'm loving all the "LOVE" avatars... time to change mine too

I have cleared my feb schedule and I am ready to play lol. This is going to be so much fun Sandi!

February is going to fly by with all this fun stuff!

wow! So exciting!

Sounds like fun!

Sounds like tons o' fun!!!

wow lots of fun stuff going on!

YAY!! I love all of the opportunities to SCRAP & use my stash !!

I love it. And since I have made Colleen's challenge part of my New Years resolution this will make it doubly good. So far so good.

yippee that is a great prize pkg!

very cool... I am ready...

i am a bit late but ready to get started!