Hi Ladies! Rachel Kaufman here with the next in a series of monthly challenges to encourage you to scrapbook about you - your thoughts, goals and dreams, your inner struggles, challenges and triumphs. Our kits at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out are the perfect match for these challenges, but you don't need a kit to play along. Just grab some of your stash and jump right in!

 Growing Pains - Growth can be painful and difficult. Have you struggled with accepting the necessary difficulty sometimes involved in growing and changing? What has been your most painful growth experience to date? Have you had to let go of old beliefs, safety or comfort to make a real change in the quality of your life? What kind of pain have you had to handle to move your life forward?

Feel free to use any part of the challenge prompt that touches you - but we want you to add what we call the 'design twist' - using a visual representation to reinforce the challenge. For this month's design twist, try using a climbing vine to show growth or a torn element to express the pain of change or breaking from the past.

Want some more help? Jump over to our Inspiration Page and use our quotes, music and more!

A few of our DT members explored growing pains in their layouts this month:

Design Team Coordinator Melissa Elsner knows that life's exciting and painful lessons all combine to make her a better person.

Laura Croft is pushing past her perfectionist fear of failure and allowing herself to experience uncomfortable growing pains in order to fly!

Mette Kallander learned the hard way that she has to be truly herself...she's grown into her own authentic self and let go of trying to be someone she's not.

Pamela Palmarini is just now embracing her uniqueness - growing into her own skin regardless of what the outside world and stuffy convention may dictate.

Happy scrapping!

--Rachel Kaufman

Every month Scrapbooking from the Inside Out creates a kit that uses the freshest supplies along with symbolism that will help you tell your real story. Our industry-exclusive FREE Inspiration Page each month provides you with a multimedia support system - including deep journaling prompts, a music playlist, quotes, photos and evocative challenges to make your tender heart and creative mind and hands flow.

You have two chances to win!

If you'd like to participate in the live challenge, you have two hours to complete your project. At the end of that time, photograph or scan your project, and upload the image to the Club CK gallery (learn how to upload your project here). Then leave a comment below with the URL link to your page by 7:15 p.m. MDT today. For example, your comment could look like this: "My page is posted here: http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com/media/p/31086.aspx."

If you weren't able to complete your project during the live challenge, or you'd like to spend more time working on it, you have until 9:00 a.m. MDT Monday, August 22, 2011 to complete the "long challenge".  Follow the above instructions for posting your layout and commenting.

A winner from each group will be selected randomly and will each winner will receive the Scrapbooking from the Inside Out GROWTH kit, an amazing prize filled with beautiful, fresh and meaningful paper and embellishments!

I hope you join us for this thought-provoking challenge - life's challenges can be the galvanizing force for our greatest growth, change and evolution.

And do come join us online...we would love to welcome you and join you on your journey. Please join me again soon for more giveaways on the CK Blog and more challenges on Club CK. Come on by and Explore Your Inner World!

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Congrats  to Cards 4 Ever who was the randomly selected winner.  To claim your prize, look for a conversation from Erika H in the My Conversations section of your My Profile page.

Congrats to mfortunato who was the second randomly selected winner.  To claim your prize, look for a conversation from Erika H in the My Conversations section of your My Profile page.