I agree, the challenges do motivate and inspire the creative process. The Daily Download challenge is kind of confusing because it actually uses the daily download from the previous month. So the downloads available on the blog during September will actually be for the Daily Download Challenge in October. BUT- the designer in the Designer Spotlight challenge is the one who is providing the Daily Download so once you have enough pieces collected- you could use the Daily Downloads for this month's Designer Spotlight challenge if you like. Last month's Daily Download - for this month's challenge was Wimpychompers: My Favorite Flavors. If you want to participate but didn't get the downloads you can purchase the kit. I just checked and it isn't yet available in the store, yet, but should be soon.
Wow- I think I just confused myself with this explanation but hopefully it helped.