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Welcome!

Hello fellow scrapbookers!!! Welcome to "Lasting Memories" which is all about LAYOUTS!! Yes, JUST layouts! There are no cards allowed here. We have weekly themed challenges, but you have the whole month to get in on the fun! Our challenges begin each Sunday at 8am EST and all 4 challenges will end on the date listed on the sidebar at 6pm EST. At month's end, we will choose a GDT to join us for a month! Only one entry per challenge, and no back-linking is allowed since we would love to know that we "challenged" you. We look forward to challenging you and helping you get your pages completed!

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A lot of crafters use specialized hosting sites that not all of us have access to. We just wanted to let you know that if we don't comment, it's because we don't have access - but we see your work here at LM and appreciate your taking the time to link up and show off your style!!

Sunday, April 27, 2025

LM #748 - Favorite Sketch: Jill

Greetings, all you scrappy people out in Blogland. Can you believe April is almost over? Hopefully you got a few April showers that will lead to some lovely May flowers! And now, it's time for the final challenge of the month.
 
This month, our design team is sharing favorite sketches with you! Feel free to change the sketch up a little to fit your photos (use more or fewer photos, flip the sketch, only use one side, etc.) as long as we can see the original sketch in your layout.

LM#748 - Use the following sketch chosen by Jill to inspire your layout.

Here is what Jill had to say about the sketch: I am part of the Sketches in Thyme design team, which is a Facebook group, and I loved this sketch from 2019. My photos are usually vertical and I love making layouts that have multiple photos. 

Let's check out the sweet layouts the design team created using this sketch, starting with our guest designer.

April GDT Haven



Lisa


What gorgeous inspiration from the design team! And now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, May 3rd at 10 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. We can't wait to see what you create!

Please include your name and the challenge number in your link-up description. Only one link-up per challenge.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Sunday, April 20, 2025

LM #747 - Favorite Sketch: Lisa

Hello everyone. I hope you all are having a great Easter weekend and enjoying some scrappy time. We're back with our fourth challenge of the month today.

Our theme this month is favorite sketches picked out by our design team! Feel free to change the sketch up a little to fit your photos (use more or fewer photos, flip the sketch, only use one side, etc.) as long as we can see the original sketch in your layout.

LM#747 - use the following sketch chosen by Lisa to inspire your layout.

Here is what Lisa had to say about the sketch: I like the balance in the design, the fact that it is asymmetrical and the use of 2 vertical photos which could also be replaced by a horizontal photo.

Here are the wonderful creations from the design team, starting with our guest designer.

April GDT Haven

Lisa



Thanks to the Design Team for inspiring us with your lovely layouts this week! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, May 3rd at 10 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. We can't wait to see what you create!

Please include your name and the challenge number in the link-up description. Only one link-up per challenge, please.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Sunday, April 13, 2025

LM #746 - Favorite Sketch: Wendy

Good morning, everyone, and thanks for checking in for our latest challenge here at Lasting Memories, where it's all about the layouts! 

This month, our design team is sharing their favorite sketches with you. Feel free to change the sketch up a little to fit your photos (use more or fewer photos, flip the sketch, only use one side, etc.) as long as we can see the original sketch in your layout.

LM#746 - use the following sketch chosen by Wendy to inspire your layout.

Here's what Wendy had to say about the sketch: I chose this sketch because I love the Springy feel it gives, and I need to bash some flower stash - LOL!

Here is the great inspiration from the design team, starting with our guest designer.

April GDT Haven:



Lisa

Don't you love the design team's great inspiration? Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, May 3rd at 10 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. We can't wait to see what you create!

Please include your name and the challenge number in your link-up description. Only one link-up per challenge.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Saturday, April 12, 2025

March Top 3 and Guest Designer Picks

Happy Saturday! Today we are announcing our Top 3 and Guest Design Team picks for March. We had nine lovely entries for Cheryl's Going in Circles challenges, and we really enjoyed all the submission! Thanks, gals, for playing along.

Here are our Top 3 for March in numerical order:


#5 - Julene

#8 - Nelya

Our picks for guest designer from March are:

#7 - Alicia

#9 - Heidi

Congratulations to Alicia and Heidi! Email Cheryl at chereven26@gmail.com to accept your guest designer spot and for more information.

Thanks again to everyone who played along with us in March! Be sure to check back on Sunday for another favorite sketch challenge.

Sunday, April 6, 2025

LM #745 - Favorite Sketch: Cheryl

Hello, everyone, and we are glad to see you back for another challenge here at Lasting Memories, where it is all about layouts! Let's get right to our challenge for this week.

This month, our design team is sharing favorite sketches with you! Feel free to change the sketch up a little to fit your photos (use more or fewer photos, flip the sketch, only use one side, etc.) as long as we can see the original sketch in your layout.

LM#745 - use the following sketch chosen by Cheryl to inspire your layout.

Here's what Cheryl had to say about the sketch: I created this sketch and have since used it on eight layouts, sometimes the whole thing or sometimes just one side, sometimes exactly as shown or sometimes adapting it to showcase just a few photos.


Here are the creatively interpreted layouts from the design team, starting with our guest designer.

April GDT Haven


I used the right side, rotated left and with photos centered.

Lisa
I used the middle of the double page sketch and turned two 3 x 3 photos on the left into one 4 1/4 x 6.

Many thanks to the design team for their wonderful inspiration! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, May 3rd at 10 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. We can't wait to see what you create!

Please include your name and the challenge number in your link-up description. Only one link-up per challenge.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Sunday, March 30, 2025

LM #744 - Favorite Sketch: Sandy

Greeting, fellow scrappers. Thank you for joining us for another month of fun challenges. We are getting started a little early with the April challenges, but we're guessing you don't mind!

This month, our design team is going to share favorite sketches with you. Feel free to change the sketch up a little to fit your photos (use more or fewer photos, flip the sketch, only use one side, etc.) as long as we can see the original sketch in your layout.
 
LM#744 - use the following sketch chosen by Sandy to inspire your layout.

Here's what Sandy had to say about the sketch: I chose this sketch from Scrapbook Generation designed by Allison Davis. I love this sketch because of how many photos can be documented.

Here are the layouts from the design team, starting with our guest designer.

April GDT Haven:



Cheers to the design team for their wonderful inspiration! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, May 3rd at 10 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. We can't wait to see what you create!

Please include your name and the challenge number in your link-up description. Only one link-up per challenge.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Introducing our April Guest Designer

Hello everyone! I hope that you are all having a great weekend.

I just wanted to pop in really quickly to introduce our guest designer for April! Please give a warm welcome to the super talented Haven.


Hi. My name is Haven and I love sketches. I get inspiration and a creative boost from using a good sketch, and with my recent scrap time being extremely limited these last few months I find that a good sketch is just what I need to get back into the flow. When I'm not creating, working or coaching I enjoy spending time outdoors. I have some big plans for this spring and summer, so you'll have to make sure you follow me to see all the beautiful nature pictures from my outings. I love playing along with the challenges and getting inspiration from the design team of Lasting Memories. I think their challenges are some of the best but I might be biased as I'm a former DT (2012-2017).

You can find more of Haven's beautiful artwork at her blog - Haven's Haven.

We will be back tomorrow with a new theme and a fun set of new challenges for you to play along with, so be sure to stop back by!

Sunday, March 23, 2025

LM #743 - Going in Circles: Embellishments

Hello everyone, it's Cheryl welcoming you back to Lasting Memories. This month is slipping away quickly, and it's already time for another challenge here at LM! But first, please join me in wishing my son Elliott a big happy birthday. I can't believe my little dude turned 20 today! Talk about time slipping away, right? Anyways, on to the challenge.

Do you ever feel like you are going around in circles? This month, let's turn that feeling into a benefit as we explore fun ways to use circles on our layouts.

 LM #743 - Embellishments - use circular ephemera or stamped images to embellish your layout.

Here are the wonderful layouts the design team created, starting with our guest designer.

March GDT Rainny:

    


What great inspiration from the design team! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, March 29th at 10 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. We can't wait to see what you create!

Please include your name and the challenge number in your link-up description. Only one link-up per challenge.

Sunday, March 16, 2025

LM #742 - Going in Circles: Pie Slices

Greetings, everyone, and welcome to another layout challenge here at Lasting Memories. Before we get to the challenges, I want to welcome Wendy to the design  team! Wendy has been playing along with our challenges for a long time, so we are thrilled to have her on board. And now on to this week's challenge.

Do you ever feel like you are going around in circles? This month, let's turn that feeling into a benefit as we explore fun ways to use circles on our layouts.

LM #742 - Pie Slices - divide a circle into pie slices using patterned paper, a stencil, or whatever else takes your fancy, and then add it to your layout.

Here are the creative layouts from the design team, starting with our guest designer:

March GDT Rainny

Lisa




What great inspiration from the design team! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, March 29th at 10 PM EST for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. We can't wait to see what you create!

Please include your name and the challenge number in your link-up description. Only one link-up per challenge.

Saturday, March 15, 2025

February Top 3 and Guest Designer Picks

Greeting, everyone, and welcome back to Lasting Memories. This is Cheryl, and I am excited to share with you our favorites from the artwork that scrapbookers submitted for our challenges last month.

In February, we went back to basic with our base pages. We had 15 wonderful entries, making it a challenge to pick our favorites, so thanks to all our participants for sharing your gorgeous artwork with us.

Here are the Top 3 for January in numerical order:

#3 - Julene

#11 - Heidi

#14 - Alicia

Our picks for guest designer from February are:

#4 - Stinkerbelle

#12 - Jessica

Congratulations, Stinkerbelle and Jessica! Email Cheryl at chereven26@gmail.com to accept your guest designer spot and for more information.

Thanks again to everyone who played along with us in February! Be sure to check back tomorrow for another fun challenge.

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