LM #384 - March Nat'l Month Of...Did You Know?

Hello, hello! Welcome back! We are so happy that you are here today - today is the start of our March challenges!

First, let's introduce our guest designers for March. For the month of March, we have 3 guest designers joining us - Rainny, Barbara, and Giorgia. Giorgia will be joining us a little later in the month and we will introduce her then. 

First up is Rainny:

Hello, my name is Rainny and I live in Taiwan. I've been a secretary in a small company for 12 years. My husband and I have a puppy daughter, Riceball. I love to craft, watch movies, travel, and listen to music. When I was a university student, I started making cards. In recent years, I love scrapbooking. I like to record the life and treasured memories by scrapbooking. It's my pleasure to be chosen as the guest designer at Lasting Memories. If you would like to see more of my work, please visit my blog: http://rainny0127.pixnet.net/blog.

Next is Barbara:

I'm Barbara Greenberg and last fall we moved from Kansas City to the Lake of the Ozarks and our house is right on the lake and we love the new life here. I am an admitted scrapaholic for the past 9 years. I call this hobby the best non-paying job ever. I get up in the morning, get my cup of coffee and come into my office/scrap room and I'm ready to scrap for the entire day. I mostly do 12x12 layouts but also make some cards and I've been doing Project life yearly since 2014. I love this hobby and being able to look back at what I have done daily/weekly/monthly over the past years.

I belong to two different online scrapbook groups plus follow lists of challenge blogs so every day I have lots of scrappy e-mails to read and blogs to be inspired from. My blog is www.barbgreenberg.blogspot.com and I keep a challenge blog page there that I can check every day for new challenges.

Now, let's get to today's challenge. For the month of March, our theme is - March National Month Of... and we will be focusing on little-known facts/holidays in March. 

Did you know that March was named for the Roman God "Mars"? Mars was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian. So our challenge to you is:

LM #384 - Create a layout about war (think a layout of a war hero, museum-area about war (Gettysburg)...) OR an agricultural/farm layout (which this could cover just about anything with farming - food, animals, seasons....)

Here' a look at what the design team has created - starting with our guest designers.

March GDT - Rainny

March GDT - Barbara

Denise

Sandy

I chose to do an Agriculture layout.

Natalie

I had photos for an agricultural layout from the farm!

Tina

She found these cool pictures of an Civil War Reenactment

Beautiful work from our talented design team!

I will be offering a prize for this month! Link up your layouts by Saturday, March 31st for your chance to win this:

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

LM #383 - Color Me Happy - Yellows and Greens

Hi, everyone! Good Sunday morning to you!

Today is our last challenge for February. Our theme this month has been "Color Me Happy" and this week we want to see yellows and greens.

LM #383 - Color Me Happy - Yellows and Greens - use the colors below as the primary colors on your layout. Blacks, whites, and neutrals are all a given.

Since we are in the middle of winter around here, these nice bright colors are perfect to beat the wintertime blues! 

Here's a look at the gorgeous yellow and green layouts from the design team:

Lauren

Sandy

Tina

Natalie

We can't wait to see what you create using this color combo! You have until February 24th to link up your layouts for a chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to any online store of choice!

 Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

LM #382 - Color Me Happy - Purples

Hello, everyone! Happy Sunday to you! I hope that you are having a good weekend. February is moving right along!

We are back today with our third challenge of the month. Our theme for February is "Color Me Happy" and our challenges are all color challenges. This week we want to see purple on your layouts.

LM #382 - Color Me Happy - Purples - use the colors below as the primary colors on your layout. Blacks, whites, neutrals are all a given.

Here is a look at the beautiful work from the design team:

Sandy

Denise

Tina

Natalie

Now it's your turn! Show us some purple on your layouts this week! Link up by February 24th for your chance to win a $15 gift certificate from any online store.

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

More Design Team Inspiration and a Feature!

Happy Saturday! I hope that your weekend is off to a good start!

I'm popping in here really quickly to share some more design team inspiration for our Reds/Pinks challenge from DT Denise. I just love her pretty pink layout!

Denise

How about a couple of features? We have had so many beautiful layouts linked up already! Check out this layout from Jill for our blue color challenge:

Jill

And this beautiful layout from Deanna for our red/pink challenge:

Deanna

Thanks so much for stopping by and keep sharing those beautiful layouts! We will be back tomorrow with a new color challenge for you!

LM #381 - Color Me Happy - Reds and Pinks

Hello, everyone! Happy Superbowl Sunday to you! Do you have any plans to watch the game today? 

We are back today with a new challenge for you. Our theme for February is "Color Me Happy" and all of our challenges will be color challenges. This week we are working with reds and pinks.

LM #381 - Color Me Happy - Reds/Pinks - use the colors below as the primary colors on your layout. Blacks, whites, neutrals are all a given.

Here is a look at the beautiful layouts from the design team.

Lauren

Sandy

Natalie

Beautiful work from our talented design team! There is a $15 gift certificate up for grabs this month, so get your layouts linked up by Saturday, February 24th for your chance to win! We can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!