LM #457 - Trees

Hello, hello! Good Sunday morning to you! I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

Can you believe that it is already time for a new theme and a new set of challenges?! DT member Denise has chosen our theme and challenges for this month and they are going to be a lot of fun, so let's get started!

For August our theme is "Plants" and our first challenge of the month is:

LM #457 - Trees - we want to see trees on your layout.

This can be on the papers, in the photos, or embellishments.

Here are the beautiful creations from the design team, starting with our guest designers:

August Guest Designer - Laurie

August Guest Designer - Anna

August Guest Designer - Cheryl

August  Guest Designer - Cathy

August Guest Designer - Karen 

Now for the design team:

Lauren

Connie

Denise

Deanna

Wow! So much beautiful inspiration to get you started!

Link up your layouts below by Saturday, August 31st at 6:00 PM EDT for a chance to be our guest designer and for a chance to win this:

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

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Introducing Our August Guest Designer!

Hello, everyone! I hope you are having a good weekend. I can't believe that it is already time to introduce our Guest Designers for August! The summer is going so quickly! We have a talented group of designers joining us in August and I can't wait for you to see what they have created. Without further ado here they are:
Laurie

I'm a Midwest transplant on the East Coast. By day, I review toys, but by night (and every other hour I'm not at work), I'm a blogger and scrapbooker. I've been scrapbooking since high school, but my scrapbooking style has definitely evolved over 15+ years. I blog at Cook Scrap Craft, where I share my scrapbook pages plus other crafts and gluten-free food adventures thanks to my Celiac husband. I am also a first-time mom to a little girl, so I always have a lot of pictures to scrap!
You can find more of Laurie's beautiful work on her blog - Cook Scrap Craft.
Anna

Hi, My name is Anna and live in the Tampa Bay area near the sunny beaches of Pinellas County, Florida !!

I have 1 daughter who just turned 13 in April and is the main subject of must of my layouts!!

She's the reason I started scrapping in 2006. This year I have ventured out to Travelers Notebooks and absolutely love these!!

I have 4 now that I’m working on!! I am scrapping 5 years behind, hopefully, I WILL CATCH UP one day!!

I love to go to the beaches, camping, and Kenny Chesney!! I'm a country girl at heart, grew up in a small town in mid Illinois .

Nothing but cornfields for the most part...and the 1st chance I got...moved to Florida. I've been down here 26 years now.

Enjoy it very much but when the daughter goes to college, I just might venture out near the Carolinas or Tennessee !!

We love the mountains and visit often !!

You can see more of Anna's beautiful work on her blog - Love This Girl.

Cheryl

Hi everyone! My name is Cheryl Even and I’m very excited to be a guest designer for Lasting Memories this month.  A Southern California native, I have been married to my college sweetheart Greg for 27 years and am a SAHM to four wonderful kids, Adrian, Elliot, Brianna, and Oliver Angel. I’ve been scrapbooking ever since I went to my first scrapbooking party and decided to try it for a month to see if I liked it. 21 years later, I think you could say I stuck with it and loved it! Although my life is really busy with raising four children, leading a women’s Bible study, and playing guitar and singing on the worship team at church, I usually find time every week to sneak away to my craft room to scrapbook, and then I post my completed work on my blog,https://evenmorescrapping.blogspot.com/.

Cathy

Hi, My name is Cathy and I live in Keelung City of Taiwan with my husband and a 20 year old daughter. I started with crafting when my daughter has been interesting with making cards. When I found out about scrapbooking 5 years ago, that quickly became my new passion! Then I always want to spend more time for scrapbooking. I think it's the perfect way to save memories from our daily life. So happy to be a guest designer this month!

Here is my blog https://cat677c.pixnet.net/blog, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cat677c/

Please feel free to check them out!

Karen

Hi. I'm Karen. Mother to three wonderful grown children and grandmother to two grandsons. I have been "crafting" for as long as I can remember. I have been scrapbooking for over 20 years and have evolved through all these years trying new techniques to incorporate into my scrapbooking and card making. I enjoy preserving the memories for my family and myself.

You can find more of Karen's beautiful work here - https://www.acherryontop.com/gallery/user/37473396-karen-c.

We look forward to seeing all of the beautiful inspiration from these talented designers!
Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new theme and the first challenge of the month!
Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

LM #456 - Patriotism - Celebrate Your Country

Hello, everyone! I hope you are having a good weekend and keeping cool - if you're like me and in the middle of this heatwave!

I can't believe that it is already time for our last challenge of the month! Before we get to that, I want to send a big thank you to our guest designers for this month. I have really enjoyed seeing Brenda's and Wendy's creations each and every week. Thank you both for joining us in July!

Now for our last challenge of the month.

Our theme for  July is "Patriotism" and all of our challenges will be patriotic in some way.

LM #456 - Create a layout celebrating your country.

This can be just about anything - a celebration - your favorite place to visit, whatever you love about your country.

Here is what the design team came up with, starting with our Guest Designers:

July GDT - Brenda

Toni 

Lauren

I've lived in Philadelphia my whole life and I love my city!

Mindy

Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapak, Ohio

 

Deanna
 Photo of daughter Michelle's family visiting Mount Rushmore.

Such gorgeous inspiration from the design team! Now it's your turn - Link up your layouts below by Saturday, July 27th for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for the chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice.

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

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

LM #455 - Patriotism - Your Country's Flag

Hello, hello! Welcome back to Lasting Memories!

Are you ready for a new challenge? It's time for our third challenge of the month. As a reminder, our theme for  July is "Patriotism" and all of our challenges will be patriotic in some way. This week's challenge is:

LM #455 - Create a layout with your country's flag somewhere on the layout. This can be on the papers, in the photos, or in the embellishments.

Here are the beautiful layouts from the design team, starting with our guest designers:

July GDT - Brenda

July GDT - Wendy

Connie

Deanna

Lori

We can't wait to see what you create this month! Link up your layouts below by Saturday, July 27th for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for the chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice.

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

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

June's Top 3, GDT Picks, and Winner

Hello, everyone! Happy Monday to you! I hope that you had a good weekend and are ready for the new week.   Today we are sharing our Top 3, GDT Picks, and Winner for June. We had 29 beautiful entries for June. Thank you to everyone that played along with us! 
First up are the Top 3 - in no particular order:
#28 -Nelya

#2 - Giorgia

#25 - Melissa

Congratulations to the Top 3! Be sure to grab your "Top 3" button from the left sidebar.
Our pick for Guest Designers for an upcoming month is:
#27 Cathy Lu

#3 Karen C

Congratulations, Cathy and Karen! Please email Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to accept your guest design team spot for an upcoming month and for more information.
Our winner - by random draw - for this month's prize of a $15 gift certificate to A Cherry On Top - courtesy of DT Deanna is:

#21 Barbara Greenberg
Congratulations, Barbara! Email Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to claim your prize!
Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

LM #454 - Patriotism - Red, White, and Blue

Hello, hello! Happy Sunday to you! I hope that all of our US friends had a good Independence Day!

It's time for our next challenge...our theme for  July is "Patriotism" and all of our challenges will be patriotic in some way.

LM #454 - July 7 - Team B - In the USA July 4th is Independence Day. Create a Red, White, and Blue layout.

Your layout can be any theme - just use the colors red, white, and blue predominantly on your layout.

Here's a look at the design team creations starting with our guest designers:

July GDT - Wendy

July GDT - Brenda

Lauren

Toni  

Deanna

Mindy

Denise

Such beautiful layouts to inspire you this week! We can't wait to see what you create this month! Link up your layouts below by Saturday, July 27th for a chance to be our guest designer for an upcoming month and for the chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice.

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

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter