LM #731 - Deliberate Designs: Sketches

Hello, and welcome back to the Lasting Memories Challenge Blog for another year of exciting challenges. I know it's not quite 2025, but we're getting a jump start on our January challenges today! 

Before we get started with the challenge, we have some sad news: Brandi had to step down from the blog and will be sorely missed, and Maureen is taking a little break for personal reasons, so we wish her well until she can join us again. We hope to find a couple of scrappers who would like to join our design team, so please see the post regarding our design team call if you are interested in being a part of our team. Now, on to the challenge!

Sometimes I start a layout without thinking through my process, but often it helps to have some direction first. This month, we will deliberately focus on different aspects of our design in order to give some pizzazz to the finished product.

LM #731 - Focus on Your Arrangement - use a sketch as your starting point (be sure to share your sketch when you post your layout).

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

January GDT Barbara

Barbara used a sketch created by Rochelle Spears.

Sandy

I used a sketch by Laura Whitaker.

Cheryl

I used a sketch I recently designed for my blog!

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, February 1 at 10 PM PST 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!

Click here to enter

Introducing Our January Guest Designer

Hello, everyone! Happy Saturday to you. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever you celebrate, and were able to spend time with family and friends. 

Today we are announcing our guest designer for January. She is a long time participant in our challenges, and she is sure to inspire you with her beautiful work! Please help us welcome Barbara.

Hi everyone, I’m Barbara Greenberg and I live in Columbia, Missouri. I started scrapping back in 2008 while I was recovering from a broken ankle and staying at home a lot. I was addicted to it immediately.  Since I retired over 10 years ago, there has not been a day I’ve missed scrapping unless I was out making memories. I love to scrap about road trips, Christmas and of course my grandkids. All of that gives me plenty to do. I love following sketches and getting inspiration there or working from subject prompts & ideas. I love patterned papers and so many time that’s all I use other than cardstock to mat pictures or mat the patterned papers to let them stand out.

My layouts can be found on my blog at Barb's Blab and Creations.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! We will be back tomorrow with a new theme and a new challenge!

Design Team Call!!!

Good morning everyone! I hope that you all are having a wonderful holiday season and are getting to spend time with family and friends.

Lasting Memories is excited to announce that we are having a design team call! We are looking to add a few new members to our already fantastic design team. If you love creating layouts using a challenge, then please consider applying. We are an easy going group who love to scrap and share our passion for it with our readers. No experience is necessary and international members are welcome to apply. Remember - we are layouts only!

Design Team Call

How to apply:

Email the following information to chereven26@gmail.com

• Your name and city/country

• Link to your blog, Instagram, or Facebook page

• List of design team experience - none is required

• Tell us a little about yourself and why you would like to be on the Lasting Memories team

• 2 recent examples of your work

Deadline for submissions is January 15th at midnight PST

DESIGNER DUTIES:

• Create 2 layouts per month. Challenges are posted at least one month in advance.

• Comment on participant entries.

• Know how to use Blogger - we have a Design Team Blog on Blogger where all of the challenges can be found and you will add your design team creations there, as well.

• Commit to a 6-month term (this could be very well be extended).

• You must post the challenge and your layout to your blog, Instagram, or Facebook page the day of the challenge with a link back to Lasting Memories.

• Host a challenge at least once during your 6 month term.

•  Promote Lasting Memories on social media and on your blog.

• Post the Lasting Memories badge on your blog.

Our new design team members will be announced on January 22nd, 2025.

We hope you consider applying - we would love to have you on our team!

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

LM #730 - 2024 Second Chance!

Good morning, and happy December to you all. Our Lasting Memories design team is taking a break this month to spend time with family and to enjoy the season, so we will have just one challenge for December. Unlike other challenges, you may play along with this one up to three times!

LM #730 - create a layout using a favorite challenge from 2024 or a challenge you wanted to play along with but missed the deadline.

A couple of the design team members missed challenges, so here are their layouts for your inspiration!

Maureen

My missed challenge was LM #728 - inspired by the colours.

Cheryl

I missed LM #717 - color inspiration.

Don't you love the inspiration from the design team? Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, December 28th 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. This month only, you can submit up to three entries to our link-up.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter