LM #764 - Wendy's Stash Busters: Week 3

Good morning, and thanks for stopping by to see our new challenge and design team reveal here at Lasting Memories. This is Cheryl, and it's been a busy week with my daughter starting her senior year of high school, but I am sure she is going to shine this year! Speaking of shining, Wendy  has a great stash busting challenge this week that is sure to leave you all sparkling!

LM #764 - create your project using one, two or all of these items:

Sequins

Glitter

Beads

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

August GDT Julene

She used sequins and beads.

Wendy

I used some glitter washi, glitter stickles, glitter and glue, glittered snowflake foam stickers, and a few different colors of sequins.  To say my desk is a mess is an understatement!!

Sandy

I used sequins and glitter in shaker pockets.

Maureen

I have used glitter and sequins. I have glitter every where because my container had a hole!

Thanks to the design team for their sparkling inspiration this week. Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, August 30th 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!

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LM #763 - Wendy's Stash Busters: Week 2

Greetings, fellow scrappers. This is design team member Wendy, welcoming you back to another week of fun Stash Bashing! This week, we are going to keep bashing our embellishment stash.

LM #763 - create your layout using one, two or all of these items:

Buttons

Brads

Eyelets

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

August GDT Julene

Julene used buttons and eyelets.

Wendy

I used a bunch of buttons and some metallic brads:

Sandy

I used buttons and brads.

Lisa

I used 9 buttons, 4 brad, and 2 eyelets!

Thanks to the design team for their wonderful inspiration again this week. Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, August 30th 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!

Click here to enter

July 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 July, Design Team member Jill wanted to find out a few of your favorite things - scrappy things, that is! We had 12 amazing entries, with one lady completing all five of the challenges. Thanks to all our participants for sharing your lovely artwork with us.

Here are the Top 3 for July in numerical order:

#1 - Barbara

#2 - Haven

#8 - Nelya

Our picks for guest designer from July are:

#6 - Nelya

#11 - Ella

Congratulations, Nelya and Ela! 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 July! We really enjoyed the challenges, and we are glad you did, too. Be sure to check back tomorrow for another fun challenge.

LM #762 - Wendy's Stash Busters - Week 1

Good morning everyone, and thanks for stopping by our challenge blog today. It's Wendy, and it's my turn to boost your creativity this month! We are going to focus on bashing some embellishment stash.

LM #762 - create your layout using one, two or all of these items:

Ribbons

Lace

Fibers

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

August GDT Julene

Wendy

I used 3 different types of ribbons in multiple different colors.

Using them as borders and bows will definitely help bash some stash!

Maureen

I used lace and fibers.

Cheryl

I used ribbons to make a couple of bows.

Isn't it great that the design team got to use up some stash? Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, August 30th 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!

Click here to enter

Introducing our August Guest Designer

Hello, everyone! Summer is winding down in the united States and other Northern Hemisphere nations, but our August guest designer is still in the colder months of winter down in the Southern Hemisphere. Where ever you live, I hope you all find some time to get creative with your scrapbooking in August.

The new month is already underway, and we are all ready to bring you a new theme and a new set of challenges. Today we want to introduce to our August Guest Designer. We have a returning guest designer joining us for our August challenges, and I know she will inspire you with her beautiful work! Please help us welcome Julene.

September GDT Julene

Here's a little bit about Julene - Julene has been scrapbooking for about 19 years and has been on several design teams. She's a regular participant here at Lasting Memories. She lives in Sydney Australia and is a retired teacher-librarian. You can find more of Julene's beautiful work on her blog - Julene By Design

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. Remember that today is the last day to play along with our July challenges! We will be back tomorrow with a new theme and the first of four Stash Bashing challenges for August!