August and September Top 3 and Guest Designer Picks

 Happy Saturday! Today we are announcing our Top 3 and Guest Design Team picks for August and September. We had fewer entries than usual for these months (hopefully you all were out making memories that you can add to your scrapbooks later), so I decided to combine the winners for these two months. August's challenges were all about Stash Busting, and September was all about patterned papers, and we had a total of 11 submissions for these challenges.

Here are our Top 3 for August and September:

Nelya - LM #762 Stash Busters Week 1

Haven - LM #769 Patterned Paper

Lori - LM #766 Polka Dots

And for our guest designer, I would like to invite Margaret to join us for a future challenge.

Congratulations to Margaret! 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 August and September! Be sure to check back tomorrow for our first November challenge.

Introducing Our November Guest Designer

Hello, everyone! Happy Saturday to you. Hope you had a safe Halloween and are ready for colder weather and autumnal scrapping opportunities (unless you're in the Southern hemisphere, in which case, warm and summer)!

Today we are announcing our guest designer for November. This lovely lady has guest designed for us several times previously, and her beautiful work is always creative and inspiring! Please help us welcome back Nelya.

November GDT Nelya

Hi, everyone!

 My name is Nelya, and I’m originally from Ukraine. I’m a mommy of 4, and I love to scrapbook. I mostly got into it after having our first baby. My style has definitely evolved since then! I love to glean inspiration from other crafters; I think that’s how I was able to grow so much. Lately I’ve been loving using up my stash. The satisfaction I get from using up the last sticker on a sticker sheet, or paper from a paper pad is probably greater than I get when shopping for new supplies! I don’t have a space of my own yet, but I hope to in the future. Rarely do I complete a layout from start to finish in one sitting. Sometimes it takes me a few days or more, as often I’m only able to craft for small intervals at a time. I love to join in challenges! I’ve also focused more of my attention on journaling and story telling rather than a photo itself. I love to hear stories from my childhood, and want to make sure my kiddos have that too. I scrap in a variety of sizes: 12x12, 8.5x11, 6x8, and TN - as well as an occasional pocket page in any of those sizes!

My layouts can be found here on Pinterest, as well as here on Scrapbook.com. I’ve also started making YouTube videos of my layouts: Nelya's Youtube.

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