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Welcome!

Hello fellow scrapbookers!!! Welcome to "Lasting Memories" which is all about LAYOUTS!! Yes, JUST layouts! There are no cards allowed here. We have weekly themed challenges, but you have the whole month to get in on the fun! Our challenges begin each Sunday at 8am EST and all 4 challenges will end on the date listed on the sidebar at 6pm EST. At month's end, we will choose a GDT to join us for a month! Only one entry per challenge, and no back-linking is allowed since we would love to know that we "challenged" you. We look forward to challenging you and helping you get your pages completed!

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A lot of crafters use specialized hosting sites that not all of us have access to. We just wanted to let you know that if we don't comment, it's because we don't have access - but we see your work here at LM and appreciate your taking the time to link up and show off your style!!

Sunday, January 18, 2026

LM #782 - Wendy's Sketch Challenges: Three Photos

It's a long weekend here in the United States, so hopefully you are taking advantage of that by either scrapbooking some past events or taking pictures of yourself doing something fun that you can later scrapbook! Design team member Wendy has been inspiring us to get crafty with some sketches she found, so let's get to her latest sketch.

This week, we are using a 3 photo sketch. Sketches are a great jumping off place for your layout design, but feel free to change them up a little to work with your photos. Rotate them, add an extra photo, used different shapes than the ones pictured, etc. And have fun with it!

LM #782 - be inspired by this 3 photo sketch.

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

January GDT Jael

Wendy
I love sketches that let me use more than 1 photo, especially vacation pics - because I end up with hundreds! Sticking with my New Year resolution to use old stash: some really old Little Yellow Bicycle stash.

Love Sketches. I used Uniquely Creative Dec Collection "Written in the Stars." I am not a fan of yellow but not going to let the collection sit in a drawer!

Lisa


Now it's your turn to show us your layouts inspired by the sketch. Link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, January 31st 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!

Sunday, January 11, 2026

LM #781 - Wendy's Sketch Challenges: Two Photos

Good morning, everyone, and happy Sunday. Hope you all are having a nice weekend! We're so glad you stopped by today to check out our newest Lasting Memories challenge. Design team member Wendy found some fun sketches for us to use, so let's get right to our challenge.

This week, we are using a 2 photo sketch. Sketches are a great jumping off place for your layout design, but feel free to change them up a little to work with your photos. Rotate them, add an extra photo, used different shapes than the ones pictured, etc. And have fun with it!

LM #781 - be inspired by this 2 photo sketch.

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

January GDT Jael

Wendy
Sticking with my goal to use up old stash,
and finally get more pics of my kitties done!


Lisa

Now it's your turn to show us your layouts inspired by the sketch. Link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, January 31st 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!

Sunday, January 4, 2026

LM #780 - Wendy's Sketch Challenges: One Photo

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Lasting Memories for another fun year of challenges that will inspire you to get your photos out of the cloud (or the memory card on your phone) and onto your pages! Our first challenge hostess of 2026 is Wendy, and she says, "Let's start off the year off with some fun sketches!"

This week, we are using a 1 photo sketch. Sketches are a great jumping off place for your layout design, but feel free to change them up a little to work with your photos. Rotate them, add an extra photo, used different shapes than the ones pictured, etc. And have fun with it!

LM #780 - be inspired by this  photo sketch.

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

January GDT Jael

Wendy
I am so excited to start 2026 off with my newest Disney pages!
I used a 5x7 photo for my page:

Lisa
I decided to give you the PG version of my layout!

I rotated the sketch and used arrows instead of the big circle.

What great inspiration from the design team! Now it's your turn to show us your layouts inspired by the sketch. Link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, January 31st 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!

Saturday, January 3, 2026

Introducing our January Guest Designer

Happy New Year, everyone, and thanks for stopping by Lasting Memories Challenge Blog, where our focus is always on layouts. Christmas is over and we are into a new year, so we hope you decide to print some of those pictures you took and get them scrapped using our fun challenges!

The new challenges start tomorrow, but today we want to introduce you to our January Guest Designer. Her beautiful layouts are 8"x8"s, and it's so amazing how much eye candy she can pack into the smaller canvas. We know you are going to enjoy seeing her layouts this month! Please help us welcome Jael.

January GDT Jael

My name is Jael. I am a wife and mother to four kids, and I have 12 grandkids, 9 girls and 3 boys. I got introduced to scrapping by my sister in around 1998 when my youngest child was one year old. The cool thing now is that both my sisters scrap, too! We get together in the summer to scrap a few times at my house, when school is out. As you can tell from my layouts, I love colors. I always say my favorite color is RAINBOW! Now my grandkids say that, too. Last year my youngest daughter took up scrapping too, and she now has her own scrap room, so I give her lots of my supplies that I no longer want (I never throw anything away). My granddaughter Emma also scraps and does junk journaling, and I love to scrapbook with her when she spends the night at my house.

Jael's artwork can be found in her gallery at A Cherry on Top.

Thanks for stopping by today. This is the final day to play along with our December challenge, so please check it out and go get creative! Then be sure to come back tomorrow to discover our January theme.
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