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:

Wendy

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

Cheryl

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!

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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.