LM #744 - Favorite Sketch: Sandy

Greeting, fellow scrappers. Thank you for joining us for another month of fun challenges. We are getting started a little early with the April challenges, but we're guessing you don't mind!

This month, our design team is going to share favorite sketches with you. Feel free to change the sketch up a little to fit your photos (use more or fewer photos, flip the sketch, only use one side, etc.) as long as we can see the original sketch in your layout.

 

LM#744 - use the following sketch chosen by Sandy to inspire your layout.

Here's what Sandy had to say about the sketch: I chose this sketch from Scrapbook Generation designed by Allison Davis. I love this sketch because of how many photos can be documented.

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

April GDT Haven:

Sandy

Cheryl

Cheers to the design team for their wonderful inspiration! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, May 3rd 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.

Introducing our April Guest Designer

Hello everyone! I hope that you are all having a great weekend.

I just wanted to pop in really quickly to introduce our guest designer for April! Please give a warm welcome to the super talented Haven.

Hi. My name is Haven and I love sketches. I get inspiration and a creative boost from using a good sketch, and with my recent scrap time being extremely limited these last few months I find that a good sketch is just what I need to get back into the flow. When I'm not creating, working or coaching I enjoy spending time outdoors. I have some big plans for this spring and summer, so you'll have to make sure you follow me to see all the beautiful nature pictures from my outings. I love playing along with the challenges and getting inspiration from the design team of Lasting Memories. I think their challenges are some of the best but I might be biased as I'm a former DT (2012-2017).

You can find more of Haven's beautiful artwork at her blog - Haven's Haven.

We will be back tomorrow with a new theme and a fun set of new challenges for you to play along with, so be sure to stop back by!

LM 743 - Going in Circles: Embellishments

Hello everyone, it's Cheryl welcoming you back to Lasting Memories. This month is slipping away quickly, and it's already time for another challenge here at LM! But first, please join me in wishing my son Elliott a big happy birthday. I can't believe my little dude turned 20 today! Talk about time slipping away, right? Anyways, on to the challenge.

Do you ever feel like you are going around in circles? This month, let's turn that feeling into a benefit as we explore fun ways to use circles on our layouts.

 LM #743 - Embellishments - use circular ephemera or stamped images to embellish your layout.

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

March GDT Rainny:

Sandy

    

    Jill

Cheryl

What great inspiration from the design team! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, March 29th 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.

LM #742 - Going in Circles: Pie Slices

Greetings, everyone, and welcome to another layout challenge here at Lasting Memories. Before we get to the challenges, I want to welcome Wendy to the design  team! Wendy has been playing along with our challenges for a long time, so we are thrilled to have her on board. And now on to this week's challenge.

Do you ever feel like you are going around in circles? This month, let's turn that feeling into a benefit as we explore fun ways to use circles on our layouts.

LM #742 - Pie Slices - divide a circle into pie slices using patterned paper, a stencil, or whatever else takes your fancy, and then add it to your layout.

Here are the creative layouts from the design team, starting with our guest designer:

March GDT Rainny

Lisa

Wendy

Cheryl

Sandy

What great inspiration from the design team! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, March 29th 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.

February 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 February, we went back to basic with our base pages. We had 15 wonderful entries, making it a challenge to pick our favorites, so thanks to all our participants for sharing your gorgeous artwork with us.

Here are the Top 3 for January in numerical order:

#3 - Julene

#11 - Heidi

#14 - Alicia

Our picks for guest designer from February are:

#4 - Stinkerbelle

#12 - Jessica

Congratulations, Stinkerbelle and Jessica! 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 February! Be sure to check back tomorrow for another fun challenge.

LM#741 - Going in Circles: Wreath

Hello, scrappy friends.  So glad you decided to drop in and check out our latest scrapbooking challenge here at Lasting Memories!

Do you ever feel like you are going around in circles? This month, let's turn that feeling into a benefit as we explore fun ways to use circles on our layouts.

LM #741 - Wreath - create a circular border for your page using punched or die-cut circles.

Here is the inspiration from the design team, starting with our guest designer.

March GDT Rainny

Sandy

Lisa

Cheryl

What wonderful inspiration from the design team! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, March 29th 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.

LM #740 - Going In Circles: Journaling

Good morning, and welcome to a new month of exciting challenges from Lasting Memories, where it's all about layouts! Are you ready to see our monthly theme for March? Let's go!

Do you ever feel like you are going around in circles? This month, let's turn that feeling into a benefit as we explore fun ways to use circles on our layouts.

LM #740 - Journaling - place journaling on a circle and add it to your layout.

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

March GDT Rainny

Lisa

Sandy

Cheryl

What wonderful inspiration from the design team! Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, March 29th 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!

Introducing our March Guest Designer

Hello everyone, and a happy Saturday to you. Hope you are enjoying 2025 so far (can you believe we are already three months into the year?) and taking time out to scrapbook!

Today we are thrilled to announce our guest designer for March. She has guest designed for us previously, so without further ado, here's Rainny! Thanks so much for designing with us again!

March GDT Rainny

Hello everyone! I am very happy to have the opportunity to be LM's GDT again. I am an ordinary office worker. In my spare time, I enjoy handicrafts, such as handmade cards, scrapbooking, and cross-stitch. I also like traveling and eating delicious food with friends. Many photos are always taken during these moments, so I like to record these good times by scrapbooking. I am very grateful to Lasting Memories for always giving me a lot of creative inspiration. Thanks again and hope you like my work. If you want to see more of my works, you can check out my Instagram or my blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. We will be back tomorrow with a new theme and the first of four fun challenges for March!

LM #739 - Back to Basics: Band Design

Happy Sunday, everyone, and thanks for stopping by at Lasting Memories for our newest challenge. This month, Sandy asked us to get back to basics with our designs. It is all about our base pages this month, so let's see what she is asking us to do this week!

LM #739 - create a layout using a band design.

Band Design is a clean vertical band foundation, a wide and centered band foundation, a curving band foundation or a band along the page edge. Here is an example.

And here are the design team's layouts, starting with our guest designers.

GDT Wendy

GDT Ella

Sandy

Here is what I created with the band base example…

Lisa

Jill

Cheryl

Don't you love seeing the great inspiration from the design team? Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, March 1st 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.

LM #738 - Back to Basics: Petite Papers

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Lasting Memories for another challenge. We celebrated Valentine's Day on Friday, but it never too late to tell you we love having you play along with our challenges! This month, Sandy has asked us to get back to basics with our designs. It's all about our base pages, so let's check out her latest challenge.

 LM #738 - create a 12" x 12" layout incorporating a 6" x 6" paper pad.

Here are the design team's pint size layouts, starting with our guest designers.

February GDT Ella

February GDT Wendy

Sandy

Lisa

Cheryl

Don't you love seeing what the design team has done with those smaller papers? Now it's your turn - link up your layouts to the linky below by Saturday, March 1st 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!