LM #384 - March Nat'l Month Of...Did You Know?

Hello, hello! Welcome back! We are so happy that you are here today - today is the start of our March challenges!

First, let's introduce our guest designers for March. For the month of March, we have 3 guest designers joining us - Rainny, Barbara, and Giorgia. Giorgia will be joining us a little later in the month and we will introduce her then. 

First up is Rainny:

Hello, my name is Rainny and I live in Taiwan. I've been a secretary in a small company for 12 years. My husband and I have a puppy daughter, Riceball. I love to craft, watch movies, travel, and listen to music. When I was a university student, I started making cards. In recent years, I love scrapbooking. I like to record the life and treasured memories by scrapbooking. It's my pleasure to be chosen as the guest designer at Lasting Memories. If you would like to see more of my work, please visit my blog: http://rainny0127.pixnet.net/blog.

Next is Barbara:

I'm Barbara Greenberg and last fall we moved from Kansas City to the Lake of the Ozarks and our house is right on the lake and we love the new life here. I am an admitted scrapaholic for the past 9 years. I call this hobby the best non-paying job ever. I get up in the morning, get my cup of coffee and come into my office/scrap room and I'm ready to scrap for the entire day. I mostly do 12x12 layouts but also make some cards and I've been doing Project life yearly since 2014. I love this hobby and being able to look back at what I have done daily/weekly/monthly over the past years.

I belong to two different online scrapbook groups plus follow lists of challenge blogs so every day I have lots of scrappy e-mails to read and blogs to be inspired from. My blog is www.barbgreenberg.blogspot.com and I keep a challenge blog page there that I can check every day for new challenges.

Now, let's get to today's challenge. For the month of March, our theme is - March National Month Of... and we will be focusing on little-known facts/holidays in March. 

Did you know that March was named for the Roman God "Mars"? Mars was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian. So our challenge to you is:

LM #384 - Create a layout about war (think a layout of a war hero, museum-area about war (Gettysburg)...) OR an agricultural/farm layout (which this could cover just about anything with farming - food, animals, seasons....)

Here' a look at what the design team has created - starting with our guest designers.

March GDT - Rainny

March GDT - Barbara

Denise

Sandy

I chose to do an Agriculture layout.

Natalie

I had photos for an agricultural layout from the farm!

Tina

She found these cool pictures of an Civil War Reenactment

Beautiful work from our talented design team!

I will be offering a prize for this month! Link up your layouts by Saturday, March 31st for your chance to win this:

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

LM #383 - Color Me Happy - Yellows and Greens

Hi, everyone! Good Sunday morning to you!

Today is our last challenge for February. Our theme this month has been "Color Me Happy" and this week we want to see yellows and greens.

LM #383 - Color Me Happy - Yellows and Greens - use the colors below as the primary colors on your layout. Blacks, whites, and neutrals are all a given.

Since we are in the middle of winter around here, these nice bright colors are perfect to beat the wintertime blues! 

Here's a look at the gorgeous yellow and green layouts from the design team:

Lauren

Sandy

Tina

Natalie

We can't wait to see what you create using this color combo! You have until February 24th to link up your layouts for a chance at this month's prize - a $15 gift certificate to any online store of choice!

 Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

LM #382 - Color Me Happy - Purples

Hello, everyone! Happy Sunday to you! I hope that you are having a good weekend. February is moving right along!

We are back today with our third challenge of the month. Our theme for February is "Color Me Happy" and our challenges are all color challenges. This week we want to see purple on your layouts.

LM #382 - Color Me Happy - Purples - use the colors below as the primary colors on your layout. Blacks, whites, neutrals are all a given.

Here is a look at the beautiful work from the design team:

Sandy

Denise

Tina

Natalie

Now it's your turn! Show us some purple on your layouts this week! Link up by February 24th for your chance to win a $15 gift certificate from any online store.

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

More Design Team Inspiration and a Feature!

Happy Saturday! I hope that your weekend is off to a good start!

I'm popping in here really quickly to share some more design team inspiration for our Reds/Pinks challenge from DT Denise. I just love her pretty pink layout!

Denise

How about a couple of features? We have had so many beautiful layouts linked up already! Check out this layout from Jill for our blue color challenge:

Jill

And this beautiful layout from Deanna for our red/pink challenge:

Deanna

Thanks so much for stopping by and keep sharing those beautiful layouts! We will be back tomorrow with a new color challenge for you!

LM #381 - Color Me Happy - Reds and Pinks

Hello, everyone! Happy Superbowl Sunday to you! Do you have any plans to watch the game today? 

We are back today with a new challenge for you. Our theme for February is "Color Me Happy" and all of our challenges will be color challenges. This week we are working with reds and pinks.

LM #381 - Color Me Happy - Reds/Pinks - use the colors below as the primary colors on your layout. Blacks, whites, neutrals are all a given.

Here is a look at the beautiful layouts from the design team.

Lauren

Sandy

Natalie

Beautiful work from our talented design team! There is a $15 gift certificate up for grabs this month, so get your layouts linked up by Saturday, February 24th for your chance to win! We can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

December and January Top Picks, GDT Picks and Winners!!

Hello, everyone! Happy Monday to you! I hope you had a good weekend and are ready for the new week.
We are back today with our Top Picks, Guest Design Team picks and our randomly drawn winners for December and January. We want to thank everyone that played along with our challenges - all of your work is just beautiful!
Now onto our Top Picks for December: December Top 3  Giorgia

Esther

Ashley

Our picks from our December challenges for Guest Designers for March are: Donna

And Giorgia

Donna and Giorgia - we would like to invite you both to be our guest designers in March. Please contact Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to accept!
Our randomly drawn winner for a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice for December is  #8 - Barbara Greenberg
Barbara - contact Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to claim your prize!
And now onto our January Top Picks and winners:
January Top 3  Anna

Rachelle

Janet

Our picks from our January challenges for Guest Designer are: Barbara

and Rainny

Barbara and Rainny, we would like to invite you both to be our guest designers in March. Please contact Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to accept!

Our randomly drawn winner for a $15 gift certificate to an online store of choice for January is:

#7 - Anna

Anna - email Lori at loristroup@yahoo.com to claim your prize!

Congratulations to all of you! Thanks so much for playing along with us at here at Lasting Memories!

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

LM #380 - Color Me Happy Color Challenge - Blues

Happy Sunday, everyone! Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today! We appreciate each and every one of you! 

Today we are starting a new theme and a new set of challenges! This month our theme is "Color Me Happy" and all of our challenges will be color challenges. Here is our first challenge:

LM #380 - Color Me Happy - Blues - use the colors below as the primary colors on your layout. Blacks, whites, neutrals are all a given.

Here is a look at the beautiful creations from the design team:

Denise

Wendy

Lauren 

Sandy

I will be offering up a prize this month! Link up your layouts by Saturday, February 24th for your chance at a $15 gift certificate to an online store of winners choice.

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!

Update on December Winners

Hello, everyone!
I wanted to pop in here and let you know that I have not forgotten about picking a Top 3 and Guest Designer for our December challenges. January has been unbelievably busy for me for some reason this year, and  I somehow let this month get by me without getting it done, so here is what is going to happen. 
Our January challenges end this Saturday. I will be posting the Top 3 from our December challenges and the Top 3 from our January challenges on Monday, January 29th. I will also pick one person from our December challenges and one person from our January challenges to be our Guest Designer in March, and I will pick a winner from the December entries and one from our January entries for a $15 gift certificate to an online store of their choice.
Hopefully I will get back on track in February!
Thanks so much for playing along with our challenges and for supporting Lasting Memories! We appreciate each and every one of you!

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week

LM #379 - Word Play - Adventure

Hello, hello! Good Sunday morning to you! I hope that you are having a good weekend! 

We are back today with our last challenge of the month. For January our theme has been "Word Play" and our last challenge is"

LM #379 - Adventure - use some form of the word "Adventure" on your layout.

This can be in the title, in the paper, in your journaling, an embellishment - just have some form of the word on your layout.

First of all, we would like to give a big thank you to Deanna for being our Guest Designer in January! Her layouts are always so beautiful and inspiring! Be sure to stop by her blog - Moments to Cherish - and check out her beautiful work!

Here's a look at the beautiful layouts from the design team, starting with our guest designer - Deanna.

Jan GDT - Deanna

Sandy

Lori

Such beautiful work from the design team! Don't forget - this is our last week of our January challenges, so get your layouts linked up by Saturday, January 27 for your chance to be our GDT and for a chance at a prize.

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you find time to create with us this week!